Profile of Susan Goldin-Meadow
Sandeep Ravindran · 2024
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Sandeep Ravindran wrote a 2024 profile of Susan Goldin-Meadow, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago who studies where language comes from. Her driving question is simple to state: if a child is never exposed to a language, would the child invent one? That question shaped a long career across language study, child development, and cognition.
The profile traces her work with deaf children who, at an oral school near her college, secretly built gesture systems of their own. Those home-made systems, called homesigns, let her test how much of language a child can create alone. Goldin-Meadow was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sandeep Ravindran |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |