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Sherman Wilcox
Researcher at University of New Mexico
Publications - 69
Citations - 2033
Sherman Wilcox is an academic researcher from University of New Mexico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sign language & Gesture. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 68 publications receiving 1872 citations. Previous affiliations of Sherman Wilcox include Mackenzie Presbyterian University.
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Gesture and the Nature of Language
TL;DR: The nature of gesture, signed and spoken languages differently organized, and the origin of syntax: gesture as name and relation are discussed.
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Primate calls, human language, and nonverbal communication. Comments. Author's reply
Robbins Burling,David F. Armstrong,Ben G. Blount,Catherine A. Callaghan,Mary Lecron Foster,Barbara J. King,Sue Taylor Parker,Osamu Sakura,William C. Stokoe,Ron Wallace,Joel Wallman,Andrew Whiten,Sherman Wilcox,Thomas Wynn +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, l'auteur describes the use of two forms of communication: le langage and la communication non verbale, a form of communication used by the humans for communiquer.
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The Gestural Origin of Language
TL;DR: This book discusses language in the Wild, Gesture, Sign, and Speech, and the Ritualization of Language, as well as conceptual Spaces and Embodied Actions, and The Gesture-Language Interface.
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Cognitive iconicity: Conceptual spaces, meaning, and gesture in signed language
TL;DR: The authors define cognitive iconicity as a special case in which the phonological and semantic poles of a symbolic structure reside in the same region of conceptual space, and propose that the importance of these poles illuminates the relation between gesture and language, and the process by which linguistic structures arise from gestural sources.
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Gesture and language: Cross-linguistic and historical data from signed languages
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that gesture enters the linguistic system via two distinct routes, one of which serves as a source of lexical and grammatical morphemes in signed languages, and the other bypasses the lexical stage.