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Sign, language, and gesture in the brain: Some comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Ruth Campbell  and
Bencie Woll
Ruth Campbell
Affiliation:
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, England, United Kingdom. r.campbell@ucl.ac.uk b.woll@ucl.ac.uk
Bencie Woll
Affiliation:
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, England, United Kingdom. r.campbell@ucl.ac.uk b.woll@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

In contrast with two widely held and contradictory views – that sign languages of deaf people are “just gestures,” or that sign languages are “just like spoken languages” – the view from sign linguistics and developmental research in cognition presented by Goldin-Meadow & Brentari (G-M&B) indicates a more complex picture. We propose that neuroscience research suggests that a similar approach needs to be taken and offer some examples from research on the brain bases of sign language perception.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e49
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