{"title":"Limits to resilience: Investigating narratives in ASL signers who acquired their first language in adolescence.","authors":"Anne Therese Frederiksen, Rachel I Mayberry","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2025.2529901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2025.2529901","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated narrative abilities in five deaf adults who grew up with impoverished language access until learning American Sign Language (ASL) after age 12. We found that these signers generally provided sufficient information and structure, and that their referent tracking showed pragmatic awareness and ability to vary the explicitness of referring expressions according to addressee needs. However, both story structure and referent tracking patterns were highly variable among signers, resulting in incomplete stories and underspecified reference in some signers. Previous studies have argued that the narrative domain is resilient to age of acquisition effects, finding that narrative abilities in children who learn sign language in childhood are similar to those who learn from birth. Although based on a small sample, our results suggest that such resilience does not necessarily extend to cases where language is first acquired in adolescence. We offer suggestions for future research and discuss implications of comparing the language of individuals growing up deprived of accessible, conventional language input to the those with full access to language.</p>","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12360269/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acquisition of a rare variant: ne-realization in the negative utterances of French children and their caregivers","authors":"Yiran Chen, Kathryn Schuler","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2380686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2380686","url":null,"abstract":"A growing body of evidence suggests children acquire linguistic variation and follow grammatical constraints on its use from a young age. While prior research predominantly focuses on variables for...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Laurel Perkins, Tyler Knowlton, Alexander Williams, Jeffrey Lidz
{"title":"Thematic Content, Not Number Matching, Drives Syntactic Bootstrapping","authors":"Laurel Perkins, Tyler Knowlton, Alexander Williams, Jeffrey Lidz","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2372663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2372663","url":null,"abstract":"Children use correlations between the syntax of a clause and the meaning of its predicate to draw inferences about word meanings. On one proposal, these inferences are underwritten by a structural ...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trisha N. Patel, Zeynep B. Marasli, Alyssa Choi, Jessica L. Montag
{"title":"An Online Survey of Picture Book Reading Practices with Children Between the Ages of 0 and 30 Months","authors":"Trisha N. Patel, Zeynep B. Marasli, Alyssa Choi, Jessica L. Montag","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2372245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2372245","url":null,"abstract":"There is a great deal of variability in how families read and interact with picture books. To understand why reading practices may (or may not) relate to language outcomes, a necessary step to unde...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141744395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semantic Cues Facilitate Structural Generalizations in Artificial Language Learning","authors":"Erin Conwell, Jesse Snedeker","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2342873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2342873","url":null,"abstract":"Natural languages contain systematic relationships between verb meaning and verb argument structure. Artificial language learning studies typically remove those relationships and instead pair verb ...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140628378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed Abdelaziz, Manuela Wagner, Letitia R. Naigles
{"title":"Associations Between Joint Attention, Supported Joint Engagement and Language in TD Children and Children with ASD: Potential Sources of Individual and Group Differences in Language Outcomes","authors":"Ahmed Abdelaziz, Manuela Wagner, Letitia R. Naigles","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2336047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2336047","url":null,"abstract":"Joint Attention (JA) and Supported Joint Engagement (Supported JE) have each been reported to predict later language development in typically developing (TD) children and children with Autism Spect...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"207 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140593661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implicit Learning of Prepositions in Dutch Kindergartners with and without Developmental Language Disorder","authors":"Imme Lammertink, Eliane Segers, Annette Scheper, Loes Wauters, Constance Vissers","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2313226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2313226","url":null,"abstract":"It has been proposed that an implicit learning deficit explains the difficulties with grammar commonly observed in children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The present study further inv...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140199403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leone Buckle, Holly P. Branigan, Laura Lindsay, Katherine Messenger
{"title":"Now You See Me, Now You don’t: Children Learn Grammatical Choices During Online Socially Contingent Video and Audio Interactions","authors":"Leone Buckle, Holly P. Branigan, Laura Lindsay, Katherine Messenger","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2313221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2313221","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has established that children’s experiences of language during in-person interactions (e.g. individual and cumulative experiences of structural choices) implicitly shape language ...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140167476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discourse Effect on Children’s Interpretation of Pre-Subject Exclusive Zhiyou ‘Only’","authors":"Yi-Ching Su","doi":"10.1080/15475441.2024.2313223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2024.2313223","url":null,"abstract":"It has been reported for decades that preschool children (age 4-7) tend to assign non-adult-like interpretations for sentences with pre-subject exclusive only. This study reports findings from two ...","PeriodicalId":46642,"journal":{"name":"Language Learning and Development","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140035797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}