ArticleLanguage learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development2018
Visual Sonority Modulates Infants' Attraction to Sign Language.
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- Family ASL: An Early Start to Equitable Education for Deaf Children.Topics in early childhood special education · 2023Article
- I See What You Are Saying: Hearing Infants' Visual Attention and Social Engagement in Response to Spoken and Sign Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Visual attention for linguistic and non-linguistic body actions in non-signing and native signing children.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- CHALLENGING THE ORAL-ONLY NARRATIVE: ENHANCING EARLY SIGNED INPUT FOR DEAF CHILDREN WITH HEARING PARENTS.Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istrazivanja · 2022Article
- Sign language, like spoken language, promotes object categorization in young hearing infants.Cognition · 2021Article
- Rapid development of perceptual gaze control in hearing native signing Infants and children.Developmental science · 2021Article
- Acquisition of Sign Languages.Annual review of linguistics · 2021Article
- Low-Frequency Entrainment to Visual Motion Underlies Sign Language Comprehension.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2021Article
- Effects of Video Reversal on Gaze Patterns during Signed Narrative Comprehension.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2020Article
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Abstract
The infant brain may be predisposed to identify perceptually salient cues that are common to both signed and spoken languages. Recent theory based on spoken languages has advanced sonority as one of these potential language acquisition cues. Using a preferential looking paradigm with an infrared eye tracker, we explored visual attention of hearing 6- and 12-month-olds with no sign language experience as they watched fingerspelling stimuli that either conformed to high sonority (well-formed) or low sonority (ill-formed) values, which are relevant to syllabic structure in signed language. Younger babies showed highly significant looking preferences for well-formed, high sonority fingerspelling, while older babies showed no preference for either fingerspelling variant, despite showing a strong preference in a control condition. The present findings suggest babies possess a sensitivity to specific sonority-based contrastive cues at the core of human language structure that is subject to perceptual narrowing, irrespective of language modality (visual or auditory), shedding new light on universals of early language learning.
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