111 Citations
1 SELF : Intensifier and ‘ long distance ’ effects in American Sign Language ( ASL )
- Linguistics
- 2017
I argue for a unified account of ASL reflexive SELF: a) the apparent long distance anaphor (LDA) in ASL is just that—apparent, and anaphors are strictly local; and b) the properties previously…
On the Reflexive KENDİ in Turkish Sign Language
- LinguisticsFrontiers in Psychology
- 2022
Linguistic analysis is improved when it includes language beyond the spoken modality. This paper uses sign language data to explore and advance cross-linguistic typologies of reflexives,…
Pronoun production and comprehension in American Sign Language: the interaction of space, grammar, and semantics
- LinguisticsLanguage, cognition and neuroscience
- 2022
ABSTRACT Spoken language research has investigated how pronouns are influenced by grammar and semantics/pragmatics. In contrast, sign language research has focused on unambiguous pronominal reference…
Nouns and Verbs in Parent Input in American Sign Language during Interaction among Deaf Dyads
- LinguisticsLanguage learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development
- 2020
Evidence for a significant verb bias in maternal input is found and lexical properties of maternal input during free play interactions in ASL are understood, including verb tokens and unique verb types more than any other word class.
The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language
- LinguisticsCognition
- 2020
Cortical encoding of linguistic constituent with and without morphosyntactic cues
- Linguistics, PsychologyCortex
- 2020
The role of contrast in anaphoric expressions in ASL
- Linguistics
- 2019
This paper proposes a new analysis of anaphoric expressions in American Sign Language (ASL). ASL makes use of a number of anaphoric expressions, including the null argument, the bare noun, as well as…
The noun-verb distinction in established and emergent sign systems
- LinguisticsLanguage
- 2019
Abstract:In a number of signed languages, the distinction between nouns and verbs is evident in the morphophonology of the signs themselves. Here we use a novel elicitation paradigm to investigate…
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Verbs in American Sign Language
- Linguistics
- 1978
What is Important for the study of any language is a verb ? precise knowledge that something is a verb and that other, similar things are not. In American Sign Language (ASL), there are clues…
Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding
- Linguistics
- 1982
Noam Chomsky, more than any other researcher, has radically restructured the study of human language over the past several decades. While the study of government and binding is an outgrowth of…
The signs of language
- Linguistics
- 1979
Introduction PART I: The Two Faces of Sign 1. Iconicity in Signs and Signing 2. Properties of Symbols in a Silent Language 3. Historical Change: From Iconic to Arbitrary PART II: The Structure of the…