Sentence examples for manual gesture from inspiring English sources

Since signed and spoken languages are perceptually and articulatorily distinct, their neural bases must diverge in many ways: the programming of a manual gesture is clearly different from movements of the mouth, and the perception of sign language engages the visual cortex while speech is processed in the auditory cortex.

In this paper, we only address the problem of automatic cued speech manual gesture recognition.

A rotating LED on the front very clearly indicates recording — which should help reduce the creep factor just as much as the highly recognizable yellow rings and manual gesture to start recording.

A portion of Corballis' research focuses on the theory that oral language evolved, not from animal calls, but from manual gesture.

Its strongest association is with the frontal-lobe asymmetry induced by word generation, perhaps because vocal language itself evolved from manual gesture [32], with the two sharing a common source of lateralization [33].

In these situations, chimpanzees will typically employ the acoustic signal first to capture the attention of the human, and then produce a visual signal to make a request, (e.g. a manual gesture to request a piece of food that the experimenter has).

"Bipedalism encouraged manual gesturing," Mr. Corballis said in a talk at a recent Harvard University conference on language and evolution.

He traces how language itself adapted to recursive thinking, first through manual gestures, then later, with the emergence of Homo sapiens, vocally.

However, the existence of sign languages shows that speech is not a necessary modality for language: the meanings and complex structures of language can also be coded as manual gestures.

Aside, however, from a few rude manual gestures to his younger brother's wooers, he seems a strangely quiescent figure, which makes Petruchia's punitive treatment look even more disproportionate: it's rather like seeing Sir Andrew Aguecheek being given the third degree.

It is based on both lip reading and manual gestures.