Impoverished Language in Early Childhood Affects the Development of Complex Sentence Structure

Autor/inn/en	Mayberry, Rachel I.; Hatrak, Marla; Ilbasaran, Deniz; Cheng, Qi; Huang, Yaqian; Hall, Matt L.
Titel	Impoverished Language in Early Childhood Affects the Development of Complex Sentence Structure
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 27 (2024) 1, (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mayberry, Rachel I.) ORCID (Hatrak, Marla)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/desc.13416
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Language Enrichment; Educationally Disadvantaged; Language Acquisition; Sentence Structure; Difficulty Level; Early Experience; Deafness; American Sign Language; Language Usage + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Frühbeginn; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Sprachgebrauch
Abstract	The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence-to-picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood. Deaf signers whose access to language was highly impoverished in early childhood (N = 11) primarily comprehended structures consisting of a single verb and argument (Subject or Object), agreeing verbs, and the spatial relation or path of semantic classifiers. They showed difficulty comprehending more complex sentence structures involving dual lexical arguments or multiple verbs. As predicted, participants with typical language access in early childhood, deaf native signers (N = 17) or hearing second-language learners (N = 10), comprehended the range of 12 ASL sentence structures, independent of the subjective iconicity or frequency of the stimulus lexical items, or length of ASL experience and performance on non-verbal cognitive tasks. The results show that language experience in early childhood is necessary for the development of complex syntax. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01