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Chapter Seven: Deaf Gain - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Seven: Deaf Gain
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Not a Language
Had Stokoe been studying the grammatical properties of a previously unknown spoken language, the readiness to accept it as a language would have been different
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American colleges...resisted proposals too allow students to take ASL to fulfill foreign-language requirements
Claim implies that sign languages are fundamentally and linguistically different from spoken languages
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Anthropologists viewed cultural groups as bounded and defined by a one-langugae, one-culture paradigm
Arbitrary Signs
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Signs started as iconic, have moved to arbitrary
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