new language in Nicaragua

[Larissa H. Chen]

Right now on NPR's All Things Considered is an interesting story on the birth
of a (signed) language among deaf children in Nicaragua.  I missed who the
linguist who studied this is, but she's explaining the difference between
gesturing-to-communicate and language.  Apparently this study was published
in Science.  Some info is at
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3922325

Apolgies if this has already been discussed to death; I am as usual waaaay
behind in my reading.

Larissa