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Peer reviewedWashabaugh, William – Sign Language Studies, 1980
Discusses Providence Island Sign Language (PSL), an autochthonous and relatively immature language of about 20 speakers. It is a nascent and evolving language whose description can produce rich results for linguistic theory. Such a description will also be an explanation of the phylogeny of a linguistic system. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: Deafness, Dialects, Semantics, Sign Language
