Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial expressions, and other bodily actions. This shift has been accompanied by methodological …
Theoretical linguistics stipulates that the core combinatorial system that builds hierarchical syntactic structure is modality-independent. Two recent studies with deaf native signers tested this claim neurobiologically using functional MRI and …
Sentences are not just mere strings of words or signs but manifest a complex internal structure. Linguistic research has demonstrated that sign languages and spoken languages both exhibit hierarchical constituent structure which determines how …
Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial expressions, and other bodily actions. This shift has been accompanied by methodological …
In this talk we provide an update about the work carried out as part of our project in the past years. We will report results from our empirical studies and discuss recent and upcoming publications.
At the end of their recent position paper, Arnon et al. (2025, *Science*) ask “[...] why language (unlike, say, birdsong) is flexible enough to be conveyed by radically different sensory systems?” We argue that language can be expressed in different …
Im Rahmen eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderten Projekts haben wir Unterschiede zwischen Nomen und Verben in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Nomen in der Regeal kürzer und mit …
An influential school of thought in theoretical linguistics (Adger, 2021; Chomsky, 1995; Chomsky et al., 2023) stipulates that the core computational machinery for language—the ability to hierarchically combine lexical items—is …
Language processing relies on a distributed network of white-matter pathways connecting frontal, temporal, and parietal regions of cortex. While the arcuate fasciculus in the left hemisphere connecting the posterior inferior frontal gyrus to the …
Murphy’s discussion (2025) of his recent ROSE model includes explicit linking hypotheses connecting computational, algorithmic, and implementational levels in the study of language and its neurobiological basis. Here, I argue that establishing the …