Previous Publications – Psycholinguistic Studies of Sign Language
- Brozdowski, C., Secora, K., Emmorey, K. (2019). Assessing the comprehension of spatial perspectives in ASL classifier constructions. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 24(3), 214–222.
- Sehyr, Z.S., Giezen, M., & Emmorey, K. (2018). Comparing semantic fluency in ASL and English. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 23(4), 399-407.
- Sehyr, Z.S., Nicodemus, B., Petrich, J., & Emmorey, K. (2018). Referring strategies in American Sign Language and English: The role of modality in creating reference to non-namable shapes. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(5), 961-987.
- Emmorey, K. (2017). How to distinguish gesture from sign: New technology is not the answer. Commentary on “Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies” S. Goldin-Meadow & D. Brentari, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40.
- Emmorey, K., Giezen, M., Petrich, J.A.F., Spurgeon, E., & O’Grady Farnady, L. (2017). The relation between working memory and language comprehension for signers vs. speakers. Acta Psychologica, 177, 69-77. Click to request PDF
- Keane, J., Sevcikova Sehyr, Z., Emmorey, K., & Brentari, D. (2017). A theory-driven model of handshape similarity. Phonology, 34, 221-241. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2016). Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed vs. spoken languages. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e70. Click to request PDF
- Sevcikova Sehyr, Z., Petrich, J., & Emmorey, K. (2016). Fingerspelled and printed words are recoded into a speech-based code in short-term memory. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
- Pyers, J.E., Perniss, P., & Emmorey, K. (2015). Viewpoint in the visual-spatial modality: The coordination of spatial perspective in sign languages. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 15(3), 1–28.
- Emmorey, K. (2014). Iconicity as structure-mapping. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 20130301.
- Secora, K., & Emmorey, K. (2014). The Action-Sentence Compatibility effect in ASL: The role of semantics vs. perception. Language and Cognition. ,7(2), 305-318.
- Baus, C., Carreiras, M., & Emmorey, K. (2013). When does iconicity in sign language matter? Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(3), 261-71.
- Thompson, R., Emmorey, K., Kluender, R., & Langdon, C. (2013). The eyes don’t point: Understanding language universals through person marking in American Sign Language. Lingua, 137, 219-229. Click to request PDF
- Udoff, J. (2012). Mouthings in American Sign Language: Biomechanical and Representational Foundations. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). San Diego State University, San Diego. Click to request PDF
- Pyers, J., Shusterman, A., Senghas, A., Spelke, E., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Spatial language supports spatial cognition: Evidence from learners of an emerging sign language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(27), 12116-12120.
- Bosworth, R., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Effects of iconicity and semantic relatedness on lexical access in American Sign Language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(6), 1573-1581.
- Emmorey, K., Bosworth, R., & Kraljic, T. (2009). Visual feedback and self-monitoring of sign language. Journal of Memory and Language, 61, 398-411.
- Emmorey, K., Gertsberg, N., Korpics, F., & Wright, C.E. (2009). The influence of visual feedback and register changes on sign language production: A kinematic study with deaf signers. Applied Psycholinguistics, 30, 187-203.
- Emmorey, K., Korpics, F., & Petronio, K. (2009). The use of visual feedback during signing: Evidence from signers with impaired vision. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14(1), 99-104.
- Emmorey, K. (2007). The psycholinguistics of signed and spoken languages: How biology affects processing. In G. Gaskell (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp. 703-721, Oxford University Press. Click to request PDF
- Provine, R. & Emmorey, K. (2006). Laughter among deaf signers. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 11, 403-409
- Thompson, R., Emmorey, K., & Gollan, T. (2005). Tip-of-the-fingers experiences by ASL signers: Insights into the organization of a sign-based lexicon. Psychological Science, 16(11), 856-860. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2005). Signing for viewing: Some relations between the production and comprehension of sign language. In A. Cutler (Ed), Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones, pp. 293-209, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers.
- Emmorey, K., & Falgier, B. (2004). Conceptual locations and pronominal reference in American Sign Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 33(4), 321-331. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., McCullough, S., & Brentari, D. (2003). Categorical perception in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18 (1), 21-45. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K.& Casey, S. (2001). Gesture, thought, and spatial language. Gesture, 1(1), 35-50. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., Tversky, B., & Taylor, H. (2000). Using space to describe space: Perspective in speech, sign, and gesture. Spatial cognition and computation, 2, 157-180. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2005). Sign languages are problematic for a gestural origins theory of language evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 130-131. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., (2004). Language and Space. In F. Penz, G. Radick, & R. Howell (Eds). Space, pp. 22-45, Cambridge University Press.
- Emmorey, K., & Herzig, M. (2003). Categorical versus gradient properties of classifier constructions in ASL. In K. Emmorey (Ed). Perspectives on classifier constructions in signed languages, pp. 222-246, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2002). The effects of modality on spatial language: How signers and speakers talk about space. In R. P. Meier. D. G. Quinto, & K. A. Cormier (Eds), Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages, pp. 405-421, Cambridge University Press. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2002). Mental imagery and embodied cognition: Insights from sign language research. Journal of Mental Imagery. 26. 50-53.
- Emmorey, K., & Tversky, B. (2002). Spatial perspective choice in ASL. Sign Language and Linguistics, 5(1), 3-25. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2001). Space on hand: The exploitation of signing space to illustrate abstract thought. In M. Gattis (Ed), Spatial schemas and abstract thought, pp. 147 – 174, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (2000). Sign Languages. In A. E. Kazdin (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 7, pp. 279 – 283, Oxford University Press: New York.
- Emmorey, K. (1999). Do signers gesture? In L. Messing and R. Campbell (Eds), Gesture, speech, and sign, 133-159, Oxford University Press: New York. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K., & Falgier, B. (1999). Talking about space with space: Describing environments in ASL. In E. A. Winston (Ed.) Story telling and conversations: Discourse in Deaf Communities, pp. 3 – 26, Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet University Press.
- Emmorey, K., & Reilly, J. (1998). The development of quotation and reported action: Conveying perspective in ASL. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 81-90), CSLI publications: Stanford, California. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (1997). Non-antecedent suppression in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12(1), 103-112. Click to request PDF
- Emmorey, K. (1996). The confluence of space and language in signed languages. In P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L. Nadel, & M. Garrett (Eds). Language and Space, pp. 171-209, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Emmorey, K., Bellugi, U., Friederici, A. & Horn, P. (1995). Effects of age of acquisition on grammatical sensitivity: Evidence from on?line and off?line tasks. Applied Psycholinguistics, 16, 1-23.
- Emmorey, K., & Casey, S. (1995). A comparison of spatial language in English and American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 88, 255-288.
- Emmorey, K. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1995). Processing spatial anaphora: Referent reactivation with overt and null pronouns in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(6), 631-664.
- Emmorey, K. (1995). Processing the dynamic visual-spatial morphology of signed languages. In L. B. Feldman (Ed.) Morphological aspects of language processing: Crosslinguistic Perspectives, pp. 29-54, Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ.
- Emmorey, K., Corina, D., and Bellugi, U. (1995). Differential processing of topographic and referential functions of space. In K. Emmorey & J. Reilly (Eds). Language, Gesture, and Space, pp. 43-62, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, NJ.
- Emmorey, K. (1993). Processing a dynamic visual-spatial language: Psycholinguistic studies of American Sign Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22(2), 153 – 188.
- Riche, L., Bellugi, U., Emmorey, K., Bettger, J., Klima, E. (1993). Development and breakdown of phonological awareness for ASL. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 86-95), CSLI publications: Stanford, California.
- Emmorey, K. (1991). Repetition priming with aspect and agreement morphology in American Sign Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 20(5), 365-388.
- Emmorey, K., Norman, F., & O’Grady L. (1991). The activation of spatial antecedents from overt pronouns in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6(3), 207-228.
- Emmorey, K., & Corina, D. (1990). Lexical recognition in sign language: Effects of phonetic structure and morphology. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 71, 1227-1252.
- Emmorey, K. (1989) Auditory morphological priming in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 4(2), 73-92.
- Emmorey, K., & Fromkin, V. (1988) The mental lexicon. In F. Newmeyer (Ed.), Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Vol. III, pp. 124-149, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England.
