The first 40 years of research on the neurobiology of sign languages (1960–2000)
established that the same key left hemisphere brain regions support both signed and …

Children's gaze behavior reflects emergent linguistic knowledge and real‐time language
processing of speech, but little is known about naturalistic gaze behaviors while watching …

Minimal expressions are at the heart of interaction: Interjections like" Huh?" and" Mhm" keep
conversations flowing by establishing and reinforcing intersubjectivity among interlocutors …

Evidence from adult studies of deaf signers supports the dissociation between neural
systems involved in processing visual linguistic and non-linguistic body actions. The …

O desenvolvimento de currículos de línguas de sinais é um acontecimento contemporâneo
que poucos países puderam implementar oficialmente para ensinar a Língua de Sinais …

Resumo The Sign Language curriculum is a contemporary development which few
countries have officially implemented to teach a national standard Sign Language as a first …

Abstract Language comprehension depends on the ability to temporally process the periodic
structure of the language signal. In this study we investigate temporal processing of Spanish …

Infants are born highly sensitive to the natural patterns found in languages. They use their
perceptual sensitivity to acquire detailed information about the structure of languages in their …

This research consists of an eye-tracking study examining the efficacy of eye gaze indexing
(EGIX) in manipulating viewer eye gaze and enhancing second language (L2) fingerspelling …

Language contact is ubiquitous in language use, and can be explained by centering
language users and appealing to language ideologies. This dissertation takes this track by …