Nicaraguan Sign Language (Sign Languages)

Nicaraguan Sign Language Sites:

Evolution: Birth of a Language Evolution: Birth of a Language: Background information focusing on the emergence of language, and a video from the PBS show. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/2/l_072_04.html Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc. Nicaraguan Sign Language Projects, Inc.: University of Maine research effort. Descriptions of study projects, schools at Bluefields and Condega, publications list, and staff resumes. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.unet.maine.edu/courses/NSLP/ A Linguistic Big Bang A Linguistic Big Bang: A journalist interviews some of the deaf Nicaraguan school children who use a new sign language they invented on their own. From the New York Times Magazine. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html A Language at Its Genesis A Language at Its Genesis: Article on the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language, and researcher Judy Kegl's work to document the process. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/nuggets/028/nugget.htm Birth Of A Language Birth Of A Language: Article and video from "60 Minutes" about the development of the language. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/04/25/60II/main188527.shtml Talking Hands Talking Hands: Profile of Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, who are bringing the sign language developed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to uneducated deaf people in isolated communities on the Atlantic coast. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://cgi-user.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/98/3-98/features/portrait.html SignWriting in Nicaragua SignWriting in Nicaragua: Covers the written representation of the signed language, the spread of literacy, and first-person reports from those teaching deaf children to read and write their native signed language. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nicaragua.html Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language Children's Contribution to the Birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Abstract of PhD thesis by Ann Senghas. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/dissertations/senghas.abstract.html Gallaudet University Press News Gallaudet University Press News: Includes an article about the development of NSL. (Nicaraguan Sign Language) http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/enewsletter4alt.html