By Susan Goldin-Meadow
ISBN-10: 1841694363
ISBN-13: 9781841694368
Think a baby who hasn't ever noticeable or heard any language in any respect. might this kind of baby have the ability to invent a language on her personal? regardless of what one may perhaps wager, the youngsters defined during this booklet make it transparent that the reply to this question is 'yes'. the youngsters are congenitally deaf and can't research the spoken language that surrounds them. additionally, they've got now not but been uncovered to signal language, both by means of their listening to mom and dad or their oral faculties. however, the kids use their fingers to speak - they gesture - and people gestures tackle a few of the kinds and services of language. The homes of language that we discover within the deaf kid's gestures are only these homes that don't have to be passed down from iteration to iteration, yet will be reinvented via a toddler de novo - the resilient houses of language. This ebook means that all young children, deaf or listening to, come to language-learning able to enhance accurately those language houses. during this method, stories of gesture construction in deaf childrens can express us the best way that youngsters themselves have a wide hand in shaping how language is discovered.
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Run” could refer to the trajectory of the motion, the manner in which it is carried out, its direction, and so on. An infinite number of hypotheses are logically possible for the meaning of a word in a given adult utterance (Quine, 1960). Yet children are able to zero in on adult meanings of the words they hear. How? It would certainly be easier for children to settle on the meaning of a word if they were constrained to consider only a subset of the possibilities as candidate word meanings—if, for example, they were biased to assume that labels refer to wholes instead of parts (the creature, not the tail) and to classes instead of particular items (all dogs, not one dog).
Children are not only sensitive to regularities of form within sentences but also across sentences. They detect regularities across word sets called paradigms. As an example of a paradigm, the various forms that verbs can take (walk—walks—walked) constitute a verb paradigm. We saw in Chapter 1 that English-learning children detect regularities within paradigms, and often attempt to “regularize” any ill-fitting forms they find; for example, children alter the past tense form for “eat” so that it conforms to the paradigm constructed on the basis of the regular verbs in their language (eat— eats—eated rather than eat—eats—ate).
The advent of two-proposition constructions brings with it the problem of appropriately relating the propositions, not only in production but also in comprehension. p65 11 3/12/03, 3:17 PM 12 The Resilience of Language this regard. For example, consider a child who is told that a little girl fell and ripped her dress in the afternoon and reported the event to her mother later that night. ” they will correctly provide only one (at night) (deVilliers, Roeper, & Vainikka, 1990). The reason for this interpretive pattern has to do with how the two propositions (“say,” and “rip”) are linked in the probe question (that is, their constituent structure).
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