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2010


Cormier, Kearsy, Adam Schembri & Bencie Woll. 2010. Diversity across signed languages and spoken languages: Implications for language universals. Lingua 120, 2664-2667. [pdf] 


Schembri, Adam, Eleni Orfanidou, Kearsy Cormier & David Vinson. 2010. British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects in British deaf adults. Paper presented at the 10th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Purdue University, 30 September - 2 October 2010.


Cormier, Kearsy & Sandra Smith. 2010. The role of animacy in the acquisition of entity constructions in British Sign Language. Paper presented at the 10th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Purdue University, 30 September - 2 October 2010. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy. 2010. Pronouns and pointing: Where do sign languages fit in? Invited paper presented at the workshop Between you and me: Local pronouns across modalities. Radboud University Nijmegen, 7-8 June 2010. [pdf]


Schembri, Adam, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston, David McKee, Rachel McKee, & Bencie Woll. 2010. Sociolinguistic variation in British, Australian and New Zealand sign languages. In Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey, ed. by D. Brentari, 476-498. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


2009


Schembri, Adam, Eleni Orfanidou, Kearsy Cormier & David Vinson. 2009. British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects in British deaf adults. Paper presented at the First Bangor Postgraduate Conference on Bilingualism and Bimodalism. Bangor University, 2-3 October 2009.


Cormier, Kearsy & Jordan Fenlon. 2009. Possession in British Sign Language. In Expression of possession, ed. by W. B. McGregor, 389-422. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy & Sandra Smith. 2009. Pragmatics of reference in British Sign Language narratives. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh, 6-9 September 2009.


Schembri, Adam, Eleni Orfanidou & Kearsy Cormier. 2009. British Sign Language Grammaticality Judgement Task: Exploring age of acquisition effects in British deaf adults. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Edinburgh, 6-9 September 2009.


Smith, Sandra & Kearsy Cormier. 2009. Acquisition of perspective in deaf children: Evidence from the production of classifier constructions and constructed action in British Sign Language. Presented at Multimod 2009 Conference on Multimodality of communication in children: Gestures, emotions, language and cognition, University of Toulouse II, France, 9-11 July 2009.

 

Cormier, Kearsy & Sandra Smith. 2009. Introduction and maintenance of reference in narratives: Evidence from native and non-native signers of British Sign Language.  Presented at ‘From Gesture to Sign: Pointing in Spoken and Signed Languages‘, Lille, France, 4-5 June 2009.


Schembri, Adam & Kearsy Cormier. 2009. No agreement on agreement: Are we missing the point? Presented at ‘From Gesture to Sign: Pointing in Spoken and Signed Languages‘, Lille, France, 4-5 June 2009. 


Cormier, Kearsy & Jordan Fenlon. 2009. Modality effects in nominal possessive constructions: The ‘his genitive’ in signed and spoken languages.  Presented at the workshop ‘Morphosyntactic categories and the expression of possession’, University of Manchester, 3-4 April 2009. [pdf] 


Quinto-Pozos, David, Kearsy Cormier & Claire Ramsey. 2009. Constructed Action of Highly Animate Referents: Evidence from American, British and Mexican Sign Languages. Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (Special Session on Non-Speech Modalities), Berkeley, CA, 14-16 February, 2009. [pdf]

 

Schembri, Adam & Kearsy Cormier. 2009. Canonical typology of person agreement: Evidence from signed languages.  Presented at the Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 9-10 January 2009. [pdf]


2008


Cormier, Kearsy, Martha Tyrone & Adam Schembri. 2008. One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL. Sign Language and Linguistics 11:1, 3-44.


Schembri, Adam & Kearsy Cormier. 2008. Missing the point?: On the language and gesture ‘interface’ in signed languages. Paper presented at the Language, Cognition and Communication conference, Brighton, UK, 4-7 August 2008.


Vinson, David, Kearsy Cormier, Tanya Denmark, Adam Schembri & Gabriella Vigliocco. 2008. The British Sign Language (BSL) norms for age of acquisition, familiarity and iconicity.  Behavior Research Methods 40:4, 1079-1087. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy & Sandra Smith. 2008. Acquisition of perspective and role shift in deaf children: Evidence from British Sign Language.  Presented at the Workshop on Pragmatics and Social Cognition, Centre for Human Communication, University College London, April 25-26, 2008. 


2007


Cormier, Kearsy. 2007. Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL. In Visible variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure, ed. by P. Perniss, R. Pfau & M. Steinbach. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]


2006


Fenlon, Jordan & Kearsy Cormier. 2006. Inalienable Possession in British Sign Language. Presented at the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Florianopolis, Brazil, December 6-9, 2006. [handout.doc]


Cormier, Kearsy. 2006. Review of: Sign Language and Linguistic Universals, W. Sandler & D. Lillo-Martin. Journal of Linguistics 42:3, 738-742.


Cormier, Kearsy, David Quinto-Pozos & Amanda Holzrichter. 2006. Practical considerations in collaborative crosslinguistic research. Working group led at the Workshop on Cross-linguistic Sign Language Research, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 9-14, 2006. [pdf]


Quinto-Pozos, David, Kearsy Cormier & Amanda Holzrichter. 2006. The obligatory nature of Constructed Action across 3 sign languages. Paper presented at the Workshop on Cross-linguistic Sign Language Research, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, January 9-14, 2006. [pdf]


2005


Cormier, Kearsy. 2005. Exclusive pronouns in American Sign Language. In Clusivity: Typology and case studies of inclusive-exclusive distinction, ed. by Elena Filimonova, 241-68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy, Adam Schembri & Martha E. Tyrone. 2005. One hand or two: A cross-linguistic analysis of the non-native lexicon in signed languages. Paper presented at Sign Language Linguistics and the Application of Information Technology to Sign Languages, Milan, Italy, June 22-24, 2005.


Cormier, Kearsy, Peter Carss & Clark Denmark. 2005. SignLab: Innovation and Technology in Sign Language Teaching. Presented at Moving Forward with Languages: Innovative Approaches to Language Teaching, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, January 12, 2005. [pdf]


2004


Cormier, Kearsy. 2004. Review of: Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages, edited by K. Emmorey. Sign Language and Linguistics 7:2, 207-213. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy. 2004. Loss of indexicality with plural pronouns: Motoric and linguistic explanations. Presented at the 8th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Barcelona, Spain, September 30-October 2, 2004. 


Tyrone, Martha E. & Kearsy Cormier. 2004. One hand or two: How ASL & BSL restructure fingerspelling in loans. Presented at the 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, May 20-22, 2004.


Cormier, Kearsy. 2004. Exclusive pronouns in ASL and BSL. Presented at Sign Languages: A crosslinguistic perspective at the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), Mainz, Germany, February 25-27, 2004. 


Cormier, Kearsy. 2004. The categorical status of first person in signed languages. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA, January 8-11, 2004. 


2003


Cormier, Kearsy. 2003. The effect of number marking on the use of space in ASL. Web publication based on paper presented at Gesture: The Living Medium, Austin, TX, June 5-8, 2002.


2002


Meier, Richard P., Kearsy Cormier, & David Quinto-Pozos (eds.). 2002. Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Cormier, Kearsy. 2002. Grammaticization of Indexic Signs: How American Sign Language Expresses Numerosity. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas, Austin. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy. 2002. Plural Reference in American Sign Language: Effects on Directionality. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 3-6, 2002.


2001


Cheek, Adrianne, Kearsy Cormier, Ann Repp & Richard P. Meier. 2001. Prelinguistic Gesture Predicts Mastery and Error in the Production of Early Signs. Language 77:2, 292-323.(2) [pdf]


2000


Cormier, Kearsy. 2000. Distribution of Inclusive/exclusive Distinction in Signed and Spoken Languages. Presented at Pronoun Workshop: The Truth About Pronouns and How True They Are, Konstanz, Germany, December 15-16, 2000.


Cohan, Jocelyn, Anne-Marie Currie, Larisa Zlatic, & Kearsy Cormier (Synthesys Technologies). 2000. Linguistic approaches in medical text information retrieval. Presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, D.C., May 4-6, 2000.


Cormier, Kearsy. 2000. How Does Modality Contribute to Linguistic Diversity? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, IL, January 6-9, 2000. 


pre-2000


Cormier, Kearsy, Stephen Wechsler, & Richard P. Meier. 1999. Locus Agreement in American Sign Language. In Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, ed. by J.P. Koenig, G. Webulhuth, & A. Kathol. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [pdf] 


Cormier, Kearsy. 1998. How Does Modality Contribute to Linguistic Diversity? Unpublished manuscript (2nd PhD qualifying paper), University of Texas, Austin. [pdf]


Cheek, Adrianne, Kearsy Cormier, & Richard P. Meier. 1998. Continuities and Discontinuities between Manual Babbling and Early Signing. Presented at the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, November 12-15, 1998.


Cormier, Kearsy. 1998. Grammatical and anaphoric agreement in American Sign Language. Unpublished MA thesis, University of Texas, Austin. [pdf]


Cheek, Adrianne, Kearsy Cormier, Christian Rathmann, Claude Mauk, Ann Repp, & Richard P. Meier. 1998. Motoric Constraints Link Manual Babbling and Early Signs. Presented at the 11th Biennial International Conference for Infancy Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 2-5, 1998.


Cormier, Kearsy, Claude Mauk and Ann Repp. 1998. Manual Babbling in Deaf and Hearing Infants: A Longitudinal Study. The Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA: CSLI. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy. 1998. ASL Locus Agreement Revisited. Unpublished manuscript (1st PhD qualifying paper), University of Texas, Austin. [pdf]


Cormier, Kearsy. Locus Agreement in American Sign Language: An HPSG Analysis. 1997. Presented at the 1997 International Conference on Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Cornell University, July 18-20.