Articulationist

/ɑɹ.ˌtɪk.jə.ləˈʃə.nɪst/ noun

A person who believes in or studies the theory that language is primarily rooted in gesture and bodily articulation; a scholar focused on articulation.

From 'articulation' plus the suffix '-ist' (one who practices or believes in). This term emerged in 19th-century linguistics and philosophy to describe theorists of gesture-based language origins.

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