Le cas de Victor de l’Aveyron au regard de l’acquisition du langage
This article sets out to situate Jean Itard’s research within the history of ideas about the language of the child. Itard’s work, which he carried out at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, influenced later methods for re-educating the deaf. In his thoughts on language acquisition, however...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/5884 |
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| Summary: | This article sets out to situate Jean Itard’s research within the history of ideas about the language of the child. Itard’s work, which he carried out at the very beginning of the nineteenth century, influenced later methods for re-educating the deaf. In his thoughts on language acquisition, however, inspired by the case of Victor, he returned to certain eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century concerns found in Condillac (the role of imitation, the order of access to language, the origin of languages, and access to the linguistic sign). He also formulated some new problems (repetition of the child’s production, the symbolic function, desire), which are still research subjects today (principally around the notion of critical threshold). We shall therefore situate Itard’s research on Victor within the history of thought on the language of the child, and address the role played by some of his ideas in contemporary debates. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1022 |