Language Emergence: Clues from a New Bedouin Sign
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A sign language has emerged among three generations of deaf people and their families in a Bedouin community in the Negev desert and this newly reported case sheds light on the minimal environmental social factors required to generate a language.About:
This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2005-06-21 and is currently open access. It has received 55 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sign language & Sign (semiotics).read more
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"Deaf discourse": the social construction of deafness in a Bedouin community
TL;DR: An in-depth analysis of a Bedouin shared-signing community is provided and it is maintained that the term “shared signing community” most accurately captures what these cases have in common: the pervasive use of signing by both hearing and deaf.
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Sign Language Phonology
TL;DR: Sign language phonology is the abstract grammatical component where primitive structural units are combined to create an infinite number of meaningful utterances, and this comparison allows us to better understand how the modality of a language influences its phonological system.
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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
TL;DR: This book is a scholarly investigation of an unusually large incidence of hereditary deafness that occurred on the island of Martha's Vineyard from its colonial settlement until the early 20th century and has provided a verified example of the fact that deafness need not necessarily be socially isolating and that deaf people can be socially integrated into the larger community.
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