It is 37 years later. Stokoenow devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf cultureis having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech the modulation of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. What I said, Stokoe explains, is that language is not mouth stuffits brain stuff.
31.The study of sign language is thought to be________.
A.a new way to look at the learning of language
B. a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
C. an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language
D. an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language
32. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by________.
A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brain
B. a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts
C. an English teacher in a university for the deaf
D. some senior experts in American Sign Language
33. According to Stokoe, sign language is_________.
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