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Research Site

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Geographic variation & Schoolisation: Deaf people tend to congregate in towns where there are schools for the Deaf. Here they are usually taught either a locally conventionalised form of SASL, or a version in line with the signing tradition followed by the school. The result is a group of SASL users with clear localised use. Additionally, Deaf communities only allocate name signs to places that are relevant to them. As a result, participants from a certain site might know all the same place name signs, and for the same places. There are schools for the Deaf in all the research sites (Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Phuthaditjhaba and Thaba ‘Nchu).

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