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This project proposes a new framework for understanding human language through the physical aspects of sign language. It aims to explore the evolutionary roots of language by analyzing the body movements that contribute to linguistic structure.
The pioneering framework I propose for the analysis of the foundations of human language – the Grammar of the Body – is inspired by sign language.
My main aim is to create a body-based model of linguistic compositionality and to provide clues of its evolutionary origins.Instead of analysing sign language (and language generally) from the perspective of mental categories, the radical approach I introduce here analyses language from the outside in, from the physical articulators of the face, hand…
UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA
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Germany, Berlin
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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