Actually, it was researched for a bit. Deaf people with no hearing at all will dream in sign language. From this I will conclude that deaf people, who have never required a verbally spoken language do not think in a verbally spoken language (obviously), nor do they think in a written one. They could possibly think in written words as well, but it would be rare (just like when you have a moment of "oh, look, letters in my head".
To conclude further, if a person is born hearing, but looses this ability during their first years/before they have gained a proper, whole vocabulary, they will most likely also think in sign language, as that would be the widest and therefore most usable language they are aware of.
To expand a bit on what Cenere has said, if you are born with no hearing or lose it early on, in what's called the critical stage of development, your auditory circuits in your cortex (the operational part of your brain) will simply fade away and get taken over by other parts that you do use. Thus you will theoretically be completely unable to respond, imagine, think of sound. I assume similar applies for sight and the other senses, though there is one notable case of a guy who went blind as a young man, and trained himself to continue "thinking visually", and it seems to work well for him: he has been known to work the tiling on his roof in the middle of the night!
In all seriousness ask a doctor but the kid would not think in a specific language but as it grows and adds conections to things it probably thinks in the language the see the parents speak in
In all seriousness ask a doctor but the kid would not think in a specific language but as it grows and adds conections to things it probably thinks in the language the see the parents speak in
Note that Strop is half a year from being a doctor.
non deaf babies do not know how to speak any more than deaf babys
I believe this is about worded thoughts, which babies obviously will not have. However, because of this, the question is not about babies but about adult/older people, who are capable of worded thoughts.
Babies that can hear obviously will try to interpret what everyone is saying. Babies that are deaf have no languages to hear. In contrasting the two, it does not matter whether or not the babies can hear; they will both act and think on instinct as is their nature to do. I'm sure their curiosity clicks every now and then, but in other situations, their main objective as a newborn is to survive, sleep, and grow.
I think that it would think it would speak whatever language it learned. Well i mean that it can still read and write words. it could also sound out words in its head. all though it sounds really hard to sound out something you don't know sounds like. I don't know.
I once heard that babies cry because a need is not being met (why crack babies cry so much). But, what about deaf babies? They can't hear any noise, so they don't know if they're making noise or not. How would they express a need that is not being met?
