How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

When speakers talk, they gesture. The goal of this review is to investigate the contribution
that these gestures make to how we communicate and think. Gesture can play a role in …

This study uses conversation analysis (CA) to investigate the coupling of specific linguistic
items with specific gestures in second language (L2) learning over time. In particular, we are …

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

Iconicity is an acknowledged property of both gesture and sign language. In contrast to the
familiar definition of iconicity as a correspondence between individual forms and their …

Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

Research interest in sign L21 sign acquisition is growing, fueled by dramatic increases in
sign language learning (Welles, 2004). Researchers ask to what extent typical L2 patterns …

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 …

In this paper, we compare so-called “classifier” constructions in signed languages (which we
refer to as “depicting constructions”) with comparable iconic gestures produced by non …

. Introduction. How do children learn a sign language?. e path of sign language
development.. e pre-linguistic stage.. e one-and two-word stages.. e differentiation stage …