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Stone, Adam; Petitto, Laura-Ann; Bosworth, Rain – Language Learning and Development, 2018
The infant brain may be predisposed to identify perceptually salient cues that are common to both signed and spoken languages. Recent theory based on spoken languages has advanced sonority as one of these potential language acquisition cues. Using a preferential looking paradigm with an infrared eye tracker, we explored visual attention of hearing…
Descriptors: Infants, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Auditory Perception
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Ellis, Erica M.; Gonzalez, Marybel Robledo; Deák, Gedeon O. – Language Learning and Development, 2014
Young infants can learn statistical regularities and patterns in sequences of events. Studies have demonstrated a relationship between early sequence learning skills and later development of cognitive and language skills. We investigated the relation between infants' visual response speed to novel event sequences, and their later receptive and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Prediction, Infant Behavior, Infants