Resilience of Language What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us about How All Children Learn Language

Name: Resilience of Language What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us about How All Children Learn Language
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ISBN: 9781841694368

ISBN-10: 1841694363

ISBN-13: 9781841694368

Edition: 2005

Authors: Susan Goldin-Meadow

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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? The deaf children whose methods of communication are described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'.

Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.06" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Susan Goldin-Meadow is Professor of Psychology and an affiliate of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.



Acknowledgments


Accompanying Website of Video Clips


Introduction



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?



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



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