What the Hands Reveal about the Brain

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.

Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi, Authors

Published by the MIT Press, Cambridge, MA