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caeli · 3419 days ago · link · · parent · post: If you had unlimited resources, and ethics is thrown out the window, what social science experiment would you want to conduct?
Yeah, that's a good point! Deaf kids of hearing parents develop pretty advanced homesigns which might be a result of the building up of communicative skills gained via nonverbal communication. Susan Goldin-Meadow has a case study of a kid whose homesigns even exhibit recursion (although it's still heavily debated since sign data are notoriously hard to analyze). But nonverbal communication is probably a necessary precursor for language...hmm... Revised plan: 2,000 islands! Half with no nonverbal communication, half with haha.