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Peer reviewedCreider, Chet A. – Sign Language Studies, 1977
This paper describes the gestural behavior of four tribal groups, Kipsigis, Luo, Gusii, and Samburu, observed and elicted in the course of two and one-half years of field work in Western Kenya in 1970-72. The gestures are grouped into four categories: (1) initiators and finalizers of interaction; (2) imperatives; (3) responses; (4) qualifiers.…
Descriptors: African Culture, Anthropological Linguistics, Bantu Languages, Body Language
Peer reviewedHill, Jane H. – Sign Language Studies, 1977
This article reviews the possibilities that a comparative, functionally oriented view of communication evolution offers to a linguist interested in the evolution of human languages and suggests a wide variety of areas which might be further investigated with profit. (CFM)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Anthropological Linguistics, Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedStokoe, William C. – Sign Language Studies, 1986
Argues that the beginnings of language need to be sought not in the universal abstract grammar proposed by Chomsky but in the evolution of the everyday interaction of the human species. Studies indicate that there is no great gulf between spoken language and nonverbal communication. (SED)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Deafness, Diachronic Linguistics, Generative Grammar
Peer reviewedWoodward, James C. – Sign Language Studies, 1978
Native signs used as basic kin terms in 20 sign languages from several sign language families are examined. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Language Usage
