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Edward Klima

American linguist

Summary

American linguist

Field	Value
name	Edward Klima
birth_name	Edward S. Klima
birth_date
birth_place	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
death_date
death_place	La Jolla, California, U.S.
fields	Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
workplaces	University of California, San Diego
Salk Institute
alma_mater	Harvard University
Dartmouth College
known_for	Research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language
prizes	APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, 1992

Psycholinguistics Salk Institute Dartmouth College

Edward S. Klima (June 21, 1931 – September 25, 2008) was an American linguist who specialized in the study of sign languages. 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.

Klima, much of whose work was in collaboration with his wife, Ursula Bellugi, was among the first to prove that sign languages are complete languages and have complex grammars that have all the features of grammars of oral languages.

Education and career

Klima graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1949. He studied linguistics at Dartmouth College, earning his bachelor's degree in 1953. Two years later, he received a master's degree 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 Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1965, he joined the linguistics department at the University of California, San Diego. Later he also became an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where his wife, Ursula Bellugi, was a professor, and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience (of which Klima acted as associate director).

While at MIT, he supervised Jeffrey S. Gruber.

References

Fox, Margalit. (2008-10-03). "Edward S. Klima, Sign Language Expert, Dies at 77". [[The New York Times]].
Widespread recognition of this fact was one of the catalysts of the cultural changes in and towards the [[Deaf culture. Deaf community]] in favor of encouraging the use of sign language, which had often been discouraged in favor of lip reading in the past.[http://lcn.salk.edu/team/apa_award.pdf APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award summary]
[http://lcn.salk.edu/team/klima_cv.pdf Klima CV at the Salk Institute]
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