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Direct linkMayberry, Rachel I.; Hatrak, Marla; Ilbasaran, Deniz; Cheng, Qi; Huang, Yaqian; Hall, Matt L. – Developmental Science, 2024
The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence-to-picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood. Deaf…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Enrichment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition
Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2009
How infants learn new words is a fundamental puzzle in language acquisition. To guide their word learning, infants exploit systematic word-learning heuristics that allow them to link new words to likely referents. By 17 months, infants show a tendency to associate a novel noun with a novel object rather than a familiar one, a heuristic known as…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Heuristics, Infants, Monolingualism
