Clinical Trial: Word Learning in Deaf Children Using Eye-tracking and Behavioral Measures
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Deafness
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Word Learning in Deaf Children Using Eye-tracking and Behavioral Measures
Brief Summary:
Mutual exclusivity is a word learning constraint in which the learner assumes that a given word refers to only one category of objects.In spoken languages, mutual exclusivity has been demonstrated in monolingual children as young as 17 months and cross-linguistically, while multilingual learners show an attenuated mutual exclusivity bias.Mutual exclusivity has not been robustly demonstrated in deaf children acquiring American Sign Language (ASL).Further, it is unclear if mutual exclusivity applies to those…
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