Language Deprivation

I am working in the Mayberry Lab at UCSD to examine the effects of langauge deprivation on eventual language outcomes. My work so far has examined langauge production for individuals who were not exposed to accessible language until adolescence or after. 

Read our 2024 paper on use of argument ordering in deaf signers' descriptions of pictures events. We found differences depending on whether signers had access to language as infants, or not until they were adolescents.

Miles R, Hatrak M, İlkbaşaran D, Mayberry R. Argument ordering in simple sentences is affected by age of first language acquisition: Evidence from late first language signers of ASL. Journal of Child Language. Published online 2024:1-18. doi:10.1017/S0305000924000400