What the Hands Reveal about the Brain

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Authors

Howard Poizner · Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Abstract

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.

Topics & Keywords

Hearing Impairment and Communication

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Publication Details

Published in: The MIT Press eBooks

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7206.001.0001

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