Language Ideologies on the Difference Between Gesture and Sign [PDF]
, 2018 This article investigates academic and everyday perspectives on the difference between gesture and sign. A large number of language scholars have suggested that gesture is not language, that different forms of gesturing and signing exist on continua, and/
Kusters, Annelies Maria Jozef +1 more
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The linguistic roots of natural pedagogy [PDF]
, 2015 Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact that ...
Otávio Mattos, Wolfram Hinzen
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The influence of language deprivation in early childhood on L2 processing: An ERP comparison of deaf native signers and deaf signers with a delayed language acquisition [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: To examine which language function depends on early experience, the present study compared deaf native signers, deaf non-native signers and hearing German native speakers while processing German sentences.
Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber +4 more
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Mothers Do Not Drive the Development of Adult Homesign Systems: Evidence from Comprehension [PDF]
, 2012 Studying the communication systems that arise in spontaneously occurring cases of degraded linguistic input can help clarify human predispositions for language.
Carrigan, Emily
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The role of pointing in the immidiate and displaced references in early mother-child communication. [PDF]
, 2018 This study longitudinally explores how mothers and children use and combine pointing and verbal references to objects that are either present or absent in space. Over one year of observations and in five separate sessions, eight Spanish mothers and their
Muñetón Ayala, Mercedes Amparo +1 more
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Is displacement possible without language? Evidence from preverbal infants and chimpanzees [PDF]
, 2015 Is displacement possible without language? This question was addressed in a recent work by Liszkowski and colleagues (Liszkowski, Schafer, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2009).
CARAPEZZA, Marco, CUCCIO, Valentina
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Order Of The Major Constituents In Sign Languages: Implications For All Language [PDF]
, 2014 A survey of reports of sign order from 42 sign languages leads to a handful of generalizations. Two accounts emerge, one amodal and the other modal. We argue that universal pressures are at work with respect to some generalizations, but that pressure ...
Napoli, Donna Jo, Sutton-Spence, R.
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Potentially recursive structures emerge quickly when a new language community forms. [PDF]
Cognition, 2023 Kocab A +3 more
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Temporal structure in emerging language:From natural data to silent gesture [PDF]
, 2017 Many human languages have complex grammatical machinery devoted to temporality, but very little is known about how this came about. This paper investigates how people convey temporal information when they cannot use any conventional languages they know ...
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