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Current Projects

  • How gestures become signs.
  • The emergence of number signs in NSL.
  • The emergence of a Bedouin sign language.
  • Expressions of manner and path in Spanish Sign Language.
  • Representing spatial concepts with a spatial language.
  • The emergence of a vocabulary.
  • Word order and argument structure.

Field Trip Photographs

Some of the deaf adults we work with in Nicaragua

Shots from the school for special education

   

A teenager from Nicaragua’s first high school class (opened this year!) shows us one of the signs for “Nicaragua”

   

The difficult “Men and Tree” task

   

A conversation during recess

 

Life in Managua

   

We did manage to spend one day a week visiting the countryside