Cultural evolution of music and language

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language

T Sampson, RI Mayberry - Lingua, 2025 - Elsevier
Our understanding of nonverbal predication wherein canonically non-verbal phrases such
as nouns and adjectives are predicated in American Sign Language (ASL) is fragmentary …

Sign language vitality through the lens of a pioneering interactive Atlas: a first look at the sociolinguistic profile data collected by the Sign Hub project

J Webster, J Hosemann - Journal of Linguistic Geography, 2025 - cambridge.org
To investigate the under-researched topic of sign language vitality, the authors evaluate a
set of sociolinguistic data gathered as part of the Sign Hub project. The subproject Atlas …