ASL for infants

[Des Power]

There!! There!!  :-)

Deson 16/3/01 2:30, Mark Mandel at Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:

> (I am sending this post to ADS-L and SLLING-L, the Sign Language
> Linguistics list.)
>
> Grant Barrett <gbarrett at MONICKELS.COM> wrote to ADS-L, the American Dialect
> Society mailing list:
>
>>>>>>
>> From the Washington Post
>
> http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57900-2001Mar12.html
>
> "All three researchers advocate teaching signing as a way to learn babies'
> needs and
> wants -- whether food, play or a diaper change -- before they start to
> speak, typically
> during their second year."
> <<<<<
>
> Thanks for that URL, Grant. They seem to have done something to block
> people from highlighting text and copying it off the page, which meant that
> I had to View Source to pull this quote from the article, which is by Sarah
> Glazer:
>
>>>>>>
> Some experts familiar with American Sign Language, the formalized system of
> signs and motions often taught to the deaf, [...]
> <<<<<
>
> If I weren't so unfortunately used to it, I would seethe. ASL is **FRIGGIN'
> NOT A "FORMALIZED SYSTEM TAUGHT TO THE DEAF"!! IT IS THE NATIVE LANGUAGE OF
> THE AMER...
>
> I guess even exposure hasn't immunized me. How would this a-h feel if I
> wrote "Some experts familiar with English, the formalized system of mouth
> movements and sounds often taught to the hearing..."?
>
> -- Mark, going off for a cup of coffee to calm down
>
> Mark A. Mandel : Dragon Systems, a Lernout & Hauspie company
> Mark_Mandel at dragonsys.com : Senior Linguist
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>