How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

Visually perceivable and movable parts of the body–the hands, facial features, head, and
upper body–are the articulators of sign language. It is through these articulators that words …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

In signed languages, the arguments of verbs can be marked by a system of verbal
modification that has been termed “agreement”(more neutrally,“directionality”). Fundamental …

. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …

Age of acquisition (AoA) effects have been used to support the notion of a critical period for
first language acquisition. In this study, we examine AoA effects in deaf British Sign …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in
Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the …

The sign language phenomenon that some scholars refer to as “agreement” has triggered
controversial discussions among sign language linguists. Crucially, it has been argued to …

In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell
(2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of morphemes and pointing gestures …