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Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 2001
Suggests that various parts of the grammar of American Sign Language--particularly its verb and pronoun system--give convincing evidence that such grammar cannot have derived from the grammars of spoken languages; rather the continuity is from cognitive activity expressed in gSigns toward linguistic organization both of the expressive material and…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Cognitive Processes, Deafness, Grammar
