"Talking Hands", What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind.</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content=""Talking Hands", What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind."> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content=""Talking,Hands",,What,Sign,Language,Reveals,About,the,Mind,"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">21-08-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>"Talking Hands", What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind.</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Tel Aviv, Israel (IHT): The Forbidden Experiment is the specter that haunts "Talking Hands," the story of a remote Bedouin village where an indigenous sign language has drawn the attention of a team of linguists, who hope it will provide information about our innate capacity for language and our drive to create it. During the past 70 years, this village of 3,500 people has experienced an unusually high incidence of deafness (about one in 25, 40 times that of the general population). As a result of these numbers, and the fact that until recently the villagers had not been exposed to established signed languages, the one that sprang up there and is now used by both deaf and hearing people holds special value for researchers. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/17/arts/idbriefs18D.php" target="blank">www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/17/arts/idbriefs18D.php</a> <br> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show