2023年度 和歌山大学 第2問 長文読解 解答例

【解答例】

２　[出典：Curtiss, Susan, “What Happens if You Are Raised Without Language?” The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages, Third Edition, ed. by Myrick Caroline and Walt Wolfram, 65-67, Equinox, 2019]

問1　言語というものは，幼少期に我々の頭の中で労せずして発達するものであり，我々を人間たらしめる上で非常に重要な役割を果たしている。

(英文：which develops in our minds so effortlessly in early childhood and plays such a central role in defining us as human)

問2　(2) エ (sometimes)　(3) ウ (concerning)　(4) エ (stepped in)　(5) イ (clear)　(8) エ (skilled)　(10) ア (basic)

問3　第一言語を習い始めるのが遅く，文法の習得に必要な神経機能などが正常に発達しなかったため。(44字)

問4　カ・オ　( In contrast, [ children without hearing are not as handicapped as ] Genie.)

問5　イ (a crucial period of time in which children can acquire the grammar of a language, after which further grammatical development becomes much more difficult)

問6　ウ (vocabulary / grammar)

問7　ア・オ・キ (Chelsea did not start learning language until her thirties. / Like people who are raised without language, deaf people can learn new words regardless of the age at which they are exposed to language. / Young deaf people who had begun learning a sign language n a Deaf community managed to develop it into a grammatically rich language.)