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Direct linkCormier, 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
Nygaard, Lynne C.; Cook, Allison E.; Namy, Laura L. – Cognition, 2009
A fundamental assumption regarding spoken language is that the relationship between sound and meaning is essentially arbitrary. The present investigation questioned this "arbitrariness" assumption by examining the influence of potential non-arbitrary mappings between sound and meaning on word learning in adults. Native English-speaking…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Japanese
Onnis, Luca; Waterfall, Heidi R.; Edelman, Shimon – Cognition, 2008
Variation set structure--partial overlap of successive utterances in child-directed speech--has been shown to correlate with progress in children's acquisition of syntax. We demonstrate the benefits of variation set structure directly: in miniature artificial languages, arranging a certain proportion of utterances in a training corpus in variation…
Descriptors: Cues, Syntax, Artificial Languages, Language Acquisition
Saffran, Jenny; Hauser, Marc; Seibel, Rebecca; Kapfhamer, Joshua; Tsao, Fritz; Cushman, Fiery – Cognition, 2008
There is a surprising degree of overlapping structure evident across the languages of the world. One factor leading to cross-linguistic similarities may be constraints on human learning abilities. Linguistic structures that are easier for infants to learn should predominate in human languages. If correct, then (a) human infants should more readily…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Grammar, Language Patterns, Infants
Schon, Daniele; Boyer, Maud; Moreno, Sylvain; Besson, Mireille; Peretz, Isabelle; Kolinsky, Regine – Cognition, 2008
In previous research, Saffran and colleagues [Saffran, J. R., Aslin, R. N., & Newport, E. L. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science, 274, 1926-1928; Saffran, J. R., Newport, E. L., & Aslin, R. N. (1996). Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues. "Journal of Memory and Language," 35, 606-621.] have shown that adults…
Descriptors: Cues, Singing, Linguistics, Infants
