What the hands reveal about the brain

What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken...

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Main Author: Poizner, Howard
Other Authors: Bellugi, Ursula (Contributor), Klima, Edward S (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified MIT Press 1990
Series:MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition
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Collection: MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech, that there are primary linguistic systems passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into antonomous languages and are not derived front spoken languages