written language as first language?

[Michael Everson]

The answer is YES: Blissymbolics is L1 to a great many non-speaking
persons. These users typically have cerebral palsy and related disorders.

Ar 10:11 -0400 2000-08-08, scríobh Mark Mandel:
>>From LINGUIST List #11-1696
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>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:56:54 -0400
>From: Thomas T. Field <tfield at umbc.edu>
>Subject: The Possibility of L1 Being a Written Language
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>Does anyone know of an individual whose L1 [= first language]
>might have been some
>written form of language? It seems to me that there may have been
>profoundly deaf people whose primary linguistic input was writing
>(whose caregivers might have begun by creating an elaborate set of
>flashcards, for example).
>
>Tom Field
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>University of Maryland Baltimore County
>Baltimore, MD 21250
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