How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of
generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that …

Blind adults display language‐specificity in their packaging and ordering of events in
speech. These differences affect the representation of events in co‐speech gesture …

Deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from accessing spoken language and
whose hearing parents have not exposed them to sign language develop gesture systems …

Children around the globe learn language under a wide range of circumstances, and they
do it remarkably well. The premise of this special issue is that we can glean insights about …

Word orders are not distributed equally: SOV and SVO are the most prevalent among the
world's languages. While there is a consensus that SOV might be the “default” order in …

Our hands are always with us and are used for communication all over the world. When
children do not have an established language model to learn from, they use their hands to …