Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae December 2013

Addresses

1. Dept. of and Literature The , 31905, Haifa, Phone: (04) 824-0065 2. Research Laboratory The University of Haifa Phone: (04) 824-9395 email: [email protected]

websites: signlab.haifa.ac.il gramby.haifa.ac.il

Education

1975-76 Georgetown University, linguistics

1979-81 Hebrew University, B.A. in English Linguistics

1882-87 University of Texas-Austin, Ph.D. in Linguistics

Academic Positions

1988- present Department of English Language and Literature University of Haifa Current Rank: Full Professor

1998-present Director, Sign Language Research Laboratory University of Haifa http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/

1987-88 Visiting Scholar (Fulbright) Linguistics Department Tel Aviv University

Honors, Awards:

1987-88 Fulbright Fellowship. Tel Aviv University. Linguistics

2004 Bahat Prize: best academic book of the year for Meir, I. & Sandler, W. ‘safa bamerxav: ahsnav al sfat hasimanim hayisraelit’. (Language in Space: A Window on )

2013. Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, 2013

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Funding:

1991-1992 University of Haifa. Humanities Faculty Research Grant. Israeli Sign Language

1992-94 Israel Science Foundation. Phonological Structure of Israeli Sign Language.

1992-94 Ford Foundation (Israel Foundations Trustees). Phonological Structure of Israeli Sign Language

1995-97 Israel Science Foundation. Prosody/Intonation in Israeli Sign Language.

1997-2000 U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. Morphological Structure of Two Sign Languages: Study of an Isolated Sign Language.

1999-2002 Israel Science Foundation. Intonation on the Face: Grammatical Facial Expression in Israeli Sign Language.

2002-2005 U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation. The Development of a Morphological System in Sign Languages: Study of an Isolated Sign Language.

2005-2006 National Office of Sciences-Ministry of Education. An educational intervention program aimed at developing metalinguistic awareness of Israeli Sign Language grammatical structure as a tool for improving the Hebrew of deaf high school students.

2004-2009 U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Emergence of Grammar in a New Sign Language (Bedouin Sign Language). With Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir.

2009-2014 U.S. National Institutes of Health. The Emergence of Grammar in a New Sign Language (Bedouin Sign Language). With Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir.

2009-2012 Israel Science Foundation. Village Sign Languages in Israel.

2011-2012 Bewilligung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Bilateral Cooperation grant with Markus Steinbach and Annika Hermann, Gottingen University.

2013-2016 Germany Israel Foundation. With Irit Meir and with Markus Steinbach and colleagues Goettingen University. Visual intonation in Israeli Sign Language and .

2014-2019 European Research Council Advanced Grant. The Grammar of the Body: Revealing the Foundations of Compositionality in Human Language. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 3

Associated Activities

Editorial Board: Sign Language and Linguistics, Biolinguistics, Linguistic Variation, Conceptual Foundations of Language Science, Journal of Linguistics

Grant Panel Member: Linguistics Panel, Israel Science Foundation, 2002-2003, 2014-2015, 2015-2016

Grant Reviews: National Science Foundation (U.S.), 1990-91, 1993-98, 2001, 2003-04, 2014. Germany-Israel Science Foundation, 1992. FCAR - Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche, 1994. Israel Science Foundation, 2000, 2003, 2015, 2016. National Science Foundation (Holland), 2002. Israel Science Foundation, 2004, National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2009, 2014, Economic and Social Research Council (UK) 2015

Referee: Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Phonology, Lingua, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Sign Language & Linguistics, Biolinguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, PLOS One, Frontiers in Psychology.

Academic Conference Organizer: Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Annual Conference, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2011. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, Parasession on Language and Deafness, 1991. Quadrennial International Phonology Conference, Organizer of Workshop on Sign Language Phonology, 1992. Israel Science Foundation, Workshop on Prosody and Intonation in Signed and Spoken Language, 1997. Bilateral Cooperation workshop (with scholars from Goettingen, Germany) September 2011. Minerva- Gentner Symposium on Emergent Languages and Cultural Evolution (with Stephen Levinson), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland, June 2013, Tenth Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, University of Haifa.

Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation Organized conference on Nascent Languages 2006. http://sandlersignlab.haifa.ac.il/html/html_eng/events.htm

Community-wide Symposia and Workshops: Seeing Voices, University of Haifa, 1996. Symposium and Festival on Story-telling and Poetry in Sign Language, 1999. Workshop on Poetry in Sign Language, 1999. Talking Hands: Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Deaf Communities in Israel. 2009.

Invited Teaching: University of Amsterdam, Sign Language Linguistics, 1993.

State University of New York- Stony Brook, Structure of , 1995. Linguistic Society of American Linguistic Summer Institute, Cross-linguistic Research of Sign Languages.

Tel Aviv University, Sign Language Linguistics for Sign Language Interpreters, 1997. LOT Holland Institute of Linguistics Graduate Summer School, Sign Language Linguistics, 2002.

Harvard University. Section on Israeli Sign Language in a course on . 2010.

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Membership in Professional Associations

Linguistic Society of America International Society for Gesture Studies Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

Refereed Presentations 1984-Present

Sandler, W. Iconicity and Linguistic Organization in a New Sign Language: Israeli Sign Language. Presented at the Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. Baltimore, 1984.

Sandler, W. Aspectual Inflections and the Hand Tier Model of American Sign Language Phonology. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Lanuage Research. Rochester, NY, 1986.

Sandler, W. An Autosegmental Account of ASL Phonology and Morphology. Presented at the Milwaukee Morphology Meeting, Milwaukee, MI, 1986.

Sandler, W. Feature Hierarchy and Hand Configuration in ASL. Presented at the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, 1987.

Sandler, W. Assimilation and Feature Hierarchy in ASL. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference. Beer Sheva, Israel, 1988.

Sandler, W. Templatic Morphology in ASL and Israeli Sign Language. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Haifa, 1989.

Sandler, W. Feature Organization and Glottal Stop in Modern Hebrew. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Workshop, , 1989.

Sandler, W. On the Organization of Natural Feature Classes in American Sign Language. Presented at Linguistics and Phonetics '90, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1990.

Sandler, W. Sign Language and Modularity. Presented at the Boston University Language Development Conference, Boston, 1990.

Sandler, W. Representation of Phonologically Significant Elements in Sign Language. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Parasession on Language and Deafness, Haifa, 1991.

Sandler, W. The Role of the Nondominant Hand in ASL. Presented at the International Phonology and Morphology Conference, Krems, Austria, 1991.

Sandler, W. Sonority Sequencing in ASL. Presented at the Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1992.

Sandler, W. Four Arguments for . Presented at the Conference on Sign Language Phonology and Morphology, Leiden and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993.

Sandler, W. Two Representations for the Two Roles of the Weak Hand in ASL. Presented at the MOT Conference on Contrast in Phonology, Toronto, Canada, 1994.

Sandler, W. Establishing Criteria for Major Phonological Categories. Presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Conference, Manchester, England, 1994.

Sandler, W. Prosodic Morphology in Two Sign Languages. Presented at the Prosodic Morphology Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1994.

Sandler, W. A Concatenative Suffix in American Sign Language. Presented at the International Morphology Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1996.

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Sandler, W. The Negative Suffix in American Sign Language. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Montreal, 1996.

Sandler, W. Two Kinds of Cliticization in a Sign Language. Presented at the Conference on The Phonological Word at the ZAS Institute, Berlin, Germany, 1997.

Sandler, W. Prosody in Israeli Sign Language. Presented at the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1998.

Sandler, W. The Medium is the Message: Prosodic Interpretation in Sign Language. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Washington, D.C., 1998.

Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., & Meir, I. Universal and Particular Aspects of Sign Language Morphology. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Haifa, 1999.

Sandler, W. From Phonetics to Discourse: The Nondominant Hand and the Grammar of Sign Language. Presented at LabPhon 8, New Haven, CT, 2002.

Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Padden, C. & Meir, I. Morphological universals and the sign language type. Presented at the Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 4, Catania, Sicily, 2003.

Sandler, W., Padden, C., Aronoff, M., & Meir, I. Argument Structure in a New Sign Language. Presented at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Barcelona, Spain, 2004.

Padden, C., Meir, I., Sandler, W., & Aronoff, M. Argument structure in a new sign language. Presented at the 8th International Conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.

Sandler, W., Aronoff, M, Meir, I. & Padden, C. Lexical integrity without morphology or phonology. Presented at the 5th Mediterranean Morphology Meeting, Frejus, France, September 2005.

Sandler, W. Iconic Mouth Gestures in Sign Language. Presented at LSA annual meeting; Albuquerque, NM, December 2005.

Sandler, W. Gestures of the Face and Body as Proto-Prosody in a New Sign Language. Presented at Integrating Gestures Conference, International Society for Gesture Studies. Northwestern University, June 2007

Sandler, W., & Meir, I. Prosody and Linguistic Complexity in an Emerging Language. Evolang conference on language evolution. Barcelona April 2008.

Israeli, A., & Sandler, W. Lexical variation and duality of patterning in a new sign language. Evolang conference on language evolution. Utrecht. 2010. Sandler, W. HAAnS on: Prosody as a point of entry for linguistic analysis. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Purdue University. 2010.

Padden, C., Meir, I., Aronoff A., & Sandler, W. The self-organization of lexical domains: not quite morphology. Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Sardinia. 2011.

Towards a theory of compositionality in displays of extreme emotion. GESPIN. Nantes, France. 2015.

Motivated morphological templates. (With Gal Belsitzman). Mediterranean Morphology Meeting. Haifa, Israel. 2015.

Articulating the emergence of language. (With Rose Stamp). Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Melbourne, Australia. 2016.

Foreign accent in sign language. (With Gal Belsitzman). Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Melbourne, Australia. 2016.

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A thespian grammar of the body. Evolang conference on the evolution of language. New Orleans, LA, U.S. 2016

Are emotional displays an evolutionary precursor to compositionality in language? (With Federica Cavicchio). Evolang conference on the evolution of language. New Orleans, LA, U.S. 2016.

The grammar of the body and the emergence of complexity in sign languages. (With Rose Stamp). Evolang conference on the evolution of language. New Orleans, LA, U.S. 2016.

Invited Presentations 1985-1995

Nouns and Verbs in ISL. Presented at the University of Texas Linguistics Forum, Austin, TX, 1985.

Phonological Theory and ASL. Presented at the Tel Aviv University Linguistics Forum, Tel Aviv, 1986.

The Hand Tier Model of ASL Phonology. Presented at the University of Texas Lingustics Forum, Austin, TX, 1987.

The Temporal Organization of ASL signs. Presented at the University of British Columbia Linguistics Colloquium, Vancouver, Canada, 1987.

Sign Language and the Language Module. Response to Language and the Brain, a paper presented by Victoria Fromkim at The Chomskyan Turn, Tel Aviv University and Van Leer Institute, Tel Aviv, 1988.

Templatic Morphology in ASL and Semitic Languages. Presented at the University of Haifa Linguistics Forum, Haifa, 1988.

Phonological Tier Conflation in ASL. Presented at the ASL Phonology Workshop at the LSA Linguistics Summer Institute, Tucson, Arizona, 1989.

Phonological Universals in ASL. Presented at the University of Haifa Cognitive Psychology Colloquium, Haifa, 1990.

Toward a Unified Representation of Glottal Stop. Presented at the Generative Linguistics in the Old World Phonology Acquisition Workshop, Leiden, Holland, 1991.

Hand Configuration in ASL: A Feature Geometry and Dependency Model. Presented at the Phonology Conference on Segmental Structure at the LSA Linguistics Summer Institute, Santa Cruz, CA, 1991.

Spoken Language and Signed Language: One System? Presented at the 23rd Scientific Conference of the Association of Psychologists in Israel, Jerusalem, 1991.

Two Representations for the Nondominant Hand in ASL. Presented at the University of Rochester Dept. of Psychology Colloquium, Rochester, NY, 1992.

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The Phonological Structure of the Hand Articulator in ASL. Presented at the University of Quebec at Montreal Linguistics Colloquium, Montreal, Canada, 1992.

Lengthening and Shortening in Two Sign Languages. Presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, San Diego, CA, 1992.

Sign Language and Modularity. Invited lecture presented at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 1993.

Four Arguments for Movement. Presented at the Workshop on Sign Language Phonology and Morphology, Amsterdam, 1993.

The Case for Segments in Sign Language. Invited lecture presented at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 1993.

The Role of the Nondominant Hand in Sign Language Phonology. Invited lecture presented at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, 1993.

Dependency Phonology and Sign Language. Presented at the Bar Ilan University Linguistics Colloquium, Ramar-Gan, Israel, 1993.

Consonants, Vowels, Locations, and Movements. Presented at the University of Rochester Linguistics Department Colloquium, Rochester, NY, 1994.

Implications of Sign Language Research for General Linguistics. Presented at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Manchester, UK, 1994.

Structural Primitives in Phonology. Presented at the University of Maryland Linguistics Department Colloquium, College Park, MD, 1994.

Locations and Movements Revisited. Presented at the Phonology in Sign Language Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 1994.

Invited Presentations 1995-2005

Similarities and Differences in the Phonology of Signed and Spoken Language Presented at the State University of New York-Stony Brook Linguistics Department Colloquium, Stony Brook, NY, 1995.

Segmentation and Hierarchical Organization in the Diachronic Development of Sign Languages. Invited talk presented at the University of Chicago Psychology Department, Chicago, 1995.

Linear and Nonlinear Properties of Language: Evidence from Sign Language. Presented at the University of Texas-Austin Linguistics Department Colloquium, Austin, TX, 1995.

Two Articulators: The Two Hands. Invited talk presented at the Sign Language Research Unit at University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, 1995.

Major Categories of Phonological Organization. Presented at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Linguistics Department Colloquium, Amherst, MA, 1995.

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Sign Language and Phonological Universals. Presented at the University of Connecticut Linguistics Department Colloquium, Storrs, CT, 1995.

Phonology and Phonological Terminology for Sign Language Interpreters. Presented at a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Meeting, 1995.

Prosodic Morphology in Sign Language. Presented at the Tel Aviv University Linguistics Department Colloquium. Tel Aviv, 1996.

Similarities and Differences in the Phonology of Signed and Spoken Language. Presented at the University of Haifa Cognitive Psychology Departmental Colloquium, Haifa, 1997.

Prosody in Israeli Sign Language. Presented at the Tel Aviv University Linguistics Department Colloquium, Tel Aviv, 1998.

Coding prosody. Presented at a sponsored workshop Phonological Encoding of Sign Languages for a Computerized Data Base by the European Science Foundation, Leiden, Holland, 1998.

Israeli Sign Language as a Minority Language. Presented at the Panel on Languages in Israel at the Sociolinguistics Conference at the University of Haifa, Haifa, 1998.

Sign Language in an Evolutionary Perspective. Lecture presented at the Tel Aviv University Porter Institute Lecture Series on Evolution of Language, Tel Aviv, 1999.

Sign Language Morphological Universals. Presented at a sponsored workshop for the European Science Foundation, Siena, Italy, 1999.

Early Language Development in Spoken and Signed Languages. Discussant for workshop for the International Congress on Child Language, San Sebastian, Spain, 1999.

The Whole Human Language. Presented at the Israel Science Foundation sponsored workshop on Communication Disorders and Language Theory, Jerusalem, 2000.

Body Language: The Use of the Face and Body in Sign Language Prosody. Presented at the University of Texas-Austin Linguistics Department Colloquium, Austin, TX, 2001.

Universals and Modality Effects in Sign Language Prosody. Presented at the University of California at San Diego Linguistics Department Colloquium, San Diego, CA, 2001.

Iconicity and Symbolization in the Diachronic Development of Sign Languages. Present at the University of California at San Diego Seminar on Symbolization, San Diego, CA, 2001. With C. Padden.

Universals and Modality Effects in Sign Language Prosody. Presented at the University of Connecticut Linguistics Department Colloquium, Storrs, CT, 2001.

Universals and Modality Effects in Sign Language Prosody. Presented at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002.

Classifiers and Sign Language Morphology. Presented at the National Science Foundation sponsored workshop on classifiers in spoken and signed languages, San Diego, CA, 2002. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 9

Sign Language Morphology. Presented at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002.

From Phonetics to Discourse: The Nondominant Hand and the Grammar of Sign Language. Presented at the University of Amsterdam Linguistics Department Colloquium, Amsterdam, 2002.

Linguistic and Paralinguistic Intonation in Sign Language. Presented at the Catholic University of Nijmegen Linguistics Department Colloquium, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002.

Recruiting the Hands and the Face in the Instantiation of Language. Presented at the University of Tel Aviv Linguistics Colloquium, Tel Aviv, 2003.

Recruiting the Hands and the Face in the Instantiation of Language. Presented at the University of Tel Aviv Human Development Seminar, Tel Aviv, 2003.

Recruiting the Hands and the Face in the Instantiation of Language. Keynote address presented at the Generative Linguistics Association of Italy Annual Conference. Urbino, Italy, 2003.

Understanding Phonological Structure Through Sign Language. Presented at Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Syllable Organization at the Satellite Conference of International Congress of Phonetic Science in honor of Peter MacNeilage, Barcelona, Spain, 2003.

Morphology, syntax, and prosody in a new sign language. Presented at the University of California at San Diego Center for Research in Language, San Diego, CA, 2004. With C. Padden, M. Aronoff, & I. Meir.

Innateness and Modality in Language. Presented at the University of California at San Diego Human Cognition Seminar, San Diego, CA, 2004.

Superarticulation in ISL. Presented at the workshop on prosody in sign language at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2004.

On the Contributions of Culture and Time to Language Genesis. Presented at the Sign Language Research conference at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2004.

Is phonology necessary? Presented at the Conference on Emergence of Language Structures Workshop at the Center for Research in Language and The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2004. With M. Aronoff, I. Meir, & C. Padden.

On the Roles of Innateness, Culture and Time in Language Genesis. Presented at the departmental colloquium of the Center for Human Development at the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2004. With I. Meir.

On the Interaction of Word Structure, Prosody, and Language Age in Sign Language. Presented at the Conference on ‘Weak Words’, Konstanz, Germany, April 2005.

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The Emergence of Verb Agreement in Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. Presented at the Symposium on Homesign to Emerging Language: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Emerging/Young Languages at the International Congress of Child Language Research, Berlin, Germany, July, 2005. With C. Padden.

Invited Presentations 2006-Present

Prosody as a Point of Entry for Language and its Analysis. Presented at Nascent Languages Conference, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2006.

Is Phonology Necessary? Presented at Nascent Languages Conference, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2006. With M. Aronoff.

Prosody as a Point of Entry for Language and its Analysis. Presented at Workshop on Phonology/Morphology - Syntax Interface in Spoken and Signed Languages. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. May, 2007

Proto-Prosody in a New Sign Language. Presented at Workshop on Visual prosody in Language Communication, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, May, 2007

Watching the Emergence of Linguistic Organization. Invited colloquium, presented at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, September, 2007.

Iconic Mouth gestures in a sign language. Presented at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, Holland. September, 2007.

The emergence of prosody and syntax in a new language. Workshop on the Prosody Syntax interface, ZAS Berlin. April, 2008

Is phonology necessary for language? SignTyp Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, June, 2008.

The kernels of phonology in a new sign language. Colloquium, University of Texas – Austin, Department of Linguistics. November, 2008.

The kernels of phonology in a new sign language. Colloquium, Center for Research in Language. University of California, San Diego. January, 2009.

How language takes form. In session on Languages Without Ancestors, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). February, 2009. With M. Aronoff.

The kernels of phonology in a new sign language. Colloquium, Center for Research in Language. Haskins Laboratories. March, 2009.

The kernels of phonology in a new sign language. Colloquium, Center for Research in Language. Harvard University. April, 2009.

The kernels of phonology in a new sign language. Listening to silent languages workshop. European Linguistic Society. Lisbon, Portugal. September, 2009. Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 11

The origins of syntax in prosody: The case of a new sign language. Characterizing Human Language by Structural Complexity. ZAS. Berlin. June, 2009.

Kernels of phonology in a new sign language. CUNY Grad Center, NY. January, 2011.

The emergence of prosody in sign language. University of Debrecen, Hungary. May, 2011.

On the non-syntactic origins of complex words in a new language. Conference on Approaches to the Lexicon. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. With I. Meir. June, 2011.

Complex sentences and their prosody in ISL and ASL. Conference on Complex sentences and beyond in sign and spoken languages symposium. University of Gottingen. October, 2011.

The emergence of complexity in the grammar of the body. SMART Cognitive Science Lecture. University of Amsterdam. September, 2013.

The emergence of form in a new sign language. ICREA International Symposium on Biolinguistics. University of Barcelona. October, 2012.

The universal and the particular in sign language prosody. University of Paris 8. November, 2012.

The phonetics of identity in an emerging language. École Normale Supérieure. Paris. November, 2012.

Dedicated gestures and the emergence of sign language. Keynote. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Lund University, Sweden. July, 2012.

Sign language phonology: Implications for linguistic theory. Old World Conference on Phonology. Boğaziçi University. Istanbul. January, 2013.

Against all expectations: The slow emergence of language. Symposium on Emergent Languages and Cultural Evolution. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, Holland. June, 2013.

Where do features come from? Evidence from sign language. Conference on Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. Arctic University of Tromso, Norway. November, 2013.

Phonology and the grammar of the body. Berkeley Linguistics Society Annual Conference. February, 2014.

Dependencies in Language Emergence. Dependencies among systems of language. Ardennes, Belgium. 2014.

Compositionality and the grammar of the body. Keynote. Nonmanuals at the gesture-sign interface. Goettingen, Germany. 2015.

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Publications

Books

Sandler, W. Phonological Representation of the Sign: Linearity and Nonlinearity in American Sign Language. Dordrecht: Foris, 1989.

Meir, I. & Sandler, W. ‘safa bamerxav: ahsnav al sfat hasimanim hayisraelit’. Haifa: University of Haifa Press, 2004.

Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin, D. Sign Language and Linguistic Universals. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Meir, I. & Sandler, W. A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, 2008.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters 1986-2000

Sandler, W. 1986. The Spreading Hand Autosegment of American Sign Language. Sign Language Studies, 50, 1-28.

Sandler, W. 1987. Assimilation and Feature Hierarchy in ASL, A. Bosch, B. Need, and E. Schiller, eds., Chicago Linguistics Society Parasession on Autosegmental Phonology pp 266-278.

Sandler, W. 1990. Temporal Aspects and ASL Phonology. In S. Fischer & P. Siple (Eds.), Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Vol. I: Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Sandler, W. 1993. Sign Language and Modularity. Lingua, 89:4. 315-351.

Sandler, W. 1993. A Sonority Cycle in American Sign Language, Phonology, 10:2, 209- 241.

Sandler, W. 1993. Hand in Hand: The Roles of the Nondominant Hand in Sign Language Phonology. The Linguistic Review, 10, 337-390.

Corina, D. & Sandler, W. 1993. On the Nature of Phonological Structure in Sign Language. Phonology, 10:2, 165-207.

Sandler, W. 1993. Linearization of Phonological Tiers in ASL. In G. Coulter (Ed.), Current Issues in ASL Phonology, Phonetics and Phonology Volume 3. San Diego: Academic Press.

Sandler, W. 1994. One Phonology or Two? Sign Language and Phonological Theory. GLOT International Journal of Linguistics, 3-8.

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Sandler, W. Markedness in the of Signs: A Componential Analysis. In J.M. van der Weijer & H.G. van der Hulst, (Eds.), Leiden in Last: Holland Institute of Linguistics Phonology Papers. The Hague: Holland Academie Graphics, 1995.

Sandler, W. Representing Handshapes. 1996. In W. Edmondson & R.B. Wilbur (Eds.), International Review of Sign Linguistics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,.

Sandler, W. 1996. Establishing Evidence for Major Phonological Categories: The Case for Movements in Sign Language. Lingua, 98, 197-220.

Nespor, M. & Sandler, W. 1999. Prosodic Phonology in Israeli Sign Language. Language and Speech, , 42:2&3, 143-176.

Sandler, W. 1999. Prosody in Two Natural Language Modalities. Language and Speech, 42 (2&3), 127-142.

Sandler, W. 1999. The Medium and the Message: Prosodic Interpretation of Linguistic Content in Sign Language. Sign Language and Linguistics, 2:2, 187-216.

Sandler, W. 1999. Cliticization and Prosodic Words in a Sign Language. In T. Hall & U. Kleinhenz, (Eds.), Studies on the Phonological Word. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Sandler, W. 2000. One Phonology or Two? Sign Language and Phonological Theory. In L. Cheng & R. Sybesma, (Eds.), The GLOT International State-of-The-Article Book. The Hague: Holland Academie Graphics.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters 2000-present

Sandler, W., & Lillo-Martin, D. 2001. Natural Sign Languages. In M. Aronoff & J. Rees- Miller (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Sandler, W. 2003. On the Complementarity of Signed and Spoken Languages. In Y. Levy & J. Schaeffer (Eds.), Language Competence Across Populations: Towards a Definition of SLI. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.

Aronoff, M., Meir, I., Padden, C., and Sandler, W. 2003. Classifier Complexes and Morphology in Two Sign Languages. In K. Emmorey (Ed.), Perspectives on Classifiers in Sign Languages. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Aronoff, M., Padden, C., Meir, I., & Sandler, W. 2004. Morphological universals and the sign language type. In G. Booij & J. van Marle (Eds.), Yearbook of Morphology. Dordrecht/ Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers,.

Sandler, W. 2005. Prosodic constituency and intonation in sign language. Linguistische Berichte, 13, 60-86.

Sandler, W., & Lillo-Martin, D. Natural Sign Languages. In W. O’Grady, J. Archibald, M. Aronoff, & J. Rees-Miller (Eds). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (Fifth Edition). Boston/ New York: Bedford St. Martin’s. 2004.

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Aronoff, M., Meir, I., & Sandler, W. 2005. The paradox of sign language morphology. Language, 2005. 81:2, 301-344.

Sandler, W., Meir, I., Padden, C., & Aronoff, M. 2005. The emergence of grammar in a new sign language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (7), 2661- 2665.

Sandler, W. 2006. Phonology, Phonetics, and the Nondominant Hand. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology: Varieties of Phonological Competence, L. Goldstein, D.H. Whalen, and C. Best (Eds.), 185-212. Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter.

Meir, I., Padden, C., Aronoff, M., & Sandler, W. Body as subject. 2007. Journal of Linguistics, 43, 531-563.

Sandler, W. 2008. The sign language syllable: hand and mouth in the evolution of language. In K. Zajdo (Ed.), Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Syllable Organization. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 379-408. New York: Taylor Francis.

Aronoff , M., Meir, I., Padden, C., & Sandler, W. 2008. The roots of linguistic organization in a new language. In Holophrasis, Compositionality And Protolanguage, Special Issue of Interaction Studies. D. Bickerton and M. Arbib (Eds.), pp. 133-149.

Aronoff, M., Meir, I., Padden, C., & Sandler, W. 2008. Language is shaped by the body. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31:5. 509-511.

Sandler, W. 2009. Symbiotic symbolization by hand and mouth in sign language. Semiotica. 174 (1/4), 241-275.

Padden, C., Meir, I., Sandler, W., & Aronoff, M. 2010. Against all expectations: Encoding subjects and objects in a new language. In D. Gerdts, J. Moore & M. Polinsky (Eds.), Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 573-595.

Padden, C., M., Irit, Aronoff, M. and Sandler, W. 2010. The grammar of space in two new sign languages. In D. Brentari (Ed). Sign Languages: A Cambridge Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 573-595

Meir, I., Aronoff, M., Sandler, W. & Padden, C. 2010. Sign languages and compounding. In S. Scalise & I. Vogel (Eds.), Compounding. John Benjamins, 301-322.

Dachkovsky, S. and Sandler, W. 2010. Visual intonation in the prosody of a sign language. Language and Speech 52 (2/3). 287-314.

Meir, I., Sandler, W., Padden, C., & Aronoff, M. 2010. Emerging sign languages. In M. Marschark and P. Spencer (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Volume 2. 267-280.

Sandler, W. 2010. The uniformity and diversity of language: Evidence from sign language. Response to Evans and Levinson, The myth of language universals. Brain and Behavioral Sciences 32. Lingua 120. 2727-2732.

Sandler, W. 2011. Prosody and syntax in sign language. Transactions of the Philological Society Wendy Sandler Curriculum Vitae 15

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Sandler,W. 2011. The phonology of movement in sign language. In Blackwell companion to phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Keren Rice, and Elizabeth Hume (Eds.), Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 577–603.

Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Meir, I., Padden, C. 2011. The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29: 503-543.

Sandler, W., Meir, I., Dachkovsky, S., Padden, C., & Aronoff, M. 2011. The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax. Lingua 120:12. 2014-2033.

Sandler, W. 2011. Prosody and syntax in sign language. Transactions of the Philological Society 108: 298–328.

de Boer, B., Sandler, W., & Kirby, S. 2012. New perspectives on duality of patterning: Introduction to the special issue. Language and Cognition 4:4. 251-259.

Sandler, W. 2012. The phonological organization of sign languages. Language and Linguistics Compass 6/3: 162-182.

Sandler, W. 2013. Visual prosody. In R. Pfau, M. Steinbach, and B. Woll (Eds.), Sign language: An international handbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 55-76.

Sandler, W. 2013. Dedicated gestures and the emergence of sign language. Gesture 12/3:265-307.

Dachkovsky, S., Healy C., & Sandler, W. 2013. Visual intonation in two sign languages. Phonology 30:2. 211-252.

Sandler, W. 2013. Vive la différence: Sign language and spoken language in language evolution. D. Kemmerer, (Ed.), special issue of Language and Cognition 5:2-3. 189-204.

Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Healy, Christina & Sandler, Wendy. (2013). Visual intonation in two sign languages. Phonology, 30(2), 211-252.

Tkachman, Oksana & Sandler, Wendy. (2013). The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages. Gesture (13:3), special issue, Where do Nouns Come From? J. Haviland (Ed.), 253- 286.

Kastner, Itamar, Meir, Irit, Sandler, Wendy, Dachkovsky, Svetlana. (2014). The emergence of embedded structure: Insights from Kafr Qasem sign language. Froniters in Psychology, 5, 1-15.

Börstell, Carl, Sandler, Wendy, & Aronoff, Mark. (2014). Sign language. In M. Aronoff (Ed.), Oxford bibliography of linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. bridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sandler, Wendy, Aronoff, Mark, Padden, Carol & Meir, Irit. (2014). Language emergence. In J. Sindell, P. Kockelman & N. Enfield (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of linguistic anthropology (pp. 250-284). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sandler, Wendy. (2014). The Emergence of phonetic and phonological features in sign language. In: Nordlyd 41.1, Special issue on Features, Martin Krämer, Sandra-Iulia Ronai and Peter Svenonius (Eds.). 183-212.

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Lepic, Ryan, Börstell , Carl, Belsitzman, Gal, & Sandler, Wendy. (2016). Taking meaning in hand: Iconic motivations in two-handed signs. Sign Language and Linguistics.

Sandler, Wendy. (2016). What comes first in language emergence? In N. Enfield (Ed.) Dependencies in Language: On the Casual Ontology of Linguistic Systems. Language Science Press, Studies in Diversity Linguistics Series. 65-84.

Meir, Irit, Aronoff, Mark, Börstell, Carl, Hwang, So-One, Ilkbasaran, Deniz, Kastner, Itamar, Lepic, Ryan, Lifshitz Ben-Basat, Adi, Padden, Carol, and Sandler, Wendy. (2017). The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insighjts from novel communication systems and young sign languages. Cognition:158. 189-207.

Sandler, W., & Lillo-Martin, D. (in press). Sign Languages. In M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (Eds.), Blackwell Handbook of Linguistics. Second Edition. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Sandler, W., & Lillo-Martin, D. Natural Sign Languages. (in press) In W. O’Grady, J. Archibald, M. Aronoff, & J. Rees-Miller (Eds). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (Sixth Edition). Boston/ New York: Bedford St. Martin’s.

Encyclopedia Entries

Sandler, W. 2003. Sign Language Phonology. In The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. J. McCarthy section editor, W. Frawley (Ed.).

Sandler, W. 2006. An Overview of Sign Language Linguistics. In Encyclopedia of English Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. B. Woll sign language section editor, K. Brown, (Ed.).

Bibliography

Börstell, C., Sandler, W., & Aronoff, M. 2015. Oxford Bibliography of Linguistics: Sign Language.

Book Review

Sandler, W. 1999. Book Review of D. Brentari, “A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology”. Phonology, 16, 443-447.