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Not Just a Pantomime

Did lan­guage evolve from man­ual ges­tures and then shift to vocal mode? Fox makes the case that the hands pro­vide a more nat­ural sig­nal­ing sys­tem than the voice, and Arm­strong and Wilcox pro­pose that speech itself is a ges­tural sys­tem, which places lan­guage in the domain of cog­ni­tion and biology.

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