First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from sensitivity to grammaticality judgement in British Sign Language

Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users via a grammaticality judgment task. When English reading performance and nonverbal IQ are factore...

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Main Authors: Cormier, Kearsy, Schembri, Adam, Vinson, David, Orfanidou, Eleni
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Elsevier 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657148/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22578601
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.003
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