The challenge: Some properties of langua
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Goldin-Meadow, Susan
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Article
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2007
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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German
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Usage-based accounts of language-learning ought to predict that, in the absence of linguistic input, children will not communicate in language-like ways. But this prediction is not borne out by the data. Deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from acquiring the spoken language that surround