Selected Publications
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• Coppola, M. (to appear). The origins of words in sign languages. Sign Language & Linguistics.
• Coppola, M. & A. Senghas. (in press). The emergence of deixis in Nicaraguan signing. In Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. D. Brentari, ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
• Coppola, M. (2006). Las semillas del idioma: sistemas de señas caseras de niños, niñas y adultos en Nicaragua [The seeds of language: Child and adult homesign systems in Nicaragua]. In Simplemente único: Lo que la comunidad sorda de Nicaragua le puede enseñar al mundo, 43-47. [Simply unique: What the Nicaraguan Deaf community can teach the world]. A. Senghas, D. Roman, and S. Mavillapalli, eds. London/Managua: Leonard Cheshire International.
• Coppola, M., and W. C. So. (2006). The seeds of spatial grammar: Spatial modulation and coreference in homesigning and hearing adults. In Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 30: 119-130. D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, and C. Zaller, eds. Boston: Cascadilla Press.
• Coppola, M. and E. L. Newport. (2005). Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(52): 19249-19253.
• Coppola, M., and W. C. So. (2005). Abstract and Object-Anchored Deixis: Pointing and spatial layout in adult homesign systems in Nicaragua. In Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 29: 144-155. A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, and S. Ha, eds. Boston: Cascadilla Press.
• So, W. C., M. Coppola, V. Licciardello, and S. Goldin-Meadow. (2005). The seeds of spatial grammar in the manual modality. Cognitive Science 29: 23-37.
• Coppola, M. (2002). The emergence of the grammatical category of Subject in home sign: Evidence from family-based gesture systems in Nicaragua. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.
• Senghas, A., and M. Coppola. (2001). Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar. Psychological Science, 12(4): 323-328.
• Kegl, J., A. Senghas, and M. Coppola. (1999). Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua. In Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development, M. DeGraff, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 179-237.](Publications_files/shapeimage_1.png)
