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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"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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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.
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Rondal reports on a person with Down syndrome who is communicating at a level above that to be expected from people with Down syndrome. Does he raise his estimate of her intelligence (or of the maximum intelligence of people with Down syndrome? No, he does not. Instead, he declares that communiation at that level requires less intelligence than has formerly been thought. An example of academic rigitity at its worst.
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I met Francoise, my Down syndrome (henceforth DS) subject, a few years ago, at La Fermette, an occupational center for DS adults managed by APEM (Association de Parents d'Enfants Mongoliens), to which I am a consultant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmarked topical theme, logicosemantic relations, independent declarative clause, adverb alors, continuative theme, initiating clause, attributive group, conjunction comme, dog tastes the meat, conjunctive theme, process faire, finite dependent clause, conjunction group, conjunction parce que, sentence scoring procedure, fourth declarative, adverb maintenant, finite est, adverbial group, first speech sample, subject vous, three little strokes, second declarative, conjunction mais, time enfin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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I met Francoise, my Down syndrome (henceforth DS) subject, a few years ago, at La Fermette, an occupational center for DS adults managed by APEM (Association de Parents d'Enfants Mongoliens), to which I am a consultant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unmarked topical theme, logicosemantic relations, independent declarative clause, adverb alors, continuative theme, initiating clause, attributive group, conjunction comme, dog tastes the meat, conjunctive theme, process faire, finite dependent clause, conjunction group, conjunction parce que, sentence scoring procedure, fourth declarative, adverb maintenant, finite est, adverbial group, first speech sample, subject vous, three little strokes, second declarative, conjunction mais, time enfin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Developmental Sentence Scoring Procedure, Haveigné Road, Auditory Sequential Memory Subtest, Fraipont Square, Van Borsel, Etiology of Major Item Linguistic New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Mental Retardation by Journal on 8 pages
- Mental Deficiency (the Changing Outlook) by Clarke on 4 pages
- Child Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Alison J. Elliot in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Verbal Behavior by B. F. Skinner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Child Development by Nora Newcombe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Speech and Language Intervention in Down Syndrome by Jean Rondal on page 114
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