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inputandimpoverished inputtremely impoverished israre Genieferalchildren where a childhearsclose to nolanguage growingup
QualityandQuantityof language children hear has a profoundand long lasting impact on theirlanguage
ills large individual differences
hen communication without a sharedlanguageoccursthere are multiple options
learntheotherslanguage butwhatlanguage 2groupsmaynotbeequalintermsoftheirsocialstanding tension
relieson formalinstruction lessonsect whichmaynotbeavailable
Develop a new communication system pidginsandcreoles
dgins creoles
dgin
Toesnothave
anynativespeakers didn'tlearnfromchildhood
imited vocab
simple structure
often limited setoffunctions e.gfortradeandwork
eole
Languagedevelopedbychildrenwhogrowup exposed to a pidgin theresultofa pidgin
is a native language
Richvocab
complexgrammar
usedfor
any function familylifenewsculturalproducts
, Some creole languages are spoken
bymillionsof speakers
sasseddownfromgenerations
Theyarenot simplifiedversionsoflanguages
caraguansignLanguage NSL
seatpeoplegrowing upin Nicaraguabefore 1970hadlittlecontactwithone another isolatedwith no provisions
byearly 1980s the government opened a SENschoolinManagua stilltriedtoteachthemspoken Spanish
childrendeveloped a new gestural systemto communicate with one another A pidgin wasborn
this
pidgin was passeddownandrelearnednaturallyeveryyear as eachnewwaveofchildrenenteredthecommunity
eventually evolved into a creole NSL
enghaset al 2014
oked at howtheearly gestural systemevolvedintoNSL
mpared30deaf Nicaraguans groupedinto cohortsaccordingtothe
yearthattheywerefirstexposedtoNSL
Firstcohort before19841
Secondcohort 1984 19931
hirdcohort after19331
Alldeaf participantshadbeensigningNSLsincetheageof 6or younger
Their gesturescompared to gestures produced
by10hearingNicaraguanswhilespeakingSpanish speaking t gestures
cedureDeafandhearingparticipantswereaskedto describethesame event a cat havingswallowed a bowlingball r
wnthehill Theywatched a cartoonanimationofthisevent
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