1 Stamp, R., A. Schembri, J. Fenlon, R. Rentelis, B. Woll & K. Cormier. Under review. 2 Lexical Variation and Change in British Sign Language. (Submitted 24 November 2013.) 3 Lexical Variation and Change in British Sign Language 4 5 Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri1, Jordan Fenlon, Rama…

1 Regional sign language varieties in contact Regional sign language varieties in contact: Investigating patterns of accommodation Abstract Short-term linguistic accommodation has been observed in a number of spoken language studies. The first of its kind in sign language researc…

Sign language - Sense Get our emails in your inbox Join over 87,000 others, and be part of the movement driving change for disabled people. Sign up now This page explains the basics of sign language, including how it works, who uses it and how to learn it. Find out more about Bri…

Proctor, H. (2025). The noun phrase in British Sign Language. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10218817/ Hodge, G., Winter, B., Schembri, A., & Cormier, K. (2025). BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate c…

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmmm20 Family language policy on holiday: four multilingual signing and speaking families travelling together Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder & Jemi…

Documentary and corpus approaches to sign language research Jordan Fenlon2, Adam Schembri1, Trevor Johnston3 & Kearsy Cormier2 (order of authors to be decided) 1 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 2 University College London (UCL), London, UK 3 Macquarie University, Sydney…

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Usage-based grammars and sign languages: Evidence from Auslan, BSL and NZSL Adam Schembri, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Trevor Johnston, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 1. Introduction Hollmann and Siewierska (2011) noted that scholars in cognitive linguistic…

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Why is more work on the BSL Corpus needed? A modern linguistic corpus (e.g., the British National Corpus of English ) is large, representative, accessible, and importantly, machine-readable (i.e., can be searched by a computer). The dataset that we refer to as the “BSL Corpus” is…

The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project was a three and a half year project (initially running from January 1 2008 to December 31 2010, and then extended until June 31 2011) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant RES-062-23-0825). The project was led by …

TITLE PAGE ON THE CONVENTIONALIZATION OF MOUTH ACTIONS IN AUSLAN (AUSTRALIAN SIGN LANGUAGE) Trevor Johnston, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Jane van Roekel, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Adam Schembri, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia SHORT TITLE/RUNNI…

Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Lingua 137 (2013) 230--247 www.elsevier.com/locate/lingua Pronouns and pointing in sign languages Kearsy Cormier a,*, Adam Schembri b, Bencie Woll a a Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College Lond…

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