Language Emergence

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Judy Anne Kegl
Keyword(s):  
Language Emergence

Factors in Toddlers With Late Language Emergence in a Middle-Income South African Sample

2021 ◽  
pp. 152574012110547
Author(s):  
Elmien Kraamwinkel ◽  
Alta Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
South African ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Play Skills ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Language Emergence ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors

Late language emergence (LLE) may result from genetic and environmental factors. Little is known about environmental factors in LLE in South Africa. The study describes the nature of differences in language functioning between toddlers with LLE and without LLE, and which factors were associated with LLE in a middle-income area in South Africa. Toddlers, aged 24 to 36 months with LLE ( n = 20) were matched with a control group (CG, n = 21) for household income, age, gender, maternal education, and parental employment. The research group (RG) showed moderate delays in expressive and receptive language, and play skills, while the controls exhibited no delay. Significant differences in early feeding history and multilingual exposure were found between the groups. As far as known, it is the first study utilizing a South African middle-income sample indicating that multilingual exposure may play a role in LLE. The study focuses the attention on environmental factors which are potentially modifiable in LLE.

scholarly journals What the hands can tell us about language emergence

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Keyword(s):  
Language Emergence

Artificial intelligence and constructed-language emergence

2018 ◽  
pp. 361-363
Author(s):  
Diego Gonzalez-Rodriguez ◽  
Jose-Rodolfo Hernandez-Carrion
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Language Emergence

scholarly journals An evolutionary approach to sign language emergence: From state to process

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasamin Motamedi ◽  
Marieke Schouwstra ◽  
Simon Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Language Emergence ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractUnderstanding the relationship between gesture, sign, and speech offers a valuable tool for investigating how language emerges from a nonlinguistic state. We propose that the focus on linguistic status is problematic, and a shift to focus on the processes that shape these systems serves to explain the relationship between them and contributes to the central question of how language evolves.

Iconicity and interpretability in language emergence

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-157
Author(s):  
Carla L. Hudson Kam ◽  
Oksana Tkachman
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Sign Languages ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Grammatical Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Language Emergence ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Spatial Modulations

Abstract The iconic potential of sign languages suggests that the establishment of a conventionalized set of form-meaning pairings should be relatively easy. However, even an iconic form has to be interpreted correctly for it to conventionalize. In sign languages, spatial modulations are used to indicate real spatial relationships (locative) and grammatical relations. The former is a more-or-less direct representation of how things are situated with respect to each other. Grammatical space, in contrast, is more abstract. As such, the former would seem to be more interpretable than the latter, and so on the face of it, should be more likely to conventionalize in a new sign language. But in at least one emerging sign language the grammatical use of space is conventionalizing first. We argue that this is due to the grammatical use of space being easier to understand correctly, using data from four experiments investigating hearing non-signers interpretation of spatially modulated gestures.

scholarly journals Book Review: Scaffolded Language Emergence in the Classroom: From Theory to Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-78
Author(s):  
Gabriel Rauhoff
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Emergent Behavior ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Language Emergence

This is a book review for Donald Kiraly and Sarah Signer's co-written piece that provides a readers a new approach to language learning. In Scaffolded Language Emergence (SLE), the classroom environment is revised to facilitate second language emergent behavior. The book review provides a brief summary of SLE, a summary of Kiraly and Signer's expertise in relation to the book's contents, and an evaluation of the book.

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