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Effects of Age of Acquisition on Grammatical Sensitivity: Evidence from On-Line and Off-Line Tasks.
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Emmorey, Karen; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 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…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Age Differences, American Sign Language, Child Language