Movement dataset reviews exist but are limited in coverage, both in terms of size and
research discipline. While topic-specific reviews clearly have their merit, it is critical to have a …

We propose reframing one of the key questions in the field of language evolution as what
was the original human-specific communicative system? With the help of cognitive …

Iconicity is often defined as the resemblance between a form and a given meaning, while
transparency is defined as the ability to infer a given meaning based on the form. This study …

This paper investigates the influence of gestures on foreign language (FL) vocabulary
learning. In this work, we first address the state of the art in the field and then delve into the …

The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are
communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means of expression …

We investigated whether sign‐naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after
minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in …

Bodily mimesis, the capacity to use the body representationally, was one of the key
innovations that allowed early humans to go beyond the 'baseline'of generalized ape …

Experimental semiotics (ES) investigates how novel semiotic systems emerge by observing
people ground communication in lab games, thus exposing the fundamental principles of …

Meanings communicated with depictions constitute an integral part of how speakers and
signers actually use language (Clark, 2016). Recent studies have argued that, in sign …

Most manual communicative gestures that humans produce cannot be looked up in a
dictionary, as these manual gestures inherit their meaning in large part from the …