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Mouth to hand and back again? Could language have made those journeys?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Peter F. MacNeilage
Peter F. MacNeilage*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, TX78712-A8000
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macneilage@psy.utexas.edu
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Abstract:

Corballis argues that language underwent two modality switches – from vocal to manual, then back to vocal. Speech has evolved a frame/content mode of organization whereby consonants and vowels (content) are placed into a syllable structure of frames (MacNeilage 1998). No homologue to this mode is present in sign language, raising doubt as to whether the proposed modality switches could have occurred.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 233 - 234
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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