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Rondal, J.A: Exceptional language development in Down syndrome: Implications
for the cognition-language issue. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
1995
Product 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. 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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