From the Oxford English Dictionary.
American Sign Language n. (also with lower-case initials in the second and third elements) a form of sign language developed in the early 19th cent. for the use of the deaf in the United States; abbreviated ASL; cf. Ameslan n.
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ERIC, sponsored by the institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, is a free to use database that provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, grey literature, conference proceedings, and more research materials in the field of education.
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Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences, covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
Coverage: 1973-current
International in scope, MLA International Bibliography indexes journals, books, and other materials for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore, and film, covering scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present.m