Learning Language the Hard Way
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20343645 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peyton Todd (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), Jean Aitchison (London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-140 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | First Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-7237 • E-ISSN: 1740-2344 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/014272378000100203 |
| OpenAlex | W1966583266 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper analyses and discusses the speech of Vincent, a hearing child of deaf parents who acquired sign language as his first language. When exposed to spoken language, his progress was slow and abnormal. He utilised a number of grammatical devices which may have come from sign language, such as reduplication, copying around, doubling, and afterthought. These were imposed on a fixed kernel sentence which attributed more importance to form than to semantic relations. The possible reasons for this abnormal development are put forward, and their implications discussed
Copying · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Manually coded language · Natural language processing · Reduplication · Sentence · Sign (mathematics) · Sign language · Sociolinguistics of sign languages · Spoken language · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |