In this paper we report on our attempt to teach the polyglot savant Christopher (‘C’ hereinafter) British Sign Language (BSL). BSL presents C with a novel challenge in the use of hand-eye coordination, while at the same time offering him the linguistic ingredients he is obsessed with. Despite his deficits in key areas of intellectual ability, communication skills and visuo-spatial cognition, C has developed a working knowledge of BSL through processes of circumvention, adaptation and invention. As a form of control, we taught BSL to a comparator group of talented second-language learners. We do not discuss this comparison in depth here (see Morgan et al. in preparation) but refer to some of the test scores as a guide to how normal a sign learner C is.
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%A Morgan, Gary
%A Smith, Neil
%A Tsimpli, Ianthi
%A Woll, Benice
%D 2002
%J Journal of Linguistics
%K Lengua Multiling{\"{u}}ismo de signos
%T Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a polyglot savant
%U http://www.journals.cup.org/owa\_dba/owa/ISSUES\_IN\_JOURNAL?JID=LIN
%V 38
%X In this paper we report on our attempt to teach the polyglot savant Christopher (‘C’ hereinafter) British Sign Language (BSL). BSL presents C with a novel challenge in the use of hand-eye coordination, while at the same time offering him the linguistic ingredients he is obsessed with. Despite his deficits in key areas of intellectual ability, communication skills and visuo-spatial cognition, C has developed a working knowledge of BSL through processes of circumvention, adaptation and invention. As a form of control, we taught BSL to a comparator group of talented second-language learners. We do not discuss this comparison in depth here (see Morgan et al. in preparation) but refer to some of the test scores as a guide to how normal a sign learner C is.
%Z Language: eng
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abstract = {In this paper we report on our attempt to teach the polyglot savant Christopher (‘C’ hereinafter) British Sign Language (BSL). BSL presents C with a novel challenge in the use of hand-eye coordination, while at the same time offering him the linguistic ingredients he is obsessed with. Despite his deficits in key areas of intellectual ability, communication skills and visuo-spatial cognition, C has developed a working knowledge of BSL through processes of circumvention, adaptation and invention. As a form of control, we taught BSL to a comparator group of talented second-language learners. We do not discuss this comparison in depth here (see Morgan et al. in preparation) but refer to some of the test scores as a guide to how normal a sign learner C is.},
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author = {Morgan, Gary and Smith, Neil and Tsimpli, Ianthi and Woll, Benice},
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journal = {Journal of Linguistics},
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timestamp = {2015-12-01T11:35:13.000+0100},
title = {{Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a polyglot savant}},
url = {http://www.journals.cup.org/owa{\_}dba/owa/ISSUES{\_}IN{\_}JOURNAL?JID=LIN},
volume = 38,
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