At the dawn of anthropology, gesture was widely considered a “universal language”. In the
20th century, however, this framing fell out of favor as anthropologists rejected universalism …

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 …

This article presents a study of errors made by hearing adult L2 learners of Swiss German
Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). As part of a statistical …

We investigate the nature of torso articulation in human expression by analyzing its role in
signing and dancing in six videos concerning the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a …

Stephen Anderson warns that approaches to linguistic universals that derive facts about
language from the structure of the Language faculty or from external forces sha** the …

When the arms move in certain ways, they can cause the torso to twist or rock. Such
extraneous torso movement is undesirable, especially during sign language communication …

Torso articulation in sign languages is mentioned variably in the linguistic analysis of sign
languages but is often ignored. The prevailing idea seems to be that detailed study of …

Echo phonology was originally proposed to account for obligatory coordination of manual
and mouth articulations observed in several sign languages. However, previous research …

Sign phonetics is the study of how sign languages are produced and perceived, by native as
well as by non-native signers. Most research on sign phonetics has focused on American …

Duality of patterning, which refers to the fact that in languages a limited number of
meaningless units combine to create an unlimited number of meaningful units, is considered …