Grammatical processing in American Sign Language: Age of first-language acquisition effects in relation to syntactic structure

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 608-635

  Boudreault, Patrick ^a,b   Mayberry, Rachel I ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33746408612     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960500139363     Document Type: Article

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