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This chapter reviews the history of research in cognitive linguistics on signed languages.
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Signed languages are real, natural, human languages which have been used by humans for hundreds of years. Understanding language as produced in the visual modality offers important insights into the human capacity for language and offers a glimpse into the world through a primarily visual lens.
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DOI: 10.1017/9781316339732.008.
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