PSYC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Nicaraguan Spanish
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Senghas, children creaing core properies of language: evidence from an emerging sign. Language in nicaragua segmentaion and recombinaion of gestures into nsl relect mechanisms with which children learn, and thereby perpetuate, language. Thus, children naturally possess learning abiliies capable of giving language its fundamental structure. Languages are discrete and combinatorial: consists of inite set of parts that can be combined into ininite combinaions, basic elements are perceived categorically, not coninuously, and are organized in a hierarchical fashion. Observe emergence of discrete and combinatorial language (nsl: helps us discover how fundamental language properies emerge during transiion from nonlinguisic to linguisic. Pre 1970s- deaf nicaraguan children and adults had litle contact with each other. These were all diferent between families and varied in form/complexity. Use coninued outside of school and is relearned naturally by each new generaion that enter school. About 800 nsl signers (4 to 45 years old)
