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Language from gesture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2005

Sherman Wilcox
Sherman Wilcox*
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM87131http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox
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wilcox@unm.edu
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Abstract:

The hypothesis that language began as a multimodal, gestural complex finds support in data from spoken languages on the connection between intonation and gesture, as well as from the process by which intonation becomes codified into grammar. Also, data from signed languages show a similar process at work, in which gestural elements become incorporated as intonation and conventionalized as grammatical markers.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2004 , pp. 525 - 526
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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Notes

I regard the issue of whether the signals are intentionally communicative to be a separate issue because unintentional signals may acquire communicative import.