When speakers talk, they gesture. The goal of this review is to investigate the contribution
that these gestures make to how we communicate and think. Gesture can play a role in …

Natural sign languages of deaf communities are acquired on the same time scale as that of
spoken languages if children have access to fluent signers providing input from birth. Infants …

Unlike any other species, humans can learn and use language. This book explains how the
brain evolved to make language possible, through what Michael Arbib calls the Mirror …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

Cell migration initiates by extension of the actin cytoskeleton at the leading edge.
Computational analysis of fluorescent speckle microscopy movies of migrating epithelial …

A new sign language has been created by deaf Nicaraguans over the past 25 years,
providing an opportunity to observe the inception of universal hallmarks of language. We …

Analogy was the mainstay of traditional linguistics. In their diachronic work, such leading
representatives of Finno-Ugric linguistics as Paavo Ravila and Erkki Itkonen constantly …

The present paper summarizes three experiments that investigate the effects of age of
acquisition on first-language (L1) acquisition in relation to second-language (L2) outcome …

Sentence processing in American Sign Language (ASL) was investigated as a function of
age of first language acquisition with a timed grammatical judgement task. Participants were …

This article reports 2 experiments examining the changing role of iconicity in symbol
learning and its implications regarding the mechanisms supporting symbol-to-referent …