What language creation in the manual modality tells us about the foundations of language
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20344153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Goldin-Meadow (0000-0001-8536-2673, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2-4 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlir.2005.22.2-4.199 |
| OpenAlex | W2082493766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 9 |
Universal Grammar offers a set of hypotheses about the biases children bring to language-learning. But testing these hypotheses is difficult, particularly if we look only at language-learning under typical circumstances. Children are influenced by the linguistic input to which they are exposed at the earliest stages of language-learning. Their biases will therefore be obscured by the input they receive. A clearer view of the child’s preparation for language comes from observing children who are not exposed to linguistic input. Deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from learning the spoken language that surrounds them, and whose hearing parents have not yet exposed them to sign language, nevertheless communicate with the hearing individuals in their worlds and use gestures, called homesigns, to do so. This article explores which properties of Universal Grammar can be found in the deaf children’s homesign systems, and thus tests linguistic theory against acquisition data. 1. The implications of Universal Grammar for language learning
American Sign Language · Comprehension approach · Gesture · Grammar · Language acquisition · Language transfer · Linguistic universal · Linguistics · Natural language · Second-language acquisition · Sign language · Spoken language · Universal Grammar · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
Adquisición de unidades verbales en niños/as que desarrollan el chedungun en la región del Biobío
From Endangerment to (Re)Emergence
Layers, mosaic pieces, and tiers
Gradience of Gradience
Sign language endangerment and linguistic diversity
Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction
Language Evolution
American Sign Language basic clause comprehension strategies used by late first-language learners
Topic-open-endedness
Structural biases that children bring to language learning
Homesign
Cognitive foundations of topic-comment and foreground-background structures
Exceptional bilingualism
The challenge
Linguistics in Cognitive Science
The problem of conventionality in the development of creole morphological systems
Language Emergence
Hierarchical structure in a self-created communication system
Ensuring language acquisition for deaf children
Word-order and causal inference
Imbalances in bilingual development
Homesigners as Late Learners
Some properties of light verbs in code-switching
American Sign Language Syntax
Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters
Children Creating Language
The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
Do young children have adult syntactic competence?
American Sign Language compound formation processes, lexicalization, and phonological remnants
Experiential canalization of behavioral development
The Signs of Language
The Discourse Basis of Ergativity
| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |