The status of thematic roles such as Agent and Patient in cognitive science is highly
controversial: To some they are universal components of core knowledge, to others they are …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what
was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive …

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

An unprecedented number of empirical studies have shown that iconic gestures—those that
mimic the sensorimotor attributes of a referent—contribute significantly to language …

Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are
communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means of expression …

A new phonological system is becoming conventional across a group of DeafBlind signers
in the United States who communicate via reciprocal, tactile channels—a practice known as …

Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily
actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences …

Bodily mimesis, the capacity to use the body representationally, was one of the key
innovations that allowed early humans to go beyond the 'baseline'of generalized ape …