Forest Books: Susan Goldin-Meadow Resilience Of Language (The) Hardback

This fascinating study shows that, even without the guidance of a conventional language model, the gesture system that a group of deaf children develop incorporates the fundamental properties of language. These resilient properties of language are central to human communication and can teach us much about language-learning, as well as having implications for situations in which language-learning has gone awry. Hardcover 300 pages 2003