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| Deafness | 1 |
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| Language Patterns | 1 |
| Language Variation | 1 |
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| Sign Language | 1 |
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| Language in Society | 1 |
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| Lucas, Ceil | 1 |
| Valli, Clayton | 1 |
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Peer reviewedLucas, Ceil; Valli, Clayton – Language in Society, 1991
Reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Patterns of language use are reviewed and the role of demographic information in judgments is examined. (29 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Demography, English
