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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Judy Shepard-Kegl
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Judy Shepard-Kegl received her Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, has worked and written extensively within her field and is best known for her work and multiple academic publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language, a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.
Career
She is currently a tenured professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the Advanced Systems Limited/English Interpreting Program at the University of Southern Maine.
