When learners surpass their models: The acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 370-407

  Singleton, Jenny L ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4444236662     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

References (96)

1. Bates E. MacWhinney B. A functionalist approach to grammatical development In Wanner E. Gleitman L.R. (Eds.) Language acquisition: The state of the art 1982 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
2. Bever T.G. The cognitive basis for linguistic structures In Hayes J. (Ed.) Cognition and the development of language 1970 Wiley NY
3. Berko J. The child's learning of English Morphology Word 14 1958 150-177
4. Bickerton D. Roots of language 1981 Ann Karoma Publishers Arbor
5. Bickerton D. The language bioprogram hypothesis Brain and Behavioral Sciences 7 1984 173-221
6. Bickerton D. Beyond roots: The five-year test Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 1 1986 225-232
7. Bickerton D. Beyond roots: Knowing what's what Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2 1987 229-237
8. Bickerton D. Creole languages and the bioprogram In Newmeyer F.J. (Ed.) Linguistics: The Cambridge survey Vol. II 1988 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
9. Bickerton D. How to acquire language without positive evidence: What acquisitionists can learn from creoles In DeGraff M. (Ed.), Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development 1999 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
10. Bitterman M.E. The evolution of intelligence Scientific American 212 1965 92-100
11. Chomsky N. Aspects of the theory of syntax 1965 MIT Press Cambridge
12. Chomsky N. Language and responsibility 1979 Pantheon Books New York
13. Chomsky N. Lectures on government and binding 1981 Foris Dordrecht
14. Chomsky N. The minimalist program 1995 MIT Press Cambridge
15. Conlin K.E. Mirus G.R. Mauk C. Meier R.P. The acquisition of first signs: Place, handshape, and movement In Chamberlain C. Morford J.P. Mayberry R.I. (Eds.) Language acquisition by eye 2000 Erlbaum Mahwah, NJ
16. Curtiss S. Genie: A psycholinguistic study of a modern day "wild child" 1977 Academic Press New York
17. DeCamp D. The study of pidgin and creole languages In Hymes D. (Ed.) Pidginization and creolization of languages 1971 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
18. DeGraff M. Creolization, language change, and language acquisition: A prolegomenon In DeGraff M. (Ed.) Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development 1999 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
19. DeGraff M. Creolization, language change, and language acquisition: An epilogue In DeGraff M. (Ed.) Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development 1999 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
20. Emmorey K. Repetition priming with aspect and agreement morphology in American Sign Language Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 20 1991 365-388
21. Ervin S.M. Miller W.R. Language development In Stevenson H.W. (Ed.) Child psychology: The sixty-second yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Pt. 1) 1963 University of Chicago Press Chicago
22. Feldman H. Goldin-Meadow S. Gleitman L.R. Beyond Herodotus: The creation of language by linguistically deprived deaf children In Lock A. (Ed.), Action, symbol, and gesture: The emergence of language 1978 Academic Press New York
23. Fromkin V.A. Krashen S. Curtiss S. Rigler D. Rigler M. The development of language in Genie: A case of language acquisition beyond the "critical period" Brain and Language 1 1974 81-107
24. Gold E.M. Language identification in the limit Information and Control 16 1967 447-474
25. Goldin-Meadow S. Feldman H. The development of language-like communication without a language model Science 197 1977 401-403
26. Goldin-Meadow S. A study in human capacities Science 200 1978 649-651
27. Goldin-Meadow S. The resilience of recursion: A study of a communication system developed without a conventional language model In Wanner E. Gleitman L.R. (Eds.) Language acquisition: The state of the art 1982 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
28. Goldin-Meadow S. The resilience of language 2003 Psychology Press New York
29. Goldin-Meadow S. Mylander C. Gestural communication in deaf children: The effects and noneffects of parental input on early language development Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1984 49 (3-4, Serial No. 207)
30. Goldin-Meadow S. Mylander C. Beyond the input given: The child's role in the acquisition of language Language 66 1990 323-355
31. Goldin-Meadow S. Mylander C. Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two cultures Nature 391 1998 279-281
32. Holm J.A. Pidgins and creoles, Vol. 1: Theory and structure 1988 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
33. Hudson Kam, C., & Newport, E. L. (forthcoming). Pidgins, creoles, and variability: Constraints of learners and input on the acquisition of regularity in linguistic structure
34. Hymes D. Pidginization and creolization of languages 1971 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
35. Itard, J. M. G. (1932). The wild boy of Aveyron, trans. G. Humphrey and M. Humphrey. New York: Century
36. Johnson J.S. Newport E.L. Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language Cognitive Psychology 21 1989 60-99
37. Johnson J.S. Shenkman K.D. Newport E.L. Medin D.L. Indeterminacy in the grammar of adult language learners Journal of Memory and Language 35 1996 335-352
38. Johnson, R. E., Liddell, S., & Erting, C. (1989). Unlocking the curriculum: Principles for achieving access in deaf education. Gallaudet Research: Institute Working Paper, 89-3. Washington DC: Gallaudet Research Institute
39. Kantor R. The acquisition of classifiers in American Sign Language Sign Language Studies 8 1980 193-208
40. Kegl J. Iwata G. Lenguaje de Signos Nicaragüense: A pidgin shed light on the "creole?" ASL Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference 1989 University of Oregon Eugene
41. Kegl J. Senghas A. Coppola M. Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua In DeGraff M. (Ed.) Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development 1999 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
42. Keil F. Constraints on constraints: Surveying the epigenetic landscape Cognitive Science 14 1990 135-168
43. Koopman H. Lefebvre C. Haitian Creole 'pu' In Muysken P. (Ed.) Generative studies on creole languages 1981 Foris Dordrecht
44. Kroch A. Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change Language Variation and Change 1 1989 199-244
45. Kuczaj S. The acquisition of regular and irregular past tense forms Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 16 1977 589-600
46. Labov W. The child as linguistic historian Language Variation and Change 1 1989 85-97
47. Labov W. Principles of linguistic change. Vol. 1: Internal factors 1994 Blackwell Publishers Cambridge, MA
48. Lane H. The wild boy of Aveyron 1979 Granada Publishing London
49. Lenneberg E.H. Biological foundations of language 1967 Wiley New York
50. Lerdahl F. Jackendoff R. A generative theory of tonal music 1983 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
51. Lillo-Martin D. Modality effects and modularity in language acquisition: The acquisition of American Sign Language In Ritchie W. Bhatia T. (Eds.) Handbook of child language acquisition 1999 Academic Press San Diego
52. Marcus G. Pinker S. Ullman M. Hollander M. Rosen T. Xu F. Overregularization in language acquisition Monographs of the SRCD 1992 Serial no. 228
53. Marmor G. Petitto L.A. Simultaneous communication in the classroom: How well is English grammar represented? Sign Language Studies 23 1979 99-136
54. Mayberry R.I. Eichen E. The long-lasting advantage of learning sign language in childhood: Another look at the critical period for language acquisition Journal of Memory and Language 30 1991 486-512
55. Mayberry R. Fischer S.D. Looking through phonological shape to lexical meaning: The bottleneck of non-native sign language processing Memory and Cognition 17 1989 740-754
56. Mayberry R.I. Lock E. Kazmi H. Linguistic ability and early language exposure Nature 417 2002 38
57. McIntire M. The acquisition of American Sign Language by Deaf children Sign language studies monographs 1994 Linstok Press Burtonsville, MD
58. Muhlhausler, P. (1976). Growth and structure of the lexicon of New Guinea pidgin. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Australian National University
59. Muhlhausler P. Structural expansion and the process of creolization In Valdman A. Highfield A. (Eds.) Theoretical orientations in creole studies 1980 Academic Press New York
60. Muhlhausler P. Pidgin and creole linguistics 1986 Oxford University Press Oxford
61. Muysken P. Smith N. Substrata vs. universals in creole genesis 1986 John Benjamins Philadelphia
62. Newport E.L. Constraints on structure: Evidence from American Sign Language and language learning In Collins W.A. (Ed.) Aspects of the development of competence. Minnesota symposium on child psychology Vol. 14 1981 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
63. Newport E.L. Task specificity in language learning? Evidence from speech perception and American Sign Language In Wanner E. Gleitman L.R. (Eds.) Language acquisition: The state of the art 1982 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
64. Newport E.L. Maturational constraints on language learning Cognitive Science 14 1990 11-28
65. Newport E.L. Contrasting conceptions of the critical period for language In Carey S. Gelman R. (Eds.) The epigenesis of mind: Essays on biology and cognition 1991 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Hillsdale, NJ
66. Newport E.L. Aslin R.N. Learning at a distance: I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies Cognitive Psychology 48 2004 127-162
67. Newport, E. L., Bellugi, U. (1978). Linguistic expression of category levels in a visual-gestural language: A flower is a flower is a flower. In E. Rosch & B. B. Lloyd (Eds.), Cognition and categorization. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Reprinted in E. Klima, U. Bellugi, et al., The signs of language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
68. Newport E.L. Meier R.P. The acquisition of American sign language In Slobin D.I. (Ed.) The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition Vol. 1 1985 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
69. Newport E.L. Supalla T.R. The structuring of language: Clues from the acquisition of signed and spoken language In Bellugi U. Studdert-Kennedy M. (Eds.) Signed and spoken language: Biological constraints on linguistic form 1980 Dahlem Konferenzen. Verlag Chemie Weinheim/Deerfield Beach, FL/Basel
70. Pinker S. Words and rules: The ingredients of language 1999 HarperCollins New York
71. Quigley S. Kretschmer R. The education of deaf children 1982 University Park Press Baltimore
72. Rickford J.R. Dimensions of a creole continuum 1987 Stanford University Press Stanford
73. Ross D.S. Newport E.L. The development of language from non-native linguistic input In Stringfellow A. Cahana-Amitay D. Hughes E. Zukowski A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development: Vol. 2 1996 Cascadilla Press Somerville, MA
74. Sankoff G. The genesis of a language In Hill K. (Ed.) The genesis of language 1979 Karoma Publishers Ann Arbor
75. Sankoff G. Laberge S. On the acquisition of native speakers by a language Kivung 6 1973 32-47
76. Schein J. Delk T. The deaf population of the United States 1974 National Association of the Deaf Washington DC
77. Schick, B. (1987). The acquisition of classifier predicates in American Sign Language. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Purdue University, Indiana
78. Schick B. The effects of morphological complexity on phonological simplification in ASL Sign Language Studies 66 1990 25-41
79. Senghas, A., 1995. Children's contribution to the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
80. Senghas A. Coppola M. Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar Psychological Science 12 2001 323-328
81. Senghas A. Coppola M. Newport E.L. Supalla T. Argument structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language: The emergence of grammatical devices In Hughes E. Hughes M. Greenhill A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development: Vol. 2 1997 Cascadilla Press Somerville, MA
82. Siedlicki T. Jr. Bonvillian J.D. Location, handshape, and movement: Young children's acquisition of the formational aspects of American Sign Language Sign Language Studies 78 1993 31-52
83. Singleton, J. L., & Newport, E. L. (in preparation). Restructuring of language from impoverished input: The acquisition of American Sign Language grammar from non-native parents
84. Singleton J.L. Morford J.P. Goldin-Meadow S. Once is not enough: Standards of well-formedness in manual communication created over three different timespans Language 69 1993 683-715
85. Slobin D.I. Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar In Ferguson C.A. Slobin D.I. (Eds.) Studies of child language development 1973 Holt, Rinehart, & Winston New York
86. Slobin D.I. Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity In Slobin D.I. (Eds.) The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition 1985 Erlbaum Hillsdale, NJ
87. Supalla, S., 1990. Segmentation of manually coded English: Problems in the mapping of English in the visual/gestural mode. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Illinois, Urbana
88. Supalla S. Manually Coded English: The modality question in signed language development In Siple P. Fischer S.D. (Eds.) Theoretical issues in sign language research 1991 University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL
89. Supalla, T., 1982. Structure and acquisition of verbs of motion and location in American sign language. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of California, San Diego
90. Supalla T. The classifier system in ASL In Craig C. (Ed.) Noun classification and categorization 1986 Benjamins North America Philadelphia
91. Supalla, T., Newport, E. L, Singleton, J. L., Supalla, S., Metlay, D., & Coulter, G. (in press). Test battery for American Sign Language morphology and syntax. San Diego, CA: DawnSign Press
92. Valdman A. Highfield A. Theoretical orientations in creole studies 1980 Academic Press New York
93. Wexler K. Culicover P. Formal principles of language acquisition 1980 MIT Press Cambridge, MA
94. Wilbur R.B. American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions second ed. 1987 Little Brown Boston
95. Yamamoto K. Keil F. The acquisition of Japanese numeral classifiers In Stringfellow A. (Ed.) Proceedings of the 20th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development 1996 Cascadilla Press Somerville MA
96. Zingg R.M. Feral man and extreme cases of isolation American Journal of Psychology 53 1940 487-517