SPONTANEOUS SIGN SYSTEMS IN CHILDREN

这份提案描述了一项确定财产的研究计划 语言的发展能够经受住语言的巨大变化 学习条件--语言的“弹性”特性。 没有接触过传统语言的儿童 将观察输入以确定哪些属性 儿童可以在一组退化的输入下发展语言 条件。研究的对象是患有耳聋的儿童。 听力损失如此严重，以至于他们不能自然地获得口语 语言，而且出生在听得见的父母还没有暴露 将它们转换为一种手册语言。先前的研究表明， 贫困的语言学习条件和美国聋人 儿童能够发展出一种手势交流系统， 在两个句子层面上的结构(结构横跨 手势)和单词级别(手势中的结构)。这个 拟议的研究将确定失聪儿童是否缺乏 另一种文化(汉语)中的传统语言模式 文化)可以开发手势系统，该系统在 句子和单词的级别，即项目将决定 句级结构和词级结构面对 广泛的文化差异。家庭观察的录像带 10名美国聋儿和10名中国聋儿 (1岁；4岁至6岁；0岁)将被转录并分析结构 包括句子和单词两个层面。

This proposal describes a research plan to identify the properties of language whose development can withstand wide variations in learning conditions -- the "resilient" properties of language. Children who have not been exposed to conventional linguistic input will be observed in order to determine which properties of language can be developed by a child under set of degraded input conditions. The subjects of the study are deaf children with hearing losses so severe that they cannot naturally acquire oral language, and born to hearing parents who have not yet exposed them to a manual language. Previous research has shown that, impoverished language-learning conditions, and American deaf child was able to develop a gestural communication system which as structured at both the sentence level (structure across gestures) and the word level (structure within gestures). The proposed research will determine whether deaf children lacking conventional language models in another culture (the Chinese culture) can develop gesture systems that are structured at both the sentence and word levels, i.e., the project will determine the "resilience" of sentence- and word-level structure in the face of wide cultural variation. Videotapes taken of home observations of ten American and ten Chinese deaf children of hearing parents (ages 1;4 to 6;0) will be transcribed and analyzed for structure at both the sentence and word levels.