Comment on "Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua"
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Comment on "children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua".
In a recent report, Senghas et al. (1) presented Nicaraguan Sign Language as a spontaneously developing language that was created by children who lacked exposure to a developed language. The study asserted that Bdiscreteness and hierarchical combination are absent from the language environment[ of these deaf learners, but provided no details about the role of other communicative and linguistic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1107876