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Sign Language Structure: An Outline of the Visual Communication Systems of the American Deaf
Herbert Landar,William C. Stokoe +1 more
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This article is published in Language.The article was published on 1961-04-01. It has received 985 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sign language & Cued speech.read more
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