This Element tries to discern the known unknowns in the field of pragmatics, the'Dark
Matter'of the title. We can identify a key bottleneck in human communication, the sheer …

In this paper, I explore metalinguistic discourse in Zinacantec Family Homesign ('Z sign'), an
emergent sign language developed by three deaf siblings and their hearing family …

This study traces the development of discrete, combinatorial structure in Zinacantec Family
Homesign ('Z Sign'), a sign language developed since the 1970s by several deaf siblings in …

One structural dimension that varies across languages is the simultaneous or sequential
expression of meaning. Complex predicates can layer meanings together simultaneously in …

Standard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a
process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data …

Ces travaux de thèse étudient les mécanismes de traitement langagier en langue des
signes et plus particulièrement l'accès au lexique en langue des signes française (LSF) …

This paper uses a multi-head neural transformer to present the text-to-text translation/
interpretation of Sign Language (SL) in the context of glosses (written SL). A Spanish to …

In this article, we compare two languages that are approximately fifty years old—Central
Taurus Sign Language (CTSL) and Lengua de Señas Nicaragüense (LSN)—by employing …

Целью исследования является выявление особенностей употребления
одновременных конструкций и определение их роли в выдвижении ситуаций …