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Diane Brentari Curriculum Vitae  
BUSINESS ADDRESS
Department of Linguistics, 1115 East 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 E-MAIL: dbrentari@uchicago.edu
 
HOME ADDRESSES
5720 South Kenwood Avenue, #3                             
Chicago, IL 60637


​via Romana, 12
50125 Firenze, Italia
  


ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2011-         Mary K. Werkman Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago Co-Director:                Center for Gesture, Sign and Language
              Director: Sign Language Linguistics Laboratory
              RESEARCH AREAS: Sign Languages, Phonology, Morphology, Prosody TEACHING AREAS: Sign Language                Linguistics, General Linguistics
 
1996-2011    Associate/Full Professor, Linguistics Program, Department of Speech Language and Hearing                     Sciences, Neurosciences Program. Director, ASL Program, Purdue University
 
1990-1996    Assistant/Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, University of California-Davis. 1983-1985;               Instructor, English Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

1988-1989    Whiting Dissertation Fellowship Award
 
Visiting Positions
May, 2013         Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di linguistica generale. Università di Venezia-Ca’Foscari.
April, 2009       Visiting Professor, Dipartimento di linguistica generale. Università di Pisa.
June, 2006        Visiting Professor, Department of Human Communication. University College London.
Fall 1999         Visiting Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT.
June-July 1994    Visiting Professor, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of          New Mexico
1991-1992         Visiting Scientist, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University.
 
ACADEMIC DEGREES
1990              Ph. D., The University of Chicago; Linguistics Dissertation: Theoretical Foundations in                      American Sign Language Phonology
1981              M.A., The George Washington University; Speech/Language Pathology &Audiology

1978              B.S., B.A., cum laude; The Pennsylvania State University; Speech Pathology and Audiology;                    Art History

AWARDS
2020-2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Observing the Creation of Language.
 
2019      Language (flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America). Best paper of the year award.              Abner, N., M. Flaherty, K. Stangl, M. Coppola, D. Brentari, and S. Goldin-Meadow. The Noun-Verb              Distinction in Established and Emergent Sign Systems. Language, 95 (2): 230-267.
 
2001-2006  University Faculty Scholar Award
 
1989-1990  Whiting Dissertation Fellowship Award
 
GRANTS
2019-2024  National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator: Diane Brentari; Co-PIs: Marie Coppola;                 Susan Goldin-Meadow).Two-verb predicates in sign languages: Typological variation and emergence             (BCS-1918545). $533,000
 
2018-2021  Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society. Haun Saussy, Anastasia Giannakidou, Diane Brentari               (Co-Principal Investigators) Motion and meaning: Sign and body gesture in dance narratives across cultures. $117,618
 
2017-2022  National Science Foundation. Terra Edwards & Diane Brentari (Co-Principal Investigators).
           What you see is what you feel: Sign Language phonology in a ProTactile world. (BCS- 1651100). 
           $580,500
 
2012-2019  National Science Foundation Research Grant. Diane Brentari, Principal Investigator. A                       typological analysis of handshape: Gesture, homesign, and sign language.(BCS-1227908.)
           $550,000
 
2014-2019  National Science Foundation Research Grant. Diane Brentari, Karen Livescu (PIs)
           Jason Riggle, Greg Shakhnarovich (Co-PIs) Models of Handshape Articulatory Phonology for                     Recognition and Analysis of American Sign Language. (IIS-1409886). $275,000
 
2016-2019  National Science Foundation. Diane Brentari & L. Horton, (Co-PIs). Conventionalization of                   Homesign Systems in Guatemala: Lexical & Morpho-phonological Dimensions. (BCS-                              1627520).(Dissertation Improvement grant)
 
2013-2017  The Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society. Diane Brentari, Anastasia Giannakidou,               Susan Goldin-Meadow, Sian Beilock (Co-PIs) The Body’s Role in Thinking, Performing, and                     Referencing $260,000
 
2013-2016  National Science Foundation. Diane Brentari & J. Keane, (Co-PIs). Coarticulation and the                     phonetics of fingerspelling. (BCS-1251807). (Dissertation Improvement grant)
 
2006-2012  National Science Foundation Research Grant. D. Brentari, Principal Investigator.
          “Grammatical Regularities in Sign Language and Homesign. (BCS 0547554) $625,000
 
2001-2005  National Science Foundation Research Grant. D. Brentari, Principal Investigator.
          “A Cross-linguistic Study of Sign Language Classifiers. (BCS 0112391) $361,000

1999-2002  National Science Foundation Research Grant. D. Brentari, Co-Investigator.
          “An Integrated Linguistic-Computational Approach to Automatic Recognition of American Sign                  Language.” $508,000
 
2009-2011  National Science Foundation Conference Grant. D. Brentari Co-Principal Investigator.“Theoretical             Issues in Sign Language Linguistics 10.” (BCS 0926532). $20,000
 
1995-1996  National Science Foundation Workshop Grant. D. Brentari, Principal Investigator.
          “Workshop on Cross-linguistic Issues in Sign Languages: Phonology and Morphology.”
          $18,900
 
2005-2007  Teaching and Learning Technologies Grant (Purdue University). D. Brentari, Principal                         Investigator, “Enhancing American Sign Language Learning Using Web-based Video Technology.”                 $40,000
 
CERTIFICATIONS
1999        American Sign Language Interpreter/Transliterator Certification—Illinois
1983        National Certification of Clinical Competence (Speech); American Speech, Hearing and Language                Association.
 
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-1995   Consultant, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University.
1983-1985   Instructor, English Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
1988-1989   Instructor, English Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
1985-1986   Research Assistant, The Gorilla Foundation, Woodside, CA
1978-1983   Speech-Language Pathologist:
1982-1983   Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
1981-1982   National Child Research Center, Washington, DC
1980-1981   Washington Hearing and Speech Society, Washington, DC
1978-1980   Pennsylvania Intermediate Unit #13, Lancaster/Lebanon, PA
 
LANGUAGES
Sign languages:
American Sign Language (ASL)—near-native competence
Italian Sign Language (LIS)—intermediate level competence
Spoken languages:
Italian—fluent competence in reading, speaking, oral comprehension, and writing French—good competence in reading and oral comprehension
German—good competence in reading
 
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2019   Brentari, D. Sign Language Phonology. Key Topics in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press.

2018   Brentari, D., and J. Lee (Eds.). Shaping Phonology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

2010   Brentari, D. (Ed.) Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University         Press.

2001  Brentari, D. (Ed.) Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages: A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Word            Formation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  
1998 Brentari, D. A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

1998 Lapointe, S., D. Brentari, and P. M. Farrell (Eds). Morphology and its Relation to Syntax and 
     Phonology
. Stanford University, CSLI Publications.

1992  Brentari, D., L. MacLeod, and G. Larson (Eds.) The Joy of Grammar: A Festschrift in Honor of James D.        McCawley. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
In press   Rissman, L., L. Horton, M. Flaherty, A. Senghas, M. Coppola, D. Brentari and S. Goldin-
           Meadow. The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: evidence from homesign and       
           Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognition.
 
In press   Iris Berent, I. O. Bat-El, D. Brentari, Q. Andan and V. Vaknin-Nusbaum. Amodal phonology.
           Journal of Linguistics.
 
In press.  Edwards, T., and D. Brentari. Feeling Phonology: The conventionalization of phonology in
           protactile communities in the United States. Language.
 
In press   Berent, I. O. Bat-El, D. Brentari, and M. Platt. Knowledge of language transfers from speech
           to sign: Evidence from doubling. Cognitive Science
 
In press   Fenlon, J., and D. Brentari. Sign language prosody. In J. Quer, R. Pfau, and A. Herrmann (eds.)
           Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research.
 
2019       Fenlon, J., K. Cooperrider, J. Keane, D. Brentari, and S. Goldin-Meadow. Comparing sign
           language and gesture: Insights from pointing. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 2.
           DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.499
 
2019       Abner, N., M. Flaherty, K. Stangl, M. Coppola, D. Brentari, and S. Goldin-Meadow. The Noun-Verb             Distinction in Established and Emergent Sign Systems. Language, 95 (2): 230- 267.                           https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2019.0030
 
2018       Brentari, D. Modality and contextual salience in co-sign vs. co-speech gesture. Theoretical                 linguistics 44 (3-4):215-226.
 
2018       Andan, Q., O. Bat-El, D. Brentari, and I. Berent. 2018. ANCHORING is amodal: Evidence from a                 signed language. Cognition 180: 279-83.
 
2018       Brentari, D., J Hill, and B. Amador. Variation in Phrasal Rhythm in Sign Languages: Introducing            “Rhythm Ratio”. Sign Language & Linguistics, 21(1), 41-76.
 
2018       Brentari, D. The Importance of Autosegmental Representations for Sign Language Phonology. In D.             Brentari and J. Lee. Shaping Phonology (pp. 119-145). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 
2018       Brentari, D., J. Falk, A. Giannakiou, A. Herrmann, E. Volk, and M. Steinbach.. Production and               Comprehension of Prosodic Markers in Sign Language Imperatives. Frontiers in Psychology:                     Language Sciences (Special Issue on Visual Language) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00770
 
2017       Kim, T. J. Keane, W. Wang, H. Tang, J. Riggle, G. Shakhnarovich, D. Brentari, and K. Livescu.               Lexicon-Free Fingerspelling Recognition from Video: Data, Models, and Signer                                 Adaptation. Computer Speech & Language.
 
2017       Keane, J. Z. Sevcikova, K. Emmorey, and D. Brentari. A Theory-Driven Model of Handshape                     Similarity. Phonology 34(2): 221-241.
 
2017       Fenlon, J., K. Cormier, and D. Brentari. The phonology of sign languages. In S.J. Hannahs and A.             Bosch (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory. NY: Routledge.
 
2017       Brentari, D., and S. Goldin-Meadow. Language emergence. Annual Review of Linguistics
           3:363–388.
 
2017       Goldin-Meadow, S., and D. Brentari. [Target article] Gesture, sign and language: The coming of               age of sign language and gesture studies. Brain and Behavioral Sciences 40.                                 doi:10.1017/S0140525X15001247, e0
 
2017       Goldin-Meadow, S., and D. Brentari. [Authors’ Response] Gesture and language: Distinct subsystem             of an integrated whole. Brain and Behavioral Sciences 40 doi:10.1017/S0140525X15001247, e0
 
2017       Brentari, D., M. Coppola, P.W. Cho, and A. Senghas. Handshape complexity as a pre-cursor to                 phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition. Language Acquisition 24(4): 283-                           306. doi:10.1080/10489223.2016.1187614
 
2016       Berent, I., O. Bat-El, D. Brentari, A. Dupuis, V. Vaknin-Nusbaum. The double identity of                     doubling: one language faculty, two channels. Proceedings of the National Academy of                         Sciences, 113(48): 13702–13707.
 
2016        Keane, J., and D. Brentari. Fingerspelling: Beyond Handshape Sequences. In M. Marschark and P.              Siple, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice,                146-160. NY/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 
2016        Brentari, D. and M. Coppola. Nicaraguan Sign Language. Serious                                              Science. http://serious- science.org/nicaraguan-sign-language-6876
 
2016        Horton, L., S. Goldin-Meadow, M. Coppola, A. Senghas, D. Brentari. Forging a morphological                  system out of two dimensions: Agentivity and number. Open Linguistics 1, 596–613.
 
2015        Brentari, D., J. Falk, and G.Wolford. The acquisition of American Sign Language Prosody.
            Language, 91(3): e144-e168.
 
2015        Goldin-Meadow, S., D. Brentari, M. Coppola, L. Horton, and A. Senghas. Watching language grow                in the manual modality: Nominals, predicates, and handshapes. Cognition. 136: 381-395.                      doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.11.029

2015        Brentari, D., A. Di Renzo, J. Keane, and V. Volterra.Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic                    Sources  of a Handshape Distinction Expressing Agentivity. TopiCS 7, 95-                                    123. doi:10.1111/tops.12123
 
2015        Saletta, M., L. Goffman, and D. Brentari. Orthographic Factors Influence Speech Production.
            Applied Psycholinguistics 1(2), 1-24. doi:10.1017/S0142716415000053
 
2015        Keane, J., D.Brentari, and J.Riggle. Segmentation and pinky extension in in ASL fingerspelling.              In E. Raimy and C. Cairns, eds., The Segment in Phonology and Phonetics, 103-128. Wiley-                    Blackwell.
 
2014        Coppola, M., and D. Brentari. From iconic handshapes to grammatical contrasts: Longitudinal                  evidence from a child homesigner. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences.                                doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00830
 
2014        Berent, I., A. Dupuis, and D. Brentari. Phonological reduplication in sign language: Rules                  rule. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00560
 
2013        Brentari, D., G. Marotta, I. Margherita, and A. Ott. The interaction of pitch accent and                    gesture production in Italian and English. Studi e Saggi Linguistici, 51(1), 81-102.
 
2013        Berent, I., A. Dupuis, and D. Brentari. Amodal aspects of linguistic design: Evidence from sign              language. PLOS ONE, 8(4), 1-17.
 
2013        Brentari, D., M. Coppola, A. Jung, and S. Goldin-Meadow. Acquiring word class distinctions in                American Sign Language: Evidence from handshape. Language Learning and Development, 9(2), 130-              150.
 
2013        Brentari, D. and M. Coppola. What Sign Language Creation Teaches Us About Language.
            Wiley's Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Cognitive Science, 4, 201–211. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1212
 
2012        Brentari, D. Sign language phonology: The word and sub-lexical structure.. In R. Pfau, M.                    Steinbach, & B. Woll, eds., Handbook of Sign Language Linguistics, 21-54. Berlin: Mouton.
 
2012        Brentari, D., M. Nadolske, and G. Wolford. Can experience with gesture influence the prosody of              a Sign Language?: ASL prosodic cues in bimodal bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and                        Cognition,15(2), 402-412.
 
2012        Brentari, D., M. Coppola, L. Mazzoni, and S. Goldin-Meadow. When does a system become                        phonological? Handshape production in gesturers, signers, and homesigners. Natural Language and              Linguistic Theory, 30(1), 1-31. DOI 10.1007/s11049-011-9145-1
 
2011        Brentari, D and P. Eccarius. When does a system become phonological: Possible sources for                    phonological contrast in handshape. In H. van der Hulst and R. Channon (eds.) Formational Units              in the Analysis of Signs, 125-150. Nijmegan: Ishara Press.
 
2011        Brentari, D. Sign Language Phonology. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, & A. Yu, eds., Handbook of                Phonological Theory, 691-721. New York/Oxford: Blackwells.

2011        Brentari, D. Handshape in sign language phonology. In M. van Oostendorp C. Ewen, E. Hume, and                K.Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 195 - 222. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
 
2011        Brentari, D., C. González, A. Seidl, and R. Wilbur. Sensitivity to visual prosodic cues in                  signers and nonsigners. Language and Speech, 54(1), 49-72.
 
2010        Eccarius, P. and D. Brentari. A Formal Analysis of Phonological Contrast and Iconicity in Sign              Language Handshapes. Sign Language and Linguistics,13(2), 156-181.
 
2010        Brentari, D. Introduction. In D. Brentari, ed., Sign Languages, 1-16. Cambridge University                  Press.
 
2010        Brentari, D. and P. Eccarius. Handshape contrast in sign languages. In D. Brentari, ed., Sign                Languages, 284-311. Cambridge University Press.
 
2010        Tang, G., D. Brentari, C. González, and F. Sze. Crosslinguistic variation in the use of                      prosodic  cues: the case of blinks. In D. Brentari, ed., Sign Languages, 519-542. Cambridge                  University Press.
 
2008        Eccarius, P. and D. Brentari. Handshape Coding Made Easier: A theoretically based notation for              phonological transcription. Sign Language and Linguistics 11(1), 69-101.
 
2008        Balog, H. and D. Brentari. The relationship between early gestures and intonation. First                    Language, 28, 141-163.
 
2007        Brentari, D. Sign language phonology: Issues of iconicity and universality. In E. Pizzuto and
            R. Simone, eds., Verbal and Signed Languages, 59-80. Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter.
 
2007        Eccarius, P., and D. Brentari. Symmetry and Dominance: A cross-linguistic study of signs and                classifier constructions. Lingua, 117, 1169-1201.
 
2006        Brentari, D. Effects of language modality on word segmentation: An experimental study of                    phonological factors in a sign language. In L. Goldstein, D. Whalen, and C. Best, eds.
            Papers in Laboratory Phonology VIII, 155-164. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
 
2005        Brentari, D. The use of morphological templates to specify handshapes in sign languages.
            Linguistische Berichte, 13, 145-177.
 
2004        Benedicto, E., and D. Brentari. Where did all the arguments go?: Argument-changing properties                of Classifiers in ASL. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 22(4), 743-810.
 
2003        Brentari, D. Preface to the 2nd edition of R. Battison’s Lexical Borrowing in American Sign                  Language, ix-xx. Linstok Press/Sign Media. Burtonsville, MD.
 
2003        Emmorey, K., S. McCullough, and D. Brentari. Categorical perception in American Sign                        Language. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18 (1), 21-45.
 
2002        Brentari, D. and L. Crossley. Prosody on the Hands and Face: Evidence from American Sign                    Language. Sign Language and Linguistics, 5(2), 105-130.

2002        Brentari, D. Modality differences in sign language phonology and morphophonemics. In R. Meier,              D. Quinto, K Cormier, eds., Modality in Language and Linguistic Theory, 35-64.
            Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 
2001        Brentari, D. Borrowed Elements in Sign Languages: A window on word formation [introduction]. In              D. Brentari, ed., Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Language: A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Word              Formation, ix-xx. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
 
2001        Brentari, D. and C. Padden. A language with multiple origins: Native and foreign vocabulary in              American Sign Language. In D. Brentari, ed., Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Language: A Cross-                  linguistic Investigation of Word Formation, 87-119. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
 
2000        Poizner, H., D. Brentari, J. Kegl, and M. Tyrone. The structure of language as motor behavior:              Evidence from signers with Parkinson’s Disease. In K. Emmorey and H. Lane, eds., The Signs of                Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, 509-532. Mahwah, NJ:              Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
 
1998        Lapointe, S., D. Brentari, and P. M. Farrell. Introduction. In S. Lapointe, D. Brentari and P.
            M. Farrell, eds., Morphology and Its Relation to Syntax and Phonology, 1-11. Stanford: CSLI.
 
1998        Brentari, D. Echo avoidance and the Obligatory Contour Principle: Comment on Moira Yip’s paper.              In S. Lapointe, D. Brentari , and P. M. Farrell, eds., Morphology and Its Relation to Syntax                and Phonology. Stanford: CSLI.
 
1998        Baynes, K., J. Kegl, D. Brentari, C. Kussmaul, and H. Poizner. Chronic language impairment                  following Landau-Kleffner Syndrome: A 23-Year Outcome Study. Brain and Language 63, 381-425.
 
1996        Brentari, D. Eine prosodische Beschreibung zweihändiger Gebärden in ASL. Das Zeichen
            37, 272-386.
 
1996        Brentari, D. Trilled Movement: Phonetic realization and formal representation. Lingua 98, 43-71.
 
1995        Brentari, D., H. Poizner and J. Kegl. Aphasic and Parkinsonian signing: Differences in                      phonological disruptions. Brain and Language, 48, 69-105.
 
1995        Brentari, D. Sign Language Phonology: ASL. In J. Goldsmith, ed., A Handbook of Phonological                  Theory, 615-639. NY: Basil Blackwell.
 
1994        Brentari, D. Prosodic constraints in American Sign Language. In H. Bos and T. Schermer, eds.,                Sign Language Research 1994, 39-51. Hamburg: SIGNUM Press.
 
1994        Brentari, D. and H. Poizner. A phonological analysis of a deaf Parkinsonian signer.
            Language and Cognitive Processes 9(1), 69-100.
 
1993        Brentari, D. Establishing a sonority hierarchy in American Sign Language: The use of                        simultaneous structure in phonology. Phonology, 10(2), 281-306.

1993        Brentari, D. Phonological constituents in signed languages. In M. Heusser, ed., Word and                    Image Interactions, 237-242. Basel: Weise Verlag.
 
1993        Brentari, D. and J. Goldsmith. Secondary licensing and the non-dominant hand in ASL Phonology.              In Geoff Coulter, eds., Phonetics and Phonology, volume 3, 17-41. NY: Academic Press.
 
1992        Brentari, D. Phonological representation in American Sign Language. Language 68, 359- 374.
 
1991        Brentari, D. L’accord verbal et la structure conceptuelle en LSQ et en ASL. Revue québécoise de              linguistique théoretique et appliqueé 10: 57-70.
 
1990        Brentari, D. Licensing in ASL handshape change. In C. Lucas, ed., Sign Language Research:                    Theoretical issues, 57-68 Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
 
1987        Patterson, F.G., C. H. Patterson, and D. Brentari. Language in child, chimp, and gorilla.                    American Psychologist 43, 270-271.
 
1986        Brentari, D. and S. Wolk. The relative effects of three expressive modalities on adult deaf                  speakers. Journal of Communication Disorders 19, 209-218.
 
PUBLICATIONS: (volume editor) PROCEEDINGS
2012        Brentari, D., and R. Wilbur (guest editors). Special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics.                New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10, 15(1).

1988        Brentari, D., L. MacLeod, and G. Larson, eds., Proceedings from Chicago Linguistic Society 24,              Vol.1, General Session.

1988        MacLeod, L., G. Larson, and D. Brentari, eds., Proceedings from the Chicago Linguistic Society              24,Vol. 2, Parasession on Agreement in Grammatical Theory.

 
PUBLICATIONS: (contributions) PROCEEDINGS
2019        Bowen Shi, B. A., Martinez Del Rio, J. Keane, D.Brentari, G. Shakhnarovich and K. Livescu.                  Fingerspelling recognition in the wild with iterative visual attention. International                        Conference on Computer Vision. October 27-November 2, 2019, Seoul, Korea.
 
2019        Montemurro, K., M. Flaherty, M. Coppola, S. Goldin-Meadow, and D. Brentari.
            Grammaticalization of the Body and Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language. In M. Brown and
            B. Dailey. Proceedings of the 43st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development             (BUCLD), 415-426. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
 
2018        Montemurro, K. & D. Brentari. Emphatic fingerspelling as code-mixing in American Sign Language.              In the Proceedings from the 2018 annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. DOI                    10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4357
 
2017        Horton, L., L. Rissman, D. Brentari and S. Goldin-Meadow. The Emergence of Agent- Marking                    Strategies in Child Homesign Systems. In K. Montemurro, et al., Proceedings from the 51st                    annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

2017        Ergin, R., and D. Brentari. Handshape Preferences for Objects and Predicates in Central Taurus              Sign Language. In M. LaMendola and J. Scott (eds.) Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston                    University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), 222-235. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla                  Press.
 
2016        Falk, J., and D. Brentari. Unsupervised Learning of Prosodic Boundaries in ASL.
            Proceedings of the 40th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium.
 
2015        Brentari, D., C. Branchini, J. Fenlon, L. Horton, and G. Tang. Typology in sign languages: Can              it be predictive? In K. Ershova, J. Falk, and J. Geiger (eds.) Proceedings from the 51st annual              meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 47-65. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
 
2013        Keane, J. D. Brentari, and J. Riggle. Coarticulation in Fingerspelling. In Stefan Keine and                  Sjayne Sloggett (eds.), Proceedings from the North East Conference Linguistic Society (NELS),                42, vol. 1, 261-272.
 
2012        Brentari, D., and R. Wilbur. 2012. Guest editors' preface. Special issue of Sign Language and                Linguistics. New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10, 15(1): 1–10
 
2010        Brentari, D. Sign language prosodic cues in first and second language acquisition. In                        Conference Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, IL
 
2008        Brentari, D, and R. Wilbur. A cross-linguistic study of word segmentation in three sign                      languages. In R. Müller de Quadros (ed.) Sign Languages: spinning and unraveling the past,                  present and future. Florianopolis, Brazil: Arara Azul.
 
2008        Eccarius, P. and D. Brentari. Contrast differences across lexical substrata:  Evidence from                  the ASL handshape. In N. Adams, A. Cooper, F. Parrill, & T. Weir (eds.) Proceedings from the 4              44th Annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 2, 187-201. Chicago: Chicago                    Linguistic Society.
 
2002        Benedicto, E., and D. Brentari. Los clasificadores en Lengua de Señas (Norte) Americana, ASL:                Propiedades Argumentales. Proceedings of VI Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el                    Noroeste. Hermosillo - Sonora, Mexico.
 
1999        Brentari, D. and E. Benedicto. Verbal classifiers as heads of functional projections: Evidence              from ASL. In. S. F. Bird, A. Carnie, J. D. Haugen, and P. Norquest, eds., Proceedings from the              18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 69-81. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
 
1994        Brentari, D. Prosodic constraints in American Sign Language. Proceedings from the 20th Annual                Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, 103-112.
 
1990        Brentari, D. and A. Bosch. Mora: Autosegment or syllable constituent? Proceedings from the 26th              Annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Vol. 2: Parasession on the Syllable, 1-15.
 
1990        Brentari, D. Underspecification in American Sign Language phonology. Proceedings from the 16th              Annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 46-56.

 
1988        Brentari, D. Backwards verbs in ASL: Agreement re-opened. Proceedings from the Chicago                      Linguistic Society 24, Vol. 2, Parasession on Agreement in Grammatical Theory, 16-27.
 
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACTS, and REVIEWS

2018        Brentari, D, J. Fenlon, and K. Cormier. Sign language Phonology. In M. Aronoff ed., The Oxford              Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University                                                              Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.11 [Encyclopedia entry]
 
2016        Brentari, D. Sign language Phonology. In G. Gertz and P. Boudreault, eds., The SAGE Deaf                    Studies Encyclopedia. Washington, DC: Sage Publishers. [Encyclopedia entry]
 
2008        Brentari, D. Inside Deaf Culture. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries. 2006. Language, 84(3), 655-                658 [Review]
 
2006        Brentari, D. Sign Language phonology. In Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics.
            Elsevier. [Encyclopedia entry]
 
1998        Brentari, D. Commentary on Newkirk’s papers from the sign linguistics underground. Sign                      Language and Linguistics 1: 93-96. [Review]
 
1996        Brentari, D. Language, Gesture, and Space. Karen Emmorey and Judy Reilly (Eds.), 1995.                      Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 1995. Language 72(4): 83-838. [Review]
 
1995        Baynes, K., D. Brentari, and J. Kegl. Chronic language impairment following Landau Kleffner’s                Syndrome: A case study. Journal of the International Neurological Society, 1(2),
            152. [Abstract]
 
1994        Brentari, D. Universal Grammar and American Sign Language. Diane Lillo-Martin.1991. Dordrecht:              Kluwer. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 9(1), 208–214. [Review]
 
1990        Brentari, D. Monastic Sign Languages. 1987. Jean Umiker-Sebeok and Thomas Sebeok (Eds.) The                  Hague: Mouton. Language, 66(3), 655-656. [Review]
 
1990        Brentari, D. Language Learning and Deafness. Michael Strong (Ed.). International Journal of                  American Linguistics 56, 172-175. [Review]
 
1988        Brentari, D. What the Hands Reveal About the Brain. Howard Poizner, Edward S. Klima and Ursula              Bellugi. Language 64(4), 805-809. [Review]

1988        Brentari, D. American Sign Language: Linguistic and Applied Dimensions. Ronnie Wilbur.
            Language 64(2), 437-438. [Review]

 
COURSES & SEMINARS TAUGHT
General linguistics
Phonology I (Fall 2015, 2016, 2019)
Phonology II (Winter, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Research Methods in Phonology (graduate seminar, Fall 2010)

Phonology Seminar on various topics, (1992, 1993, 1996, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017): Prosodic Structure, Optimality Theory, Sign Language Phonology, etc.
Fonologia Generativa (Generative Phonology), Università di Pisa (graduate course, April 2009) Phonological Analysis (graduate course, every Fall semesters)
Phonological Theory (graduate course, every Spring semester) Introduction to Phonetics (undergraduate course, every Spring, 1990-1996)
Introduction to Linguistics (undergraduate course, every Winter, 1990-1996) Language and the Human (fall, each fall since 2011)
 
The linguistics of sign languages: graduate seminars and mixed courses
LSA Institute 2015: Sign Language Linguistics (2 weeks)
LSA Institute 1994: Crosslinguistic Issues in Sign Language Phonology and Morphology (6 weeks) Sign Language Phonology (graduate seminar, 2006, 2014, 2018)
Structure of American Sign Language (mixed graduate undergraduate course, Fall, 2013)
Research Methods in Sign Language and Gesture (mixed graduate undergraduate course, Winter, 2012, Fall, 2017)
Gesture, Sign, and Language (graduate course, Franke Center for the Humanities, Cross Disciplinary Initiative, fall 2012)
Sign Language Linguistics (mixed graduate/undergraduate course, Fall 2011, Winter, 2014) The Linguistic Structure of Sign Languages (graduate course, 1999; Fall 2001)
 
The linguistics of sign languages: undergraduate courses
The American Deaf Community: Language, Culture and Society (Signature course 2018-2020) Contrasting English and American Sign Language Grammar (undergraduate course, Fall, 1997) American Sign Language (undergraduate course, every semester, 1997-2000)
 
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Number of Current PhD students at the University of Chicago: 9
Number PhD students for whom I have been an External Committee member: 12
 
CONFERENCE PLANNING and SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
2020          Toward a More Tactile Future: Learning from Protactile DeafBlind Communities.
              Symposium, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Seattle, Washington. February                12-15, 2020.
 
2019          NSF funded Workshop: Automatic Sign Recognition (1-day conference) May 15, 2019.
              University of Chicago.

2017          Expanding the Dimensions of Linguistic Inquiry: The Contributions of John Goldsmith, Franke                  Institute for the Humanities (1-day conference) November 10, 2017. University of Chicago (1-                day conference
 
2017          The Body’s Role in Performance, Reference, and Action. Conference sponsored by the Center for                Gesture Sign and Language, and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society Oct. 19-20,                    2017. University of Chicago (2-day conference)
 
2017          The Phonology of Sign Language Fingerspelling: Beyond Handshape Sequences.
              Symposium, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
 
2013          Conference Inaugurating the Center on Gesture, Sign and Language. March, 8-9, 2013 (2-day                    conference). University of Chicago
 
2010          Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 10 (TISLR 10). September 30-October 2, 2010 (3-                day conference). Purdue University.
 
2004          NSF-funded Workshop on Sign Language Classifiers. September 29, 2004. In conjunction with the                Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8 Conference (TISLR 8), Barcelona, Spain. (1-day                Symposium)
 
2001          American Association for the Advancement of Science: Signs and Sounds: Modality and the                      Architecture of Language. February 14-19, 2001. (Symposium Organizer)
 
1995          Einstein Forum. Complexity in Language: Biological and Psychological Aspects. May 18- 20,                    1995. (2-day Conference). Potsdam, Germany.
 
1995          UC-Davis Morphology Workshop. May 5-7, 1995. University of California-Davis. (2-day                          Conference)
 
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
National Associations
Linguistic Society of America. Program Committee (2001-2004, chair 2004; 2018-2021)
 
Editorial Board
Language, Associate Editor, 2020 --
Sign Language and Linguistics Associate Editor 2000--
 
Grant Review
NSF Panel Member, 2019 - 2022
Ad hoc review for National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, European Science Foundation
 
Article and Book Review and Abstract Review for a wide range of linguistics and sign language linguistics conferences. Chicago Linguistic Society, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Linguistic Society of America, Generative Linguistics Old World, Formal and Experimental Approaches to Sign Theory
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