All Stories

  1. Action depiction in gestures and signs

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, November 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, virginia volterra

  2. Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures

    Article • Gesture, December 2022, John Benjamins

    Olga Capirci, virginia volterra

  3. Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective

    Article • August 2022, John Benjamins

    virginia volterra, MARIA ROCCAFORTE

  4. Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome

    Article • Gesture, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, virginia volterra

  5. The representation of action in Italian Sign Language (LIS)

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, February 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, virginia volterra

  6. From action to spoken and signed language through gesture

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, virginia volterra, Olga Capirci

  7. Language evolution and the brain

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Chris Sinha, Dr Dietrich Stout, Professor Katja Liebal, Michael Arbib, Michael Corballis, virginia volterra, James Pustejovsky, Anne Russon

  8. Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, virginia volterra, Olga Capirci

  9. Language research and language community change: Italian Sign Language 1981–2013

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2015, De Gruyter

    virginia volterra

  10. Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, July 2010, John Benjamins

    virginia volterra

  11. Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development

    Article • Gesture, August 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Marianne Gullberg, virginia volterra

  12. Gesture and speech

    Article • Gesture, May 2008, John Benjamins

    virginia volterra, Olga Capirci

  13. From action to language through gesture

    Article • Gesture, December 2005, John Benjamins

    virginia volterra, Olga Capirci

  14. From action to language through gesture: A longitudinal perspective

    Article • Gesture, January 2005, John Benjamins

    virginia volterra, Olga Capirci