Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and indexes.
COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ACCOMPANYING WEBSITE OF VIDEO CLIPS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE-LEARNING; CHAPTER 1: Out of the Mouths of Babes; CHAPTER 2: How Do Children Learn Language?; CHAPTER 3: Language-Learning Across the Globe; CHAPTER 4: Language-Learning by Hand; CHAPTER 5: Does More or Less Input Matter?; PART II: LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT A LANGUAGE MODEL; CHAPTER 6: Background on Deafness and Language-Learning; CHAPTER 7: How Do We Begin?; CHAPTER 8: Words; CHAPTER 9: The Parts of Words; CHAPTER 10: Combining Words Into Simple Sentences.
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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'.
Resilience of language.
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Deaf children-- Means of communication.
Gesture.
Language acquisition.
Enfants sourds-- Moyens de communication.
Gestes.
Langage-- Acquisition.
Deaf children-- Means of communication.
Gesture.
Language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Psycholinguistics.