Acquiring a Frst Language in Adolescence: The Case of Basic Word Order in American Sign Language

Autor/inn/en	Cheng, Qi; Mayberry, Rachel I.
Titel	Acquiring a Frst Language in Adolescence: The Case of Basic Word Order in American Sign Language
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 46 (2019) 2, S.214-240 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Language Acquisition; Native Language; American Sign Language; Adolescents; Age Differences; Word Order; Longitudinal Studies; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Cognitive Development; Children; Preferences; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Wortfolge; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Morphology; Morphologie; Kognitive Entwicklung; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	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 order patterns in American Sign Language (ASL). ASL uses a basic Subject-Verb-Object order, but also employs multiple word order variations. Child learners produce variable word order at the initial stage of acquisition, but later primarily produce canonical word order. We asked whether adolescent first language learners acquire ASL word order in a fashion parallel to child learners. We analyzed word order preference in spontaneous language samples from four adolescent L1 learners collected longitudinally from 12 months to six years of ASL exposure. Our results suggest that adolescent L1 learners go through stages similar to child native learners, although this process also appears to be prolonged. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01