The visual-gestural modality affords its users simultaneous movement of several
independent articulators and thus lends itself to simultaneous encoding of information. Much …

We report a large-scale, quantitative investigation of manual gestures that speakers perform
when speaking metaphorically about numerical quantities. We used the TV News Archive …

Iconicity is often defined as the resemblance between a form and a given meaning, while
transparency is defined as the ability to infer a given meaning based on the form. This study …

We use automatic processing of 120,000 sign videos in 31 different sign languages to show
a cross-linguistic pattern for two types of iconic form–meaning relationships in the visual …

This paper concerns evaluating methods for extracting phonological information of Swedish
Sign Language signs from video data with MediaPipe's pose estimation. The methods …

We analyze sign locations in 776 signs from 16 antonym pairs across 27 sign languages to
examine metaphorical mappings of emotional valence (positive vs. negative) along different …

Many languages have an interesting class of nouns, the pluralia tantum, which have
restricted number possibilities when, in some sense, they should not. Thus English …

Iconicity has traditionally been considered an objective, fixed, unidimensional property of
language forms, often operationalized as transparency for experimental purposes. Within a …

We survey the predicative functions of reduplication and analyze the relationships between
them in terms of semantic affinity and iconicity. Forty-five functions are identified in 108 …

Since the beginning of the phonological study of sign language in the 1960s, it has become
increasingly clear that sign language, though silent and expressed by means of gestures …