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Director, Linguistics Program
B.A., 1969, University of Rochester
Ph.D., 1973, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
wilbur@omni.cc.purdue.edu
(765)494-3822
Ronnie Wilbur investigates the structure of sign languages
and what that tells us about the nature of language
and cognition. Specific ongoing
projects include:
- nonmanuals (facial expressions) and their interface
role in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and prosody
(intonation);
- an integrated linguistic-computational approach
to automatic sign recognition (Co-PI A. Kak, Electrical
and Computational Engineering); funded by NSF;
and
- a comparision of American Sign Language, Austrian
Sign Language (öGS), and Croatia Sign Language
(HZJ) syntax and nonmanuals.
Dr. Wilbur is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Sign Language & Linguistics.
Her teaching responsibilities include general linguistics,
syntax, formal semantics, universals and typology, language
and deafness, and bilangualism.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS Full
CV
Wilbur, R.B. (in press). What studies of sign language
tell us about language. In M. Marschark & P. Spencer
(eds.), The handbook of deaf studies, language, and
education. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wilbur R.B. (2000). Phonological and prosodic layering
of nonmanuals in American Sign Language. In Lane, H.
& K. Emmorey (eds.), The signs of language revisited:
Festschrift for Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima,
(pp. 213-241) Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wilbur R.B. (2000). The use of ASL to support the development
of English and literacy. Journal of Deaf Studies
and Deaf Education 5: 81-104
Wilbur R.B. (1999). Stress in ASL :Empirical evidence
and linguistic issues. Language & Speech
42:229-250..
Wilbur R.B. & Patschke, C. (1999). Syntactic correlates
of brow raise in ASL. Sign Language & Linguistics
2: 3-40.
Wilbur R.B. & Pertersen, L. (1998). Modality interactions
of speech and signing in sumultaneous communication.
Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research
41:200-212.
Wilbur R.B. & Patschke, C. (1998) Body Leans and
marking contrast in ASL. J. Pragmatics 30: 275-303.
Wilbur R.B. (1997). A prosodic/pragmatic explanation
for word order variation in ASL with typological inplications.
In K. Lee, E.Sweetster, & M. Verspoor (eds.), Lexical
and synactic constructions and the construction of meaning
(Vol. 1) (pp.89-104). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Wilbur, R., & Petersen, L. (in press). Backwards
signing and ASL syllable structure. Language and
Speech 40: 63-90
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