CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I HYPOTHESIS OF PHONOLOGICAL/SEMANTIC EQUIVALENCE
CHAPTER II PARALLELISM OF SPEECH AND GESTURE
Observation and description of ordinary gesture
Description and analysis of deaf and dumb language
(aspectual analysis)
The categories of resemblance (thematic analysis)
CHAPTER III RELATION OF SPEECH-SOUND ELEMENTS AND GESTURE-ELEMENTS
Sound-elements in speech and the principles on which
they may be formed into groups
Analysis of gestural elements in terms of
muscle-movements and the principles on which they may
be formed into groups
Basic hypothesis on the relation of the Groups of
speech-sound elements and the Groups of muscle-movement
elements (which go to form gesture)
Detailed description of the Groups of simple
gestural-elements
Two-element combination of single gestural elements
Meaningful 1- and 2-element words and the associated
gestures
Three-element combinations of speech-sound elements and
resultant (equivalent) gestural combinations
BIBLIOGRAPHY - PART I
PART II - VERIFICATION
CHAPTER IV THE OBSERVED RELATION OF SOUND AND MEANING
Etymology and the relation of sound and meaning
Experimental study of the relation of sound and meaning
The systematic relation of sound and meaning in English
CHAPTER V EVIDENCE FROM OTHER LANGUAGES
Expressivism in other languages
Resemblances between remote languages of high-frequency
words
Uniformities between languages in words used for
demonstratives and pronouns
Uniformities between languages in words used for naming
colours
Sound/meaning relation in another language: Basque
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY - PART II
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