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In article <1992Jul21.132952.25443@athena.mit.edu>, 
pesetsk@athena.mit.edu (David M Pesetsky) writes:


> There was a paper about this published around 1979.  I don't have any
> references except my memory: the paper was by Lila Gleitman, Henry
> Gleitman and co-authors, and its title began "Beyond Herodotus:..." with
> some stuff after the colon (i.e. the informative part of the title).
> The claims were very interesting.  Deaf children raised in an
> exclusively oralist environment, with no access to any sign language
> speech community, are known to create their own signing systems, if they
> are in contact with other deaf children.  

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> My hunch is that sign language studies were
> probably not advanced enough then to make the argument really stick, but
> perhaps there has been work on the topic since their paper that some
> reader here might know about.


One book I highly recommend is 'Seeing Voices' by Oliver Sacks. 
It gave me quite a new aspect to language and
language acquisition. I also remember that it includes a lot of
references to other works and studies on learning a visual 
language.

Annu Rantamaki