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Cormier, Kearsy; Schembri, Adam; Vinson, David; Orfanidou, Eleni – Cognition, 2012
Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users via a grammaticality judgment task. When English reading performance and nonverbal IQ are factored out, results show that accuracy of…
Descriptors: Evidence, Grammar, Sign Language, Second Language Learning
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Onnis, Luca; Thiessen, Erik – Cognition, 2013
What are the effects of experience on subsequent learning? We explored the effects of language-specific word order knowledge on the acquisition of sequential conditional information. Korean and English adults were engaged in a sequence learning task involving three different sets of stimuli: auditory linguistic (nonsense syllables), visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Syllables, Stimuli, Probability