sign language

Sprache und Handlung sind zweierlei

Von der Kindheit bis zum Erwachsenenalter wächst unser aktiver Wortschatz stetig auf etwa 20.000 Wörter, die wir nach bestimmten Regeln zu unendlich vielen sprachlichen Ausdrücken verknüpfen. Da Sätze oberflächlich betrachtet eine Aneinanderreihung …

Wortarten und Ikonizität in der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS)

In diesem Vor­trag werden wir das von der Deutschen Forschungs­gemein­schaft (DFG) im Rahmen des Schwer­punkt­programms „Visu­elle Kommu­nikation“ (ViCom) geförderte Projekt „Wort­arten und Ikonizität in der Deutschen …

Einführung in neurowissenschaftliche Methoden in der Gebärdensprachforschung

Die mensch­liche Sprach­fähigkeit in ihren unter­schiedlichen Facetten kann aus verschiedenen Blick­winkeln und mit einer Viel­zahl von Forschungs­methoden unter­sucht werden. In diesen Vor­trag widmen wir uns der …

Neurobiological basis of sign language

One of the major insights of modern linguistics has been that the human capacity for language is not bound to speech but may also be externalized and perceived in the visuo-spatial modality of sign language. Linguistic analysis has demonstrated that …

Parts of speech and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS)

Linguistic typology in the past decades has questioned whether parts of speech such as nouns and verbs are universal across different languages (e.g., Haspelmath, 2001; Evans & Levinson, 2009). Similarly, there is an ongoing debate in theoretical …

How supramodal is the language network? The view from sign language

One of the major insights of modern linguistics has been that the human capacity for language is not bound to speech but may also be externalized and perceived in the visuo-spatial modality of sign language. Neuroimaging evidence indicates that …

Neuroimaging data in the “ViCom” Open Science Data Network

In this short impulse talk, I'll discuss existing solutions for data organisation, storage, and publication such as the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) and the Open Science Framework (OSF) and how they may be utilized in the context of ViCom. …

Can detection of extraneous visual signals reveal the syntactic structure of sign language?

Background The ability to combine individual lexical items into phrases and sentences is at the core of the human capacity for language (Friederici et al., 2017). Linguistic research indicates that the world’s sign languages exhibit complex …

Neurobiology of spoken, written, and sign language processing

The human capacity for language is best described as a biologically determined computational mechanism yielding an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions and should not be conflated with notions of “speech” or “communication”. The …

Can detection of extraneous visual signals reveal the syntactic structure of sign language?

Background The ability to combine individual lexical items into phrases and sentences is at the core of the human capacity for language (Friederici et al., 2017). Linguistic research indicates that the world’s sign languages exhibit complex …