The resilience of language [[electronic resource] ] : what gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language / / Susan Goldin-Meadow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454719803321
• Autore: Goldin-Meadow Susan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y., : Psychology Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-281-51545-0; 9786611515454; 0-203-94326-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Collana: Essays in developmental psychology
• Disciplina: 401.93
• Soggetti: Deaf children - Means of communication; Gesture; Language acquisition; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical referencesand indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; CHAPTER 11: Making Complex Sentences out of Simple Ones: RecursionCHAPTER 12: Building a System; CHAPTER 13: Beyond the Here-and-Now: The Functions Gesture Serves; CHAPTER 14: How Might Hearing Parents Foster Gesture Creation in Their Deaf Children?; CHAPTER 15: Gesture Creation Across the Globe; PART III: THE CONDITIONS THAT FOSTER LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE-LEARNING; CHAPTER 16: How Do the Resilient Properties of Language Help ; Children Learn Language?; CHAPTER 17: When Does Gesture Become Language?; CHAPTER 18: Is Language Innate?; CHAPTER 19: The Resilience of Language; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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'.