Gesture and Cognition

Papers in this group tagged with "sign"

1. Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua.

   Ann Senghas, Sotaro Kita, Asli Ozyürek in Science (2004)

   A new sign language has been created by deaf Nicaraguans over the past 25 years, providing an opportunity to observe the inception of universal hallmarks of language. We found that in their initial creation of the language, children analyzed complex…

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2. Children Creating Language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language Acquired a Spatial Grammar

   A Senghas, M Coppola in Psychological Science (2001)

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3. Iconic devices in American Sign Language

   Mark Mandel in On the Other Hand: New Perspectives on American Sign Language (1977)

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4. Form and discourse function of the pointing toward the chest in Swedish Sign Language

   Anna-Lena Nilsson in Sign Language & Linguistics (2004)

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5. Is pointing “just” pointing? Unraveling the complexity of indexes in spoken and signed discourse

   Elena Antinoro Pizzuto, Micaela Capobianco in Gesture (2008)

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6. A Lexicon of Signs from a Polynesian Outlier Island: A description of 217 Signs as Developed and Used by Kagobai, the Only Deaf-Mute of Rennell Island

   Rolf Kuschel (1974)

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7. A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion. Part I: The formational properties of Enga signs

   Adam Kendon in Semiotica (1980)

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8. A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion. Part II: The semiotic functioning of Enga signs

   Adam Kendon in Semiotica (1980)

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9. A description of a deaf-mute sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea with some comparative discussion. Part III: Aspects of utterance construction

   Adam Kendon in Semiotica (1980)

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10. Do Signers Gesture?

    Karen Emmorey in Gesture, Speech, and Sign (1999)

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11. Mouth actions as gesture in sign language

    Sabina Fontana in Gesture (2008)

    Added 2011-06-22 6 readers