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The purpose of this paper is to propose a particular evolutionary perspective on the relationship between manual organization and speech, and to consider the development of manual function and speech from that perspective.
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MacNeilage, P.F. (1986). Bimanual Coordination and the Beginnings of Speech. In: Lindblom, B., Zetterström, R. (eds) Precursors of Early Speech. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08023-6_14
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