Late exposure to the first language, as in the case of deaf children with hearing parents,
hinders the production of linguistic expressions, even in adulthood. Less is known about the …

Prior work with hearing children acquiring a spoken language as their first language shows
that spatial language and cognition are related systems and spatial language use predicts …

The spatial affordances of the visual modality give rise to a high degree of similarity between
sign languages in the spatial domain. This stands in contrast to the vast structural and …

The ability to use language to talk about space is a fundamental aspect of language and
cognition. In learning to talk about space, children need to figure out adult-like …

Numerous unrelated spoken languages, ie languages in the auditory-oral modality, have
been shown to exhibit systematic polysemy in the domain of reciprocity. Cross-linguistically …

In sign languages, where space is often used to talk about space, expressions of spatial
relations (eg, ON, IN, UNDER, BEHIND) may rely on analogue mappings of real space onto …

This study is about expressing spatial relationships between Figure and Ground in Finnish
Sign Language discourse and shows that the variation in this expression is primarily …

Signers just as speakers of a language make use of referential expressions to communicate
in various situations. The main difference between definite/indefinite noun phrases …

Linguistic expressions of locative spatial relations in sign languages are mostly visually
motivated representations of space involving mapping of entities and spatial relations …

The path and manner of objects in motion events have been studied in many languages.
Previous research has focused on whether both path and manner are expressed in the main …