Pinky K: Being Included by the Deaf Community
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Elderly Deaf Philadelphians
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Philadelphia Signs Project
sociolinguistics
deaf
sign language
American Sign Language
ASL
regional variation
Language Description and Documentation
sociolinguistics
deaf
sign language
American Sign Language
ASL
regional variation
Language Description and Documentation
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Fisher, Jami N.
Tamminga, Meredith
Hochgesang, Julie
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Philadelphia Signs Project video with participant discussing how he acquired ASL even though he wasn't a real PSD student.
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2015-08-20
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"I learned a lot of sign when I was eleven years old. For five years, every day I would go to PSD and learn, without being explicitly taught...At that time, I was hard-of-hearing and most hard-of-hearing [people] were iffy with signing [ability]. Me, no. I was stubborn. I acted like a Deaf person so I would go there and I learned a lot for five years. That’s how all the students knew me and were used to me. They thought I was actually a PSD student. I wasn’t. But they knew me very well and have all these years."