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DESCRIPTION:For arborized trees\, plant early:\n	Syntax and neurolinguistic 
 processing in early vs late first-language acquisition\n\nA talk by Rachel
  I. Mayberry - Professor - Department of Linguistics - University of Calif
 ornia San Diego\n	 \n\nMuch theorizing about language acquisition posits th
 at a successful outcome depends upon the age when it begins for reasons re
 lated to brain maturation. The bulk of research investigating this questio
 n comes from studies of second-language outcome in relation to the age of 
 exposure. However\, because second-language learning\, by definition\, ent
 ails language experience during infancy\, it is not the purest test of the
  putative critical period for language. By contrast\, individuals who are 
 born deaf often first experience language at ages long past infancy. This 
 situation provides a means to investigate the acquisition of syntax and ne
 urolinguistic processing when the brain matures both with and without lang
 uage. In this talk\, I summarize two lines of research using this paradigm
 . First\, when language acquisition is delayed until after early childhood
 \, the trajectory of syntactic acquisition parallels that of infant acquis
 ition but ceases at a low level. Second\, the neurolinguistic processing p
 atterns associated with post-childhood language acquisition differ from th
 ose of early acquisition in marked ways that begin to explain why syntacti
 c acquisition is attenuated when the onset of language acquisition is dela
 yed. Together these results indicate that the human capacity for language\
 , rather than being fixed from birth\, emerges from the interaction of pos
 t-natal brain growth and linguistic experience.\n	 \n
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DTEND:20190325T223000Z
LOCATION:Room 232\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Donald G. Doehring Memorial Talk 
URL:/scsd/channels/event/donald-g-doehring-memorial-ta
 lk-294883
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