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Languages, Natural
In the last few decades, it has been demonstrated repeatedly by scores of researchers that signed languages are natural human languages, just like their spoken counterparts. These researchers work with signed languages that “naturally” emerge from communities of Deaf people. There are three relevant questions/aspects to using the term natural here. First, what does it mean to call a language natural, as opposed to other systems? Second, what does it mean when a language “naturally” emerges from a community? Third, what characteristics are typical of a natural language?
Natural Systems as Opposed to Other Kinds of Systems
Linguists use certain criteria, known as design features, to differentiate natural human languages like American Sign Language, Hong Kong Sign Language, and Spanish Sign Language from animal communication systems as ...
- Deaf Community
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- Education, History of Total Communication in
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- Residential Schools, History of
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- Deaf Education: Philosophy
- Combined Method, Philosophy and Models of
- Oralism, Philosophy and Models of
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- Special Education, Philosophy and Models of
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- Deaf Education: Policy and Curriculum
- Academic Test Bias
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- Classroom, Signing in the
- Educational Assessment Measures
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- Mainstreaming and Social Capital
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- Teaching Profession, Requirements of
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- deaf/Deaf: Origins and Usage
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- Transnationalism
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- Deaf Dean Now Protest
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- Equality Issues
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- Unity for Gallaudet Protest
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- Employment: Depression and the New Deal
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- Employment: Peddling
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- Identity
- Children of Deaf Adults
- Children, Deaf, of Deaf Parents
- Children, Deaf, of Hearing Parents
- Deaf Culture
- Deafhood
- Group Membership and Exclusion
- Identity Development
- Labeling
- Surdescence
- Language: Attitudes and Planning
- Bilingualism, Philosophy and Models of
- International Day of Sign Language
- Language Attitudes
- Language: Oralism Versus Manualism
- Linguicism
- Linguistic Genocide
- Literacy
- Manualism, Philosophy and Models of
- Sign Language, Endangered
- Sign Languages, Recognition of
- Signed Language Policy
- Signed Language Rights, Attitudes Toward
- Language: Interpreting
- Interpreter Training, University
- Interpreting
- Interpreting, Categories of
- Interpreting, History of
- Interpreting, Legal
- Interpreting, Medical
- Interpreting: Agencies
- Interpreting: Deaf Interpreter
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- National Multicultural Interpreter Project
- Language: Linguistics
- Bilingualism
- Cognitive Processes
- Deaf Learners, Cognition of
- Language Acquisition and Development
- Language Assessment Tools
- Language Contact of Spoken and Signed Languages
- Linguistics: Etymology
- Linguistics: Generativism
- Linguistics: Gestures and Homesigns
- Linguistics: Morphology
- Linguistics: Nonmanual Markers
- Linguistics: Phonetics
- Linguistics: Phonology
- Linguistics: Pragmatics
- Linguistics: Semantics
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- Linguistics: Structuralism
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- Multilingualism
- Nativism
- Neurolinguistics and Cortex Imaging
- Psycholinguistics, Milestones in
- Psycholinguistics, Primary
- Psycholinguistics: Visual Processing
- Sign Language Research: 1980 to Present
- Sign Language Research: Pre-1980
- Signed Language Linguistics, History of
- Sociolinguistics: Black American Sign Language
- Sociolinguistics: Dialects, Regionalisms, and Ethnic Varieties
- Sociolinguistics: Registers
- Language: Sign Language
- American Sign Language and English Literacy, Interdependence of
- American Sign Language, Positive Psychological Effects of
- Baby Signs
- International Signs
- Languages, Natural
- Sign Language as Academic Language
- Sign Language Teaching, Curriculum Models of
- Sign Language Teaching, Foreign Language Requirements for
- Sign Language Teaching, History of
- Sign Language Teaching, Training for
- Sign Language, Hawaiian
- Sign Language, Indigenous
- Sign Language: Africa
- Sign Language: Arabic Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Caribbean
- Sign Language: Central America
- Sign Language: Eastern Europe
- Sign Language: Japan
- Sign Language: JSL Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Name Signs
- Sign Language: One-Handed Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: Pacific Region
- Sign Language: Scandinavia
- Sign Language: South America
- Sign Language: Southern Asia
- Sign Language: Southern Europe
- Sign Language: Tactile
- Sign Language: Two-Handed Fingerspelling
- Sign Language: United Kingdom and Ireland
- Sign Language: Western Asia
- Sign Writing
- Signed Language Literacy, Definition of
- Signed Language Pathology
- Signing Communities
- Law and Public Policy
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
- Camenisch v. University of Texas
- Commission on the Education of the Deaf
- Communications Act: Section 255
- Community Television of Southern California v. Gottfried
- Costner v. United States
- Department of Education, U.S.
- Eckstein v. Kirby
- Education Laws, Federal: Impact on Education of the Deaf
- Education of the Deaf Act of 1986
- Flail v. Bolger
- Hendrick Hudson Board of Education v. Rowley
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 2008
- Jackson v. Indiana
- Jones v. Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services
- Legislation, Disability
- Legislation, Interpreter
- Legislation, Proposed: Assembly Bill 2072
- Legislation, Proposed: House Bill 1367
- Legislation, United States
- Legislators
- Linguistic and Human Rights Ratifications, European Union
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- Linguistic Minority Law, International
- People of Illinois v. Lang
- Public Policy Issues
- Pyles v. Kamka
- Schornstein v. New Jersey Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Southeastern Community College v. Davis
- Strathie v. Department of Transportation
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- UN Convention on Genocide
- UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
- UNESCO Education Position Paper (2003)
- Technology
- Avatar Technology
- Captioning
- Captioning Technology, Media
- FAX Technology
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Mechanisms, Internal
- Inventors
- Social Media
- Technology, Assistive
- Technology, Tactile
- Technology, Wireless
- Teletypewriter (TTY)
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