The resilience of language [[electronic resource] ] : what gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language / / Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Goldin-Meadow Susan
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| Titolo: |
The resilience of language [[electronic resource] ] : what gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language / / Susan Goldin-Meadow
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y., : Psychology Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401.93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Deaf children - Means of communication |
| Gesture | |
| Language acquisition | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 | |
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| 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'. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The resilience of language |
| ISBN: | 1-281-51545-0 |
| 9786611515454 | |
| 0-203-94326-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454719803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Essays in developmental psychology.