Early acquisition of a natural language, signed or spoken, has been shown to fundamentally impact both one’s ability to use the first language, and the ability to learn subsequent languages later in life (Mayberry 2007, 2009). This review summarizes a number of recent neuroimaging studies in order to detail the neural bases of sign language acquisition. The logic of this review is to present research reports that contribute to the bigger picture showing that people who acquire a natural language, spoken or signed, in the normal way possess specialized linguistic abilities and brain functions that are missing or deficient in people whose exposure to natural language is delayed or absent. Comparing the function of each brain region with regards to the processing of spoken and sign languages, we attempt to clarify the role each region plays in language processing in general, and to outline the challenges and remaining questions in understanding language processing in the brain.
2022. Sign and Spoken Language Processing Differences in the Brain: A Brief Review of Recent Research. Annals of Neurosciences 29:1 ► pp. 62 ff.
Holmer, Emil, Krister Schönström & Josefine Andin
2022. Associations Between Sign Language Skills and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Deaf Early Signers. Frontiers in Psychology 13
Krebs, Julia, Dietmar Roehm, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Evie A. Malaia
2021. Age of sign language acquisition has lifelong effect on syntactic preferences in sign language users. International Journal of Behavioral Development 45:5 ► pp. 397 ff.
Kumar, Uttam, Anshita Singh & Mrutyunjaya Mishra
2021. White matter alteration in adults with prelingual deafness: A TBSS and SBM analysis of fractional anisotropy data. Brain and Cognition 148 ► pp. 105676 ff.
Bonvillian, John D., Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley & Filip T. Loncke
2020. Simplified Signs,
Işıkdoğan Uğurlu, Necla, Tevhide Kargın & Özgür Aydın
2020. The Comparison of the Morphological and Syntactic Awareness Skills of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Regarding Agreement and Tense Categories that Exist in Verbs in Reading Activities with those of Students Without Hearing Disabilities. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 49:3 ► pp. 355 ff.
Malaia, Evie A., Julia Krebs, Dietmar Roehm & Ronnie B. Wilbur
2020. Age of acquisition effects differ across linguistic domains in sign language: EEG evidence. Brain and Language 200 ► pp. 104708 ff.
Malaia, Evie A. & Ronnie B. Wilbur
2020. Syllable as a unit of information transfer in linguistic communication: The entropy syllable parsing model. WIREs Cognitive Science 11:1
Rutkowski, Paweł & Piotr Mostowski
2020. The use of Polish Sign Language (PJM) in bilingual textbooks for deaf students in Polish schools. The Language Learning Journal 48:3 ► pp. 370 ff.
Krebs, Julia, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Phillip M. Alday & Dietmar Roehm
2019. The Impact of Transitional Movements and Non-Manual Markings on the Disambiguation of Locally Ambiguous Argument Structures in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Language and Speech 62:4 ► pp. 652 ff.
Krebs, Julia, Evie Malaia, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Dietmar Roehm
2018. Subject preference emerges as cross-modal strategy for linguistic processing. Brain Research 1691 ► pp. 105 ff.
Işıkdoğan Uğurlu, Necla
2017. İşitme engelli okuyucuların okuma sürecinde Türkçenin ve Türk İşaret dilinin biçim-sözdizim özellikleri. Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi► pp. 1 ff.
Bachrach, Asaf, Corinne Jola & Christophe Pallier
2016. Neuronal bases of structural coherence in contemporary dance observation. NeuroImage 124 ► pp. 464 ff.
Hrastinski, Iva & Ronnie B. Wilbur
2016. Academic Achievement of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in an ASL/English Bilingual Program. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 21:2 ► pp. 156 ff.
Papadatou-Pastou, Marietta & Anna Sáfár
2016. Handedness prevalence in the deaf: Meta-analyses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 60 ► pp. 98 ff.
Swanwick, Ruth
2016. Deaf children's bimodal bilingualism and education. Language Teaching 49:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Malaia, Evie, Thomas M. Talavage & Ronnie B. Wilbur
2014. Functional connectivity in task-negative network of the Deaf: effects of sign language experience. PeerJ 2 ► pp. e446 ff.
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