Linking Thinking

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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