Notes on Contributors

Robert Adam is a Research Associate at the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London. His areas of research include the sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics of sign language contact, sign language attrition and bilingualism. He is a Deaf native signer who has worked as a sign language researcher, lecturer, and Deaf interpreter in Australia, the UK, and USA.

Thomas E. Allen is the founding director and current co-PI of the National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University. He formerly was the director of the Gallaudet Research Institute, where he oversaw the Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children and Youth.

Joanna Atkinson is a clinical psychologist with additional qualifications in clinical neuropsychology and holds an academic research post at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre at University College London.

Cheryl M. Capek earned her PhD from the University of Oregon. She is currently a lecturer at the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, where she is director of the MSc in neuroimaging for clinical and cognitive neuroscience. Her research has been published in a number of journals, including Trends in Cognitive Science, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, and Nature Communications.

Rachel Channon is a researcher in sign language phonology. She is currently working on the second SignTyp grant from the National Science Foundation, which will provide online dictionaries and transcribed and coded information for signs in 15 different sign languages around the world.

Kearsy Cormier is a senior researcher at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre at University College London. Her research interests include grammaticalization, lexicalization, and nativization processes in signed and spoken languages, the relationship between language and gesture, sign language documentation and corpora, morphosyntax, and language acquisition.

Onno A. Crasborn is a senior researcher at the Centre for Language Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His research interests include the phonetic and phonological analysis of signed languages, corpus construction and related standardization and tools, and language attitudes in the deaf community.

Tanya Denmark is a postdoctoral researcher at the Deafness, Cognition and Language, University College London (UK). Tanya is a hearing native signer from a deaf family of over six generations.

Jordan Fenlon is a postdoctoral research associate at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London (UK). His research experience within sign languages includes corpus linguistics, sociolinguistic variation, phonology, morphology, prosody, and lexicography.

Peter C. Hauser is a Deaf clinical neuropsychologist and a professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester. His laboratory studies the effect of language experience on cognition, develops sign language assessment instruments, and consults other countries on how to develop similar tests.

Joseph C. Hill is an assistant professor in the Specialized Educational Services department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is an author of Language Attitudes in the American Deaf Community (2012) and one of the co-authors of The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (2011).

Trevor Johnston is professor of sign language linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). He has researched and published on Auslan since the 1980s concentrating on lexicography, grammatical description, bilingual deaf education, and corpus linguistics both for research into sociolinguistic variation and for empirical language description.

L. Viola Kozak is a PhD candidate in linguistics. She has been a member of Gallaudet University's Bimodal Bilingual Binational lab since 2009, and her research focuses primarily on sign language phonology. She has co-authored research papers on bimodal bilingual acquisition, bimodal bilingual phonology, sociolinguistics, and weak-hand drop in signing.

Fiona E. Kyle PhD, is a lecturer in the division of language and communication science at City University London. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). Her research focuses on identifying predictors of literacy development in deaf children and investigates the relationship between phonology, speech-reading and reading in deaf and hearing children.

Amy M. Lieberman is a research scientist at the Center for Research on Language at the University of California, San Diego. She investigates the development of joint attention in deaf children and how early experiences shape language-processing abilities in deaf individuals. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She previously worked as a teacher-researcher at Gallaudet University's Clerc Center.

Diane Lillo-Martin is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in Linguistics and director of the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut, and senior research scientist at Haskins Laboratories. Her research focus is on the structure and acquisition of sign languages and the development of bimodal bilingualism.

Amber J. Martin was a postdoctoral researcher at Barnard College and is currently at Hunter College in New York City. Her research explores how age of first language acquisition in Deaf children impacts developing cognition, how Deaf children without a language model develop gestures, and how grammatical and semantic differences between languages can impact cognitive abilities.

Rachel I. Mayberry is professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, where she is also affiliated with the Cognitive Science Program, the Center for Research on Language, the Anthropogeny Program, and the Joint Doctoral Program in Language & Communicative Disorders. She investigates critical period effects on language and neural development, as well as the psycholinguistic processes underlying word recognition in signed and written language. She is co-editor of the influential book Language Acquisition by Eye and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Child Language.

Jill P. Morford is professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico and affiliated researcher at the NSF Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2). She investigates language acquisition and processing in the visual modality, including signed languages and augmentative and alternative communication systems.

Gary Morgan is professor of psychology at City University London. He has published widely on sign language acquisition, theory of mind development, and psycholinguistic studies of sign languages. He is co-author of several books, including Directions in Sign Language Acquisition (2002) and The Signs of a Savant (2010).

Ronice Müller de Quadros is a full professor in linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Her research is in sign language studies. She has written papers and some books on sign language acquisition, bimodal bilingual development, sign language grammar, deaf education, and sign language translation and interpretation.

Helen J. Neville has a PhD from Cornell University. She is professor of psychology and neuroscience, director of the Brain Development Lab, and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. Her work experience includes neuropsychology at the Salk Institute. She has received many honors, including the Mind, Brain and Education Society Award for Transforming Education through Neuroscience, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the William James Award, the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Academic Panel of Birth to Three, and is active in many educational outreach programs.

Brenda Nicodemus is associate professor in the Department of Interpretation at Gallaudet University and director of the Interpretation and Translation Research Center. Her publications include Prosodic Markers and Utterance Boundaries in American Sign Language Interpreting (2009) and (with co-editor Laurie Swabey) Advances in Interpreting Research (2011).

Victoria Nyst is a research fellow and lecturer at Leiden University. She has done various documentary and descriptive studies of urban and microcommunity sign languages in Africa. Her main research interests include the impact of sociolinguistic settings on sign language structures, language contact and emergence, and African sign languages.

Eleni Orfanidou is lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Crete.

Carol A. Padden is professor of communication and a member of the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include new sign languages, lexical structure in sign languages, and gesture in sign language. She has published widely on comparative sign language grammars, language emergence, deaf children's reading development, and deaf communities and deaf culture in the United States.

Nick Palfreyman is a research...