How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution David McNeill (2012)

Authors

Gesture, Speech, Evolution of Language

Ramona Kunene Nicolas, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Ramona Kunene Nicolas is based in the Linguistics Department in the School of Literature, Language and Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She obtained her PhD from University of Stendhal, Grenoble 3 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is the lecturer and course coordinator of Psycholinguistics and Semantics. Her research interests include bilingual and multilingual multimodal (speech and co-speech gesture) development, pragmatics, the bi-modal expression of morpho-syntactic cohesive clues in agglutinative languages, oral and written narratives of typically developing children, spatial language and gesture and face-to-face interaction. Her focus is on South African Languages (Bantu languages) and French.

McNeill, D. (1992). Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.