Many Users of Spoken Languages Consider Sign Languages "Artificial," Not

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Essay

Many users of spoken languages consider sign languages "artificial," not "natural".   Discuss the basis of this belief, and, using the tools of linguistic anthropology, identify the support for the idea that sign languages may be natural languages.

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