The examination of the use of Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language can be discussed as the promising opportunity for researchers to study the aspects of the language development. Thus, linguists can focus on examining the situation and on supporting their hypotheses about the origin of the language structure and its development with references to the observed language acquisition (Wade).
While examining the stages of the new language’s development with the focus on the concrete social group, the researchers are able to resolve the dispute on the role of culture and nature in forming the language and its morphological and grammatical structures.
While studying the development of Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, linguists focus their attention on such important research questions as the following ones: Is the language mainly transmitted through the society and culture as a result of the social interactions?
Is the language usually generated from the innate neural circuits as a result of the genetic processes to state the specific elements of grammar? Is the language first developed from the complex of gestures?
The preliminary findings related to studying Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language can be discussed as supportive in relation to such a theoretical model of language acquisition as the Innateness Theory. According to the Innateness Theory, the individual develops the language skills because he or she has the specific innate faculty for language acquisition (Wade).
Referring to the experience of the users of Al Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, it is possible to note that the development of their language is a result of using the specific abilities of their brains (Wade). Thus, focusing on the grammar structure of the used sign language, it is possible to assume that the users of this language have the specific innate faculty for language acquisition (Wade).
That is why, the discussed preliminary findings are rather opposite in relation to the arguments used by the linguists to state the particular role of the Social Interaction Theory and Behaviorist Theory in the language acquisition as well in the development of the language rules and principles because these theories’ principles do not work effectively within the isolated group’s environments.
To discover the role of brain in the process of language development, it is necessary to focus on examining Broca and Wernicke’s areas. The examination of these brain areas contributes significantly to understanding the specific role of the brain in controlling the language functions.
The discovery of Broca and Wernicke’s areas responsible for producing language provided the researchers with the idea that the damage to a concrete part of the brain can lead to losing the language abilities.
Thus, it is possible to conclude that such brain areas as Broca and Wernicke’s ones are responsible for producing the language in spite of the fact that such processes as the language perception and understanding cannot be influenced by these areas’ activities.
As a result, the study of Broca and Wernicke’s areas help the researchers understand the biological origins of the language and find the ways how to cope with different language problems caused by the damage of this or that brain area.
The observation of the children with epilepsy whose parts of the brain were removed to control seizures is important for linguists and other researchers to understand the language development because such observations support the ideas about the role of the concrete parts in controlling the language functions.
Depending on the part of the brain which was removed to control seizures, it is possible to control the child’s language activities and to conclude about the role of the certain brain area in affecting the language development.
Such observations help in answering the question about the role of the nature and culture in developing the language skills. It is often noted that the children whose brain parts were removed suffer from lagging in relation to the language development.
Brain imaging techniques used in working with bilingual children are the sources of the factual evidence for the researchers on the role of the brain in the language functioning and development. It is effective to use the brain imaging techniques to understand the role of the brain in the language development because the researchers can observe the activity of the brain different parts while perceiving and producing the language.
To understand the boundaries between the role of the society and nature in developing the language, it is reasonable to use the brain imaging techniques. The focus on examining the brain activities of the bilingual children is important because the researchers receive the opportunity to compare the brain reactions in relation to the perception and use of two different languages.
Linguists are inclined to state that the process of the second-language acquisition differs significantly from the process of acquiring and understanding the first language. That is why, the brain imaging techniques can contribute to understanding the specific nature of these differences and to understanding the important features of the language development.
Works Cited
Wade, Nicholas. A New Language Arises, and Scientists Watch It Evolve. 2005. Web.