Ronice Müller de Quadros
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ronice Müller de Quadros is involved.
2023 Chapter 5. A corpus-based analysis of coordinate structures in Libras Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.), pp. 123–154 | Chapter
This chapter describes coordination processes in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) based on data from the Libras Corpus <https://corpuslibras.ufsc.br/>. Similar to other sign languages (e.g., Tang & Lau 2012; Zorzi 2018), coordinate structures in Libras are organized by juxtaposing one to the… read more
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
2016 The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory Epistemological issue with keynote article “The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory” by Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Deborah Chen Pichler, pp. 719–755 | Article
A wide range of linguistic phenomena contribute to our understanding of the architecture of the human linguistic system. In this paper we present a proposal dubbed Language Synthesis to capture bilingual phenomena including code-switching and ‘transfer’ as automatic consequences of the addition… read more
2014 Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora Spoken Corpora and Linguistic Studies, Raso, Tommaso and Heliana Mello (eds.), pp. 84–102 | Article
This chapter discusses the building of sign language acquisition corpora. We have developed methodology to collect, transcribe and store data from different contexts of acquisition. The corpora include: deaf children from deaf parents, deaf children from hearing parents, hearing children from deaf… read more
2013 Handshape is the hardest path in Portuguese Sign Language acquisition: Towards a universal modality constraint Sign Language & Linguistics 16:1, pp. 75–90 | Article
Sign languages have only been acknowledged as true languages in the second half of the 20th century. Studies on their ontogenesis are recent and include mostly comparative approaches to spoken language and sign language acquisition. Studies on sign language acquisition show that of the manual… read more
2010 Conventions for sign and speech transcription of child bimodal bilingual corpora in ELAN Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première, Sallandre, Marie-Anne and Marion Blondel (eds.), pp. 11–40 | Article
This article extends current methodologies for the linguistic analysis of sign language acquisition to cases of bimodal bilingual acquisition. Using ELAN, we are transcribing longitudinal spontaneous production data from hearing children of Deaf parents who are learning either American Sign… read more
2005 Sign language poetry and Deaf identity Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 177–212 | Article
In this paper, we consider the role of sign language poetry in creating and expressing the Deaf poet’s identity as a “visual person” in a community living within a wider national community. We show how two Deaf poets from different linguistic, national and cultural backgrounds nevertheless have… read more