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Peer reviewedArmstrong, David F. – Sign Language Studies, 1983
Human languages can incorporate signs without obvious physical relationship to their referents. The nature of the relationship between sign (i.e., word or sign) and referent in signed and spoken languages is discussed from cognitive and historical research perspectives, and observations are given on the biological bases of this phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns
