What the Hands Reveal about the Brain

What the Hands Reveal about the Brain
ISBN-10
0262660660
ISBN-13
9780262660662
Category
Biolinguistics
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi, Howard Poizner

Description

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.

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