This reminds me of the story of Kaspar Hauser[1] (which was made in to a movie by Werner Herzog[2]) and of the fascinating book Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks.[3] In his book, Sacks investigates various cases of children growing up without language, how they cope (or don't cope) with it, how they finally acquire language (if they do), and how…
……通过了解先天失聪人群，我们可以更好地认识我们自己、语言以及我们的学习机制。这确实至关重要，奥利弗·萨克斯在他那本精彩的著作《看见声音：走入聋人世界》（Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf）中直击了问题核心：http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330523643/ 强烈推荐给 HN 上的每一个人阅读……文章中还提到了保姆。她们面临的一个问题是……
…can learn a lot about ourselves, language and how we learn from understanding a bit about those born deaf. It really is a big deal and Oliver Sacks gets to the heart of the matter in his excellent book 'Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf': http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330523643/ A highly recommended read for anyone on HN... The article also mentions nannies. A problem they have that the…
…speaking people are generally taught Signed Exact English and see it used for real time translation, but that has no grammatical crossover with ASL. Oliver Sacks wrote a fabulous book on the subject: Seeing Voices.
…defense, metaphors are criminally underrated in their importance to thinking). - most books by Oliver Sacks, who is more qualified to make statements about the brain than anyone else on this list, but "Seeing Voices" especially, because it really dives into the connection between language and brain development. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary#Re...
For people interested in this sort of thing, I'd recommend Seeing Voices[1] by Oliver Sacks, in which he writes about spontaneous development of language by people who grew up without it. [1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66723.Seeing_Voices
"Apparently there are some people who do not think at all using language" Oliver Sacks wrote a great book about this: Seeing Voices[1] In it he writes about all sorts of people who either never learned language or learned it late in life, and about what that transformation from a non-linguistic world to a linguistic world is like.…
这让我想起了卡斯帕·豪泽尔（Kaspar Hauser）的故事[1]（被维尔纳·赫尔佐格拍成了电影[2]），还有奥利弗·萨克斯（Oliver Sacks）那本引人入胜的书《看见声音》（Seeing Voices）[3]。在书中，萨克斯调查了儿童在没有语言的环境中长大的各种案例，探讨了他们是如何应对（或无法应对）这种情况的、他们最终是如何习得语言的（如果成功习得的话），以及……
This reminds me of the story of Kaspar Hauser[1] (which was made in to a movie by Werner Herzog[2]) and of the fascinating book Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks.[3] In his book, Sacks investigates various cases of children growing up without language, how they cope (or don't cope) with it, how they finally acquire language (if they do), and how…
……通过了解先天失聪人群，我们可以更好地认识我们自己、语言以及我们的学习机制。这确实至关重要，奥利弗·萨克斯在他那本精彩的著作《看见声音：走入聋人世界》（Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf）中直击了问题核心：http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330523643/ 强烈推荐给 HN 上的每一个人阅读……文章中还提到了保姆。她们面临的一个问题是……
…can learn a lot about ourselves, language and how we learn from understanding a bit about those born deaf. It really is a big deal and Oliver Sacks gets to the heart of the matter in his excellent book 'Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf': http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330523643/ A highly recommended read for anyone on HN... The article also mentions nannies. A problem they have that the…
……健听人群通常被传授的是“精准英语手语”（Signed Exact English），并看到它用于实时翻译，但它跟 ASL（美国手语）在语法上没有任何重叠。奥利弗·萨克斯就此写过一本绝妙的书：《看见声音》（Seeing Voices）。
…speaking people are generally taught Signed Exact English and see it used for real time translation, but that has no grammatical crossover with ASL. Oliver Sacks wrote a fabulous book on the subject: Seeing Voices.
……辩护，隐喻对思维的重要性被严重低估了）。- 奥利弗·萨克斯的大多数书，比起这份书单上的任何其他人，他都更有资格谈论大脑，尤其是《看见声音》（Seeing Voices），因为它真正深入探讨了语言与大脑发育之间的关联。[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary#Re...
…defense, metaphors are criminally underrated in their importance to thinking). - most books by Oliver Sacks, who is more qualified to make statements about the brain than anyone else on this list, but "Seeing Voices" especially, because it really dives into the connection between language and brain development. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary#Re...
对于对这类话题感兴趣的人，我推荐奥利弗·萨克斯的《看见声音》[1]，他在书中描写了在缺乏语言的环境中长大的人如何自发发展出语言。[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66723.Seeing_Voices
For people interested in this sort of thing, I'd recommend Seeing Voices[1] by Oliver Sacks, in which he writes about spontaneous development of language by people who grew up without it. [1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66723.Seeing_Voices
“显然有些人思考时根本不用语言” 奥利弗·萨克斯针对这一点写过一本很棒的书：《看见声音》[1]。他在书里记录了各种各样从未学过语言或者很晚才学会语言的人，以及从无语言世界向有语言世界的转变究竟是怎样的体验。……
"Apparently there are some people who do not think at all using language" Oliver Sacks wrote a great book about this: Seeing Voices[1] In it he writes about all sorts of people who either never learned language or learned it late in life, and about what that transformation from a non-linguistic world to a linguistic world is like.…