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Saturday, September 18, 2004

"It is the birth of a language," `

Reuters: "Deaf children thrown together in a school in Nicaragua without any type of formal instruction invented their own sign language -- a sophisticated system that has evolved and grown, researchers reported on Friday.
Their observations show that children, not adults, are key to the evolution and development of language, the researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science."
# posted by atz at 9/18/2004 12:11:00 PM
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