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 全世界婴儿耳聋最普遍的后果之一是接触年龄延迟。 对于已知会导致语言任务成绩下降的语言，在最终的第一 (Mayberry，1993；Mayberry&Eichen，1991)和第二语言(Mayberry，2007；Mayberry&Lock， 2003年)。建议的研究调查了三个群体中论点顺序的发展。 接触三种不同手语的聋人：美国手语(200年 瓦努阿图手语(5岁)和斐济手语(30岁)。三人加在一起， 拟议的研究考察了首次接触语言的年龄(目标1)和语言年龄的相互作用 社区(目标2)关于参数排序的发展。 在典型的发育过程中，早期接触一种既定语言的儿童会产生 他们在早期多词产生中的论元顺序和依赖 六岁儿童理解中的形态句法论证标注。在新兴的迹象中 语言、语法手段，包括词序，都是在以后的世代或群体中发展起来的 孩子们不仅习得了他们周围的语言，而且创造了语言结构。建议数 研究使用图片描述范式，从聋人参与者那里获得富有成效的语言 现有语言(ASL)或新兴语言(瓦努阿图和斐济)的签字人。用于分析 在每个群体中普遍存在的争论顺序中，生产任务的刺激被划分 转换为基于传递性和可逆性的事件类型。这些因素在儿童语言中尤为突出。 并已被证明在新兴手语中引起了不同的论元顺序 在后院签名。主题之间的分析将比较每个主题分析中参与者的论点顺序 学习作为他们第一次接触语言的年龄的函数。三种研究方法的比较 建议将阐明语言社区的年龄对聋人使用的论元顺序的影响 各种环境中的人。总之，拟议的研究将为创造和获得提供洞察力 世界各地的聋人对语言的了解。 此外，这项研究项目将加强申请人的研究生院培训，并大大 增加她作为一名独立研究员从事富有成效的职业生涯的机会，专注于 由于婴儿耳聋而导致的语言障碍和迟缓。