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Cheng, Qi; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous studies suggest that age of acquisition affects the outcomes of learning, especially at the morphosyntactic level. Unknown is how syntactic development is affected by increased cognitive maturity and delayed language onset. The current paper studied the early syntactic development of adolescent first language learners by examining word…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Language, American Sign Language, Adolescents
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Ramirez, Naja Ferjan; Lieberman, Amy M.; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Child Language, 2013
Children typically acquire their native language naturally and spontaneously at a very young age. The emergence of early grammar can be predicted from children's vocabulary size and composition (Bates et al., 1994; Bates, Bretherton & Snyder, 1998; Bates & Goodman, 1997). One central question in language research is understanding what…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Grammar, Vocabulary Development