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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
Mayberry, Rachel I.; Chen, Jen-Kai; Witcher, Pamela; Klein, Denise – Brain and Language, 2011
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we neuroimaged deaf adults as they performed two linguistic tasks with sentences in American Sign Language, grammatical judgment and phonemic-hand judgment. Participants' age-onset of sign language acquisition ranged from birth to 14 years; length of sign language experience was substantial and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Phonemics, Grammar
Mayberry, Rachel I. – 1989
This study examined deaf children's reading comprehension in relation to the linguistic structures of their sign languages of fluency and the amount of sign language input they had received. Children (n=47) born severely or profoundly deaf, in age groups from 7 to 15 years and all attending day classes in which the English-structured Manually…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Comparative Analysis, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Do Adults Show an Effect of Delayed First Language Acquisition When Calculating Scalar Implicatures?
Davidson, Kathryn; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2015
Language acquisition involves learning not only grammatical rules and a lexicon but also what people are intending to convey with their utterances: the semantic/pragmatic component of language. In this article we separate the contributions of linguistic development and cognitive maturity to the acquisition of the semantic/pragmatic component of…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Semantics, Pragmatics, Deafness