Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua

By Ann Senghas, Sotaro Kita, Asli Ozyurek. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review (2018, background): “This period is commonly referred to as the sensitive or critical period of development (Lenneberg 1967) in which early experiences are particularly influential, sometimes with irreversible effects in behaviour (Senghas et al. 2004).”
Lifelong learning of human actions with deep neural network self-organization (2017, background): “In fact, a body of literature has suggested that early experiences are particularly influential on human and animal behavior (see e.g. Hubel and Wiesel, 1962, Johnson and Newport, 1991; Senghas, Kita, and Ozyurek, 2004).”
Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological Elements (2021, neutral): “Additionally, curriculum learning is important for cognitive development in humans (Lenneberg, 1967; Senghas, Kita, & Özyürek, 2004).”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, unknown): “…spontaneously " inventing " gestural languages with hierarchical and compositional structure provide further confirmation that the human mind is indomitably human even in the absence of normal linguistic enculturation (see, e.g., Goldin-Meadow 2003; Sandler et al. 2005; Senghas et al. 2004).”
Critical periods and catastrophic interference effects in the development of self-organizing feature maps. (2008, background): “The infants were shown a series of pictures of either cats or dogs and were able to induce the CAT or DOG category sufficiently to distinguish a novel animal from a cat or dog in a subsequent preferential looking task.”
Natural Number and Natural Geometry (2011, background): “These first-cohort speakers have no consistent means for expressing or interpreting spatial relationships such as left of X [105].”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “However, as we note further on in section 6.5, any given linguistic phenomenon is likely to arise from a combination of multiple constraints that cut across these groupings, and, thus, across different kinds of brain mechanisms.”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “They also offer unique opportunities to study the emergence of new languages under different conditions: (a) where home-signers (Goldin-Meadow 2003) are congregated and a sign language emerges among themselves, as in Nicaragua (Senghas et al. 2004); and (b) where a localized hereditary deaf populati”