The contemporary study of human language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to incorporate gestures, facial expressions, and sign languages. This shift has been accompanied by methodological …
Lexikalische Variablen wie zum Beispiel Ikonizität oder das Erwerbsalter bilden eine bekannte Quelle von Varianz in psycholinguistischen Experimenten. Um solche Variablen beim Erstellen von Experimenten berücksichtigen zu können, müssen …
The capacity for language constitutes a cornerstone of human cognition and distinguishes our species from other animals. Research in the cognitive sciences has demonstrated that this capacity is not bound to speech but can also be externalized in the …
Background. Many of the world’s spoken and sign languages mark the difference between the two major lexical categories noun and verb (Abner et al., 2019). In the case of German Sign Language (DGS), different morphophonological properties for nouns …
The human brain has the capacity to automatically compute the grammatical relations of words in sentences, be they spoken or written. This species-specific ability for syntax lies at the core of our capacity for language and is primarily subserved by …
Die Studie untersucht die Iconizität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DSG) aus kompositioneller Perspektive, indem sie die phonologischen und semantischen Parameter von 50 lexikalischen Gebärden analysiert. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass …
In this talk we provide an update about our ongoing short-term collaboration supported through ViCom in which we investigate mouthings in the public German Sign Language (DGS) Corpus. We report preliminary results from our first empirical work and …
In this talk we provide an update about the work carried out as part of our project since its official start earlier this year. We will report results from our first empirical studies and sketch our next steps and ideas for upcoming experiments. …
Iconicity is defined as a perceived resemblance between aspects of a linguistic form and aspects of its associated meaning (Perniss et al. 2010; Perniss and Vigliocco 2014; Dingemanse 2019). Transparency describes a degree of this resemblance, in …
The human capacity for language is rooted in our ability to combine lexical items into hierarchically structured phrases and sentences, a cognitive process primarily subserved by a left-hemispheric network consisting of posterior inferior frontal …