American Sign Language (ASL) has become a very popular language in high schools,
colleges, and universities throughout the US, due, in part, to the growing number of schools …

Iconic words and signs are characterized by a perceived resemblance between aspects of
their form and aspects of their meaning. For example, in English, iconic words include peep …

Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language has traditionally
been firmly based on spoken Indo-European languages and on language studied as …

Experimental and cross-linguistic evidence suggests that certain speech sounds are
associated with size, especially high front vowels with 'small'and low back vowels with …

Linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence is presented to support the use of structure-
mapping theory as a framework for understanding effects of iconicity on sign language …

Language and gesture are viewed as highly interdependent systems. Besides supporting
communication, gestures also have an impact on memory for verbal information compared …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

According to a theoretical tradition dating back to Aristotle, verbs can be classified into two
broad categories. Telic verbs (eg,“decide,”“sell,”“die”) encode a logical endpoint, whereas …

We examined whether iconicity in American Sign Language (ASL) enhances translation
performance for new learners and proficient signers. Fifteen hearing nonsigners and 15 …

A standard view of language processing holds that lexical forms are arbitrary, and that non-
arbitrary relationships between meaning and form such as onomatopoeias are unusual …