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Started in 1986 as a project to simply describe the linguistic and sociolinguistic features of contact signing and to determine if this type of signing is aptly labeled a pidgin, this book blossomed in depth as the authors' data increased. The initial narrow goals of the book expanded and now project a much larger picture of language contact in the American deaf community."We were forced...to consider issues somewhat broader than those addressed by the (initial) project," writes Lucas in the pre
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ceil Lucas; Clayton Valli
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004653337
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Education, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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