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Penn, Claire; Reagan, Timothy – Sign Language Studies, 1994
Argues that, although South African Sign Language (SASL) contains a high degree of lexical diversity, there exists an underlying common syntactic and morphological base on which all the different varieties are grounded. This common base provides a foundation on which future educational and language policy may be developed. (17 references)…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Deafness, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries