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Talking Hands - http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/98/3-98/features/portrait.html
Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities on the Atlantic coast. |
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A Language at Its Genesis - http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/examples.jsp
Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process. |
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SignWriting in Nicaragua - http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html
Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language. |
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A Linguistic Big Bang - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html
A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine. |
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Evolution: Birth of a Language - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/2/l_072_04.html
Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show. |