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Contents Preface Vll 1. An Idea That Would Not Go Away 1 2. Chasing the Language Butterfly 17 3. Gesture to Language to Speech 31 4. Signed Languages and Language Essentials 52 5. Language Signs 67 6. Descartes Thought Wrong 78 7. Language Metamorphosis 103 8. Language in a Chrysalis 119 9. Emerging from the Cocoon 131 10. Families of Signed Languages 147 11. Languages in Parallel 162 12. Visible Verbs Become Spoken 176 13. A Difference That Makes a Difference 193 Notes 203 Bibliography 215 Index 223 ...

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