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The valuable paper of Col. Mallery (NATURE, vol. xxvi. p. 333) is deserving of much attention, but his description of the relations of gesture-language and speech-language is calculated to cause misconceptions, on account of the view he has taken of the origin and propagation of speech. Admitting the general accuracy of his description of the ges ure-language or dialects of man then that description is really applicable to speech.
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CLARKE, H. The Gesture Speech of Man. Nature 26, 419 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026419a0
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