Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world's
languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich …

Iconicity, a resemblance between properties of linguistic form (both in spoken and signed
languages) and meaning, has traditionally been considered to be a marginal, irrelevant …

An argument that challenges the dominant" theory theory" and simulation theory approaches
to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done …

Mu suppression studies have been widely used to infer the activity of the human mirror
neuron system (MNS) in a number of processes, ranging from action understanding …

Why is language the way it is? How did language come to be this way? And why is our
species alone in having complex language? These are old unsolved questions that have …

Ideophones (also known as expressives or mimetics, and including onomatopoeia) have
been systematically studied in linguistics since the 1850s, when they were first described as …

This project could not have been pulled off without the generous help of many. In the first
place I want to thank the Mawu people, who taught me their language and culture and made …

This paper defends a gestural origins hypothesis about the evolution of enhanced
communication and language in the hominin lineage. The paper shows that we can develop …

Starting with an overview of theoretical approaches to emotion from an activity-oriented
stance, this article applies Vygotsky's three general principles of development, sign …

The Cognitive Revolution... was intended to bring “mind” back into the human sciences after
a long cold winter of objectivism.... Some critics, perhaps unkindly, argue that the new …