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SUBMITTER: Berk S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3331892 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berk Stephanie S Lillo-Martin Diane D
Cognitive psychology 20120402 1
Child development researchers often discuss a "two-word" stage during language acquisition. However, there is still debate over whether the existence of this stage reflects primarily cognitive or linguistic constraints. Analyses of longitudinal data from two Deaf children, Mei and Cal, not exposed to an accessible first language (American Sign Language - ASL) until the age of 6 years, suggest that a linguistic constraint is observed when cognition is relatively spared. These older children acqui ...[more]