Kathryn Davidson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kathryn Davidson is involved.
Articles
2020 Code-blending with depicting signs Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:2, pp. 290–308 | Article
Bimodal bilinguals sometimes use code-blending, simultaneous production of (parts of) an utterance in both speech and sign. We ask what spoken language material is blended with entity and handling depicting signs (DS), representations of action that combine discrete components with iconic… read more
2014 Scalar implicatures in a signed language Sign Language & Linguistics 17:1, pp. 1–19 | Article
This paper tests the calculation of scalar implicatures in American Sign Language (ASL) in one of the first experimental pragmatic studies in the manual/visual modality. Both native signers of ASL and native speakers of English participated in an automated Felicity Judgment Task to compare… read more
2013 The nature of the semantic scale: Evidence from sign language research Sign Language & Linguistics 16:1, pp. 106–110 | Article