MA Theses & PhD Dissertations
Theses
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Makaroglu, Bahtiyar | Türk ??aret Dilinde Soru: Ka? Hareketlerinin Dilsel Çözümlemesi[Question in Turkish Sign Language: Linguistic Analysis of Eyebrows] | Master | Ankara University, Turkey | 2012 |
de Vos, Connie | Sign-Spatiality in Kata Kolok: how a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2012 |
Barbera, Gemma | The meaning of space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Reference, specificity and structure in signed discourse | PhD | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain | 2012 |
Börstell, Carl | Revisiting Reduplication. Toward a description of reduplication in predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language | Master | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 2011 |
Mohr, Susanne | Mouth Actions in Irish Sign Language – Their System and functions | PhD | Universität zu Köln, Germany | 2011 |
de Meijer, Anne | Iconicity Effects in Learning of Single Signs by Hearing Children | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2011 |
Shield, Aaron | The Signing of Deaf Children with Autism: Lexical phonology and perspective-taking in the visual-spatial modality. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2010 |
Batterbury, Sara | Language policy and social justice: the case of BSL | Master | University of Bristol, United Kindom | 2010 |
Nilsson, Anna-Lena | Studies in Swedish Sign Language. Reference, Real Space Blending, and Interpretation. | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 2010 |
Fenlon , Jordan | Seeing sentence boundaries: the production and perception of visual markers signalling boundaries in signed languages. | PhD | University College London, United Kindom | 2010 |
Schönström, Krister | Tvåspråkighet hos döva skolelever: Processbarhet i svenska och narrativ struktur i svenska och svenskt teckenspråk [Bilingualism in school-aged deaf pupils: Processability in Swedish and narrative structure in Swedish and Swedish Sign Language] | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 2010 |
Stadthaus, Maria | De mate van mondopening bij dove Nederlandse gebaarders. [The degree of mouth opening in deaf Dutch signers.] | Master | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2010 |
v. Beijsterveldt, Liesbeth | Written language production in deaf children and adults. | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2009 |
Kip | The comparability of language assessment instruments for Sign Language of the Netherlands, the NGT-OP and the T-NGT. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2009 |
Kimmelman, Vadim | Reflexive pronouns in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2009 |
Nadolske, Marie | Mastering the Pressures of Variation: A Cognitive Linguistic Examination of Advanced Hearing ASL L2 Signers. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 2009 |
Churng, Sarah | Syntax and Prosody in American Sign Language: the Nonmanual Prosodic Consequences of Multiple Wh-Questions. | Master | University of Washington, USA | 2009 |
Kolen, Esther | De tweetalige ontwikkeling van dove kinderen in de Nederlandse Gebarentaal en het Nederlands. [Bilingual development of deaf children in Sign Language of the Netherlands and Dutch.] | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2009 |
Backer | Urban versus secondary sign languages:aspects of use and structure. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2009 |
Munoz-Baell, Irma | Invirtiendo en salud: bases para un estudio benchmarking de la educación de los/as niños/as sordos/as en España [Investing in health: basis for a benchmarking study on deaf children’s education in Spain] [Investing in health: basis for a benchmarking study on the Spanish d/Deaf education] | PhD | University of Alicante, Spain | 2009 |
Arik, Engin | Spatial language: Insights from sign and spoken languages. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 2009 |
Hong, Sung-Eun | Ein empirische Untersuchung zu Kongruenzverben in der Koreanischen Gebärdensprache [An empirical investigation of agreement verbs in Korean Sign Language] | PhD | University of Hamburg, Germany | 2008 |
Kok | Code-blending by deaf children with a cochlear implant. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2008 |
Hendriks, Bernadet | Jordanian Sign Language: aspects of grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2008 |
De Weerdt, Danny | Expressing existence in Flemish Sign Language. | Master | University of Jyväskylä, Finland | 2008 |
Hatzopoulou, Marianna | Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language: From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs. [A descriptive model of signs for sign language processing.] | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 2008 |
Weast, Tracy | Questions in American Sign Language: A quantitative analysis of raised and lowered eyebrows. | PhD | University of Texas at Arlington, USA | 2008 |
Bauer, Anastasia | Classifiers in Spoken and Signed Languages. | Master | Universität zu Köln, Germany | 2008 |
Eccarius, Petra | A constraint-based account of handshape contrast in sign languages. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 2008 |
Sze, Felix Yim Binh | Topic constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language. | PhD | University of Bristol, United Kindom | 2008 |
Antzakas, Klimis | Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek Sign Language. | PhD | City University London, United Kindom | 2008 |
Ormel, Ellen | Visual word recognition in bilingual deaf children. | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2008 |
Meurant, Laurence | Le regard en langue des signes. Anaphore en langue des signes française de Belgique (LSFB): morphologie, syntaxe, énonciation. | PhD | University of Namur, Belgium | 2008 |
Kaneko, Michiko | The poetics of sign language haiku. | PhD | University of Bristol, United Kindom | 2008 |
Jantunen, Tommi | Tavu ja lause. Tutkimuksia kahden sekventiaalisen perusyksikön olemuksesta somalaisessa viittomakielessä. [Syllable and sentence. Studies on the nature of two sequential unis to Finnish Sign Language.] | PhD | University of Jyväskylä, Finland | 2008 |
Nicodemus, Brenda | The use of prosodic markers to indicate utterance boundaries in American Sign Language interpretation. | PhD | University of New Mexico, USA | 2007 |
van Gils, Gardy | Dove tolken: partner of concurrent? [Deaf interpreters: partner or competitor?] | Master | Hogeschool Utrecht, Netherlands | 2007 |
Branchini, Chiara | On relativization and clefting in Italian Sign Language. | PhD | University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy | 2007 |
Mohr, Susanne | Sign Languages as Natural Languages: the Linguistic Design Features | Master | Universität zu Köln, Germany | 2007 |
Schuit, Joke | The typological classification of sign language morphology. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2007 |
Ribera, Eulàlia | Projecte de base de dades lexicogràfica per a la LSC (llengua de signes catalana). | Master | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain | 2007 |
Massó, Guillem | Traducció automàtica aplicada a les llengües de signes: Estat de la qüestió. | Master | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain | 2007 |
Perniss, Pamela | Space and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2007 |
Giezen, Marcel | Critical Period Effects in Language Development. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2007 |
Nyst, Victoria | A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana). | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2007 |
Barbera, Gemma | La cohesió discursiva i l’espai en la llengua de signes catalana. | Master | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain | 2007 |
de Vos, Connie | Mixed signals. Combining Affective and Linguistic functions of Eyebrows in Sign Language of the Netherlands. | Master | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2006 |
Bernardino | The acquisition of classi?ers in verbs of motion and location in Brazilian Sign Language. | PhD | Boston University, USA | 2006 |
Schreurs | The distinction between formally and semantically related noun-verb pairs in Sign Language of the Netherlands / NGT. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2006 |
Thompson, Robin | Eye gaze in American Sign Language: Linguistic functions for verbs and pronouns. | PhD | University of California, USA | 2006 |
Sapountzaki, Galini | Free functional elements of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Agreement as possible auxiliaries in Greek Sign Language. | PhD | University of Thessaly, Greece | 2006 |
Hansen, Kathy | Recombinant features for the movements of American Sign Language. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 2006 |
Sevinc, Ayca Muge | Grammatical relations and word order in Turkish Sign Language ?(?T?D?)? [Grammatical relations and word order in Turkish Sign Language ?(?T?D?)?] | Master | Middle East Technical University, Turkey | 2006 |
Wauters, Loes | Reading comprehension in deaf children: the impact of the mode of acquisition of word meanings. | PhD | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 2005 |
Rathmann, Christian | Event structure in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2005 |
Demey, Eline | Fonologie van de Vlaamse Gebarentaal. Distinctiviteit en iconiciteit. | PhD | Ghent University, Belgium | 2005 |
de Meulder, Maartje | Macht en onmacht op school. De invloed van een onderwijssysteem op dove kinderen en volwassenen: een etnogra?sch onderzoek. | Master | Ghent University, Belgium | 2005 |
McBurney, Susan | Referential morphology in signed languages. | PhD | University of Washington, USA | 2004 |
van Gijn, Ingeborg | The quest for sytactic dependency, sentential complementation in Sign Language of the Netherlands. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2004 |
Fusellier-Souza, Ivani | Sémiogenèse des langues des signes. Étude de langues des signes primaires (LSP) pratiquées par des sourds brésiliens. | PhD | Paris 8, France | 2004 |
Rosenstock, Rachel | An investigation of international sign. Analyzing structure and comprehension. | PhD | Gallaudet University, USA | 2004 |
Schalber, Katharina | honological visibility of event structure in Austrian Sign Language: A comparison of ASL and OGS. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 2004 |
Eichmann, Hanna | Do women sign bigger? A research project investigating gender- speci?c differences in the articulatory realization of signs in German Sign Language (DGS). | Master | University of Bristol, United Kindom | 2004 |
van Gijn, Ingeborg | The quest for sytactic dependency, sentential complementation in Sign Language of the Netherlands. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2004 |
Zwitserlood, Inge | Classifying hand configurations in Nederlandse Gebarentaal (Sign Language of the Netherlands). | PhD | Utrecht University, Netherlands | 2003 |
Sallandre, Marie-Anne | Les unités de discours en Langue des Signes Française. Tentative de catégorisation dans le cadre d’une grammaire de l’iconicité. | PhD | Université Paris 8, France | 2003 |
Arik, Engin | Spatial representations in Turkish and Sign Language of Turkey (TID) | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2003 |
Parisot, Anne-Marie | Accord et cliticisation. L’accord des verbes à forme rigide en langue des signes québécoise. | PhD | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | 2003 |
Mauk, Claude E. | Undershoot in two modalities: An examination of fast utterances in English and American Sign Language. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2003 |
van der Kooij, Els | Phonological categories in Sign Language of the Netherlands: the role of phonetic implementation and iconicity. | PhD | Leiden University, Netherlands | 2002 |
Cormier, Kearsy | Grammaticization of indexic signs: how American Sign Language expresses numerosity. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2002 |
Eccarius, Petra | Finding common ground: a comparison of handshape across multiple sign languages. | Master | Purdue University, USA | 2002 |
Bentele, Susanne | Zu Leistungen und Grenzen von Gebärdenschriftsystemen. | Master | University of Hamburg, Germany | 2002 |
Nonhebel, Annika | Indirecte taalhandelingen in Nederlandse Gebarentaal. | Master | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2002 |
Rosenstein, Ofra | ISL as a topic-prominent language. | Master | University of Haifa, Israel | 2001 |
Schembri, Adam | Issues in the analysis of polycomponential verbs in Australian Sign Language (Auslan). | PhD | University of Sydney, Australia | 2001 |
Grossman, Ruth | Dynamic facial expressions in American Sign Language: Behavioral, neuroimaging, and facial coding analyses for deaf and hearing participants. | PhD | Boston University, USA | 2001 |
Crasborn, Onno | Phonetic implementation of phonological categories in Sign Language of the Netherlands. | PhD | City University London, United Kindom | 2001 |
Cheek, Adrienne | The phonetics and phonology of handshape in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2001 |
Rathmann, Christian | The optionality of agreement phase: evidence from sign language. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 2000 |
Risler, Annie | La langue des signes francaise, langue iconique: ancrage perceptivo- pratique des catégories du langage et localisme cognitif à travers l’étude de la motivation des signes et de la spatialisation des relations sémantiques. | PhD | Université de Toulouse II, France | 2000 |
Bogaerde van den, beppie | Input and interaction in deaf families. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2000 |
Miljan | The noun phrase in Estonian Sign Language from the typological perspective. | Bachelor | University of Tallinn, Estonia | 2000 |
Blondel, Marion | Poésie enfantine dan les langues des signes: modalité visuo-gestuelle versus modalité audio-orale. | PhD | Université de Tours, France | 2000 |
Rosenberg | Writing signed languages. | Master | University of Kansas, USA | 1999 |
Karnopp, Lodenir | Aquisição fonológica na Língua Brasileira de Sinais (LIBRAS): estudo longitudinal de uma criança surda. | PhD | Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 1999 |
Nyst, Victoria | Variation in handshapes in Ugandan Sign Language. | Master | Leiden University, Netherlands | 1999 |
Mesch, Johanna | Teckenspråk i taktil form. Turtagning och frågor i dövblindas samtal på teckenspråk. [Sign language in tactile form. Turntaking and questions in deaf-blind conversations in sign language.] | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 1998 |
Krausneker, Verena | Gebärdensprachen in der Minderheitensprachenpolitik der Europäischen Union. | Bachelor | Universität Wien, Austria | 1998 |
Cormier, Kearsy | Grammatical and anaphoric agreement in American Sign Language. | Master | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 1998 |
Janzen, Terry | Topicality in ASL: information ordering, constituent structure, and the function of topic marking. | PhD | University of New Mexico, NM, USA | 1998 |
Gullberg, Marianne | Gesture as a communication strategy in second language discourse. A study of learners of French and Swedish. | PhD | Lund University, Sweden | 1998 |
Hanke, Thomas | Zur Gestaltung von Gebärdensprachlexika auf der Grundlage des Hamburger Notationssystems. | Master | Universität Hamburg, Germany | 1997 |
Dalle, Sophie | Recherche et imaginaire sur les “signants”. | Master | Université de Toulouse II, France | 1997 |
Taub, Sarah | Language from the body: iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1997 |
MacLaughlin, Dawn | The structure of determiner phrase: evidence from American Sign Language. | PhD | Boston University, USA | 1997 |
Schmaling, Constanze | Maganar hannu: ‘language ofthe hands’. A descriptive analysis of Hausa Sign Language. | PhD | Universität Hamburg, Germany | 1997 |
Webb, Rebecca | Linguistic features of metaphoric gestures. | PhD | University of Rochester, USA | 1996 |
Miller, Christopher | Phonologie de la Langue des Signes Québécoise: structure simultanée et axe temporel. | PhD | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | 1996 |
Braffort, Annelies | Reconnaissance et compréhension de gestes, application à la langue des signes. | PhD | CNRS-LIMSI, France | 1996 |
Bleau, Julie | Étude ergonomique auprès des interprètes en langue des signes. | Master | Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | 1996 |
Bahan, Ben | Non-manual realization of agreement in American Sign Language. | PhD | Boston University, USA | 1996 |
Ormsby | The poetry and poetics of American Sign Language. | PhD | Stanford University, USA | 1995 |
Crasborn, Onno | An articulatory view on two-handed signs. | Master | Radboud University Nijmegen , Netherlands | 1995 |
Uyechi, Linda | The geometry of visual phonology. | PhD | Stanford University, USA | 1995 |
Senghas, Ann | Children’s contribution to the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language. | PhD | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | 1995 |
Uyechi, Linda | Visual phonology (draft). | PhD | Stanford University, USA | 1994 |
van der Kooij, Els | De component beweging in Nederlandse Gebarentaal. [The movement component in Sign Language of the Netherlands] | Master | Leiden University, Netherlands | 1994 |
Karnopp, Lodenir | Aquisição do parâmetro ‘con?guração de mão na Língua Brasileira dos Sinais (LIBRAS): estudo sobre quatro crianças surdas, ?lhas de pais surdos. | Master | Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 1994 |
Wallin, Lars | Polysyntetiska tecken i svenska teckenspråket. [Polysynthetic signs in Swedish Sign Language.] | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 1994 |
Aarons, Debra | Aspects of the syntax of American Sign Language. | Bachelor | Boston University, USA | 1994 |
Quadros | Phrase structure of Brazilian sign language. | PhD | Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 1994 |
Lupton | Aspects of rhythm in American Sign Language: a comparative study between native and non-native signers. | PhD | Purdue University, USA | 1993 |
Ann, Jean | A linguistic investigation of the relationship between physiology and handshape. | PhD | University of Arizona, USA | 1993 |
Petronio, Karen | Clause structure in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of Washington, USA | 1993 |
Coerts, Jane | Nonmanual grammatical markers. An analysis of interrogatives, negations and topicalisations in Sign Language of the Netherlands. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1992 |
Hara, Daisuke | A linguistic analysis of sign language: with emphasis on morphology and its application to Japanese Sign Language. | Master | International Christian University, | 1991 |
Brennan, Mary | Word formation in British Sign Language. | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 1990 |
Brentari, Diane K. | Theoretical foundations of American Sign Language phonology. | PhD | University of Chicago, USA | 1990 |
Vogt-Svendsen, Marit | Interrogative strukturerr i Norsk Tegnspråk. En analyse av nonmanuelle komponenter i 86 spørsmål. | PhD | Universitetet i Trondheim, Norway | 1990 |
Schermer, Trude | In search of a language. In?uences from spoken Dutch on Sign Language of the Netherlands. | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1990 |
Myles-Zitzer | A native signer’s foreigner talk to hearing non-natives of American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California, USA | 1990 |
Johnston, Trevor A | Auslan: the sign language of the Australian deaf community. | PhD | University of Sydney, Australia | 1989 |
Tiers and syllable structure in American Sign Language: evidence from phonotactics. | Master | University of California, USA | 1988 | |
Nagahara | Toward an explicit phonological representation for American Sign Language. | Master | University of California, USA | 1988 |
Whittemore | The production of ASL signs. | PhD | University of Texas at Austin, USA | 1987 |
Loew, Ruth | Roles and reference in American Sign Language. A developmental perspective. | PhD | University of Minnesota, USA | 1984 |
Kettrick | Fast, formal and casual signing in American Sign Language. | Master | University of Washington, USA | 1983 |
Baker-Shenk, Carol | A microanalysis of the nonmanual components of questions in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1983 |
Supalla, Ted | Structure and acquisition of verbs of motion and location in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California, USA | 1982 |
Bergman, Brita | Studies in Swedish Sign Language. | PhD | University of Stockholm, Sweden | 1982 |
Boyes Braem, Penny | Features of the handshape in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1981 |
Mandel, Mark | Phonotactics and morphophonology in American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1981 |
Liddell, Scott | Investigations into the syntactic structure of American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California, USA | 1977 |
Battison, Robbin | Lexical borrowing in American Sign Language. Phonological and morphological restructuring. | PhD | University of California, USA | 1977 |
Friedman, Lynn | Phonology of a soundless language: phonological structure of the American Sign Language. | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1976 |
Todd | From sign language to speech: delayed acquisition of English by a hearing child of deaf parents | PhD | University of California at Berkeley, USA | 1972 |
West | The sign language, an analysis (volumes I and II). | PhD | Indiana University, USA | 1960 |
Tervoort | Structurele analyse van visueel taalgebruik binnen een groep dove kinderen. [Structural analysis of visual language use in a group of deaf children.] | PhD | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1953 |