Susan Goldin-Meadow

The Resilience of Language (eBook, PDF)

What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135433390
• Artikelnr.: 41065467

Autorenporträt

Susan Goldin-Meadow

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Problem of Language Learning. Out of the Mouths of Babes. How
Do Children Learn Language? Language-Learning Across the Globe.
Language-Learning by Hand. Does More or Less Input Matter? Part 2: Language
Development without a Language Model. Background on Deafness and
Language-Learning. How Do We Begin? Words. The Parts of Words. Combining
Words Into Simple Sentences. Making Complex Sentences out of Simple Ones:
Recursion. Building a System. Beyond the Here-And-Now: The Functions
Gesture Serves. How Might Hearing Parents Foster Gesture Creation in Their
Deaf Children? Gesture Creation Across the Globe. Part 3: The Conditions
that Foster Language and Language-Learning. How Do the Resilient Properties
of Language Help Children Learn Language? When Does Gesture Become
Language? Is Language Innate? The Resilience of Language. References.
Author Index. Subject Index.