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The Resilience of Language : What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language.
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'. The children are congenitally deaf and can...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2005.
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| Colección: | Essays in developmental psychology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn the spoken language that surrounds them. In addition, they have not yet been exposed to sign language, either by their hearing parents or their oral schools. Nevertheless, the children use their hands to communicate - they gesture - and those gestures take on many of the forms and functions of langu. |
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| Notas: | The Utterance Grows Not Only in Size but Also in Organization: Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (515 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781135433390 1135433399 1135433380 9781135433383 9786611515454 6611515453 1281515450 9781281515452 0203943260 9780203943267 1841694363 9781841694368 |