Bencie Woll

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bencie Woll is involved.

Titles

Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 14] 2008. xi, 167 pp.

Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005) 222 pp.

Directions in Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2] 2002. xx, 339 pp.

Articles (15) | Order by:

Thompson, Robin L., Rachel England, Bencie Woll, Jenny Lu, Katherine Mumford and Gary Morgan 2017 Deaf and hearing children’s picture naming: Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 69–88 | Article

Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24–36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures. The two studies reported here used the same naming task with (1) typically… read more

Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll 2008 Editors' preface Sign Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. vii–xi | Miscellaneous

Baker, Anne E., Beppie van den Bogaerde and Bencie Woll 2008 Methods and procedures in sign language acquisition studies Sign Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 1–49 | Article

Sign language acquisition is a relatively new field and is still developing its own good practice. This paper gives an overview of the most common procedures in research design, choice of subjects, transcription and documentation. The paper concludes with a brief overview of the chronology of… read more

Crasborn, Onno A., Els van der Kooij, Dafydd Waters, Bencie Woll and Johanna Mesch 2008 Frequency distribution and spreading behavior of different types of mouth actions in three sign languages Sign Language & Linguistics 11:1, pp. 45–67 | Article

In this paper, we present a comparative study of mouth actions in three European sign languages: British Sign Language (BSL), Nederlandse Gebarentaal (Sign Language of the Netherlands, NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (SSL). We propose a typology for, and report the frequency distribution of, the… read more

Crasborn, Onno A., Johanna Mesch, Dafydd Waters, Annika Nonhebel, Els van der Kooij, Bencie Woll and Brita Bergman 2007 Sharing sign language data online: Experiences from the ECHO project International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:4, pp. 535–562 | Article

This article describes how new technological possibilities allow sign language researchers to share and publish video data and transcriptions online. Both linguistic and technological aspects of creating and publishing a sign language corpus are discussed, and standards are proposed for both… read more

Fenlon, Jordan, Tanya Denmark, Ruth Campbell and Bencie Woll 2007 Seeing sentence boundaries Identifying sentences in signed languages, Crasborn, Onno A. (ed.), pp. 177–200 | Article

Linguists have suggested that non-manual and manual markers are used in sign languages to indicate prosodic and syntactic boundaries. However, little is known about how native signers interpret non-manual and manual cues with respect to sentence boundaries. Six native signers of British Sign… read more

Woll, Bencie 2007 Perspectives on Linearity and Simultaneity Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn (eds.), pp. 337–344 | Article

Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll 2005 Guest editors’ Preface Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article

Baker, Anne E., Beppie van den Bogaerde and Bencie Woll 2005 Methods and procedures in sign language acquisition studies Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 7–59 | Miscellaneous

Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll 2002 The development of complex sentences in British Sign Language Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 255–275 | Article

Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll 2002 Introduction Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. xi–xx | Miscellaneous

Woll, Bencie 2002 Review of Emmorey & Lane (2000): The Signs of Language Revisited: an Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima Sign Language & Linguistics 5:2, pp. 258–260 | Review

Woll, Bencie and Gary Morgan 2002 Conclusions and directions for future research Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 291–299 | Article

Woll, Bencie 1988 Report on a survey of sign language interpreter training and provision within the member nations of the European Community Babel 34:4, pp. 193–209 | Article

Woll, Bencie 1985 Visual imagery and metaphor in british sign language The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought, Paprotté, Wolf and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 603–630 | Article