ERC Starting Grant · 2023
Words in sign languages are rich in visual meaning. They contain shapes, movements, relations in space, etc. that depict objects and actions as symbolic metaphors; e.g., the action of pulling words out of the head in one language means ‘to ponder’. Yet, signs are also encoded into units of form that are articulated in simultaneous constructions, unlike sequences of consonants and vowels in spoken words. How, then, do signers store richly symbolic words that occur in highly simultaneous forms in their mental lexicons? At present, insight into these mental mappings remains highly occluded, not only at the level of behavioral and neural phenomena, but in terms of linguistic analysis as well.…
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