Rachel Mayberry
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Rachel Mayberry's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of California, San Diego
- Masters Linguistics University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rachel I. Mayberry is a language scientist known for her research on the effects of age of acquisition on sign language acquisition among deaf individuals – research that has provided evidence for a critical period in first language acquisition. She is Professor of Linguistics at University of California, San Diego and director of the Multimodal Language Lab.
Rachel Mayberry's Published Works
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Published Works
- The long-lasting advantage of learning sign language in childhood: Another look at the critical period for language acquisition (1991) (351)
- Reading achievement in relation to phonological coding and awareness in deaf readers: a meta-analysis. (2011) (329)
- Age constraints on first versus second language acquisition: Evidence for linguistic plasticity and epigenesis (2003) (315)
- First-language acquisition after childhood differs from second-language acquisition: the case of American Sign Language. (1993) (291)
- How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn to Read (2001) (276)
- Development: Linguistic ability and early language exposure (2002) (264)
- Language acquisition by eye (2000) (260)
- When timing is everything: Age of first-language acquisition effects on second-language learning (2007) (202)
- Age of acquisition effects on the functional organization of language in the adult brain (2011) (188)
- Grammatical processing in American Sign Language: Age of first-language acquisition effects in relation to syntactic structure (2006) (170)
- Gesture and early bilingual development. (1999) (159)
- Cognitive development in deaf children: the interface of language and perception in neuropsychology (2002) (154)
- American Sign Language syntactic and narrative comprehension in skilled and less skilled readers: Bilingual and bimodal evidence for the linguistic basis of reading (2008) (129)
- Language and Gesture: Gesture production during stuttered speech: insights into the nature of gesture–speech integration (2000) (120)
- What Sign Language Reveals about the Critical Period for Language (2009) (104)
- Reading Difficulties in Adult Deaf Readers of French: Phonological Codes, Not Guilty! (2012) (92)
- Sign language acquisition (2006) (88)
- Phonology and Reading: A Response to Wang, Trezek, Luckner, and Paul (2009) (87)
- Cognitive constraints on constituent order: Evidence from elicited pantomime (2013) (84)
- Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language. (2018) (83)
- Structural brain changes linked to delayed first language acquisition in congenitally deaf individuals (2013) (83)
- A reexamination of "early exposure" and its implications for language acquisition by eye. (2000) (78)
- Skilled Deaf Readers Have an Enhanced Perceptual Span in Reading (2012) (71)
- Learning to Look for Language: Development of Joint Attention in Young Deaf Children (2014) (71)
- Signed Words in the Congenitally Deaf Evoke Typical Late Lexicosemantic Responses with No Early Visual Responses in Left Superior Temporal Cortex (2012) (69)
- The initial stages of first-language acquisition begun in adolescence: when late looks early. (2013) (64)
- The cognitive development of deaf children: Recent insights. (1992) (60)
- Orthographic and Phonological Preview Benefits: Parafoveal Processing in Skilled and Less-Skilled Deaf Readers (2013) (58)
- Gesture Reflects Language Development (2000) (51)
- The importance of childhood to language acquisition: Evidence from American Sign Language (1994) (48)
- Early Language Acquisition and Adult Language Ability (2010) (42)
- PHONOLOGY AND READING: A RESPONSE TO (2009) (41)
- What stuttering reveals about the development of the gesture-speech relationship. (1998) (38)
- Real-time processing of ASL signs: Delayed first language acquisition affects organization of the mental lexicon. (2015) (37)
- Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners. (2014) (36)
- Reflects Language Development : Evidence From Bilingual Children (35)
- Phonological similarity judgments in ASL: Evidence for maturational constraints on phonetic perception in sign (2012) (33)
- Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners: Longitudinal Case Studies in American Sign Language. (2016) (29)
- Investigating Constituent Order Change With Elicited Pantomime: A Functional Account of SVO Emergence (2014) (28)
- Effects of Early Language Deprivation on Brain Connectivity: Language Pathways in Deaf Native and Late First-Language Learners of American Sign Language (2019) (26)
- The critical period for language acquisition and the deaf child's language comprehension : A psycholinguistic approach (1998) (25)
- Neurolinguistic processing when the brain matures without language (2017) (24)
- Who's on First? Investigating the referential hierarchy in simple native ASL narratives. (2016) (23)
- Syntactic Priming in American Sign Language (2015) (22)
- Subjective frequency ratings for 432 ASL signs (2014) (21)
- Neural stages of spoken, written, and signed word processing in beginning second language learners (2013) (21)
- Complexity in two-handed signs in Kenyan Sign Language: Evidence for sublexical structure in a young sign language (2012) (20)
- Sentence Repetition in American Sign Language. (1981) (20)
- Prediction in a visual language: real-time sentence processing in American Sign Language across development (2018) (17)
- Production and comprehension show divergent constituent order preferences: Evidence from elicited pantomime. (2015) (16)
- The Development of Eye Gaze Control for Linguistic Input in Deaf Children (2011) (15)
- Acquiring a first language in adolescence: the case of basic word order in American Sign Language (2018) (15)
- Learning Sign Language as a Second Language (2006) (14)
- Deaf Children's Reading Comprehension in Relation to Sign Language Structure and Input. (1989) (12)
- Reference tracking in early stages of different modality L2 acquisition: Limited over-explicitness in novice ASL signers’ referring expressions (2019) (10)
- Real-Time Processing of ASL Signs : Effects of Linguistic Experience and Proficiency (2014) (9)
- Clausal Question-Answer Pairs:Evidence from ASL (2008) (9)
- Tracking Reference in Space : How L 2 Learners Use ASL Referring Expressions (2015) (7)
- Studying Sign Language Acquisition (2015) (7)
- The Cortical Organization of Syntactic Processing Is Supramodal: Evidence from American Sign Language (2021) (7)
- When event knowledge overrides word order in sentence comprehension: Learning a first language after childhood. (2020) (7)
- Sign language aphasia from a neurodegenerative disease (2013) (7)
- Effects of Early Language Deprivation : Mapping between Brain and Behavioral Outcomes (2018) (6)
- Deaf Children's Recognition of Written Words: Is Fingerspelling the Basis?. (1987) (5)
- Numeral Incorporation in Russian Sign Language: Phonological Constraints on Simultaneous Morphology (2019) (5)
- Do Adults Show an Effect of Delayed First Language Acquisition When Calculating Scalar Implicatures? (2015) (4)
- Pronoun production and comprehension in American Sign Language: the interaction of space, grammar, and semantics (2021) (3)
- Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language. (2018) (3)
- Testing Calculation of Scalar Implicatures in English and American Sign Language (2009) (3)
- Implicit causality biases and thematic roles in American Sign Language (2021) (3)
- Where to look for American Sign Language (ASL) sublexical structure in the visual world: Reply to Salverda (2016). (2016) (3)
- Neurocase : The Neural Basis of Cognition (2013) (3)
- The First Words Acquired by Adolescent First-Language Learners : When Late Looks Early (2011) (2)
- An emerging self: The copula cycle in American Sign Language (2022) (1)
- Author ' s personal copy Structural brain changes linked to delayed fi rst language acquisition in congenitally deaf individuals (2012) (1)
- The Neural Correlates of Childhood Linguistic Isolation (2013) (1)
- The gesture-speech relationship in stuttering: Results of preliminary findings and applications to treatment (1994) (0)
- Where to look for ASL sub-lexical structure in the visual world: A reply to Salverda (2016) (2016) (0)
- Sign Language (1980) (0)
- The Semantics and Pragmatics of Clausal Question-Answer Pairs in ASL (2008) (0)
- POSSIBLE LINGUISTIC BENEFITS OF SIGN MOTHERESE FOR SIGNED LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (1999) (0)
- Levels of Sign Language Processing: Qualitative Measures. (1981) (0)
- Sign language perception and linguistic experience (1982) (0)
- Subjective frequency ratings for 432 ASL signs (2013) (0)
- Language learning in deaf children: The critical issues (1979) (0)
- American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions . Ronnie B. Wilbur. Boston: College Hill, 1987. Pp. xii + 387. (1988) (0)
- Restricted language access during childhood affects adult brain structure in selective language regions (2023) (0)
- Number Stroop Effects in Arabic Digits and ASL Number Signs: The Impact of Age and Setting of Language Acquisition (2022) (0)
- Acceptability judgments still matter: Deafness and documentation (2017) (0)
- APS volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2009) (0)
- First . La nguage Acquisition After Childhood Differs From Second , Language Acquisition : The Case of American Sign Language (2007) (0)
- Neural Effects of Childhood Language Deprivation on Picture Processing: Insights from Adolescent First-Language Learners (2015) (0)
- Lexical representation and access in sign languages (2022) (0)
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