Effects of age of acquisition and of community on argument ordering

习得年龄和社区对论证顺序的影响

• 批准号: 10825319
• 负责人: Rachel Elizabeth Miles
• 金额: $ 4.03万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-30 至 2025-09-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10825319
• 关键词: 5 year old; Adult; Affect; Age; American Sign Language; Auditory; Biological; Birth; Child; Child Language; Chronology; Cognitive; Communication; Communities; Competence; Comprehension; Cues; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Devices; Environment; Event; Exposure to; Fiji; Generations; Hearing; Incidence; Individual; Infant; Knowledge; Language; Language Development; Linguistics; Mental Health; Modality; Oral; Parents; Participant; Pattern; Performance; Persons; Population; Process; Production; Productivity; Quality of life; Reporting; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk Factors; Robin bird; Sign Language; Stimulus; Structure; Training; Trauma; Vanuatu; age effect; career; cohort; data communication; deaf; deafness; deprivation; early childhood; graduate school; human old age (65+); insight; literacy

Project Summary One of the most prevalent consequences of infant deafness worldwide is delayed age of exposure to language which is known to lead to lower performance on language tasks both in the eventual first (Mayberry, 1993; Mayberry & Eichen, 1991) and second languages (Mayberry, 2007; Mayberry & Lock, 2003). The proposed studies investigate the development of argument ordering in three populations of deaf individuals who were exposed to three distinct sign languages: American Sign Language (200 years old), Vanuatu Sign Language (5 years old) and Fijian Sign Language (30 years old). Together, the three proposed studies examine the interplay of age of first exposure to language (Aim 1) and age of language community (Aim 2) on the development of argument ordering. In typical development, children with early language exposure to an established language produce the argument ordering of their environment in their early multi-word productions and rely on morphosyntactic argument marking in comprehension by the age of six years. In emerging sign languages, grammatical devices, including word order, develop over subsequent generations or cohorts as children not only acquire the language around them but create linguistic structure. The proposed studies use a picture description paradigm to elicit productive language from deaf participants who are signers of either an established language (ASL) or an emerging language (Vanuatu and Fiji). For analysis of which orders of arguments are prevalent in each population, stimuli of the production tasks are divided into event types based on transitivity and reversibility. These factors are salient in child language development and have been shown to elicit different argument ordering in emerging sign languages and homesign. Between subject analyses will compare the argument ordering of participants within each study as a function of their age of first exposure to language. Comparison across the three studies of the proposal will elucidate the effects of age of language community on the argument ordering used by deaf people in various settings. Together, the proposed studies will provide insight the creation and acquisition of language by deaf people around the world. In addition, this research project will enhance the applicant’s graduate school training, and greatly increase her chances to have a productive career as an independent researcher focusing on the effects of language deprivation and delay due to infant deafness.

项目摘要 全世界婴儿死亡的最普遍后果之一是暴露年龄延迟 到众所周知的语言，这两者在第一次的情况下都在语言任务上降低了 （Mayberry，1993; Mayberry＆Eichen，1991）和第二种语言（Mayberry，2007年； Mayberry＆Lock， 2003）。拟议的研究调查了三个人群中的论证顺序的发展 接触三种不同的标志语言的聋人：美国手语（200年） 旧），瓦努阿图手语（5岁）和斐济手语（30岁）。在一起，三个 拟议的研究检查了第一次接触语言的年龄（目标1）和语言年龄的相互作用 社区（AIM 2）对论点排序的发展。 在典型的发展中，早期语言接触已建立语言的儿童 在早期的多词制作中对环境的争论顺序并依靠 形态同步论点在六岁的时候就在理解中标记了。在新兴标志中 语言，语法设备，包括单词顺序，在随后的几代或人群中发展 作为孩子，不仅可以获取周围的语言，还可以创建语言结构。提议 研究使用图片描述范式来引起聋哑人的生产语言 既定语言（ASL）或新兴语言（Vanuatu和Fiji）的签名者。用于分析 在每个人群中，哪些论点均普遍存在，生产任务的刺激被分配 基于传递性和可逆性为事件类型。这些因素在儿童语言上很重要 开发并已显示出在新兴的标志语言中引起不同的论点顺序，并且 归宿。在主题分析之间将比较每个参与者的参数排序 研究是他们首次接触语言的年龄的函数。对三项研究的比较 提案将阐明语言社区时代对聋人使用的论证顺序的影响 在各种环境中的人们。拟议的研究将共同​​提供创造和获取的见解 世界各地聋人的语言。 此外，该研究项目将增强申请人的研究生院培训，并大大增加 增加她作为独立研究人员的富有成效职业的机会，专注于 语言剥夺和由于婴儿耳聋而引起的延迟。