Author Question: Evidence that language is a social process that must be learned comes from the fact that when deaf ... (Read 44 times)

SGallaher96 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Evidence that language is a social process that must be learned comes from the fact that when deaf children find themselves in an environment where there are no people who speak or use sign language, they

a. lose the ability to communicate in any way.
b. invent a sign language themselves.
c. start speaking out loud even though they cannot hear themselves.
d. demonstrate compensatory regeneration of lost auditory neural pathways.

Question 2

Yoda, a central character of the Star Wars movies created by George Lucas, has a distinctive way of speaking. His statement, Afraid you will be, violates which property of the English language?

a. Language involves the use of a lexicon
b. Coding is required for langauge
c. Language symbols must have high discriminability
d. Languge has a structure that is governed by rules