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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'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldin-Meadow, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Psychology Press, 2005, ©2003.
Colección:Essays in developmental psychology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACCOMPANYING WEBSITE OF VIDEO CLIPS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE-LEARNING; CHAPTER 1: Out of the Mouths of Babes; CHAPTER 2: How Do Children Learn Language?; CHAPTER 3: Language-Learning Across the Globe; CHAPTER 4: Language-Learning by Hand; CHAPTER 5: Does More or Less Input Matter?; PART II: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT A LANGUAGE MODEL; CHAPTER 6: Background on Deafness and Language-Learning; CHAPTER 7: How Do We Begin?; CHAPTER 8: Words; CHAPTER 9: The Parts of Words; CHAPTER 10: Combining Words Into Simple Sentences.