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	Podcast:		10-Minute Talks
	Episode:		Looking at sign languages
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:18:36
	Publish Date:		2021-07-14 12:00:00
	Description:		This talk introduces research on the sign languages of deaf communities: natural, complex human languages, both similar to and different from spoken languages. It includes discussion of sign language and the evolution of human language; sign language and the brain, and sign language acquisition by young children, as well as the history and future of British Sign Language (BSL). Speaker: Professor Bencie Woll FBA, Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London 10-Minute Talks are a series of pre-recorded talks from Fellows of the British Academy screened each Wednesday on YouTube and also available on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Subscribe to our email newsletter: https://email.thebritishacademy.ac.uk...
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