Curriculum Vitae
Corrine Occhino, PhD
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of New Mexico. Title: “A Cognitive Approach to Phonology: Evidence from Signed Languages.” Chair: Sherman Wilcox, Committee: Jill Morford, Phyllis Wilcox, Joan Bybee, and Teenie Matlock.
M.A. in Languages Literatures & Linguistics, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
B.A. in Linguistics with honors, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2023 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
2021 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, and Dept. of Teaching & Leadership, Syracuse University
2017 Research Asst. Professor, Center on Cognition and Language, National Technical Institute for the Deaf – Rochester Institute of Technology
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Occhino, C., Lidster, R., Geer, L. C., Listman, J., & Hauser, P. C. (2024). Development of the American Sign Language Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test (ASL FaN-CT). Language Testing, 41(1), 135-161, (First published online July 3, 2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/02655322231179494
Caselli, N., Occhino, C., Artacho, B., Savakis, A., & Dye, M. (2022). Perceptual optimization of language: Evidence from American Sign Language, Cognition, 224; 105040 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105040
Occhino, C., Hill J. C., Hochgesang, J. A., Shaw, E., Fisher, J. N., & Tamminga, M. (2021). New Trends in ASL Variation Documentation. Sign Language Studies 21 (3), 350-377. 10.1353/sls.2021.0003
Occhino, C., Anible, B., & Morford, J. P. (2020). Not all handshapes are created equal: The role of iconicity, construal, and proficiency in the online processing of handshape. Language and Cognition 12(1), 114-137. 10.1017/langcog.2020.1
Kurz, K., Mullaney, K., & Occhino, C. (2019). Constructed Action in ASL: A Look at Second Modality and Second Language Learners. Languages 4(4), 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages4040090
Morford, J. P., Occhino, C., Zirnstein, M., Kroll, J. F., Wilkinson, E., & Piñar, P. (2019). What is the source of bilingual cross-language activation in deaf bilinguals? Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enz024
Occhino, C. (2017). An Introduction to Embodied Cognitive Phonology: Claw-5 Handshape Distribution in ASL and Libras. Complutense Journal of English Studies 25, 69-103. 10.5209/CJES.57198
Morford, J. P., Occhino-Kehoe, C., Piñar, P., Wilkinson, E., & Kroll, J. F. (2017). The time course of cross-language activation in deaf ASL-English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(2), 337-350, (Published online 2015). 10.1017%2FS136672891500067X
Occhino, C., Anible, B., Morford, J., Wilkinson, E. (2017). Iconicity is in the eye of the beholder: How language experience affects perceived iconicity. Gesture,16(1). 10.1075/gest.16.1.04occ
Occhino, C., & Wilcox, S. (2017). Gesture or sign? A categorization problem. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E66. 10.1017/S0140525X15003015
Wilcox, S., & Occhino, C. (2016b). Constructing Signs: Place as a Symbolic Structure in Signed Languages. Cognitive Linguistics, 27(3). 10.1515/cog-2016-0003
Anible, B., & Occhino-Kehoe, C. (2014). What’s Happening with HAPPEN: The Grammaticalization of HAPPEN in American Sign Language. In Benjamin Anible, Keiko Beers, Laura Hirrel & Deborah Wager (Eds.), Proceedings of the High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, 10, 27-41. Retrieved from http://linggraduate.unm.edu/HDLS10Proceedings.html
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
Thompson, R., & Occhino, C. (2026). Iconicity in sign language processing: Lexical effects in comprehension and production. In Pamela Perniss, Olga Fischer, and Akita (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
Lucas, C., Occhino, C., Fisher, J., Hill, J. C., Hochgesang, J. A., Shaw, E., & Tamminga, M. (2024). Needed Research on American Sign Language. In Robert Bayley and Erica Benson (Eds.), Needed Research in North American Dialects. Publication of the American Dialect Society108. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11036884
Occhino, C. (2023b) Force Dynamic Constructions in ASL. In F. T. Li (Ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Semantics, vol. 4 (20-59), Brill.
Occhino, C. (2023a). When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure. In T. Janzen & B. Shaffer (Ed.), Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 127-154). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703788-006
Lepic, R., & Occhino, C. (2018). A Construction Morphology approach to sign language analysis. In G. Booij (ed.), The Construction of Words. Advances in Construction Morphology, Springer. 10.1007/978-3-319-74394-3_6
Wilcox, S., & Occhino, C. (2017). Signed Languages. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781316339732.008
Wilcox, S., & Occhino, C. (2016a). Historical Change in Signed Languages, in Oxford Handbooks Online, New York: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.24
Book Reviews
Occhino, C., & Hou, L. (2019). [Review of Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide, Eds. E. Orfanidou, B. Woll, and G. Morgan]. Sign Language & Linguistics, 22(1), 155-69. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00033.occ
Other Products/Publications
Occhino, C., Lidster, R., Geer, L., Listman, J., & Hauser, P.C., (2021). ASL-OVE (Online Vocabulary Exam). Property of the National Technical Institute of the Deaf.
Occhino, C., Lidster, R., Geer, L., Listman, J., & Hauser, P.C., (2021). ASL-FaN-CT (Fingerspelling and Numbers Comprehension Test). Property of the National Technical Institute of the Deaf.
Namboodiripad, S., Occhino, C., Hou, L., Heaton, H., Herbert, M., Canning, D., & Bouavichith, D. (2019). Survey of linguists and language researchers. Online: linguistsurvey.com
FUNDED GRANTS
Research Grants
The Research Council of Norway #315864 (9/22-12/25). NOK 12 Mil. PI: Benjamin D. Anible, CO-PI: G. Hege Saltnes Urdal. Co-Is: C. Occhino, V. Kimmelman. Work Package 1, Title: Language specific perceptions of lexically depicting signs (DEPICT). https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9702960
Syracuse University Engaged Communities 7/31/2022 - 6/30/2023. $5,000. PI: C. Occhino, Community Partner: Deaf New Americans Org. Title: Deaf New Americans - Developing Language and Sharing Stories
CNY Corridor Humanities Grant 1/1/2022-1/1/2022. $5,000. PI: B. Schertz, Co-PIs: C. Occhino, Marguerite Carrillo, Sandra Wood, M. Diesing Title: Sign Language and Deaf Culture - Translating Linguistics Articles in to ASL.
Society of Family Planning Research Fund 1/1/2021-12/31/2022. $73,000. PI: T. Panko, Co-PI: C. Occhino. Title: Reproductive Health Experiences of Deaf Women: A Mixed Methods Study
RIT/NTID Scholarship Portfolio Development 7/1/2020- 7/31/2021. $10,000. PI: C. Occhino, Co-PI: T. Panko. Title: Reproductive Health Experiences of Deaf Women: A MixedMethods Study
NSF, Brain and Cognitive Sciences 5/1/2018 -10/31/2021. $349,882. PI: M. W. G. Dye, Co-PIs: Corrine Occhino, A. Savakis, M. Huenerfauth. Title: Multi-method Investigation of Articulatory and Perceptual Constraints on Natural Language Evolution
RIT/NTID Scholarship Portfolio Development 7/1/2018 - 7/31/2019. $10,000. PI: C. Occhino, Co-PI: J. Hill. Title: Documenting Individual Variation in ASL (DIVA)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Invited Papers
Invited Keynote/Plenary Presentations
Occhino, C. (2026, June 6). Signed Languages as a Testing Ground for Construction Grammar. [Plenary presented]. 14th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG14), Princeton, Princeton, NJ.
Occhino, C. (2026, Mar. 5). Iconicity as an organizing property of signed languages. [Plenary presented]. 14th International Congress of ABRALIN (INTERAB2026), Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.
Occhino, C. (2025, Feb. 22). Started at the bottom, now we’re here: A usage-based view of form-meaning units in ASL. [Plenary presented]. Texas Linguistics Society Conference (TLS2025), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
Occhino, C. (2022, Nov. 11). Iconicity, Experience, and Language Processing of Signed Languages. [Keynote presented]. 15th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, University of New Mexico, Virtual/Albuquerque, NM.
Occhino, C. (2020, Feb. 1-2). Embodied cognition, visual language & the emergence of form. [Invited paper presented]. 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Mind (UTISM): Vision & Visual Perception. University of Toronto, Ontario, CA.
Occhino, C. (2019, June). The Emergence of Form and Meaning from a Usage-based Perspective. [Invited paper presented] Form-meaning units Workshop at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Namboodiripad, S., Occhino, C., & Hou, L. (2019, Jan.). A Climate Survey of Linguists and Linguistics. [Plenary paper presented] 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, NY.
Occhino, C. (2018, July). Finding Meaning in Phonology: An Embodied Perspective. [Keynote paper presented]. Cognitive and Functional Explorations of Sign Languages (Sign CAFÉ1) at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Invited Colloquia
Occhino, C. (2026, April 24) Where is iconicity? Conceptualization and experience in the perception and production of iconicity in signed languages. Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Trondheim, Norway.
Occhino, C. (2024, December). Beyond form-meaning resemblance: Conceptualization and experience in the perception of iconicity in signed languages. [Keynote presented]. Sign Languages and Linguistics Convergence Research Institute at Chosun University and Institute for the Study of Language and Information at KyongHee University. Virtual/Chosun, South Korea.
Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. (2024, February). Recurring functions, recurring forms. [Invited paper presented online]. Viadrina Gesture Center’s International Lecture Series at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt Oder, Germany.
Occhino, C. (2023, March). Signed languages as visual languages: iconicity and experience in language processing. [Invited paper presented] Colloquium Series at University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics, Austin, TX.
Hochgesang, J. & Occhino, C. (2021, June 28). Documenting Language Use of ASL Communities. [Invited Discussant]. CREST Fest. Hosted by the CREST Network. Gallaudet University, online/Washington D.C., (ASL w/ English Interpretation).
Occhino, C. (2021, February). Accounting for Iconicity in Signed Language Phonology. [Invited paper presented]. online for L'Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales du CNRS - Séminaire Structures Formelles du Langage, Paris, France, (English w/LSF Interpretation).
Occhino, C. & Begay, J. (2020, October). Comparing Classifier Constructions in ASL and Navajo. [Invited talk presented online]. Language Science Talks at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Hill, J. C. & Occhino, C. (2020, March 6). Documenting Individual Variation in ASL. [Invited paper presented]. Building Connections with ASL Corpora Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, (ASL w/ English Interpretation).
Occhino, C. (2020, March). Accounting for Iconicity in Signed Language Phonology. [Invited paper presented] University of Hawaii – Manoa, Department of Linguistics, Honolulu, HI.
Occhino, C. (2020, February). Signed languages as visual languages: iconicity and experience in language processing. [Invited paper presented] University of Wisconsin– Madison, Department of Language Sciences, Madison, WI.
Occhino, C. (2019, March). Documenting Individual Variation in ASL (DIVA). [Invited paper presented]. Utah Valley University, Deaf Studies Department, Provo, UT.
Occhino-Kehoe, C. (2013, April). A Cognitive Approach to Phonology in American Sign Language. [Invited Paper presented]. 36th annual San Diego State University Linguistics Colloquium, San Diego, CA.
Conference Papers
Occhino, C., (2025, July 14-18). Does Usage-based Construction Grammar make compositionality obsolete? [Paper presented] International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC17), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Occhino, C., Barutcu, C., Aichler, L., Hochgesang, J. (2025, July 13). Articulatory Re-timing in the Visual Modality: Do Anticipatory or Perseveratory Processes Dominate Phonological Changes in Fluid ASL Use? [Paper presented] Usage-based Phonology Conference 1 (UBP1), Eugene, OR.
Occhino, C., Kimmelman, V., & Anible, B. How do deaf people process iconicity in a novel signed language?. [Paper presented] 16th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM., Nov. 1-3, 2024.
Hochgesang, J. A., & Occhino, C. What happens when our articulators are outside of our mouths: Examination of phonological processes when active articulators are occupied.[Paper presented] 16th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM., Nov. 1-3, 2024.
Hou, L., Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. A usage-based view of "gesture in sign language". [Paper presented] 16th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM., Nov. 1-3, 2024.
Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. Parts and Wholes in ASL signs. [Paper presented] Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America Conference (CLANAC1), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada. June 27-29, 2024.
Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. Signs as Constructions [Paper presented] 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, HHU Düsseldorf, Germany, August 7-11, 2023.
Player, D., Morford, J. P., Occhino, C. & Wilkinson, E. Code-Switching, and assimilation of minority sign language varieties in residential schools for the deaf. [Paper presented]15th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM., Nov. 11-13, 2022.
Postl, D., Doane, R., Contreras, J., Occhino, C., & Panko, T. Contraceptive use and non-use in deaf and hard of hearing people: Findings from the reproductive health experiences survey. [Roundtable Presentation] Special Session: Let's Talk About Sex...& Disability: Moderated Discussion on Access, Education, Reproductive Health & More. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo (APHA 2022). Virtual/Boston, MA., Nov. 6 – 9, 2022.
Normoyle, A., Artacho, B., Savakis, A., Senghas, A., Badler, N. I., Occhino, C., Rothstein, S. J., Dye, M. W. G., Open-Source Pipeline for Skeletal Modeling of Sign Language Utterances from 2D Video Sources. [Paper presented] Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR14), Virtual/Osaka, Japan, Sept. 25-30, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2bP6BvWoEo&list=WL&index=60
Player, D., Morford, J., Occhino, C., & Wilkinson, E. Sign Languages in NM. [Paper presented] Querencias 22 – Conexiones con la Tierra. Virtual/Albuquerque, NM, April 22-23, 2022.
Occhino, C., Alecrim, E., Anible, B., & Xavier, A. N. Understanding movement repetition in Libras, variation, patterns & motivations. [Paper presented] 14th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 20-22, 2020.
Occhino, C., Patterson, S., & Hill, J. C.. Phonological and Lexical Variants in ASL. [Paper presented] 14th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 20-22, 2020.
Occhino, C., Force Dynamics in ASL Predicate Constructions [Paper Accepted] Cognitive and Functional Explorations of Sign Languages Sign (CAFE 2), Ragusa, Italy. http://www.sdslingue.unict.it/signcafetwo. May 21-23, 2020. [Conference trip canceled due to Covid-19].
Occhino, C. Image Schemas and Embodied Cognition: Reconceptualizing Signed Language Phonology. [Paper presented] 13th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2018
Hou, L., Charity Hudley, A., Namboodiripad, S., Occhino, C. Have you ever been told you’re not a linguist? A national survey of disciplinary harassment and bias. [Paper presented] American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA, Nov. 2018.
Occhino C., & Hill, J. C. Documenting Individual Variation in ASL (DIVA). [Paper presented] 47th annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV47) at New York University, New York, NY, Oct. 2018.
Occhino, C. A Cognitive Approach to Phonology: Evidence from Signed & Spoken Languages. [Paper presented] 14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Linguistic Diversity & Cognitive Linguistics, Tartu, Estonia, July 2017.
Lepic, R., & Occhino, C. Sign Language Structure: A Construction-Theoretic Perspective. [Paper presented] 91st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, Texas, Jan. 2017.
Begay, J., & Occhino, C. An Analysis of Navajo and ASL Verbal Constructions. [Paper presented]12th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2016.
Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. A Construction Grammar Approach to Signed Language Analysis. [Paper presented] UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, Bangor, Wales, July 2016.
Wilcox, S., Hirrel, L., & Occhino, C. Symbolic similarities between beat constructions and point constructions. [Paper presented] UK-Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference, Bangor, Wales, July 2016.
Hsu, H.-C., Anible, B., & Occhino, C. Iconicity in multimodal gestures: Evidence from master classes on conducting. [Paper presented] International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Paris, July 2016.
Occhino, C., Hirrel, L., Bernardino, E., & Wilcox, S. Cross-modal correlates of stance in viewpoint constructions: Evidence from speech, gesture, and sign. [Paper presented] International Society for Gesture Studies Conference, Paris, July 2016.
Occhino-Kehoe, C., Sutton, L., & Begay, J. ASL classifier predicates in typological perspective. [Paper presented] 11th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Albuquerque, NM, Aug. 2015.
Occhino-Kehoe, C. Cognitive Phonology: What handshape change reveals about conceptual structure. [Paper presentation] 11th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2014.
Anible, B., & Occhino-Kehoe, C. What’s happening with HAPPEN? The Grammaticalization of HAPPEN in American Sign Language. [Paper presented] 11th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, Nov. 2014.
Jaquez, T., Anible, B., & Occhino-Kehoe, C. The effects of sign language experience on hand-shape perception. [Paper presented] SL2HUB Conference, Gallaudet University, Washington DC, March 27-29, 2014.
Occhino-Kehoe, C. A New Approach to Sign Language Phonology: What handshape reveals about embodied cognition and conceptual structure. [Paper presented] Texas Linguistics Society Conference, Austin, TX, Nov. 2013.
Occhino-Kehoe, C., Morford, J. P., Twitchell, P., Piñar, P., Kroll, J. F., & Wilkinson, E. The time course of bilingual lexical access in deaf ASL-English bilinguals. [Paper presented] Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 11, London, UK, July 2013.
Occhino-Kehoe, C. Iconicity is in the eye of the beholder: How language experience affects perceived iconicity. [Panel Presentation] Effects of Iconicity on Sign Language Processing: Evidence from Behavioral and Imaging Studies. Presentation at the 10th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2012.
Anible, B., Occhino-Kehoe, C., Morford, J. P. ,& Wilkinson, E., Whose Iconicity? Perceptions of iconicity in signers of different signed languages. [Paper presented] 10th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, Nov. 2012.
Conference Posters
Sengas, A., Normoyle, A., Caselli, N., Occhino, C., and Dye, M. (2025, January 11-12). Measuring changes in Nicaraguan signing using skeletal modeling with analog 2D video sources. [Poster presented]. 15th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR15), Virtual/Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Nambodiripad, S., Canning, D., Jessee, E., Hou, L., & Occhino, C. Disciplinary and interpersonal inclusion in Language Evolution. [Poster presented] Special Session on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Language Evolution (EDILE) at The Joint Conference on Language Evolution. Co-organized by Evolang, Protolang, and Evolinguistics, Virtual/Kanazawa, Japan, Sept. 5th - 8th, 2022. https://view.genially.com/62bc4eb78c2f22001c027502/interactive-content-edilepresentation
Hou, L., Hochgesang, J., Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. Where do we go from here? Faculty placement of deaf linguists in US PhD programs. [Poster presented] 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Virtual/Washington, DC, Jan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.17912228.v1
Doane, R., Contreras J., Occhino, C., & Panko, T. Language Deprivation Impact on Deaf Women’s Access to Reproductive Health. [Poster presented] National Sexual Health Conference, Virtual, Oct. 6-8, 2021.
Postl, D., Contreras J., Occhino, C., & Panko, T. Deaf Women’s Contraceptive Practices. [Poster presented] National Sexual Health Conference, Virtual, Oct. 6-8, 2021.
Xavier, A., & Occhino, C. Movement repetition in Libras signs. [Poster presented] Annual Meeting of Laboratory Phonology, Vancouver, B.C, Virtual, July. 2020.
Dye, M., Savakis, A., Artacho, B., Arora, A., Caselli, N., Finton, E., & Occhino, C. Perceptual Optimization of American Sign Language: Evidence from a Lexical Corpus. [Poster presented] Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Hamburg, Germany. Sept. 2019.
Occhino, C. What does Embodiment have to do with Phonology? [Poster presented] 92nd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 2018.
Occhino, C., Anible, B., Morford, J. P., & Wilkinson, E. Does Language Experience Affect Perceived Iconicity? [Poster presented] CLS-MPI Iconicity Focus Group Workshop Nijmegen, Netherlands, July 2017.
Easterday, S., & Occhino-Kehoe, C. Articulatory Retiming: investigations from cross-modal linguistic evidence. [Poster presented] Annual Meeting of Phonology (AMP), Vancouver, BC, Oct. 2015.
Hsu, H.-C., & Occhino-Kehoe, C. Rock, Jazz, or Noise? Schematization and Categorization of Novel Music. [Poster presented] 6th Intl. Conference of the Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive, Grenoble, France, May 2015.
Occhino-Kehoe, C., Kroll, J.F., Piñar, P., Wilkinson, E., & Morford, J. P. Cross-Language Activation in ASL-English Bilinguals. [Poster presented] 6th Inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2013.
Morford, J., Kroll, J., Occhino-Kehoe, C., Piñar, P., Twitchell, P., Wilkinson, E., Anible, B. Co-activation in when deaf signers read English: Do written words activate their sign translations? [Poster presented] Visual Language Visual Learning Annual Retreat, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C, Sept. 2011.
Invited Colloquia
Occhino, C., & Lepic, R. Recurring functions, recurring forms. [Invited paper presented online]. Viadrina Gesture Center’s International Lecture Series at the Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt Oder, Germany, Feb. 2024.
Occhino, C. Signed languages as visual languages: iconicity and experience in language processing. [Invited paper presented] Colloquium Series at University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics, Austin, TX, March 2023.
Hochgesang, J. & Occhino, C. Documenting Language Use of the ASL Communities. [Invited Discussant]. CREST Fest. Hosted by the CREST Network. Gallaudet University, online/Washington D.C., (ASL w/ English Interpretation), June 2021.
Occhino, C. Everything you should know about ASL and American Deaf Culture. Invited paper presented at Cornell Language Resource Center, Cornell University Ithaca, NY, April 2022.
Occhino, C. Accounting for Iconicity in Signed Language Phonology. Invited paper presented at Séminaire Structures Formelles du Langage. via Zoom. L'Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales du CNRS, Paris, France, Feb. 8, 2021.
Occhino, C. & Begay, J. Comparing Classifier Constructions in ASL and Navajo. Invited paper presented at UBC Language Science Talks. via Zoom. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 2020.
Hill, J. C. & Occhino, C. Documenting Individual Variation in ASL. Invited paper presented at Building Connections with ASL Corpora Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, March 6, 2020.
University of Texas at Austin – Dept. of Linguistics
Undergraduate
LIN374M – Sociolinguistics
ASL326/LIN350 – Signed Languages and Signing Communities
ASL 357 - Research in Signed Languages
LIN 679HB - Honors Tutorial Course
Graduate
LIN389V – Signed Language Research Seminar
LIN 393 – Phonology of Signed Languages