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Authoritative: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005001   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

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Abstract

Sign languages provide direct evidence for the relation between human languages and the body that engenders them. We discuss the use of the hands to create symbols and the role of the body in sign language verb systems, especially in two quite recently developed sign languages, Israeli Sign Language and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.

@article{aronoff08BBScomments,
  author={Mark Aronoff and Irit Meir and Carol Padden and Wendy Sandler},
  title={Language is shaped by the body},
  journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
  year={2008},
  volume={31},
  number={5},
  pages={509-511},
  doi={10.1017/S0140525X08005001},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/aronoff08BBScomments.html}
}