During communication, speakers commonly rotate their forearms so that their palms turn
upward. Yet despite more than a century of observations of such palm-up gestures, their …

The occurrence of WH-items at the right edge of the sentence, while extremely rare in
spoken languages, is quite common in sign languages. In particular, in sign languages like …

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The expression of standard negation by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has
been described for a considerable number of sign languages. Typological comparisons …

This study investigates the frequency and functions of a ubiquitous form in conversational
NZSL discourse glossed as palm-up. Dictionaries show that it is a polysemous vocabulary …

Deaf children whose hearing losses are so severe that they cannot acquire spoken
language, and whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language, use …

Sign languages do not arise from thin air: rather, they emerge in communities where
conventions are already in place for using gesture. Little research has considered how these …

Although much of linguistic information in American Sign Language (ASL) is conveyed
through nonmanual signals, the majority of more than 40 years of research focuses on …

In gesture studies, the adjective 'recurrent'has developed to distinguish a range of semiotic
and conceptual phenomena concerning the nature of meaningful bodily movements. This …

This paper presents a pilot investigation of two discourse markers, namely palm-up and
same, in French Belgian Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language. The two discourse …