What is one reason that American Sign Language (ASL) is considered to be a language?

a) ASL uses the same syntax as auditory languages.
b) Colleges and universities offer non-credit courses in ASL.
c) ASL is processed by the same parts of the brain that process oral languages.
d) In order to reduce discrimination, the federal government declared ASL a language.


C

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