Ronnie Wilbur

CLA Profile

Professor // Linguistics // SIS
Professor // Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Articles

• Wilbur, R. B. Sign syllables. (in press) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology revised edition.
• Tamimi Sa’d, S. H., Wilbur, R. B., Pfau, R. (in press). Negation in Sadat Tawaher Sign Language: A Formal Approach. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 43.
• Krebs, J., Harbour, E., Malaia, E.A., Wilbur, R.B., Schwameder, H., Roehm, D. 2025. Grammatical control of sign language production: EMG and motion capture analysis of adjective intensification in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Frontiers in Language Sciences 4:1632226. doi: 10.3389/flang.2025.1632226
• Tamimi Sa’d, S. H., Wilbur, R. B. 2025. Basic clause negator in Sadat Tawaher Sign Language. Proceedings of Linguistic Society of America (Proc Ling Soc Amer) 10(1). 5903. 
• Karabüklü, S., Wood, S. K., Bradley, C. R., Wilbur, R. B., Malaia, E. A. 2025. Effect of sign language learning on temporal resolution of visual attention. Journal of Vision 25(3). 
• Krebs, J. & Wilbur, R.B. 2024. Word order in the context of extensional and intensional events in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). doi:  
• Krebs, J., Malaia, E., Wilbur, R. B., Roehm, D. 2024. Role of prosodic cues in topic signaling in Austrian Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics online Nov 18, 2024. 
• Tamimi Sa’d, S. H., Wilbur, R. B. 2024. A typological perspective on standard negation in an emerging sign language. Proceedings of the 59^th Annual Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS59), 471-493.
• Tamimi Sa’d, S. H., Wilbur, R. B. 2024. The simultaneous production of two grammars: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 9(1): 5692.  
• Krebs, J., Malaia, E., Fessl, I., Wiesinger, H.-P., Wilbur, R., Roehm, D., Schwameder, H. 2024. Motion capture analysis of verb and adjective types in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING) 2024: 11619–11624. 
• Wilbur, R. B. 2024. A linguist informs deaf education with sign language research. Sign Language Studies 24(2): 275-283. [journal; special issue on the First Generation of North American and European Sign Language Researchers] 

Awards / Honors

• 2024    Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2023   Ranked in top 2000 U.S. scientists (#1918): Research.com Best Scientists in Social Sciences and Humanities; “based on D-index (Discipline H-index) … papers and citation values … ranking includes only leading scientists with D-index of at least 30”
• 2023    Expertscape Expert in Sign Language [ https://www.expertscape.com/ex/sign+language ] ,  2020, 2021, 2022; “Top 0.3% of 2661 published authors worldwide 2013-2023”