Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Abstract: Many isolated words in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) exhibit significant feature similarities, which are primarily conveyed through hand, face, and body movements. Among these, hand features ...

Stripping the written language of its historical idiosyncrasies is by no means an easy sell. After all, we have a kind of sunk-cost attachment to difficult words since we expended so much effort ...