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AuthorFox, Margalit.TitleTalking hands : what sign language reveals about the mind / Margalit Fox.PublishedNew York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.FormatBook
Descriptionviii, 354 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007017624.html
Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0728/2007017624-s.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007017624-d.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.
ContentsIntroduction -- 1. In the village of the deaf -- 2. "What is this wonderful language?" -- 3. The road to Al-Sayyid -- 4. The sign-language instinct -- 5. Starry night -- 6. The atoms of sign -- 7. The house of blue roses -- 8. Everyone here speaks sign language -- 9. Hyssop -- 10. The web of words -- 11. The house built from the second story down -- 12. Grammar in midair -- 13. Hassan’s house -- 14. A sign in mind -- 15. The house of twenty children -- 16. The signing brain -- 17. In a wet place -- Afterword : It takes a village -- A note on sources -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Additional FormAlso issued online.
ISBN978074324712207432471249780743247139 (pbk.)0743247132 (pbk.)SubjectSign language -- Psychological aspects.
Psycholinguistics.

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