Because of social isolation, Walpiri women have a better command of one kind of these than Walpiri men. Tab, dez, and sig are
Because of social isolation, Walpiri women have a better command of one kind of these than Walpiri men. Tab, dez, and sig are the three features of the notational system developed by William Stokoe, who showed that they contain minimal pairs. The one that developed spontaneously in a Nicaraguan school is an isolate, and that indigenous to Martha's Vineyard has now died out. The Israeli one achieves prosody by incorporating facial expressions, while the Thai one is a creole with ASL. Koko the gorilla was taught, FTP, what kind of language used by the deaf?
Because of social isolation, Walpiri women have a better command of one kind of these than Walpiri men.
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