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The Development of Language-like Communication Without a Language Model

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Journal Science
Specialty Science
Date 1977 Jul 22
PMID 877567
Citations 41
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Abstract

Deaf children who are unable to acquire oral language naturally and who are not exposed to a standard manual language can spontaneously develop a structured sign system that has many of the properties of natural spoken language. This communication system appears to be largely the invention of the child himself rather than of the caretakers.

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