New languages can develop consistent rules of grammar within a single generation of their birth, a study of an Israeli sign language has shown. “We didn't expect to see word order so quickly.” Carol ...

Andrea Lackner's research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund and affiliated with the Centre of Sign Language and Deaf Communication at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria. Most people ...

There are more than 70 million people who use sign language around the world, and as the world remembers the importance of ...

In the quest for language universals, one of the properties that linguists generally take to be universal is that a substantial portion of the lexical items are produced sequentially by speakers; i.e.

Adam Munder is a software engineer. Since 2015, he's been working to bridge the gap between sign language and spoken word. Now, a decade later, he brought it to the TED stage.

ASL is a complete and complex language that employs signs made by moving the hands combined with facial expressions and postures of the body. ASL is the language of the Deaf community in the United ...

In a small, sparse makeshift lab, Melissa Malzkuhn practices her range of motion in a black, full-body unitard dotted with light-reflecting nodes. She's strapped on a motion capture, or mocap, suit.

You don’t need to know the language to be moved by the translation. A visitor coming to Bible Gateway to look up John 3:16 has 63 options of English translations. For Christians, reading the same ...

Lately, the Deaf community has been making great strides in cinema. CODA, a movie with Deaf characters played by Deaf actors, ...

British filmmaker Ted Evans knows he and his all-deaf cast have made something special after they made history at TIFF: ...