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Usage examples of signs.

Prentiss explained, because Jennie would probably learn only five or ten signs in the first year.

Her needs were not complexfood, toys, tickling, and hugging were her main concernsand we felt that even a few signs would open up a whole new world to her, and to us.

Although Jennie was supposed to learn only five or ten signs the first year, she wanted us to learn hundreds.

Jennie could imitate anything, and we expected her to pick up signs as fast as, for example, she had learned to wash the dishes, start the car when our backs were turned, light matches, unscrew light bulbs, and use scissors to cut all the hair off her tummy.

Instead, we had been waiting a month, without any encouraging signs at all.

He had studied ASL with enthusiasm and had learned dozens of signs, but after a month with no progress from Jennie his interest was flagging.

Anyway, of these one hundred and ninety-three signs, no less than twenty-five signs were of her own invention.

The four colony chimpanzees, on the other hand, learned ninety-one, one hundred and one, fifty-four, and sixty-six signs, respectively.

Archibald stood up and demonstrated each of the signs as she told the story.

When we came to the picture of the Baby Jesus in the manger, surrounded by the animals, Jennie stopped and made some more signs, at least I think she did, looking into my face with a hopeful, questioning expression.

We hoped that as she learned more signs her utterances would become longer and more complex, until she was creating sentences.

Archibald stood up and as she described the questions, she demonstrated the signs at the same time.

To examine the signs of which it is made up and the way in which these signs refer back to what they indicate.

To search for the law governing signs is to discover the things that are alike.

And that resemblance is visible only in the network of signs that crosses the world from one end to the other.