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• catalog abstract ""Stokoe recounts in Language in Hand how inspiration grew out of his original discovery in the 1950s and '60s that deaf people who signed were using a true language with constructions that did not derive from spoken English. This investigation calls upon decades of personal experience and published research to refute the recently entrenched claims that humans have a special, innate learning faculty for language and that speech equates with language. Integrating current findings in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' powers of observation and natural hand movements could have evolved into signed morphemes." "Stokoe also proposes how the primarily gestural expression of language with vocal support shifted to primarily vocal language with gestural accompaniment. When describing this transition, however, he never loses sight of the significance of humans in the natural world and the role of environmental stimuli in the development of language. Stokoe illustrates this contention with fascinating observations of small contemporary ethnic groups such as the Assinobian Nakotas, a Native American group from Montana that intermingle their spoken and signed languages depending upon cultural imperatives." "Language in Hand also presents innovative thoughts on classifiers in American Sign Language and their similarity to certain elements of spoken languages, convincing evidence that speech originally copied sign language forms before developing unrelated conventions through usage. Stokoe concludes Language in Hand with an hypothesis on how the acceptance of sign language as the first language of humans could revolutionize the education of infants, both deaf and hearing, who, like early humans, have the full capacity for language without speech."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b12187920.
• catalog created "2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
• catalog description ""Stokoe recounts in Language in Hand how inspiration grew out of his original discovery in the 1950s and '60s that deaf people who signed were using a true language with constructions that did not derive from spoken English. This investigation calls upon decades of personal experience and published research to refute the recently entrenched claims that humans have a special, innate learning faculty for language and that speech equates with language. Integrating current findings in linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology, Stokoe fashions a closely reasoned argument that suggests how our human ancestors' powers of observation and natural hand movements could have evolved into signed morphemes." "Stokoe also proposes how the primarily gestural expression of language with vocal support shifted to primarily vocal language with gestural accompaniment. When describing this transition, however, he never loses sight of the significance of humans in the natural world and the role of environmental stimuli in the development of language. Stokoe illustrates this contention with fascinating observations of small contemporary ethnic groups such as the Assinobian Nakotas, a Native American group from Montana that intermingle their spoken and signed languages depending upon cultural imperatives." "Language in Hand also presents innovative thoughts on classifiers in American Sign Language and their similarity to certain elements of spoken languages, convincing evidence that speech originally copied sign language forms before developing unrelated conventions through usage. Stokoe concludes Language in Hand with an hypothesis on how the acceptance of sign language as the first language of humans could revolutionize the education of infants, both deaf and hearing, who, like early humans, have the full capacity for language without speech."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. An idea that would not go away -- 2. Chasing the language butterfly -- 3. Gesture to language to speech -- 4. Signed languages and language essentials -- 5. Language signs -- 6. Descartes thought wrong -- 7. Language metamorphosis -- 8. Language in a chrysalis -- 9. Emerging from the cocoon -- 10. Families of signed languages -- 11. Languages in parallel -- 12. Visible verbs become spoken -- 13. A difference that makes a difference.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xv, 227 p. :".
• catalog identifier "156368103X (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press,".
• catalog subject "419 21".
• catalog subject "American Sign Language History.".
• catalog subject "HV2474 .S69 2001".
• catalog subject "Sign language History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. An idea that would not go away -- 2. Chasing the language butterfly -- 3. Gesture to language to speech -- 4. Signed languages and language essentials -- 5. Language signs -- 6. Descartes thought wrong -- 7. Language metamorphosis -- 8. Language in a chrysalis -- 9. Emerging from the cocoon -- 10. Families of signed languages -- 11. Languages in parallel -- 12. Visible verbs become spoken -- 13. A difference that makes a difference.".
• catalog title "Language in hand : why sign came before speech / William C. Stokoe.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".