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Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.
Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"It is the birth of a language," said Ann Senghas of Columbia University's Barnard College, who led the study.
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Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
"It is the birth of a language," said Ann Senghas of Columbia University's Barnard College, who led the study.
How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language
It happened on the playground.
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