Successful communication does not drive language development: Evidence from adult homesign
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- 作者：Emily M. Carrigan ; emily.carrigan@uconn.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Marie Coppola
- 关键词：Language development ; Constructivism ; Communication ; Comprehension ; Homesign ; Gesture
- 刊名：Cognition
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：158
- 期：Complete
- 页码：10-27
- 全文大小：1631 K
文摘
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Linguistic structure develops in homesign gesture systems developed without a linguistic model.
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Homesigners’ parents and siblings show poor comprehension of homesign productions.
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Structure emerges in homesign despite relatively poor comprehension by family members.
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Communicative problem solving & target matching cannot explain linguistic structure in homesign.
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The role of communication in constructivist accounts of language development must be reevaluated.