ERC Starting Grant · 2025
New Insights into Language Processing and Change By Investigating Tactile Sign Language
Extensive research over many decades has illuminated the human capacity for language through the study of spoken languages. In the past 20 years research into visual sign languages have provided us with important and unique insights into human language that could not have been obtained by studying spoken languages alone (Emmorey, 2023). For example, we now know that visual sign languages are just as linguistically complex as spoken languages and that developmental and/or acquired language disorders can impact visual sign language perception, production and processing (Mason et al., 2010). We also know that areas in the brain used for spoken language processing are also recruited for visual…
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