"In spoken language, words can't create visual animations, but gestures can," notes Schlenker. "This work on sign language classifiers offers a new perspective on gestures in spoken language." ...

The simultaneous presence of normal signs and highly iconic classifiers in sign language has long been known.

The purpose of this study was to obtain data on the developmental stages that deaf children pass through in acquiring the adult form of pronominal classifiers in American Sign Language, by obtaining ...