Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language.

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1. American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners: Plausibility, animacy, and linguistic structure.Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development · 2025
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2. Language anxiety: understanding past research and new directions with d/Deaf, DeafBlind, and hard of hearing communities.Frontiers in psychology · 2025
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3. Creating a diagnostic assessment model for autism spectrum disorder by differentiating lexicogrammatical choices through machine learning.PloS one · 2024
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4. Early language exposure affects neural mechanisms of semantic representations.eLife · 2023
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