cued speech

[Tony Wright]

At 12:10 PM 3/30/01 +0200, Gerdinand Wagenaar & Mindy Brown wrote:

>I knew Stokoe was ahead of his times, but "e-mail in the 50's" ??

I have searched Ms. Boutcher's e-mail--which you quote, below--for any
mention of "e-mail in the 50's" and can find none.  She mentions an e-mail
she received "in the mid 1995s", so while Stokoe was indeed ahead of his
time, I do not think an e-mail in 1995 to be such an anachronism.  :)

--Tony Wright


>
>Gerdinand Wagenaar
>
>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages.
>[mailto:SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]Namens Jean Boutcher
>Verzonden: donderdag 29 maart 2001 6:25
>Aan: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>Onderwerp: Re: cued speech
>
>
>In his e-mail some time in the mid 1995s, Stokoe, the
>father of ASL linguistics, said to Osmond "Oz" Crosby*  --
>with cc to me -- that he recognized Cued Speech.  He thought
>that it was an excellent tool for learning the American-English
>language.
>
>*Crosby's name appears in Dolnick's article, "Deafness as Culture"
>(The Atlantic, September 1993, p, 46ff.
>
>Jean Boutcher
>SeaLover2 at Juno.Com
>
>
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:11:22 -0800 Nancy Frishberg <nancyf at FISHBIRD.COM>
>writes:
>> The only thing I might ad to Carolyn Ostrander's thorough response
>> is
>> a pointer to the Cued Speech Association site at MIT
>> http://web7.mit.edu/CuedSpeech/
>> --
>> Nancy Frishberg  +1 650.556.1948  nancyf at fishbird.com
>>
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