Brita Bergman

Brita Elisabeth Bergman (b. Jonsson, 30 March 1946) is a Swedish emeritus professor specializing in the linguistics of signed languages.After the course, she was surprised to find that she could not understand what deaf people were signing, and that she had difficulty making herself understood.[3] Bergman published the report Tecknad svenska (Signed Swedish) in 1977 as part of the National Swedish Board of Education's report series (no.Early in her research, she came to the conclusion that Swedish Sign Language was the only language acquired by the deaf community outside of formal education, that is, that it must be considered the mother tongue of the deaf community.In 1992 she was awarded the Lars Kruth Medal for her efforts in sign language research and advocacy on behalf of the deaf community.
emeritus professorlinguisticssigned languagesStockholm UniversitySigned Swedishmanually coded languagesign languagenatural languagesSwedishSwedish Sign LanguageSwedenRiksdagRoyal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and AntiquitiesH. M. The King's MedalAcademia EuropaeaWorld Federation of the Deaf