how do def people think?.whenever i think i can "hear" the words inside my head before i say them.?

Answer 1

You don't need sound for a language. Sign languages are fully developed languages. So even if you agree with many linguists who say that complex thinking is hardly possible without language, that does not bar deaf people from communicating and thinking in a language.

Answer 2

Some people think without language. They have incredible spatial, abstract, and conceptual models in their heads that don't require language. Einstein was this type of person. People dependent on language for thinking are processing thought on a very concrete level and it can be somewhat limiting. A person who is deaf hardly requires the sound of language to think. When I read I go much faster than I could speak, yet I can comprehend what I am reading. This is another example of thinking without sound concepts.

Answer 3

"Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet. When she is walking up or down the hall or along the veranda, her hands go flying along beside her like a confusion of birds' wings.
There is, I am told, tactile memory as well as visual and aural memory. Miss Sullivan says that both she and Miss Keller remember "in their fingers" what they have said. For Miss Keller to spell a sentence in the manual alphabet impresses it on her mind just as we learn a thing from having heard it many times and can call back the memory of its sound. ....
In the diary that she kept at the Wright-Humason School in New York she wrote on October 18, 1894, "I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life--to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly."

Answer 4

Good question! I've never pondered this before. Maybe they think in sign language or just images.

Answer 5

deaf people "hear" words inside of their heads, but this "hearing" isn't actual hearing. this is just basically a thought process. when you think, other people don't hear it do they.