Deaf Children as ‘English Learners’: The Psycholinguistic Turn in Deaf Education
Education Sciences, 2019 The purpose of this literature review is to present the arguments in support of conceptualizing deaf children as ‘English Learners’, to explore the educational implications of such conceptualizations, and to suggest directions for future ...
Amanda Howerton-Fox, Jodi L. Falk
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Open Linguistics, 2017 This study examines the factors affecting word recognition in a language with a consistent system to map letters into sounds; Spanish. The influence of semantics on the recognition of words in languages with inconsistent mappings, such as English, is ...
Izura Cristina +1 more
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'Children are just lingual': The development of phonology in British Sign Language (BSL) [PDF]
, 2006 This paper explores three universal tendencies in spoken language acquisition: consonant and vowel harmony, cluster reduction and systemic simplification, using a corpus of 1018 signs from a single child exposed to British Sign Language from birth. Child
Morgan, G.
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The Critical Period Hypothesis for L2 Acquisition: An Unfalsifiable Embarrassment?
Languages, 2021 This article focuses on the uncertainty surrounding the issue of the Critical Period Hypothesis. It puts forward the case that, with regard to naturalistic situations, the hypothesis has the status of both “not proven” and unfalsified.
David Singleton, Justyna Leśniewska
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Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: A longitudinal study [PDF]
, 2018 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Eleonore H. M. Smalle, Mike P. A. Page, Wouter Duyck, Martin Edwards, and Arnaud Szmalec, 'Children retain implicitly learned phonological sequences better than adults: a longitudinal study ...
Adi-Japha +68 more
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]
, 2018 The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture [PDF]
, 2017 Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures.
England, R. +5 more
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Age of acquisition and naming performance in Frisian-Dutch bilingual speakers with dementia
Dementia & NeuropsychologiaAge of acquisition (AoA) of words is a recognised variable affecting language processing in speakers with and without language disorders. For bi- and multilingual speakers their languages can be differentially affected in neurological illness.
Wencke S. Veenstra +2 more
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Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction [PDF]
, 2008 Rapid acquisition of linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge. In this paper, we examine Polish children's early understanding of an idiosyncratic, language-specific construction involving the ...
Bańko +15 more
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Collection of age of acquisition ratings for over 5,000 Japanese words
Frontiers in Language SciencesThe age of acquisition (AoA) refers to the age at which an individual learns specific items or words. Research on word recognition has shown that items with lower AoA—those acquired earlier—can be processed more quickly and accurately.
Masaya Mochizuki, Naoto Ota
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