TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iris Berent
AU  - Susan Goldin-Meadow
AB  - While most natural languages rely on speech, humans can spontaneously generate comparable linguistic systems that utilize manual gestures. This collection of papers examines the interaction between natural language and its phonetic vessels - human speech or manual gestures. We seek to identify what linguistic aspects are invariant across signed and spoken languages, and determine how the choice of the phonetic vessel shapes language structure, its processing and its neural implementation. We welcome rigorous empirical studies from a wide variety of perspectives, ranging from behavioral studies to brain analyses, diverse ages (from infants to adults), and multiple languages - both conventional and emerging home signs and sign languages.
DO  - 10.3389/978-2-88919-487-2
ID  - OAPEN ID: 17676
KW  - sign language
KW  - language evolution
KW  - modality
KW  - emerging sign langauges
KW  - lexical access
KW  - rules
KW  - universal grammar
KW  - home signs
L1  - http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1777/language-by-mouth-and-by-hand
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/51384
PB  - Frontiers Media SA
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9782889194872
TI  - Language by mouth and by handnull
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