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Language against the odds: the learning of British Sign Language by a polyglot savant
2002
Journal of Linguistics
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
doi:10.1017/s0022226701001220
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