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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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Symbol and Symptom: Routes from Gesture to Signed Language
TL;DR: This article examined the developmental routes by which gesture is codified into a linguistic system in the context of the natural signed languages of the deaf and suggested that gestures follow two routes as they codify.
Gesture and language
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.
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Preslikavanja u konceptualnom prostoru: metonimija, metafora i ikoničnost u znakovnim jezicima gluhonijemih
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Speech-gesture constructions in cognitive grammar: The case of beats and points
Laura Ruth-Hirrel,Sherman Wilcox +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the integration of beats and pointing gestures as complex gestural expressions and found that simple beat gestures, as well as beat gestures co-expressed with pointing gestures, are used to direct attention to meanings in speech that are associated with salient components of stancetaking acts.