Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies
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Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies.
How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without linguistic structure. More recently, researchers have argued that sign is no different from spoken language, with all of the same linguistic structures. The pendulum is currently swinging back toward the view that sign i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0140-525X,1469-1825
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x15001247