Adam Schembri works for La Trobe University, and is a member of the Victorian Auslan Training Consortium. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Before we answer that question, it ...

In the quest for language universals, one of the properties that linguists generally take to be universal is that a substantial portion of the lexical items are produced sequentially by speakers; i.e.

Twenty students are holding several animated small-group discussions, but no one in this Northern Illinois University classroom utters a word. Their fingers weave in complex patterns as they converse ...