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Abstract
Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL), developed by deaf children in Managua over the past 35 years, has provided unprecedented insights into the innateness of language. In his Perspective, Siegal discusses the latest study of three age groups of NSL signers (Senghas et al.), which reveals that segmentation and sequencing, considered core properties of all languages, are clearly present in NSL.BibTex
@article{siegal04sciencemag,
author={Michael Siegal},
title={Signposts to the Essence of Language},
journal={Science},
year={2004},
volume={305},
number={5691},
pages={1720-1721},
doi={10.1126/science.1102894},
url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/siegal04sciencemag.html}
}