An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

Rapid technological and scientific advances have fueled a huge wave of innovation over the past decades. The speed of global innovation is known to be dependent on the exchange of knowledge and skills ...

Interbrain synchrony is the simultaneous activity of neural networks across the brains of people who are socially interacting ...

Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.

For the first time, an open-access educational grammar for five European sign languages, including Austrian Sign Language, was developed as part of a European project to improve the quality of sign ...

Research shows Ice Age humans used structured signs 40,000 years ago as a communication system, revealing deep prehistoric ...

In most cases, the body language of couples who are really in love involves more layers and subtleties. Sure, there are some ...

The government has introduced a bill to make English an official language, to ridicule from the opposition, and a fierce ...

A new study finds that mother-child brainwave synchronization remains just as strong in a second language, supporting healthy bonding in bilingual families.