Laboratory for Language and Cognition: Jennie Pyers
Publications
Selected Publications

Pyers, J., Shusterman, A., Senghas, A., Spelke, E., & Emmorey, K. (2010). Evidence from an emerging sign language reveals that language supports spatial cognition. PNAS, 107, 12116-12120.

Pyers, J. & Senghas, A. (2009). Language promotes false-belief understanding: Evidence from Nicaraguan Sign Language, Psychological Science, 20, 805-812.

Pyers, J., Gollan, T., & Emmorey, K. (2009). Bimodal bilinguals reveal the source of tip of the tongue states. Cognition, 112, 323-329.

Emmorey, K., Luk, G., Pyers, J., & Bialystok, E. (2009). The source of cognitive control in bilinguals: Evidence from bimodal bilinguals. Psychological Science, 19. 1201-1206.

Pyers, J. & Emmorey, K. (2008) The face of bimodal bilingualism: Bilinguals produce ASL grammar while speaking English. Psychological Science, 19, 531-536

Pyers, J. & Senghas, A. (2007) Referential shift in Nicaraguan Sign Language: A comparison with American Sign Language. In R. Pfau, P. Perniss, & M. Steinbeck (Eds.) Visible Variation: Comparative Studies on Sign Language Structure Amsterdam: Mouton de Gueyer, 279-302.

Pyers, J. (2006). Indicating the body: Expression of body part terminology in American Sign Language. Language Sciences, 28, 280-303.

Senghas, R., Senghas, A., & Pyers, J. (2004). The emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Questions of development, acquisition, and evolution. In S. T. Parker, J. Langer, & C. Milbrath (Eds.), Biology and Knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to psychogenesis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 287-306.

Pyers, J. (2003). The expression of mental states in American Sign Language. In A. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde, & O. Crasborn (Eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on sign language research. Hamburg: Signum Press.

de Villiers, P. A., & Pyers, J. (2002). Language of the deaf -- Sign language. In R. Kent (Ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

de Villiers, J., & Pyers, J. (2002). Complements to cognition: a longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief understanding. Cognitive Development, 17, 1037-1060.

Gale, E., de Villiers, P., de Villiers, J., & Pyers, J. (1996). Language and theory of mind in oral deaf children. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

 

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