Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child

By Barbara Landau, Lila R. Gleitman. 1988

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Bootstrapping language acquisition. (2017, background): “…the semantic bootstrapping theory to be discussed below postulates a second, later, stage of ‘‘syntactic bootstrapping” (Braine, 1992; Gleitman, 1990; Landau & Gleitman, 1985; Trueswell & Gleitman, 2007), during which the existence of early semantically bootstrapped syntax allows rapid or even…”
Word learning in children: an examination of fast mapping. (1987, background): “Landau and Gleitman (1985) have suggested that adjectives which encode absolute constrast may be less natural as lexical items, and therefore harder for children to acquire, than adjectives which encode relative contrast.”
The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters. (2011, background): “Also relevant in this respect are approaches to lexical development, such as the syntactic bootstrapping account (Gleitman, 1990; Landau & Gleitman, 1985), which explore the role of syntactic information in acquiring the meaning of especially abstract words (Gleitman et al,, 2005; see also Andrews &”
How to build a baby: II. Conceptual primitives. (1992, background): “This is a case in which syntactic bootstrapping (Gleitman, 1990; Landau & Gleitman, 1985) seems to be required if the child is to realize that it is not just inanimates that are marked in the abstract role of patient.”
How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge (2016, background): “…blind people show high behavioral similarities with sighted individuals in conceptual representations, even when the processing of semantic features is directly related to visual features (i.e., color terms, verbs of vision) (Bedny et al., 2011; Landau and Gleitman, 1985; Noppeney et al., 2003).”
What are the Links Between Theory of Mind and Social Relations? Review, Reflections and New Directions for Studies of Typical and Atypical Development (2004, background): “In particular, although initial word learning does appear delayed, the first words of blind children are similar to those of sighted children (Landau & Gleitman, 1985), and once initial word learning is underway, pragmatic speech functions and imitations, repetitions and routines are also intact in…”
Names will never hurt me? Naming and the development of racial and gender categories in preschool‐aged children (2010, background): “Finally, cognitive factors appear to favor the acquisition of binary (e.g., gender) over graded (e.g., race) distinctions within categories (Landau & Gleitman, 1985).”
Learning words from sights and sounds: a computational model (2002, background): “Thus findings that, for example, blind children are able to acquire sight related words (Landau & Gleitman, 1985) does not pose a problem for the model.”
Pretense and representation: The origins of "theory of mind." (1987, background): “Although this sort of problem is far from trivial (see Landau & Gleitman, 1985), it is less monumental than having to invent the whole idea of mental states from scratch as well.”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “Similarly, blind children acquire language at much the same pace and with a very similar Nativism Past and Present 9 developmental pattern to other children (Landau & Gleitman, 1985).”
Chapter 1 The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences on the Acquisition of Language (2005, background): “A particularly surprising aspect of blind children's learning has to do with their acquisition of terms that (seem to) describe the visual experience in particular—words like look and see (Landau and Gleitman 1985).”
New Perspectives on Language and Thought (2012, background): “…can play causal roles in the acquisition of language by learners who are predisposed to find just these kinds of syntactic-semantic correlations " natural " (e.g., Pinker, 1984; Gleitman, 1990; Fisher, 1996; P. Bloom, 1994a; Landau & Gleitman, 1985; Lidz, Gleitman & Gleitman, 2003; Baker, 2001).”
Finding The Verbs: Distributional Cues to Categories Available to Young Learners (2004, background): “Of course, frames more broadly construed have been shown to play an important role in verb learning (Fisher, Gleitman, & Gleitman, 1991; Fisher et al., 1994; Gillette et al., 1999; Gleitman, 1990; Landau & Gleitman, 1985; Naigles & Hoff-Ginsberg, 1998).”