Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are true of the emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language?
Hints
- Three describe what happened; one contradicts the whole significance of the case.
- The teachers were trying to teach spoken Spanish and lip-reading.
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- A. The younger cohort regularised the system the first cohort had assembled
- B. The regularisation included consistent verb agreement and systematic use of space
- C. Deaf children were brought together in numbers for the first time from 1977
Why
The fourth is the opposite of the finding. The school was attempting Spanish and lip-reading; the signed system arose among the children in the playground and on the buses, and the grammatical regularisation came from the youngest arrivals. That is what makes it evidence about children rather than about instruction.
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