Dr. Karen Emmorey received the A.W. Johnson Research Lectureship Award in 2013 and delivers a public lecture “The signing brain: What sign language tell us about human language.”

“Is language an acquired skill, like telling time or riding a bike? Is it nurtured from infancy by conscientious parents or does nature gradually craft a child’s babble into basic sentences?”

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