Sign languages such as American Sign Language and German Sign Language

a. use the same gestures and patterns of gesture.
b. are complex gestural systems.
c. are natural languages with the same structural complexity as spoken language.
d. have been shown to be lexically impoverished, and lack any linguistic community.


C (pg 147)

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