Iconicity, a resemblance between properties of linguistic form (both in spoken and signed
languages) and meaning, has traditionally been considered to be a marginal, irrelevant …

Visually perceivable and movable parts of the body–the hands, facial features, head, and
upper body–are the articulators of sign language. It is through these articulators that words …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

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 …

This is first comprehensive introduction to the linguistics of Auslan, the sign language of
Australia. Assuming no prior background in language study, it explores each key aspect of …

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a
league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other evolutionary …

The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful
level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language …

This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which
received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew …

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

Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a
significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality of signed …