DIVA Project

Documenting Individual Variation in ASL (DIVA) Project

Occhino, C., Patterson, S., & Hill, J. C.. Phonological and Lexical Variants in ASL Paper presented at the 14th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 20-22, 2020

Recent Talks

Hochgesang, J., & Occhino, C. Documenting Language Use of the ASL Communities. Discussant. CREST Fest. Hosted by the CREST Network. Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., June 28, 2021.


Occhino, C., Patterson, S., & Hill, J. C.. Phonological and Lexical Variants in ASL Paper presented at the 14th High Desert Linguistics Society Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 20-22, 2020.


Occhino C., & Hill, J. C. Documenting Individual Variation in ASL (DIVA). Paper presented at the 47th annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV47) at New York University, New York, NY, Oct. 2018.


Recent Publications

Lucas, C., Occhino, C., Fisher, J., Hill, J. C., Hochgesang, J. A., Shaw, E., & Tamminga, M., (Forthcoming). Needed Research on American Sign Language. In R. Bayley and E. Benson (Eds.), Needed Research in North American Dialects. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Duke University Press.


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