A Multimodal Language Faculty
Cohn, Neil / Schilperoord, Joost![A Multimodal Language Faculty](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/452/45203858/CHSBZCOP0345203858.jpg)
Language has traditionally been held as an "amodal" system that flows into different forms like speech, writing, or signing, however, communication is multimodal by nature. We pair speech with gestures, use emoji with text, and combine writing with drawings and images in places from doodles to comics to advertising. Yet, the linguistic and cognitive theories maintaining the traditional amodal notion of language cannot account for the richness ...