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The Body as Evidence for the Nature of Language by Sandler, Wendy

“…Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language…”
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Redefining Multimodality by Sandler, Wendy

“…The term “multimodality” incorporates visible gestures as part of language, a goal first put forward by Adam Kendon, and this idea revolutionized the scope of…”
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Constructing Complexity in a Young Sign Language by Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Stamp, Rose, Sandler, Wendy

“…A universally acknowledged, core property of language is its complexity, at each level of structure - sounds, words, phrases, clauses, utterances, and higher…”
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The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language by Sandler, Wendy, Aronoff, Mark, Meir, Irit, Padden, Carol

“…The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature…”
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The Emergence of Grammar: Systematic Structure in a New Language by Sandler, Wendy, Meir, Irit, Padden, Carol, Aronoff, Mark, Sabloff, Jeremy A.

“…This report contains a linguistic description of a language created spontaneously without any apparent external influence in a stable existing community. We…”
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A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication by Oña, Linda S, Sandler, Wendy, Liebal, Katja

“…Compositionality refers to a structural property of human language, according to which the meaning of a complex expression is a function of the meaning of its…”
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Compositionality in the language of emotion by Cavicchio, Federica, Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Leemor, Livnat, Shamay-Tsoory, Simone, Sandler, Wendy

“…Emotions are signaled by complex arrays of face and body actions. The main point of contention in contemporary treatments is whether these arrays are discrete,…”
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Editorial: Visual Language by Sandler, Wendy, Gullberg, Marianne, Padden, Carol

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Emerging Sign Languages by Sandler, Wendy, Padden, Carol, Aronoff, Mark

“…The emergence of sign language is of special interest because sign languages are the only human languages that can emerge de novo at any time [...]…”
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The Phonological Organization of Sign Languages by Sandler, Wendy

“…Visually perceivable and movable parts of the body – the hands, facial features, head, and upper body – are the articulators of sign language. It is through…”
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The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages by Stamp, Rose, Sandler, Wendy

“…•In language emergence, signers exploit the devices readily available to them.•Early on, signers favor lexical devices and mimetic body use for referential…”
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Prosody and syntax in sign languages by Sandler, Wendy

“…Prosodic structure in sign languages is encoded by articulations of the hands, face, and body. Despite the different physical system, there are many…”
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The Challenge of Sign Language Phonology by Sandler, Wendy

“…Comparing phonology in spoken language and sign language reveals that core properties, such as features, feature categories, the syllable, and constraints on…”
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Irit Meir: An Obituary by Sandler, Wendy

“…Linguist Irit Meir is eulogized…”
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Visual Intonation in the Prosody of a Sign Language by Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Sandler, Wendy

“…While visual signals that accompany spoken language serve to augment the communicative message, the same visual ingredients form the substance of the…”
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Mapping the body to the discourse hierarchy in sign language emergence by Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Stamp, Rose, Sandler, Wendy

“…Abstract A common feature of discourse coherence is hierarchical organization: more generally, central relations (characterizing the overall topic or goal)…”
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A kinematic study of phonetic reduction in a young sign language by Stamp, Rose, Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Hel-Or, Hagit, Cohn, David, Sandler, Wendy

“…Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important…”
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Kinect-ing the Dots: Using Motion-Capture Technology to Distinguish Sign Language Linguistic From Gestural Expressions by Stamp, Rose, Cohn, David, Hel-Or, Hagit, Sandler, Wendy

“…Just as vocalization proceeds in a continuous stream in speech, so too do movements of the hands, face, and body in sign languages. Here, we use motion-capture…”
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The uniformity and diversity of language: Evidence from sign language by Sandler, Wendy

“…Evidence from sign language strongly supports three positions: (1) language is a coherent system with universal properties; (2) sign languages diverge from…”
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Where do Features Come from? Evidence from Sign Language by Wendy Sandler

“…The paper considers sign language phonological features in the context of the basic question about the origin of features.  Based on earlier work by Stokoe…”
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