Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and
composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its …

This paper presents a study of the use of constructed action (CA) in the stories and
conversations of adult Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) signers of different ages. CA is …

On the surface, the fields of animal communication and human linguistics have arrived at
conflicting theories and conclusions with respect to the effect of social complexity on …

In this study, we aim to disentangle pantomime from early signs in a newly-born sign
language: Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language. Our results show that within 2 years of …

Claims have been made about the relationship between the degree of lexical variation and
the social structure of a sign language community (eg, population size), but to date there …

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 …

Together with language, music is perhaps our most distinctive behavioral trait. Following the
lead of evolutionary linguistic research, different hypotheses have been proposed to explain …

Just as vocalization proceeds in a continuous stream in speech, so too do movements of the
hands, face, and body in sign languages. Here, we use motion-capture technology to …

Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human
species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform …

Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-
manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about how such systematic …