[B-Greek] Further Study-deaf
Daniel, Robert S
rob.daniel at hp.com
Wed Apr 8 12:11:43 EDT 2009
I thought maybe the idea behind this question is that if people deaf from birth can learn language then the rest of us can learn Koine without hearing it spoken. I don't know if that is so or not, but it doesn't necessarily follow. The brain of a deaf person is going to develop differently, so that resources otherwise dedicated to hearing will be dedicated to other functions, partly in order to compensate for the lack of hearing. For the rest of us, our brain develops in such a way that it relies on hearing for certain functions such as language learning. We are at any rate at a great disadvantage if we have to try to learn a language without hearing it.
Rob Daniel
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Randall Buth
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To: Suttles, Andrew C. (GRC-DSI0); B Greek
Subject: [B-Greek] Further Study-deaf
>How is it that the deaf learn to read and write?
>Andrew
Excellent question.
First, they learn by using the language, usually tied into one of the sign languages, through which they rapidly engage their world.
There are some peculiarites to those languages linguistically and there have been many studies on this of which I am not up to date.
I suspect that an MRI-brain scan of deaf users might produce some differences from normal 'sound-based' users, too.
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