Judy Shepard-Kegl | |
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Born | Evergreen Park, Illinois | June 20, 1953
Nationality | American |
Occupation(s) | Linguist, full professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Brown University (BA, MA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
Institutions | University of Southern Maine |
Notable works | Nicaraguan sign language |
Judy Shepard-Kegl (born June 20,1953) is an American linguist and University of Southern Maine professor,best known for their research on the Nicaraguan sign language.
Kegl received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in anthropology and a Master of Arts in linguistics both in 1975 from Brown University. They received a Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. [1]
Their master's thesis was entitled "Some Observations on Bilingualism:A Look at Data from Slovene-English Bilinguals." Their doctoral dissertation was entitled "Locative Relations in American Sign Language Word Formation,Syntax and Discourse." [1] [2]
Shepard-Kegl is currently a tenured professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of Southern Maine. [3]
They have worked and written extensively within their field and is best known for their work and multiple academic publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN,Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua or Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense),a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Nicaraguan Sign Language is a form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It is of particular interest to linguists as it offers them a unique opportunity to study what they believe to be the birth of a new language.
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