Introduction published in:
Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir
Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp
[Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2] 2020
► pp. 1–16

Irit Meir

| University of Haifa
| Bar-Ilan University
| University of Connecticut
| University of Connecticut
Published online: 30 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00041.int
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