Publications

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Books

 

Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts, 1st Edition (Paperback) book cover

 

Hill, Joseph, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Wood, Sandra & (2019). Sign Languages: Structure and Contexts. Routledge Guides to Linguistics.

Revised Second edition is to appear soon.

 

 

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Chen Pichler, Deborah, Kuntze, Marlon, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Quadros, Ronice Müller de &

Stumpf, Marianne Rossi (2018). Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children: A Bilingual Introduction. Gallaudet University Press.

 

 

Sandlslluer, Wendy & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2006). Sign Language and Linguistic Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[Reviewed in the Journal of Linguistics (2006); Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2008); Language (2010)]

 

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Crain, Stephen, & Lillo-Martin, Diane (1999). Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell.

[Reviewed in Studies in Second Language Acquisition (2001)]

 

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Marschark, Marc, Siple, Patricia, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Campbell, Ruth, & Everhart, Victoria S. (1997). Relations of Language and Thought: The View from Sign Language and Deaf Children. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

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Lillo-Martin, Diane (1991). Universal Grammar and American Sign Language: Setting the Null Argument Parameters. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

[Reviewed in Language (1993), Linguistische Berichte (1993), Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (1994)]

 

Articles & Chapters

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Please see CV for full listing.

 

To appear 

  • Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (to appear). Translanguaging in sign language communities. Commentary on keynote article ‘Translanguaging: What is it besides smoke and mirrors?’ by Jeanine Treffers-Daller. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gu, Shengyun, Kozak, L. Viola & Chen Pichler, Deborah (to appear, 2024). The phonology of bimodal bilinguals. Invited submission; Mark Amengual (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology.

2024

  • Chen Pichler, Deborah, Conte, Mary Cecilia, Creamer, Patrice, Dale-Hench, Martin, Gale, Elaine, Goodwin, Corina, Gu, Shengyun, Kraus, Kaj, Lee, Chui-Yi, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Palmer, Jeffrey, Petersen, Bettie & Shaw, Meghan (2024). Profile of a family’s bimodal bilingual development. In Hayat AlThagafi and Jupitara Ray (Eds.), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 48, 158-168. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Lu, Jenny & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2024). Deixis in the manual modality: Insights from diverse signing communication systems. Invited submission; Laura Paterson (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, 199-209. New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003349891-17

2023

  • Goodwin, Corina & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2023). Deaf and hearing American Sign Language-English bilinguals show typical early bilingual language development. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 28(4), 350-362. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad026
  • Laszakovits, Sabine, Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Noschese, Emily Jo & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2023). Object shift in ASL and Libras. In Zheng Shen & Sabine Laszakovits (Eds.), The Size of Things II: Movement, Features, and Interpretation, 43-65. Berlin: Language Science Press.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gale, Elaine & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2023). Family ASL: An early start to equitable education for deaf children. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education 43(2), 156-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/02711214211031307
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Klamt, Marilyn Mafra (2023). Blending Libras and Portuguese: Acceptability variables. Cilene Rodrigues and Andrés Saab (Eds.), Formal Approaches to Languages of South America, 107-130. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22344-0_5

2022

  • Gu, Shengyun, Chen Pichler, Deborah, Kozak, L. Viola & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2022). Phonological development in ASL-signing children: Insights from pseudosign repetition tasks. Frontiers in Psychology 13.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.921047
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Hochgesang, Julie (2022). Signed languages – Unique and ordinary: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language 42(6), 789-793. Special Issue: How diverse is child language acquisition research. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237221098858
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gagne, Deanna (2022). Lessons to be learned from bimodal bilingualism. Invited submission, special issue on Sign Language, Deaf Culture, and Bilingual Education. Hrvatska revija za rehabilitacijska istraživanja (Croatian Review of Rehabilitation Research) 58, 83-97. https://doi.org/10.31299/hrri.58.si.4

2021

2020

  • Kwok, Lily, Berk, Stephanie & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). Person vs locative agreement: Evidence from late learners and language emergence. Sign Language & Linguistics Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir 23(1-2), 17-37. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00042.kwo
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane, Smith, Neil & Tsimpli, Ianthi (2020). Age of acquisition effects in language development. In Gary Morgan (Editor), Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in Honour of Bencie Woll, 93-113. Trends in Language Acquisition Series; Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Davidson, Kathryn, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Emmorey, Karen (2020). Code blending speech with depicting signs. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10(2), 290-308. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17043.qua
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2020). Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis. In Ulrike Zeshan, Jennifer Webster & Anastasia Bradford (Eds.), Sign Multilingualism, 201-226. DeGruyter Mouton & Ishara Press.
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Klamt, Marilyn Mafra (2020). Sobreposição de línguas: descrições linguísticas [Code blending: Linguistic descriptions]. In Ronice Müller de Quadros (Ed.), Fórum Linguístico (Dossiê Documentação de Libras) 17(4), 5464 –5482. Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2020.e77231
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Klamt, Marilyn Mafra, & Pires, KarinaTasso (2020). Estudos experimentais com bilíngues bimodais: aspectos metodológicos [Experimental studies with bimodal bilinguals: Methodological aspects].  Revista Linguí∫tica 16(3), 372-403. UFRJ. https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2020.v16n3a33485
  • Sandler, Wendy, Stamp, Rose, Coppola, Marie & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). Introduction. Sign Language & Linguistics [Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir] 23(1-2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00041.int
  •  Sandler, Wendy, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Dachkovsky, Svetlana & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2020). Sign language prosody. In Carlos Gussenhoven & Aoju Chen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Prosody, 104-122. Oxford University Press.

2019

 

2018

 

2017

 

2016

 

2015

  • Gökgöz, Kadir, Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Oliveira, Janine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2015). Pointing and Eyegaze in Bimodal Bilingual Language Development. In Elizabeth Grillo and Kyle Jepson (Eds.), Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) 39, 178-190. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Chen Pichler, Deborah, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Cruz, Carina Rebello, Kozak, Laura, Palmer, Jeffrey Levi, Lemos Pizzio, Aline & Reynolds, Wanette (2015).  Methods in bimodal bilingualism research: Experimental studies. In Eleni Orfanidou, Bencie Woll & Gary Morgan (Eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Sign Language Studies, 250-280. Blackwell.

 

2014

 

2013

 

2012

 

2011

  • Lillo-Martin, Diane (2011). Sign Languages. In Patrick Colm Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, 774-777. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Meier, Richard P. (2011). On the Linguistic Status of ‘Agreement’ in Sign Languages. Target article, Theoretical Linguistics 37, 95-141. (PMCID: PMC3595197)
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Meier, Richard P. (2011). Response to Commentaries: Gesture, Language, and Directionality. Theoretical Linguistics 37, 235-246.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2011). Acquisition of the Syntax-Discourse Interface: The Expression of Point-of-View. Lingua 121, 623-636. (PMCID:PMC3081591)
  • Quadros, Ronice Muller de, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2011). Desenvolvimento Bilíngue Intermodal: Implicações para Educação e Interpretação de Línguas de Sinais. In: Maria Cecilia de Moura, Sandra Regina Leite de Campos & Sabine Antonialli Arena Vergamini (Eds.), Educação para Surdos: Práticas e Perspectivas II, v. 1, 1-14. São Paulo: Santos Editora.
  • Snyder, William & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2011). Principles and Parameters Theory and Language Acquisition. In Patrick Colm Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, 670-673. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2010

 

2009

  • Lillo-Martin, Diane (2009). Sign Language Acquisition Studies. In Edith Bavin (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language, 399-415. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2009). Two in One: Evidence for Imperatives as the Analogue to RI’s from ASL and_LSB. In Jane Chandlee, Michelle Franchini, Sandy Lord, & Gudrun-Marion Rheiner, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 302-312. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. [Publication in Portuguese, in Cadernos de Saúde, cited below]
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2009). Imperativos Análogos a Raízes Infinitivas: Evidência das Línguas de Sinais Americana e Brasileira. (Imperatives function as analogues to root infinitives: Evidence from ASL and LSB). Cadernos de Saúde, Numero Especial de Línguas Gestuais, 29-35.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Snyder, William (2009). Commentary on “Capturing the Evasive Passive.” Language Acquisition 16, 118-122.

 

2008

  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Picher, Deborah (2008). Development of Sign Language Acquisition Corpora. In Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou, Thomas Hanke, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, & Inge Zwitserlood, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora; 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 129-133. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W25_Proceedings.pdf.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane (2008) Sign Language Acquisition Studies: Past, Present and Future. In Ronice Müller de Quadros (Ed.), Sign Languages: Spinning and unraveling the past, present and future. TISLR9, forty-five papers and three posters from the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil, December 2006, 244-263. Petrópolis, Brazil: Editora Arara Azul. http://www.editora-arara-azul.com.br/EstudosSurdos.php.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2008). Focus Constructions in American Sign Language and Língua de Sinais Brasileira. In Josep Quer (Ed.), Signs of the Time: Selected Papers from TISLR 2004, 161-176. Seedorf, Germany: Signum Verlag.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Snyder, William (2008). Commentary on “The Acquisition of Inflection: A Parameter-Setting Approach.” Language Acquisition 15, 210-215.

2007

  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2007). Aquisição das Línguas de Sinais e a morfologia verbal nas Línguas de Sinais Brasileira e Americana. In Anais do I Encontro do Nordeste em Aquisição da Linguagem (I ENEAL 2005). Recife: UNICAP, v.1. p.1 – 14 (CD Rom).
  • Quadros, Ronice Müller de & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2007). Gesture and the Acquisition of Verb Agreement in Sign Languages. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, & I. Woo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 520-531. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

2006

  • O’Brien, Karen, Grolla, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2006).  Long Passives are Understood by Young Children. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 441-451. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane (2006).  Sign Linguistics and the Interfaces. In Leah Bateman & Cherlon Ussery (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, 43-61. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2006).  Acquisition of Syntax in Signed Languages. In Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, & Patricia E. Spencer (Eds), Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children, 231-261. Oxford University Press.
  • Lillo-Martin, Diane & Quadros, Ronice Müller de (2006). The Position of Early WH-Elements in American Sign Language and Brazilian Sign Language. In Kamil Ud Deen, Jun Nomura, Barbara Schulz & Bonnie D. Schwartz (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition–North America, Honolulu, HI. University of Connecticut Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 4, 195-203.