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Mayberry, 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
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de Carvalho, Alex; Crimon, Cécile; Barrault, Axel; Trueswell, John; Christophe, Anne – Developmental Science, 2021
Two word-learning experiments were conducted to investigate the understanding of negative sentences in 18- and 24-month-old children. In Experiment 1, after learning that "bamoule" means "penguin" and "pirdaling" means "cartwheeling," 18-month-olds (n = 48) increased their looking times when listening to…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Language Usage, Sentences