Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ240699
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980
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The Manu-Facturing of a Language.
Washabaugh, William
Sign Language Studies, n29 p291-330 Win 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, Sociolinguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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