JSL

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A form of Japanese Sign Language — Sign language used in Japan. ISO 639-3 code: jsl.

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  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Japanese Sign Language.
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Japanese as a second language.

    Since the predictions of Hypothesis A do not differ according to the learner's L1, column (c) conflates the responses of Japanese- and Spanish-Speaking L2 learners in the ESL experiment, and conflates the responses of English- and Chinese-speaking L2 learners in the JSL experiment.

    1993 October 28, Margaret Thomas, Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders), John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 175
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