The notion that the form of a word bears an arbitrary relation to its meaning accounts only
partly for the attested relations between form and meaning in the languages of the world …

The study of iconicity, defined as the direct relationship between a linguistic form and its
referent, has gained momentum in recent years across a wide range of disciplines. In the …

A concise overview of key findings and ideas in sign language phonology and its
contributions to related fields, including historical linguistics, morphology, prosody, language …

The present study implemented a sign‐repetition task at two points in time to hearing adult
learners of British Sign Language and explored how each phonological parameter, sign …

The present article provides a narrative review on how language communicates sensory
information and how knowledge of sight and sound develops in individuals born deaf or …

Analyses of elicited pantomime, primarily of English‐speaking children, show that preschool‐
aged children are more likely to symbolically represent an object with gestures depicting an …

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach
in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to …

This essay considers the acquisition of sign languages as first languages. Most deaf
children are born to hearing parents, but a minority have deaf parents. Deaf children of deaf …

In this study we explore whether different types of iconic gestures (ie, acting, drawing,
representing) and their combinations are used systematically to distinguish between …

Children produce iconic gestures conveying action information earlier than the ones
conveying attribute information (Özçalışkan, Gentner, & Goldin-Meadow, 2014). In this study …