Isolated infants naturally develop their own spontaneous language systems
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Evidence from studies on homesign systems demonstrates that isolated deaf individuals naturally innovate and develop their own structured communicative and linguistic systems.
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Homesign Research, Gesture Studies, and Sign Language Linguistics: The Bigger Picture of Homesign and Homesigners
2024 · cited by 2
This paper highlights that homesigns are innovated by deaf individuals without accessible community languages and exhibit fundamental linguistic properties.
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Language socialization in homesign via a directive-response trajectory
2026 · cited by 0
This study documents how homesign languages are innovated by isolated deaf individuals and demonstrate complex grammatical and communicative structures.