The Resilience of Language

What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

By: 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? 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 language. The properties of language that we find in the deaf children's gestures are just those properties that do not need to be handed down from generation to generation, but can be reinvented by a child de novo - the resilient properties of language. This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties. In this way, studies of gesture creation in deaf children can show us the way that children themselves have a large hand in shaping how language is learned.

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'This book is interesting, well written and easy to read. I recommend it highly to all students and researchers who are interested in gesture.' - Sandra Smith, Deafness & Educational International

'The data described...inform the study of language acquisistion generally, as well as contributing immensely to the understanding of language and communication in exceptional circumstances. ... It will appeal to those with an interest in language development or with a specific interest in communication and hearing impairment. it would also complement the core texts for any course on language development, and its accessible style should appeal to a wide readership.' - Dr Fiona Lyddy, in The Irish Psychologist, May 2006.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Accompanying Website of Video Clips	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
The Problem of Language-Learning
Out of the Mouths of Babes	p. 3
How Do Children Learn Language?	p. 13
Language-Learning Across the Globe	p. 21
Language-Learning by Hand	p. 31
Does More or Less Input Matter?	p. 41
Language Development Without A Language Model
Background on Deafness and Language-Learning	p. 55
How Do We Begin?	p. 65
Words	p. 71
The Parts of Words	p. 83
Combining Words Into Simple Sentences	p. 97
Making Complex Sentences out of Simple Ones: Recursion	p. 115
Building a System	p. 125
Beyond the Here-and-Now: The Functions Gesture Serves	p. 137
How Might Hearing Parents Foster Gesture Creation in Their Deaf Children?	p. 151
Gesture Creation Across the Globe	p. 163
The Conditions that Foster Language and Language-Learning
How Do the Resilient Properties of Language Help Children Learn Language?	p. 185
When Does Gesture Become Language?	p. 199
Is Language Innate?	p. 213
The Resilience of Language	p. 221
References	p. 233
Author Index	p. 251
Subject Index	p. 257
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