Scientific Reports of the Nature publishing group has just published a paper by Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Itamar Kastner, Karen Emmorey & Liina Pylkkänen showing that American Sign Language and English employ similar neural mechanisms to build simple phrases.

Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, Itamar Kastner, Karen Emmorey & Liina Pylkkänen (2018). Shared neural correlates for building phrases in signed and spoken language. Scientific Reports, 8:5492. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-23915-0