Effects of Delayed Language Exposure on Spatial Language Acquisition by Signing Children and Adults

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2017-01-01

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Karadöller Astarlıoğlu, Dilay Zeynep
Sümer, Beyza
Özyürek, Aslı

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Deaf children born to hearing parents are exposed to language input quite late, which has long-lasting effects on language production. Previous studies with deaf individuals mostly focused on linguistic expressions of motion events, which have several event components. We do not know if similar effects emerge in simple events such as descriptions of spatial configurations of objects. Moreover, previous data mainly come from late adult signers. There is not much known about language development of late signing children soon after learning sign language. We compared simple event descriptions of late signers of Turkish Sign Language (adults, children) to age-matched native signers. Our results indicate that while late signers in both age groups are native-like in frequency of expressing a relational encoding, they lag behind native signers in using morphologically complex linguistic forms compared to other simple forms. Late signing children perform similar to adults and thus showed no development over time.

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late acquisition, left right, sign language, spatial relations

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105898

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