How important is it to learn language rather than create it?
Susan Goldin-MeadowPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2024)
I focus here on concepts that are not part of core knowledge - the ability to treat people as social agents with shareable mental states. Spelke proposes that learning language from another might account for the development of these concepts. I suggest that homesigners, who create language rather than learn it, may be a potential counterexample to this hypothesis.