Publications

Prof Kearsy Cormier

2023

• Schembri, A., Cormier, K.A., Fenlon, J., Johnston, T. (2023). Introduction to Sign Language Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2022

• Woll, B., Fox, N., Cormier, K. (2022). Segmentation of Signs for Research Purposes: Comparing Humans and Machines.
• Schembri, A., Cormier, K. (2022). Signed language corpora: Future directions. In Fenlon, J., Hochgesang, J. (Eds.), Signed Language Corpora, 25. (pp. 196-213). Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.
• Proctor, H., Cormier, K. (2022). Sociolinguistic Variation in Mouthings in British Sign Language: A Corpus-Based Study. Language and Speech, doi:10.1177/00238309221107002

2021

• Rowley, K., Cormier, K. (2021). Accent or not? Language attitudes towards regional variation in British Sign Language. Applied Linguistics Review, doi:10.1515/applirev-2020-0144
• Camgöz, N.C., Varol, G., Albanie, S., Fox, N., Bowden, R., Zisserman, A., Cormier, K. (2021). SLRTP 2020: The Sign Language Recognition, Translation & Production Workshop.

2020

• Hodge, G., Gulamani, S., Cormier, K. (2020). Showing and seeing: enactment in British Sign Language conversations.

2019

• Hodge, G., Cormier, K. (2019). Reported speech as enactment. Linguistic Typology, 23 (1), 185-196. doi:10.1515/lingty-2019-0008

2018

• Schembri, A., Cormier, K.A., Fenlon, J. (2018). Indicating verbs as typologically unique constructions: Reconsidering verb ‘agreement’ in sign languages. Glossa, 3 (1), doi:10.5334/gjgl.468
• Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Cormier, K.A. (2018). Modification of indicating verbs in British Sign Language: A corpus-based study. Language, doi:10.1353/lan.2018.0002
• Brentari, D., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K.A. (2018). Sign language phonology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K., Johnston, T. (2018). Sociolinguistic Typology and Sign Languages. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 9 doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00200
• Fenlon, J., Cormier, K.A., Brentari, D. (2018). The phonology of sign languages. In Hannahs, S.J., Bosch, A. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. (pp. 453-475). Routledge.
• Schembri, A., Stamp, R., Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. (2018). Variation and change in varieties of British Sign Language in England. In Sociolinguistics in England. (pp. 165-188). Palgrave Macmillan.

2017

• Yogeswaran, C., Cormier, K.A. (2017). Archiving Large-Scale Legacy Multimedia Research Data: A Case Study. International Journal of Digital Curation, 12 (2), 157-176. doi:10.2218/ijdc.v12i2.484
• Cormier, K.A., Yogeswaran, C. (2017). DCAL Data Archive and Management Policy. [Digital scholarly resource].
• Smith, S., Cormier, K. (2017). In or out? Spatial scale and enactment in narratives of native and nonnative signing deaf children acquiring British Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 14 (3), 275-301. doi:10.1353/sls.2014.0008
• Brown, M., Cormier, K.A. (2017). Sociolinguistic variation in the nativisation of BSL fingerspelling. Open Linguistics, doi:10.1515/opli-2017-0007

2016

• Cormier, K.A., Crasborn, O., Bank, R. (2016). Digging into Signs: Emerging Annotation Standards for Sign Language Corpora.
• Sehyr, Z.S., Cormier, K. (2016). Perceptual categorization of handling handshapes in British Sign Language. Language and Cognition, 8 (4), 501-532. doi:10.1017/langcog.2015.4

2015

• Fenlon,, J., Cormier, K.A., Schembri, A. (2015). Building BSL SignBank: The lemma dilemma revisited. International Journal of Lexicography, 28 (2), 169-206. doi:10.1093/ijl/ecv008
• Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Johnston, T., Cormier, K.A. (2015). Documentary and corpus approaches to sign language research. In Orfanidou, E., Woll, B., Morgan, G. (Eds.), Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide. (pp. 156-172). Oxford: Blackwell.
• Cormier, K.A., Fenlon, J., Schembri, A. (2015). Indicating verbs in British Sign Language favour motivated use of space. Open Linguistics, 1 (1), 684-707. doi:10.1515/opli-2015-0025
• Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Evans, B., Cormier, K.A. (2015). Regional sign language varieties in contact: Investigating patterns of accommodation and language change. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 20 (1), 70-82. doi:10.1093/deafed/env043
• Cormier, K.A., Smith, S., Sevcikova, Z. (2015). Rethinking constructed action. Sign Language & Linguistics, 18 (2), 167-204. doi:10.1075/sll.18.2.01cor

2014

• Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R., Cormier, K.A. (2014). British Sign Language Corpus Project: A corpus of digital video data and annotations of British Sign Language 2008-2014. [Digital scholarly resource].
• Fenlon, J., Cormier, K.A., Rentelis, R., Schembri, A., Rowley, K., Adam, R., Woll, B. (2014). BSL SignBank: A lexical database and dictionary of British Sign Language (First Edition). [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/
• Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R., Woll, B., Cormier, K.A. (2014). Lexical variation and change in British Sign Language. PLoS One, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094053

2013

• Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R., Reynolds, S., Cormier, K. (2013). Building the British Sign Language Corpus. Language Documentation and Conservation, 7 136-154.
• Cormier, K., Smith, S., Zwets, M. (2013). Framing constructed action in British Sign Language narratives. Journal of Pragmatics, 55 119-139. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2013.06.002
• Earis, H., Cormier, K. (2013). Point of view in British Sign Language and spoken English narrative discourse: the example of ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’. Language and Cognition, 5 (4), 313-343. doi:10.1515/langcog-2013-0021
• Cormier, K., Smith, S., Sevcikova, Z. (2013). Predicate structures, gesture and simultaneity in the representation of action in British Sign Language: Evidence from deaf children and adults. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 18 (3), 370-390. doi:10.1093/deafed/ent020
• Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Woll, B. (2013). Pronouns and pointing in sign languages. Lingua, 137 230-247. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2013.09.010
• Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., Cormier, K. (2013). Variation in handshape and orientation in British Sign Language: The case of the '1' hand configuration. Language and Communication, 33 69-91. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2012.09.001

2012

• Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Vinson, D., Orfanidou, E. (2012). First language acquisition differs from second language acquisition in prelingually deaf signers: Evidence from sensitivity to grammaticality judgement in British Sign Language. Cognition, 124 50-65. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.003
• Cormier, K., Fenlon, J., Johnston, T., Rentelis, R., Schembri, A., Rowley, K., ...Woll, B. (2012). From corpus to lexical database to online dictionary: Issues in annotation of the BSL Corpus and the development of BSL SignBank.
• Cormier, K., Quinto-Pozos, D., Sevcikova, Z., Schembri, A. (2012). Lexicalisation and de-lexicalisation processes in sign languages: Comparing depicting constructions and viewpoint gestures. Language and Communication, 32 (4), 329-348. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2012.09.004
• Cormier, K. (2012). Pronouns. In Pfau, R., Steinbach, M., Woll, B. (Eds.), Sign Language: An International Handbook. (pp. 227-244). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R., Reynolds, S., Cormier, K. (2012). Towards a British Sign Language corpus: A short report. Japanese Journal of Sign Language Studies, 21 5-14.

2011

• Cormier, K., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R., Schembri, A. (2011). Lexical frequency in British Sign Language conversations: a corpus-based approach.

2010

• Schembri, A., Cormier, K., Johnston, T., McKee, D., McKee, R., Woll, B. (2010). British-Australian-New Zealand Sign Language(s): Origin, transmission, variation and change. In Brentari, D. (Ed.), Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. (pp. 476-498). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Woll, B. (2010). Diversity across sign languages and spoken languages: Implications for language universals. Lingua, 120 2664-2667. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2010.03.016

2009

• Cormier, K., Fenlon, J.F. (2009). Possession in the visual-gestural modality: How possession is expressed in British Sign Language. In McGregor, W.B. (Ed.), The expression of possession. (pp. 389-422). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2008

• Fenlon, J., Cormier, K. (2008). Inalienable possession in British Sign Language. In Quadros, R.M.D. (Ed.), Sign Languages: Spinning and Unraveling the Past, Present and Future. TISLR 9, Forty-five Papers and Three Posters from the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference. (pp. 95-). Petrópolis/RJ. Brazil: Editora Arara Azul.
• Cormier, K., Schembri, A., Tyrone, M.E. (2008). One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL. Sign Language and Linguistics, 11 (1), 3-44. doi:10.1075/sl&l.11.1.03cor
• Vinson, D., Cormier, K., Denmark, T., Schembri, A., Vigliocco, G. (2008). The British Sign Language (BSL) Norms for Age of Acquisition, Familiarity and Iconicity. Behavior Research Methods, 40 (4), 1079-1087. doi:10.3758/BRM.40.4.1079

2007

• Cormier, K. (2007). Do all pronouns point? Indexicality of first person plural pronouns in BSL and ASL. In Perniss, P., Pfau, R., Steinbach, M. (Eds.), Visible variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure. (pp. 63-101). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2006

• Cormier, K. (2006). Review of: Wendy Sandler & Diane Lillo-Martin, Sign language and linguistic universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xxi+547.. Journal of Linguistics, 42 (3), 738-742. doi:10.1017/S0022226706314387

2005

• Cormier, K. (2005). Exclusive pronouns in American Sign Language. In Elena, F. (Ed.), Clusivity: Typology and case studies of inclusive-exclusive distinction. (pp. 241-268). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2004

• Cormier, K. (2004). Review of: Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages, ed. by Karen Emmorey. Sign Language and Linguistics, 7 (2), 207-213.

2002

• Meier, R.P., Cormier, K., Quinto-Pozos, D. (Eds.), (2002). Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cheek, A., Cormier, K., Repp, A., Meier, R.P. (2001). Prelinguistic Gesture Predicts Mastery and Error in the Production of Early Signs. Language, 77 (2), 292-323. doi:10.1353/lan.2001.0072

1999

• Cormier, K., Wechsler, S., Meier, R.P. (1999). Locus agreement in American Sign Language. In Webelhuth, G., Koenig, J.-.P., Kathol, A. (Eds.), Lexical and constructional aspects of linguistic explanation. (pp. 215-229). Stanford, CA: CSLI Press.

1998

• Cormier, K., Mauk, C., Repp, A. (1998). Manual babbling in deaf and hearing Infants: A longitudinal study. In Clark, E. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Child Language Research Forum. (pp. 55-61). Stanford, CA .

1900

• Fenlon, J., Schembri, A., Rentelis, R., Vinson, D., Cormier, K.A. (1900). Using conversational data to determine lexical frequency in British Sign Language: The influence of text type. Lingua, 143 187-202.