What the Hands Reveal About the Brain (Bradford Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: March 14, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780262660662
Subjects: Neurosciences; Philosophy of language; Cognitive Psychology; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; Psychology; Medical / Nursing; Brain damage; Deaf; Means of communication; Psycholinguistics; Sign language
First sentence: The fact that signed languages use as articulators the hands, face, and body rather than the vocal tract suggests that spoken and signed languages might be vastly different from one another and that signed languages might lack some of the properties shared by grammars of spoken languages.