Language by mouth and by hand

• Main Author: Iris Berent (auth)
• Other Authors: Susan Goldin-Meadow (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; sign language; language evolution; modality; emerging sign langauges; lexical access; rules; universal grammar; home signs
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...