单选题
. Dr. William C. Stokoe, Jr., was the chairman of the English Department at Gallaudet University. He saw the
1 deaf people communicated and was extremely interested. He was a
2 person, and signs of the deaf were totally new to him.
Dr. Stokoe decided to
3 a study of sign language. Many other teachers were not interested, and thought Dr. Stokoe was
4 to think about studying sign language. Even deaf teachers were not very interested in the
5 . However, Dr. Stokoe did not give up.
6 , he started the Linguistics Research Program in 1957. Stokoe and his two deaf assistants worked
7 this project during the summer and after school. The three researchers made films of deaf people
8 . The deaf people in the films did not understand
9 the research was about and were just trying to be nice to Dr. Stokoe. Many people thought the whole project was silly, but
10 agreed with Dr. Stokoe in order to please him.
Stokoe and his
11 studied the films of signing. They
12 the films and tried to see patterns in the signs. The results of the research were
13 : the signs used by all of the signers
14 certain linguistic rules.
Dr. Stokoe was the first linguist to test American Sign Language
15 a real language. He published the
16 in 1960,
17 not many people paid attention to the study. Dr. Stokoe was still
18 —he was the only linguist who
19 that sign language was more than
20 . He knew it was a language of its own and not just another form of English.
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