LING 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Inflection, Critical Period Hypothesis, Grammaticality
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Small 5-10% born to deaf parents and exposed to asl from birth (comparable to what is normal in hearing children) Remainder often not exposed to sign language and until recently discouraged from using it. Often exposed to asl when entering residential schools for deaf children (age 4-6) But often not taught asl (even discouraged from using it), but immersed through other kids. All subjects from pennsylvania school for the deaf (psd) All had minimum of 30 years of daily exposure to asl. 2nd group: early learners (age 4-6, when entering psd) 3rd group: late learners (entered psd after age 12). Tasks: elicited production and comprehension of complex morphology of asl. Verbal classifiers and associated (manner of) motion morphemes. Results of native, early & late acquisition of asl: word order. Results of native, early & late acquisition of asl: morphology (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25) (cid:25)
