Review of research on gesture

[Sherman Wilcox]

On 8 May 2014, at 4:45, Everett, Daniel wrote:

> I argue that linguistic field researchers, theoreticians, and 
> typologists cannot continue to work in a "gesture vacuum."

Of course, many linguists, anthropologists, and others have been saying 
this for decades. One example from hundreds:

"Communication by a system of gesture is not an exclusively human 
activity, so that in a broad sense of the term, sign language is as old 
as the race itself ..." (W.C. Stokoe, "Sign Language Structure," 1960, 
page 1)

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Sherman Wilcox
Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico