TY - BOOK ID - 17676 TI - Language by mouth and by hand AU - Iris Berent AU - Susan Goldin-Meadow PY - 2015 SN - 9782889194872 DB - DOAB KW - sign language KW - universal grammar KW - modality KW - language evolution KW - rules KW - home signs KW - emerging sign langauges KW - lexical access UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:17676 AB - 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 linguistic aspects are invariant across signed and spoken languages, and determine how the choice of the phonetic vessel shapes language structure, its processing and its neural implementation. We welcome rigorous empirical studies from a wide variety of perspectives, ranging from behavioral studies to brain analyses, diverse ages (from infants to adults), and multiple languages - both conventional and emerging home signs and sign languages. ER -