Richard P. Meier

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard P. Meier is involved.

Journal

Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Langage, Interaction et Acquisition

Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique

ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873

Articles (4) | Order by:

Power, Justin M. and Richard P. Meier 2026 New insights into nineteenth-century ASL Diachronica 43:2, pp. 224–265 | Article

The study of language change in American Sign Language (ASL) has been constrained by a limited historical record. Here we present five case studies that demonstrate how applying a broad set of historical methods, together with the consultation of underutilized sources of sign data, can shed new… read more

Bowern, Claire, Alan C.L. Yu, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Marlyse Baptista, Justin M. Power, Richard P. Meier, Bridget Drinka, Uta Reinöhl and Simon Greenhill 2025 Diachrony and Diachronica: 40@40 Diachronica 42:2, pp. 137–160 | Editorial

Looney, Veronica and Richard P. Meier 2014 Genie’s middle-finger points and signs: A case study Gesture 14:1, pp. 97–107 | Article

The ubiquity of index-finger pointing, and its early emergence in child development, has suggested that such pointing may be biologically-determined. However, cross-cultural variation in the form of pointing has also been noted, with some observations of middle-finger pointing. Here we examine the… read more

Meier, Richard P. 2002 The acquisition of verb agreement: Pointing out arguments for the linguistic status of agreement in signed languages Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, Morgan, Gary and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 115–141 | Article