I think it would be particularly interesting to observe what
happens in deaf and hearing children to the patterns of use
of gesture and speech/sign during development. My sense is that
they co-develop as part of an integrated communication system,
but there must then also be divergences in the relationship
since gesture and sign and gesture and speech presumably integrate
in somewhat different ways. Even so, speech and gesture, too are
forms of motor-action communication, and their linkages are probably
rather tight, if not necessarily universal or predictable in detail.
JAY.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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