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    <namePart>Armstrong, David F.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Wilcox, Sherman.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1995</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>ix, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Preface; 1. The universe of gesture; 2. The nature of gesture; 3. Are signed and spoken languages differently organized?; 4. Is language modular?; 5. Do we have a genetically programmed drive to acquire language?; 6. Language from the body politic; 7. The origin of syntax: gesture as name and relation; 8. Language from the body: an evolutionary perspective; References; Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">David F. Armstrong, William F. Stokoe, Sherman E. Wilcox.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and indexes.</note>
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    <topic>Gesture</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Grammar, Comparative and general</topic>
    <topic>Syntax</topic>
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    <topic>Language and languages</topic>
    <topic>Origin</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">P117 .A75 1995</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">419 ARM</classification>
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