Martha E. Tyrone
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martha E. Tyrone plays a role.
Articles
2012 Location in ASL: Insights from phonetic variation New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10, Brentari, Diane and Ronnie B. Wilbur (eds.), pp. 128–146 | Article
Recent work on location variation led us to investigate whether phonetic effects influence the lowering of certain forehead located signs in American Sign Language. We found that signing speed and the location of adjacent signs did affect these forehead signs in ways that conform to general… read more
2008 One hand or two? Nativisation of fingerspelling in ASL and BANZSL Sign Language & Linguistics 11:1, pp. 3–44 | Article
In this paper, we focus on the nativisation process as a fully fingerspelled word or fingerspelled letters become a fingerspelled loan or initialised sign. Previous models of nativisation (e.g., Brentari & Padden 2001) have described forms derived from one-handed fingerspelling systems; however,… read more
2007 Simultaneity in Atypical Signers: Implications for the Structure of Signed Language Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn (eds.), pp. 317–335 | Article