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 …

When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other's
communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of behavioral alignment has …

This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and
spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of …

" This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they
could have led to the languages of modern humankind." Like other biological phenomena …

In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America
reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define …

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 …

Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to
communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in …

That human social interaction involves the intertwined cooperation of different modalities is
uncontroversial. Researchers in several allied fields have, however, only recently begun to …

Speech–sign or “bimodal” bilingualism is exceptional because distinct modalities allow for
simultaneous production of two languages. We investigated the ramifications of this …