Research
Video presentation of research (French and LSF)
Publications
An exhaustive list of team publications can be found at the LINGUAE website. Publications by individual members can be found on their personal websites, available here.
Research themes
Our current team has three principal research themes.
Theoretical
What are the formal building blocks from which we construct signs and sentences? Our team has done descriptive and analytic work on all linguistic levels: phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic.
Phylogenetic
How are the sign languages of the world related to each other? Statistical analysis on the phonologies of over 25 sign languages has allowed us to reconstruct tentative historical relationships between sign languages and sign language families. Additionally, our team has done in depth comparative work on the grammars of specific sign languages, including LSF, LIS, and ASL.
Experimental
What do we learn about sign language processing from psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methodologies? In ongoing work, we use online and offline measures to examine the way that people produce and perceive sign language. Experiments using EEG are conducted in collaboration with the LSP, another lab in our department.