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ReviewThe Behavioral and brain sciences2017

Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies.

Susan Goldin-Meadow, Diane Brentari

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Review in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Talking About the Absent and the Abstract: Referential Communication in Language and Gesture.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024
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  8. Ten things you should know about sign languages.Current directions in psychological science · 2023
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  19. Gravettian hand stencils as sign language formatives.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Susan Goldin-MeadowDepartments of Psychology and Comparative Human Development,University of Chicago,Chicago,IL 60637;Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language,Chicago,IL 60637.sgm@uchicago.eduhttp://goldin-meadow-lab.uchicago.edu.
Diane BrentariDepartment of Linguistics,University of Chicago,Chicago,IL 60637;Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language,Chicago,IL 60637.dbrentari@uchicago.eduhttp://signlanguagelab.uchicago.edu.

Funding

Using Language of Higher Order Thinking in Varying EnvironmentsP01HD040605 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI RICHLAND, LINDSEY ENGLE · 2002 to 2018
$19.2M
Spontaneous Sign Systems in Four CulturesR01DC000491 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GOLDIN-MEADOW, SUSAN J · 1988 to 2015
$6.5M
The Role of Gesture in LearningR01HD047450 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI GOLDIN-MEADOW, SUSAN J · 2004 to 2013
$2.5M
NICHD NIH HHS P01 HD040605NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD047450NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC000491
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without linguistic structure. More recently, researchers have argued that sign is no different from spoken language, with all of the same linguistic structures. The pendulum is currently swinging back toward the view that sign is gestural, or at least has gestural components. The goal of this review is to elucidate the relationships among sign language, gesture, and spoken language. We do so by taking a close look not only at how sign has been studied over the past 50 years, but also at how the spontaneous gestures that accompany speech have been studied. We conclude that signers gesture just as speakers do. Both produce imagistic gestures along with more categorical signs or words. Because at present it is difficult to tell where sign stops and gesture begins, we suggest that sign should not be compared with speech alone but should be compared with speech-plus-gesture. Although it might be easier (and, in some cases, preferable) to blur the distinction between sign and gesture, we argue that distinguishing between sign (or speech) and gesture is essential to predict certain types of learning and allows us to understand the conditions under which gesture takes on properties of sign, and speech takes on properties of gesture. We end by calling for new technology that may help us better calibrate the borders between sign and gesture.

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GesturesSign LanguageHumansLanguage DevelopmentLearningSpeechcategoricalgesture-speech mismatchgradienthomesignimagisticlearningmorphologyphonologysyntax

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PMID26434499
PMCPMC4821822

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