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Main Location

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Geographic variation: Signs are conventionalised by local Deaf communities, i.e., they determine what signs and signing styles are acceptable by informal consensus. Because communities form in set locations, specific ways of using language can be linked to particular places. Therefore, if a participant knows a place name sign that differs from the signs provided by the rest of the group from the research site, it might be because they learned it in another location.

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