The Resilience of Language : What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

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Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, neutral): “…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).”
Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing (2012, background): “For example, homesigns, sign languages, and even spoken languages such as Navajo and Japanese use ‘classifier’ systems that map a variety of meanings to basic shapes and image schemas [Armstrong & Wilcox, 2007; Goldin-Meadow, 2003].”
Learning from others: children's construction of concepts. (2009, background): “Certainly I do not wish to claim that concepts require a conventional language system; note the impressive conceptual abilities of preverbal infants, non-human primates, and deaf children with no language input (Cohen & Cashon 2006; Goldin-Meadow 2003; Hauser 2000).”