On the Reliability of the Notion of Native Signer and Its Risks.
early and late signers
effect of age of exposure
language assessment
native signer
sign languages
Journal
Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
28
05
2021
accepted:
10
01
2022
entrez:
4
4
2022
pubmed:
5
4
2022
medline:
5
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Who is a native signer? Since around 95% of deaf infants are born into a hearing family, deaf signers are exposed to a sign language at various moments of their life, and not only from birth. Moreover, the linguistic input they are exposed to is not always a fully fledged natural sign language. In this situation, is the notion of native signer as someone exposed to language from birth of any use? We review the results of the first large-scale cross-linguistic investigation on the effects of age of exposure to sign language. This research involved about 45 Deaf adult signers in each of three sign languages (Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language). Across the three languages, participants were divided into three groups - those exposed from birth, those between 1 and 5 years of age, and those exposed between 6 and 15 years of age - and received a battery of tests designed for each language targeting various aspects of morphosyntactic competence. In particular, the tests focused on both those morphosyntactic phenomena that are known from the spoken language literature to be good detectors of language impairment or delay (i.e.,
Identifiants
pubmed: 35369221
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.716554
pmc: PMC8964454
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
716554Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2022 Zorzi, Giustolisi, Aristodemo, Cecchetto, Hauser, Quer, Sánchez Amat and Donati.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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