Karen Emmorey

orcid.org/0000-0002-5647-0066

List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Emmorey plays a role.

Journal

Sign Language & Linguistics (SL&L)

Edited by Roland Pfau and Pamela Perniss

ISSN 1387-9316 | E-ISSN 1569-996X

Articles (5) | Order by:

Müller de Quadros, Ronice, Kathryn Davidson, Diane Lillo-Martin and Karen Emmorey 2020 Code-blending with depicting signs Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:2, pp. 290–308 | Article

Bimodal bilinguals sometimes use code-blending, simultaneous production of (parts of) an utterance in both speech and sign. We ask what spoken language material is blended with entity and handling depicting signs (DS), representations of action that combine discrete components with iconic… read more

Schaller, Franziska, Brittany Lee, Zed Sevcikova Sehyr, Lucinda O’Grady Farnady and Karen Emmorey 2020 Cross-linguistic metaphor priming in ASL-English bilinguals: Effects of the Double Mapping Constraint Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp (eds.), pp. 96–111 | Article

Meir’s (2010) Double Mapping Constraint (DMC) states the use of iconic signs in metaphors is restricted to signs that preserve the structural correspondence between the articulators and the concrete source domain and between the concrete and metaphorical domains. We investigated ASL signers’… read more

Nicodemus, Brenda and Karen Emmorey 2015 Directionality in ASL-English interpreting: Accuracy and articulation quality in L1 and L2 Interpreting 17:2, pp. 145–166 | Article

Among spoken language interpreters, a long-standing question regarding directionality is whether interpretations are better when working into one’s native language (L1) or into one’s ‘active’ non-native language (L2). In contrast to studies that support working into L1, signed language… read more

Emmorey, Karen and Barbara Tversky 2002 Spatial perspective choice in ASL Sign Language & Linguistics 5:1, pp. 3–26 | Article

Two studies investigated the ramifications of encoding spatial locations via signing space for perspective choice in American Sign Language. Deaf signers (speakers) described the location of one of two identical objects either to a present addressee or to a remote addressee via a video monitor.… read more

Emmorey, Karen and Shannon Casey 2001 Gesture, thought and spatial language Gesture 1:1, pp. 35–50 | Article

This study explores the conceptual and communicative roles of gesture by examining the consequences of gesture prevention for the type of spatial language used to solve a spatial problem. English speakers were asked to describe where to place a group of blocks so that the blocks completely filled a… read more