{"title":"Parents align American Sign Language (ASL) input with deaf children's gaze.","authors":"Paris Gappmayr, Naomi Caselli, Amy M Lieberman","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2025.2583134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2025.2583134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deaf children learning sign language must direct gaze to their caregivers to perceive linguistic input. To determine how much linguistic input children perceive from their parents, we analyzed naturalistic play sessions between signing deaf children (<i>N</i>=24) aged 9-60 months (M=35 months) and their deaf (<i>n</i> = 15) and hearing (<i>n</i> = 9) parents. Sessions were videotaped and coded for all ASL signs, gaze and attention-getting cues. Across all participants, 30% of sign tokens were fully perceived, and an additional 17% were partially perceived. Factors predicting sign perception included child age, having a deaf parent, and the sign's position in the utterance. Our findings suggest that parents using ASL are sensitive to their child's gaze and time their utterances so they are most likely to be seen.</p>","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13120773/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis","authors":"Radek Šimík, Klára Matiasovitsová, Filip Smolík","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2366804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2366804","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the acquisition of different functions of wh-words in Czech (Slavic) - a language where wh-words are highly polyfunctional. Our working hypothesis is that the acquisition proceeds in...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why second-language speakers sometimes, but not always, derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands","authors":"Ahmed Khorsheed, Bob van Tiel","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2383574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2383574","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies report that the computation of scalar inferences, such as the inference from ‘some’ to ‘not all’, is cognitively costly. However, a number of studies on scalar inferences in L2 suggest...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mandarin non-interrogative wh-words distinguished between children with Developmental Language Disorder and Language-Impaired autistic children","authors":"Rui Huang, Jeannette Schaeffer, Xiaowei He","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2371594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2371594","url":null,"abstract":"Language profile resemblance between autistic11 The current paper uses “identity-first” language throughout, which is often favored by autistic individuals and their parents (Kenny et al. 2016). ch...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141941019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness","authors":"Aretousa Giannakou, Georgios P. Georgiou","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2371610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2371610","url":null,"abstract":"This research study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution in monolingual and bilingual speakers of an understudied language combination of two null subject languages, followi...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s early negative auxiliaries are true auxiliaries","authors":"André Eliatamby, Virginia Valian","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2356668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2356668","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates young children’s acquisition of functional categories through their use of negative words and negative auxiliaries in particular. Drawing from CHILDES, we analyze twelve mon...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"155 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Focus effect unveils children’s local processing of pronouns and reflexives","authors":"Regina Hert, Anja Arnhold, Juhani Järvikivi","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2339837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2339837","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on young children’s comprehension have shown that children can experience problems interpreting object pronouns, even when reflexive interpretation is already adult-like. Compared to resolv...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The acquisition of the verbal passive: The role of verb type","authors":"Celina Agostinho, Anna Gavarró, Ana Lúcia Santos","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2331238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2331238","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the comprehension of verbal passives by children acquiring European Portuguese, in particular with respect to the predictions of the Universal Phase Requirement (UPR) and the Un...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141150654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling the developmental path in the acquisition of /l/-final irregular plurals by Portuguese children","authors":"Chao Zhou, Maria João Freitas","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2314029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2314029","url":null,"abstract":"Previous empirical research has shown that Portuguese children aged 4;0 to 6;0 are sensitive to the quality of stem-final vowels when acquiring the irregular plural forms of /l/-final words (acquis...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140635363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More hard words: Learning emotion and mental state adjectives from linguistic context","authors":"Kristen Syrett, Misha Becker","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2329071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2329071","url":null,"abstract":"How do young children learn the meanings of adjectives that label emotions and mental states, like happy or confident? The concepts behind these words seem easy to grasp, and yet the properties the...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140609286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}