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  • Are gestures the product of language or imitation? (Beatrice Murch, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Difference In Our Gestures
    Walker Rhea
    Do we learn gestures by watching others make them? Or do our patterns of gesture originate from language itself?
  • (Rhoda Baer, Wikimedia Commons)
    The Gestures In Our Voices
    Walker Rhea
    When we talk to people on the phone who we know well, we can often predict their physical gestures while they're talking, even if we can't see them. That's because we've seen them do it before, and because of cues from their voices.