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| Title | From Silence to Sound: Cognition and Language Planning in the International Education of Prelingually Deaf Students |
| Body | From http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3037.html From Silence to Sound: Cognition and Language Planning in the International Education of Prelingually Deaf Students Author: Patrick William Seamans Dissertation Abstract: This dissertation is focused on the very essence of the field and philosophy of Linguistics -- the inital transition from mimetic to phonocentric functioning that occurs to all human beings with normal hearing and listening ability, but which does not occur independently to persons who are prelingually bilaterally deaf (deafened in both ears before becoming fully phonocentric, usually around age 2.5). This dissertation also includes a full review of recent neuroscientific literature in regard to acquisition of phonocentric thought and functioning in human beings. Due to the development and dissemination of the modern and recent cochlear implant technololgies, it has only recently become known, through neuroscience research, as to how the auditory system actually operates, and how born-mimetic humans become phonocentric. This research study identifies critical issues regarding the treatment and education of the prelingually deaf, for international education administrators, policy planners and government officials. An introductory overview demonstrates that all humans are innately mimetic, and that most humans become phonocentric automatically and unconsciously, but the prelingually deaf require early affirmative and appropriate assistance to become naturally phonocentric and to think in phonological natural language. Read the complete abstract at http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-3037.html . |
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