new language in Nicaragua

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Larissa H. Chen wrote:

> 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

Judy Kegl.  the work has been going on for some years now.  the website
is

http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/