Abstract. In sign languages, negative sentences are often accompanied by nonmanual markers of negation, including headshake. In some sign languages, nonmanual markers alone can express negation, witho...

While recurrent manual gestures have been extensively studied, nonmanual actions such as head movements remain less explored, especially in naturalistic interaction. This study investigates whether he...

This chapter argues for a decisive shift in corpus-building practices toward a Multimodal Turn. For decades, smaller-scale spoken and signed languages were less available for linguistic corpus researc...

This volume addresses the following question: What does the shift towards more diverse, ecologically valid data types mean for synchronic and diachronic linguistic analyses and typological generalizat...

In this paper, we investigate multimodal recipient feedback in casual dyadic conversation in four languages: German Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, spoken German, and spoken Russian. Taking a mo...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers—including linguists, psycholinguists, psychologists, developmental neuro- and cognitive scientists, primate communication researchers, phoneticians, sign la…

Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial...