Education
Dartmouth College; Harvard University.
Dartmouth College; Harvard University.
Klima"s work was heavily influenced by Noam Chomsky"s then-revolutionary theory of the biological basis of linguistics, and applied that analysis to sign languages. Widespread recognition of this fact was one of the catalysts to the cultural changes in and towards the deaf community in favor of encouraging the use sign language, which had often been discouraged in favor of lip reading in the past Klima studied linguistics at Dartmouth College, earning his bachelor"s degree in 1953.
Two years later, he received a masters in the same subject from Harvard University.
Starting in 1957, Klima worked as an Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Noam Chomsky. After earning his Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics from Harvard University in 1965, he joined the linguistics department at the University of California, San Diego.
