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What the Hands Reveal about the Brain (1987)

What the Hands Reveal about the Brain (1987)

Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi

Year: 1987
Authors: Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi
Publishers: MIT Press
Pages: 260
Print type: BOOK

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.