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- Title
REPLY BY THE AUTHORS.
- Abstract
The structure of the deaf child's gestures did not mirror the structure of mother's gestures. Moreover, the structure of the child's gestures did not easily conform to the patterns of spoken English and was therefore not likely to mirror the structure of mother's speech. Given these facts, it is difficult to imagine how the structure of the child's gestures could have been a reflection of mother's gestures and mother's speech taken in combination. In order to address the coding issues raised by the commentators, it is first necessary to reiterate the bootstrap nature of the coding process. The language acquisition question should be considered within the framework of developmental resilience, the relative importance (and lack of importance) of aspects of the environment on the child's acquisition of various properties of language.
- Subjects
HEARING impaired; NONVERBAL communication; MOTHERS; LANGUAGE acquisition; ENGLISH language conversation &; phrase books; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience in children; CHILD development
- Publication
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1984, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p143
- ISSN
0037-976X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1540-5834.ep11865198