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• Relationships between Language & Cognition

• Bimodal Bilingualism

• Fingerspelling & Reading

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Further Publications:

• Emmorey, K. (2005). Sign languages are problematic for a gestural origins theory of language evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 130-131. read

• Emmorey, K., (2004). Language and Space. In F. Penz, G. Radick, & R. Howell (Eds). Space, pp. 22-45, Cambridge University Press.

• Emmorey, K., & Herzig, M. (2003). Categorical versus gradient properties of classifier constructions in ASL. In K. Emmorey (Ed). Perspectives on classifier constructions in signed languages, pp. 222-246, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. read

• Emmorey, K. (2002). The effects of modality on spatial language: How signers and speakers talk about space. In R. P. Meier. D. G. Quinto, & K. A. Cormier (Eds), Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages, pp. 405-421, Cambridge University Press. read

• Emmorey, K. (2002). Mental imagery and embodied cognition: Insights from sign language research. Journal of Mental Imagery. 26. 50-53.

• Emmorey, K., & Tversky, B. (2002). Spatial perspective choice in ASL. Sign Language and Linguistics, 5(1), 3-25. read

• Emmorey, K. (2001). Space on hand: The exploitation of signing space to illustrate abstract thought. In M. Gattis (Ed), Spatial schemas and abstract thought, pp. 147 - 174, The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. read

• Emmorey, K. (2000). Sign Languages. In A. E. Kazdin (Editor-in-Chief) Encyclopedia of Psychology, Volume 7, pp. 279 - 283, Oxford University Press: New York.

• Emmorey, K. (1999). Do signers gesture? In L. Messing and R. Campbell (Eds), Gesture, speech, and sign, 133-159, Oxford University Press: New York. read

• Emmorey, K., & Falgier, B. (1999). Talking about space with space: Describing environments in ASL. In E. A. Winston (Ed.) Story telling and conversations: Discourse in Deaf Communities, pp. 3 - 26, Washington, D. C.: Gallaudet University Press.

• Emmorey, K., & Reilly, J. (1998). The development of quotation and reported action: Conveying perspective in ASL. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 81-90), CSLI publications: Stanford, California. read

• Emmorey, K. (1997). Non-antecedent suppression in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 12(1), 103-112. read

• Emmorey, K. (1996). The confluence of space and language in signed languages. In P. Bloom, M. Peterson, L. Nadel, & M. Garrett (Eds). Language and Space, pp. 171-209, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Emmorey, K., Bellugi, U., Friederici, A. & Horn, P. (1995). Effects of age of acquisition on grammatical sensitivity: Evidence from on?line and off?line tasks. Applied Psycholinguistics, 16, 1-23.

• Emmorey, K., & Casey, S. (1995). A comparison of spatial language in English and American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 88, 255-288.

• Emmorey, K. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1995). Processing spatial anaphora: Referent reactivation with overt and null pronouns in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 10(6), 631-664.

• Emmorey, K. (1995). Processing the dynamic visual-spatial morphology of signed languages. In L. B. Feldman (Ed.) Morphological aspects of language processing: Crosslinguistic Perspectives, pp. 29-54, Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ.

• Emmorey, K., Corina, D., and Bellugi, U. (1995). Differential processing of topographic and referential functions of space. In K. Emmorey & J. Reilly (Eds). Language, Gesture, and Space, pp. 43-62, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, NJ.

• Emmorey, K. (1993). Processing a dynamic visual-spatial language: Psycholinguistic studies of American Sign Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 22(2), 153 - 188.

• Riche, L., Bellugi, U., Emmorey, K., Bettger, J., Klima, E. (1993). Development and breakdown of phonological awareness for ASL. In E. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, (pp. 86-95), CSLI publications: Stanford, California.

• Emmorey, K. (1991). Repetition priming with aspect and agreement morphology in American Sign Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 20(5), 365-388.

• Emmorey, K., Norman, F., & O'Grady L. (1991). The activation of spatial antecedents from overt pronouns in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6(3), 207-228.

• Emmorey, K., & Corina, D. (1990). Lexical recognition in sign language: Effects of phonetic structure and morphology. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 71, 1227-1252.

• Emmorey, K. (1989) Auditory morphological priming in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes, 4(2), 73-92.

• Emmorey, K., & Fromkin, V. (1988) The mental lexicon. In F. Newmeyer (Ed.), Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey, Vol. III, pp. 124-149, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, England.