A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages …

In contrast to scholars and signers in the nineteenth century, William Stokoe conceived of
American Sign Language (ASL) as a unique linguistic tradition with roots in nineteenth …

Sign language (SL) is a vital mode of communication, bridging the gap between the hearing
impaired and hearing communities. However, SL, despite its paramount importance, has …

Sign languages are conventionalized linguistic systems that vary across communities of
users and change as they are transmitted across generations or come into contact with other …

Recent years have seen Bayesian phylogenetic methods from evolutionary biology applied
to questions about language evolution in two major contexts. First, language phylogenies …

This contribution theorizes the historical dynamics of so-called language isolates, languages
which cannot be demonstrated to belong to any known language family. On the basis of a …