Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures public high quality reference works in its field of expertise and complete works of pioneer sources of Portuguese and Lusophone culture and literature, such as works by Manuel Antunes, Mário Martins, Diogo de Teive and Fernão de Oliveira. Recent large scale projects by CLEPUL include "The Complete Works of Father António Vieira" and the complete pombaline works, both demanded by international scholars for many centuries. Other relevant projects include internationally recognized scientific works and recipient of prizes, such as: "Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia" [Thematic Dictionary of Lusophony] (2005), "Jardins do Mundo" [Gardens of the World] (2008), and "Dicionário Histórico das
Language acquisition by deaf children complex gesture, indicating that they are perceiving sign language as meaningful linguistic input. Since infants attend to spoken and signed language in a similar manner, several researchers have concluded that much of language acquisition is universal, not tied to the modality of the language, and that sign languages are acquired and processed very similarly to spoken languages, given adequate exposure. At the same time, these and other researchers point out that there are many unknowns in terms of how a visual language might be processed differently than a spoken language, particularly given the unusual path of language transmission for most