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Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences News | With Gestures, Rules of Grammar Remain the Same
www.newswise.com/articles/view/542102/?sc=rsln, posted 2009 by peter in language science
When asked to describe the scenes in speech, the speakers used the word orders typical of their respective languages. [...] But when asked to describe the same scenes using only their hands, all of the adults, no matter what language they spoke, produced the same order –– subject, object, verb (woman knob twists).