Harlan Lane Quotes

Language [can] Be Expressed ... By Movements Of The Hands And Face Just As Well As By The Small, Sound-generating Movements Of The Throat And Mouth. Then The First Criterion For Language That I Had Learned As A Student - It Is Spoken And Heard - Was Wrong; And, More Important, Language Did Not Depend On Our Ability To Speak And Hear But Must Be A More Abstract Capacity Of The Brain. It Was The Brain That Had Language, And If That Capacity Was Blocked In One Channel, It Would Emerge Through Another.

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