During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor
skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the …

Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between
linguistic form and meaning. However, if we look beyond the more familiar Indo-European …

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 …

An arbitrary link between linguistic form and meaning is generally considered a universal
feature of language. However, iconic (ie, nonarbitrary) mappings between properties of …

The study of iconicity, defined as the direct relationship between a linguistic form and its
referent, has gained momentum in recent years across a wide range of disciplines. In the …

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

Research on signed languages offers the opportunity to address many important questions
about language that it may not be possible to address via studies of spoken languages …

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 mappings between words and their meanings are far more prevalent than once
estimated and seem to support children's acquisition of new words, spoken or signed. We …

This article analyses longitudinal diary data from one infant acquiring German to seek a
better understanding of the role of onomatopoeia in early language development …