However, individual variation in language performance has been observed in children with mild to moderate sensorineural HL [ 6].
Herein, an overcommitment to a single syntactic structure (occasionally referred to as "sticky attention"), particularly in terms of roles within word order, may play a role in the profile of language abilities that has been observed.
In natural language processing, it has been observed that simple statistical models (e.g. co-occurrence) can outperform more complex models based on less data (Halevy et al., 2009).
Even in sentence processing tasks, in which semantic and syntactic constraints may be more likely to induce language-selective processing, cognate facilitation has been observed relative to noncognates (e.g., Schwartz & Kroll, 2006; Van Assche, Drieghe, Duyck, Welvaert, & Hartsuiker, 2011; Van Assche, Duyck, Hartsuiker, & Diependaele, 2009; Van Hell & de Groot, 2008).
Guess what has been observed?
More activity has been observed since then.
It has been observed that the "degree of proximity" to the light of the Valar affects the development of both languages in terms of phonology, morphology and semantics.
Some success has been observed.
A markedly delayed speech sound discrimination process observed in newborns of smoking mothers is consistent with previous reports linking prenatal exposure to smoking with less than optimal central nervous system organization and may offer an explanation for lower language abilities during childhood that have been observed in other studies.
Indeed, bilingual children have been observed to switch languages specifically to gain attention and information from their mothers [12].
