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Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have (36) in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to (37) how the brain generates and (38) language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy. whether language, (39) with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the (40) work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school (41) him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd. among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been (42) a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands (43) a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English. (44) . He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language And could that language be unlike any other on Earth It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy.
It is 37 years later. Stokoe— (45) —is having lunch at a care near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation of sound. (46) . "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff. \ Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have (36) in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to (37) how the brain generates and (38) language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy. whether language, (39) with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the (40) work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school (41) him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd. among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been (42) a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands (43) a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English. (44) . He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language And could that language be unlike any other on Earth It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy.
It is 37 years later. Stokoe— (45) —is having lunch at a care near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation of sound. (46) . "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff. \