Evidentiality and modality are interrelated linguistic phenomena that shape the way speakers encode and communicate their sources of knowledge and their degree of commitment to a proposition.

The goal of this paper is to widen the lens on language to include the manual modality. We look first at hearing children who are acquiring language from a spoken language model and find that even ...

Across spoken languages, properties of wordforms (e.g. the sounds in the word hammer) do not generally evoke mental images associated to meanings. However, across signed languages, many signforms ...

The productivity upside is straightforward. Research, like the Stanford report linked above, has repeatedly shown that ...