PSY 3136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Prelingual Deafness, Paralanguage, Otitis Media

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3136
• Professor: Christopher Fennell

Document Summary

Interesing for basic researchers because it answers the quesion of whether language is bound to speech. Prelingually deaf, not hard-of-hearing (not able to hear well) or oiis media (inlammaion of the ear) o. >60db = atypical lang development; >90db = intervenion required (very severe, need to acquire sign language) Major issue: relaive lack of naive signers (10%). o. Only 10% of deaf individuals are born to deaf parents: most are born to non-deaf parents who don"t know sign language must learn at the same ime as the baby. Those who are taught oral language provide interesing data in 2 ways: o o. Late language acquisiion: past the sensiive period (never learned home signs or sign language in childhood possibly as a young adult) Have already touched on this throughout the course: it"s prety much all the same. Asl has a lexicon, phonology, and grammar, etc. (everything that english has)