Language in hand : why sign name before speech / William C. Stokoe.

"Stokoe recounts in Language in Hand how inspiration grew out of his original discovery in the 1950s and '60s that deaf people who signed were using a true language with constructions that did not derive from spoken English. This investigation calls upon decades of personal experience and...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Stokoe, William C.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2001.
Subjects:	Sign language > History. American Sign Language > History. American Sign Language. Sign language. History.