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Selected Publications

(For further information about DCAL publications, see links on individual team member pages)

 
Books

A.E. Baker & Woll, B. (2008). Sign language acquisition. John Benjamins.

Elton, F. & Squelch, L. (2008). London and South East region signs. Slough Borough Council Printing.

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. C. (2007).
Australian Sign Language (Auslan) : An introduction to sign language linguistics. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Mann, W. (2008). Facing the challenge of appropirately measuring deaf children's language skills. Saarbruecken: VDM.

Perniss, P. & Zeshan, U. (2008). Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. Ishara.

Recent Book Chapters (2006 - )

Campbell, R. (2006).
Audiovisual Speech Processing. In Brown, K. (ed.) The Encyclopaedia of language and linguistics. Amsterdam , London , NY : Elsevier

Cormier, K. (2007).
Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL. In P. M. Perniss, R. Pfau & M. Steinbach (Eds.), Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure (pp. 63-101). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Keenher M and Atkinson JR (2006),
Working Memory and Deafness : Implications for Cognitive Development and Functioning. In S. Pickering (Ed.), Working Memory and Education. New York : Academic Press 189-218.

Mann, W. (2007),
Pilotstudie zum Verständnis von Referenzbeziehungen in Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) und Deutscher Schriftsprache. In K.B. Guenther & J. Hennies (Eds.): Bilingualer Unterricht in Gebärden-, Laut- und Schriftsprache mit gehörlosen SchülerInnen in der Primarstufe: Zwischenbericht zum  Berliner Bilingualen Schulversuch (pp. 255-266). Berlin: Humboldt-Universität.

Morgan, G. (2006).
The development of narrative in British Sign Language. In B. Schick; M. Marschark & P. Spencer (eds). Advances in Sign Language Development in Deaf Children. Oxford University Press

Johnston, T. & Schembri, A. (2006). Issues in the creation of a digital archive of a signed language. In: Barwick, L. & Thieberger, N. (Eds.), Sustainable data from digital fieldwork. Sydney: University of Sydney Press.

Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & Goswell, D. (2006).
NAME dropping: Location variation in Australian Sign Language. In: Lucas, C. (Ed.), Multilingualism and sign languages: From the Great Plains to Australia. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Stone, C. (2007)
Deaf access for Deaf people : the translation of the television news from English to British Sign Language, in J. Diaz-Cintas, A. Remael & P. Orero (Eds), Media for all : accessibility in audiovisual translation. Amsterdam : Rodopi.

Publications in Press

Campbell, R.
Audiovisual speech processing : cortical and cognitive mechanisms Proceedings of the Royal Society London B

Cormier, K.
Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL. In P Perniss, R Pfau & M Steinbach (eds.), Sign languages : A cross-linguistic perspective. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter

Cormier, K., & Fenlon, J.
Possession in the visual- gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language. In W. McGregor (Ed.), The Expression of Possession. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hartsuiker, R.H. & Vigliocco. G.
Word Production. In K Kluender (ed.) Elsevier Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.

Iwasaki, N., Vinson, D.P., & Vigliocco, G.
The role of the grammatical count/mass distinction in semantic tasks: Evidence from experiments in English and Japanese. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Iwasaki, N., Vinson, D.P., & Vigliocco, G.
How does it hurt, "kiri-kiri" or "siku-siku"? Japanese mimetic words of pain perceived by Japanese speakers and English speakers. In M Minami (Ed.), Applying theory and research to learning Japanese as a foreign language. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Iwasaki, N., Vinson, D.P., & Vigliocco. G.
What do English speakers know about "gera-gera" and "yota-yota"? Cross-linguistic investigation of mimetic words of laughing and walking. Japanese Language Education Around the Globe

Koutsoubou, M., Herman, R.C., & Woll, B.
Does Language Input Matter In Bilingual Writing? Translation vs. direct composition in deaf school students' written stories. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Lopez-Cutrin, B. & Vigliocco, G.
Grammatical gender is everywhere, even on the tip of the mind : An investigation into retrieval failures. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics

Meteyard L., Baharami, B., & Vigliocco, G.
The perceptual grounding of motion verbs. Psychological Science.

Morgan, G. & Kegl, J.
Nicaraguan Sign Language and Theory of Mind : The issue of Critical Periods and Abilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Morgan, G. & Woll, B. (eds).
Understanding signed language classifiers : a polycomponential approach. Special Issue Lingua.

Morgan, G.
Children are just lingual : The development of phonology in BSL. Lingua

Morgan, G.
The first signs of language : phonological development in British Sign Language. Applied Psycholinguistics

Morgan, G., Barrett-Jones, S., & Stoneham, H.
The first signs of language : phonological development in British Sign Language, Applied Psycholinguistics

Morgan, G., Herman, R.C., & Woll, B.
Language impairments in sign language : breakthroughs and puzzles. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Orfanidou, E.
Segmentation in signed and spoken language: different modalities, same segmentation procedures. Journal of Memory and Language.

Schembri, A., Cormier, K., Johnston, T., McKee, D., McKee, R., & Woll, B.
British-Australian-New Zealand Sign Language(s): Origin, transmission, variation and change. In D. Brentari (Ed.), Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schembri, A. & Johnston, T.
Sociolinguistic variation in the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A pilot study. Sign Language Studies 7:3.

Schembri, A., Johnston, T. & Goswell, D.
NAME dropping : Location variation in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). In Lucas, C. (Ed.), Multilingualism and sign languages : From the Great Plains to Australia . Washington DC : Gallaudet University Press.

Siri, S., Tettamanti, M., Cappa, S.F., Della Rosa, P., Saccuman, C., Scifo, P., & Vigliocco, G. (2008).
The neural substrate of naming events. Cerebral Cortex. 18, 171-177.

Stone, C.
Deaf Translators/Interpreters rendering processes - the translation of oral languages, International Journal of Sign Language Translators and Interpreters, 1 (1).

Stone, C.
The trials and tribulations of creating translations of DEAF BSL informant interviews. In A. M. Young, S. Barnatt, S. Foster, P. Ladd, M. Stonson & G. H. Turner (Eds.), Research methodology and Deaf studies - theoretical developments and practice innovation. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Thompson, R. L., Vinson, D. P., & Vigliocco, G.
The link between form and meaning in American Sign Language: Lexical processing effects , Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (JEP:LMC).

Tyrone, ME & Woll, B
Sign Phonetics and the Motor System : Implications from Parkinson's Disease. In Quer J (ed.) Leading research in sign language : proceedings of TISLR 8, Barcelona

Vigliocco, G. & Vinson, D.P.
Semantics. In G Gaskell (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics.

Vigliocco G, Tranel, D. & Druks, J.
Language Production : Patients and neuroimaging research. In K. McRae and M. Spivey (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Vinson, D. P., Cormier, K., Denmark, T., Schembri, A., & Vigliocco, G.
The British Sign Language (BSL) Norms for Age of Acquisition, Familiarity and Iconicity. Behavior Research Methods.

Refereed Journal Articles Recently Published

Atkinson JR, Gleeson K, Cromwell, JA & O'Rourke S. (2007).
Exploring the perceptual characteristics of voice-hallucinations in deaf people. Journal of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(4), 339-361.

Atkinson J (2006)
The Perceptual Characteristics of Voice-Hallucinations in Deaf People : Insights into the Nature of Subvocal Thought and Sensory Feedback Loops Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access, 32 : 4, 701-708

Campbell, R. (2008).
The processing of audio-visual speech: empirical and neural bases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 363, 1001-1010.

Campbell R, Lawrence K, Mandy W, Mitra C, Jeyakuma L, Skuse D. (2006)
Meanings in motion and faces : developmental associations between the processing of intention from geometrical animations and gaze detection accuracy. Development and Psychopathology Winter;18(1) : 99-118.

Campbell, R., MacSweeney, M. & Waters, D. Sign Language and the Brain: A Review. (2008).
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13, 3-20

Campbell,R., Waters,D., MacSweeney,M. (2007).
Sign Language and the Brain: a review. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education . ISSN: 1081-4159

Capek, C., Campbell, R., & Woll, B. (2008).
The bimodal bilingual brain: fMRI investigations concerning the cortical distribution and differentiation of signed language and speechreading. Journal of Applied Psycholinguistic Research.

Capek, C. M., MacSweeney, M., Woll, B., Waters, D., McGuire, P. K., David, A. S., et al. (2008).
Cortical circuits for silent speechreading in deaf and hearing people. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1233-1241.

Capek, C. M., Waters, D., Woll, B., Macsweeney, M., Brammer, M. J., McGuire, P. K., et al. (2008).
Hand and Mouth: Cortical Correlates of Lexical Processing in British Sign Language and Speechreading English. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(7), 1220-1234.

Cormier, K., Schembri, A., & Tyrone, M. E. (2008).
One hand or two? A crosslinguistic analysis of the nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL. Sign Language and Linguistics, 11(1), 3-44.

Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H.B., Thompson, R. L., & Gollan, T.H. (2008)
Bimodal bilingualism.  Bilingualism:  Language and Cognition, 11(1), 43-61.

Emmorey, K., Thompson, R., & Colvin, R. (2008)
Eye Gaze During Comprehension of American Sign Language by Native and Beginning Signers, Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education; doi: 10.1093/ deafed/enn037

Fenlon, J., Denmark, T., Campbell, R., & Woll, R. (2008).
Seeing sentence boundaries. Sign Language Linguistics, 10(2), 177-200.

Frank, J., Vigliocco, G., Anton-Mendez, I., & Collina, S. (2008).
Language and Cognitive Processes. 23, 329-374.

Haug, T., & Mann, W. (2008)
Developing tests for sign language assessment – a review of common problems and other related issues. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 13(1)

Howell, P, Barry W, Vinson, DP. (2006).
Strength of British English accents in altered listening conditions. Perception and Psychophysics, 68, 139-153.

Kousta, S., Vinson, D., & Vigliocco, G. (2008)
Investigating linguistic relativity through bilingualism: The case of grammatical gender. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory Cognition, 34, 843-858.

Koutsoubou, M., Herman, R.C., & Woll, B. (2006)
Bilingual Language Profiles of Deaf Students. Deafness and Education International 8(3), 144-168.

Kyle, F.E., Harris, M. (2006)
Concurrent correlates and predictors of reading and spelling achievement in deaf and hearing school children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education ; 11 (3), 273-88.

Lawrence,K., Jones,A., Oreland,L., Spektor,D., Mandy,W., Campbell,R., Skuse,D.H. (2007).
The development of mental state attributions in women with X-monosomy, and the role of
monamine-oxidase B in the sociocognitive phenotype. Cognition 102, 84-100. ISSN: 0010-0277

MacSweeney, M., Waters, D., Brammer, M.J., Woll., B., Goswami, U. (2008).
Phonological processing in deaf signers and the impact of age of first language acquisition. NeuroImage, 40, 1369-1379

MacSweeney, M., Campbell, R., Woll, B., Brammer, M.J., Giampietro, V., David, A.S., Calvert, G.A., & McGuire, P.K.(2006)
Lexical and sentential processing in British Sign Language. Human Brain Mapping Jan;27(1), 63-76.

MacSweeney, M.,Capek, C., Campbell, R., & Woll, B. (2008)
The signing brain: the neurobiology of sign language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12(11), 432-440.

Mann, W. (2007).
Examining German Deaf Children’s Understanding of Referential Distinction in Written German and German Sign Language (DGS). Educational and Child Psychology, 24(4), 59-76.

Mann, W., & Prinz, P. (2006).
The perception of sign language assessment by professionals in Deaf Education. American Annals of the Deaf, 151(3), 356-370.

Marshall, C. R. (2007).
Continuing the baby sign debate. Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Issue 663, p. 13.

Marshall, C. R. Denmark, T. & Morgan, G. (2007)
Investigating the underlying causes of SLI : a non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8(4), 347-355.

Meteyard, L., Zokaei, N., Bahrami, B., & Vigliocco, G. (2008).
Now you see it: visual motion interferes with lexical decision on motion words. Current Biology, 18(17), 732-733.

Milne, E., Swettenham, J. & Campbell, R. (2006)
Motion perception and autistic spectrum disorder : A review, Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive (CPC) 23 (1-2), 213-226.

Milne, E., White, S., Campbell, R., Swettenham, J., Hansen, P. & Ramus, F. (2006)
Motion and Form Coherence Detection in Autistic Spectrum Disorder : Relationship to Motor Control and 2 : 4 Digit Ratio. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-14.

Mohammed T, Campbell R, MacSweeney,, Barry F, Coleman M. (2006)
Speechreading and its association with reading among deaf, hearing and dyslexic individuals. Clin Linguist Phon. Sep-Oct;20(7-8) : 621-30. Morgan G, Smith N, Tsimpli I & Woll B (in press) Classifier learning and modality in a polyglot savant Lingua

Morgan, G., Barriere, I. & Woll, B. (2006).
The influence of typology and modality in the acquisition of verb agreement in British Sign Language. First Language, 26, p19-44.

Morgan, G., Herman, R.C., Barriere, I., & Woll, B. (2008).
The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British Sign Language. Cognitive Development, 23(1), 1-19.

Morgan,G., Smith,N.V., Tsimpli,I.-M., Woll,B. (2006).
Classifier learning and modality in a polyglot savant. Lingua, ISSN: 0024-3841

Orfanidou, E., Adam, R., McQueen, J.M., & Morgan, G. (2008).
Making sense of nonsense in British Sign Language: The contibution of different phonological parameters to sign recognition. Memory and Cognition, 37(3), 302-315.

Rathmann, C., Mann, W., & Morgan, G. (2007).
Narrative Structure and Narrative Development in Deaf Children. Deafness and Education International.

Stone, C. & Woll, B. (2008).
DUMB O JEMMY and others : Deaf people, interpreters and the London courts in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sign Language Studies, 8(3), 226-240.

Thompson, R. L., Emmorey, K., & Gollan, T.H. (2006). 
“Tip of the fingers” experiences by deaf signers: Insights into the organization of sign-based lexicon. Psychological Science, 16(11), 856-860.

Thompson, R. L., Emmorey, K., & Kluender, R. (2006).
The relationship between eye gaze and agreement in American Sign Language: An eye-tracking study. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 24, 571-60.

van der Kooij, E.,Crasborn, O., Waters, D., Woll,B., & Mesch, J. (2008)
Frequency distribution and spreading behavior of different types of mouth actions in three sign languages. Sign Language Linguistics,11(1), 45-67.

Vigliocco, G. & Kita, S. (2006).
Language-specific properties of the lexicon : Implications for learning and processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 21, 790-816.

Vigliocco, G., Vinson, D.P., Arciuli, J., Barber, H. (2008).
Recognizing Nouns and Verbs: Effects of Syntactic Context. Brain and Language, 105, 175-184.

Vinson, D.P., (2008).
The British Sign Language (BSL) Norms for Age of Acquisition, Familiarity and Iconicity. Behaviour Research Methods, 40(4), 1079-1087.

Waters,D., Campbell,R., Capek,C.M., Woll,B., David,A.S., McGuire,P.K., Brammer,M.J., & MacSweeney,M. (2007).
Fingerspelling, signed language, text and picture processing in deaf native signers: The role of the mid-fusiform gyrus. NeuroImage 35(3), 1287-1302. ISSN: 1053-8119

Woll,B. (2007).
Perspectives on linearity and simultaneity. in Vermeerbergen,M., Leeson,L., Crasborn,O. (ed.) Simultaneity in Signed Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 337-344. ISBN: 978 90 272 4796 4

Woll,B., Sutton-Spence, R. (2007).
Sign languages. in Britain,D. (ed.) Language in the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 341-357. ISBN: 13:9780521791502 ]

Non-refereed Journal Articles (e.g. professional bulletins, magazines, etc.)

Campbell, R. (2006). I see what you're saying. UCL Science, September 2006.

Cormier, K., & Schembri, A. (2007).
How does fingerspelling become a sign? Sign Matters, May 2007, 16-17.

Cormier, K., Vinson, D., Schembri, A., Denmark, T., & Vigliocco, G. (2008).
BSL norming study: Familiarity, age of acquisition and iconicity of BSL signs. Sign Matters, January 2008.

Elton, F. (2006). Changes to regional variations in BSL, Sign Matters, January, 10-11.

Haws, Z. & Morgan, G. (2008).
Theory of mind in deaf children. British Deaf News.

MacSweeney, M. (2006). How does the brain understand 'rhyme' in sign language?, Sign Matters, July, 10-11.

Mahon, M. (2007). Early Communication. BATOD Magazine, November, 8-9. www.documents/Mahon_BATOD_2007

Mann, W, Marshall, C., Mason, K., & Morgan, G. (2009).
Understanding more about sign language learning: Results from the nonsense-sign repetition project. British Deaf News March, 16-17.

Mann, W. (2007). Language studies. BATOD Magazine, November, 12-13. www.documents/Mann_BATOD_2007

Mann, W., Marshall, C., & Morgan, G. (2007). How do Deaf children make signs? - The Nonsense-Sign Repetition Project, Sign Matters, September 2007.

Rowley, K., & Mason, K. (2007). Signs of Language Impairment, Sign Matters, December 2007.

Stone, C. (2006). Deaf translators and hearing interpreters, Sign Matters, April, 12-13.

Stone, C. (2006) Translation style of Deaf and hearing interpreters in the broadcast television news, ASLIA

Thompson, R. L. & Vigliocco, G. (2007). The interplay between meaning and form: Iconicity in Signed Languages. Sign Matters, p. 16-17.

Vigliocco G & Vinson DP (2007). The role of mouth patterns in BSL. Sign Matters, forthcoming.

Vinson DP (2006) Words, signs and imagery : when the language makes the difference. Sign Matters, June.

Woll, B. (2008).
Deaf in the 21st Century. Society, Autumn, 17.

Woll, B. (2008).
Interpreting at the Old Bailey. Deaf History Journal, 12(1), 8-17.

Woll, B. (2006). DCAL - Researching language through deaf eyes, Sign Matters, February, 10-11.

Woll, B. (2006). Deaf people and linguistic research, British Association for the Advancement of Science, June

Woolfe, T. (2006). Deafness, deaf people and genetics, Biological Sciences Review, 21-23

Book Reviews

Cormier, K. (2006).
Review of : Sign Language and Linguistic Universals, by Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin. In : Journal of Linguistics.

Mann, W. (2007).
A review of Hintermair, M (Ed.). Ethik und Hörschädigung: Reflexionen über gelingendes Leben unter erschwerten Bedingungen in unsicheren Zeiten [ Ethics and Deafness: Reflections on Living a Life under Difficult Conditions in Insecure Times ]. In Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Fall 2007.

Morgan, G. (in press).
A review of Susan Goldin-Meadow : the resilience of language : what gesture creation in deaf children can tell us about how all children learn language. New York : Psychology Press (2003) pp 262. In : Journal of Child Language.

Schembri, A. (2006).
A review of Richard Meier, Kearsy Cormier & David Quinto-Pozos (Eds.), Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages. In : Gesture 6 (1), pp. 145-148.

Stone, C. (in press),
Review : Topics in signed language interpreting, Terry Janzen (ed) The Journal of Specialised Translation 8.