Argument Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language : The Emergence of Grammatical Devices

By Ann Senghas, Marie Coppola, Elissa L. Newport, Ted Supalla. 2004

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Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change (2005, background): “Kegl and Senghas and Coppola (Kegl & Iwata, 1989; Senghas, 1995; Senghas & Coppola, 2001; Senghas, Coppola, Newport & Supalla, 1997) have been studying the creolization of Nicaraguan Sign Language, a community sign language emerging in the unusual circumstances where the users, due to their deafness”
The Resilience of Language (2005, background): “This second cohort of signers has as its input the sign system developed by the first cohort and, interestingly, changes that input so that the product becomes more language-like (Senghas, 1995; Senghas et al., 1997; 2003; Senghas & Coppola, 2001).”
Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language (2003, background): “In previous work examining verb production in NSL (Senghas, 1995a; Senghas & Coppola, 2001; Senghas et al., 1997), different patterns in the production of spatial modulations had been observed.”