In the quest for language universals, one of the properties that linguists generally take to be universal is that a substantial portion of the lexical items are produced sequentially by speakers; i.e.

Soon after Ariya Ahona began learning American Sign Language (ASL) at the University of Toronto, she realized that language would be only one of the many things she’d be learning. That’s because in ...

The structure of the grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has important implications for the theory of universal grammar and the logical problem of language acquisition. A detailed study of the ...

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Lydia Callis's "mesmerizing" work during Hurricane Sandy called attention to how facial and body movements are parts of grammar in the visual language. Callis was great, but not because she was so ...

There are more than 70 million people who use sign language around the world, and as the world remembers the importance of ...