Human language not only allows us to share our thoughts about the world around us, but also to discuss what isn’t there. Our ability to use words and gestures to communicate information about absent and abstract concepts begins in infancy and could be what allows us to develop more abstract thinking as we age, wrote… Read More »
The Self-Taught Vocabulary of Homesigning Deaf Children Supports Universal Constraints on Language
Deaf homesigner in Guatemala, © The Author(s) 2023. Languages may seem different on an instinctual level—“hello,” for example, does not sound like “ni hao.” But the work of many psychological scientists suggests that the thousands of languages spoken throughout the world draw on many of the same fundamental linguistic abilities and reflect universal aspects of… Read More »
