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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
