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Peer reviewedMcArthur, Douglas – Sign Language Studies, 1995
Describes the "special destiny-special faculty" paradigm that has dominated western thinking about the nature and origins of language and argues instead that language systems are like technologies and that language acquisition and use involves a range of capacities and skills, a view that could be called the "mosaic development…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Development, Biological Influences, Communication (Thought Transfer)
