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What the hands reveal about the brain / Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, and Ursula Bellugi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poizner, Howard, author.
- Bellugi, Ursula, 1931-2022, author.
- Klima, Edward S., 1931-2008, author.
- Series:
- MIT Press series on issues in the biology of language and cognition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain damage.
- Deaf people--Means of communication.
- Deaf people.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Sign language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- MIT Press CogNet.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1987]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- What the Hands Reveal About the Brain provides dramatic evidence that language is not limited to hearing and speech: there are primary linguistic systems, passed down from one generation of deaf people to the next, which have been forged into autonomous languages and which are not derived from spoken languages.
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Poizner, Howard. What the hands reveal about the brain /
- ISBN:
- 9780262281720
- 0262281724
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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