Exceptional Language Development in Down Syndrome: Implications for the Cognition-Language Relationship (Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics) - Hardcover

Rondal, Jean A.

 
9780521361675: Exceptional Language Development in Down Syndrome: Implications for the Cognition-Language Relationship (Cambridge Monographs and Texts in Applied Psycholinguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0521361672 ISBN 13: 9780521361675
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Advanced language acquisition is possible in spite of serious mental handicap. This is the conclusion reached at the end of a thorough study of the language of a Down syndrome adult woman, exhibiting virtually normal expressive and receptive grammar. This case, presented in this book, is compared to a small number of other exceptional cases of language development in mental retardation. The findings are powerful arguments against the claim that the acquisition of grammar is determined by prior nonlinguistic cognitive achievements. Moreover, data analysis and comparison with other observations in language pathology (specific language impaired children, aphasic syndromes, degenerative syndromes, dementias) suggest that linguistic knowledge consists of independent but interacting modules. These data also supply interesting arguments in favor of a conception of grammatical development as the gradual unfolding of innate species-specific dispositions, and undoubtedly this book will appeal to researchers and advanced students in language development, developmental psychopathology and special education.

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Book Description

Advanced language acquisition is possible in spite of serious mental handicap. This is the conclusion reached at the end of a thorough study of the language of a Down syndrome adult woman, exhibiting virtually normal expressive and receptive grammar.

Review

"I strongly recommend this book to all scholars who are interested in questions about the human mind and its development." Leonard Abbeduto, American Journal of Mental Retardation

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521361672
ISBN 13 
9780521361675
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
368

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