LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: British Sign Language, French Sign Language, Somatosensory System
2 Mar 2020
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Perception: visual system (eyes) and tactile (deaf-blind) Truth: sl has iconicity, but most signs are arbitrary. Sl is a signed version of spoken languages. Truth: natural sl are influenced by spoken languages but have their own grammars. Natural sl have different histories and different geographical distribution. Language, australian, and new zealand sl have more in common with each other than bsl and asl. Very rare to see documentation bc sl has no written form. World has ignored deaf people, so many deaf people didn"t have formal education and couldn"t integrate into mainstream society. Monks in spain developed a manually coded alphabet and used it to teach deaf kids to speak and read/write. 2: golden age of western deaf culture. Monk who was a hearing person from france noticed deaf kids needed education and that sl existed. Established a deaf school in paris, bordeaux, and one other city. Paris school was first public deaf school in western history.
