Deaf people are exposed to the oral language that surrounds them, if only in visual forms like lip reading or writing, from early childhood. Language contact is extremely common in most Deaf communities, which are almost always located within a dominant oral language ('hearing') culture.
Contact languages also arise between different sign languages, although the term pidgin rather than contact sign is used to describe such phenomena.Ĭontact sign has been characterized as "a sign language that has elements of both natural sign language and the surrounding language". Language arising from contact between deaf peopleĪ contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and hearing individuals using an oral language (or the written or manually coded form of the oral language).
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