Effects of Age of Acquisition on Grammatical Sensitivity: Evidence from On-Line and Off-Line Tasks.

Emmorey, Karen; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ505234

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Effects of Age of Acquisition on Grammatical Sensitivity: Evidence from On-Line and Off-Line Tasks.

Emmorey, Karen; And Others

Applied Psycholinguistics, v16 n1 p1-23 Mar 1995

Using a video sign-monitoring task in American Sign Language, this study investigated the effects of late exposure to a primary language on adult linguistic processing. Native signers were sensitive to errors in both verb agreement and aspect; early and late signers were only sensitive to errors in aspect morphology. Late exposure was found to affect the on-line integration of verb agreement. (39 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, American Sign Language, Child Language, Context Clues, Error Analysis (Language), Expressive Language, Graphs, Interactive Video, Language Processing, Maturity (Individuals), Morphology (Languages), Videotex, Visual Stimuli

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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