The study of sign languages provides a unique perspective on the human capacity for language and enables researchers to distinguish universal properties of language and its neural implementation from modality-specific adaptations. This course …
This lecture explores how the core and extended language networks of the brain are organized and what current research reveals about their function, structure, and development (Trettenbrein & Friederici, 2025). Against this general background, two …
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 …
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 …