Publications

Berger, Pyers, J., Lieberman, A., & Caselli, N. (2023). Parent American Sign Language skills correlate with child–but not toddler–ASL vocabulary size. Language Acquisition., 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2023.2178312

Pontecorvo, Higgins, M., Mora, J., Lieberman, A. M., Pyers, J., & Caselli, N. K. (2023). Learning a Sign Language Does Not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR., 66(4), 1291–1308. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00505

Sander, J., Lieberman, A., & Rowland, C. F. (2023). Exploring Joint Attention in American Sign Language: The Influence of Sign Familiarity. Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kq2s523

Gappmayr, Lieberman, A. M., Pyers, J., & Caselli, N. K. (2022). Do parents modify child-directed signing to emphasize iconicity? Frontiers in Psychology., 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.920729

Gappmayr, Lieberman, A. M., Pyers, J., & Caselli, N. K. (2022). Do parents modify child-directed signing to emphasize iconicity? Frontiers in Psychology.

Rubio Fernandez, P., Wienholz, A., Ballard, C., Kirby, S., & Lieberman, A.M. (in press). Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure. Journal of Memory and Language. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/tv2jb

Lieberman, A.M., Pontecorvo, E., & Mitchiner, J. (2022). Hearing parents learning ASL: A mixed-methods study. Applied Linguistics Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2021-0120

Fitch, A., Arunachalam, S., & Lieberman, A.M. (2021). Mapping Word to World in ASL: Evidence from a Human Simulation Paradigm. Cognitive Science, 45(12), e13061. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13061

Lieberman, A. M., Fitch, A., & Borovsky, A. (2021). Flexible fast-mapping: Deaf children dynamically allocate visual attention to learn novel words in American Sign Language. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13166

Caselli, N., Pyers, J., & Lieberman, A.M. (2021). Deaf children of hearing parents develop age-level vocabularies if exposed to ASL by six-months. Journal of Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.01.029

Schotter, E. R., Johnson, E., & Lieberman, A. M. (2020). The sign superiority effect: Lexical status facilitates peripheral handshape identification for deaf signers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46(11), 1397–1410. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000862

Fieldsteel, Z., Bottoms, A., & Lieberman, A. (2020). Nouns and verbs in parent input in American Sign Language during interaction among deaf dyads. Language Learning and Development, 16(4), 351-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2020.1784737

Rosenburg, P., Lieberman, A., Caselli, N. K., & Hoffmeister, R. (2020). The Development and Evaluation of a New ASL Text Comprehension Task. Frontiers in Communication, 5, 25. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00025

Lieberman, A. M., & Borovsky, A (2020). Lexical recognition in deaf children learning ASL: activation of semantic and phonological features of signs. Language Learning, 70(4), 935-973. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12409. Summarized here!

Caselli, N. K., Lieberman, A. M., & Pyers, J. E. (2020). The ASL-CDI 2.0: An updated, normed adaptation of the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory for American Sign Language. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 2071-2084.

Fitch, A., Lieberman, A. M., Luyster, R., & Arunachalam , S. (2020). Toddlers’ Word Learning through Overhearing: Others’ Attention Matters. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193, 104793.

Wienholz, A., & Lieberman, A. M. (2019). Semantic processing of adjectives and nouns in American Sign Language: effects of reference ambiguity and word order across development. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 3, 217-234.

Lieberman, A.M., Borovsky, A., & Mayberry, R. I. (2018). Prediction in a visual language: real-time sentence processing in American Sign Language across development. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 33(4), 387-401.

Lieberman, A. M., Borovsky, A., Hatrak, M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2016). Where to look for American Sign Language (ASL) sublexical structure in the visual world: Reply to Salverda (2016). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(12), 2002-2006.

Higgins, M., & Lieberman, A. M. (2016). Deaf Students as a Linguistic and Cultural Minority: Shifting Perspectives and Implications for Teaching and Learning. Journal of Education, 96(1), 9-18.

Lieberman, A. M., Borovsky, A., Hatrak, M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2015). Real-time processing of ASL signs: Delayed first language acquisition affects organization of the mental lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(4), 1130-1139.

Lieberman, A. M. (2015). Attention-getting skills of deaf children using American Sign Language in a preschool classroom. Applied Psycholinguistics, 36, 855-873.

Lieberman, A. M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2015). Language acquisition. In E. Orfanidou, B. Woll, & G. Morgan (Eds.) Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide (pp. 281-299). Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.

Lieberman, A. M., Hatrak, M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2014). Learning to look for language: Development of joint attention in young deaf children. Language Learning and Development, 10, 19-35.

Lieberman, A. M., Borovsky, A., Hatrak, M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2014). Real-time processing of ASL signs: Effects of linguistic experience and proficiency. In W. Orman and M. J. Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38^th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 279-291). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Ferjan Ramirez, N., Lieberman, A. M., & Mayberry, R. I. (2013). The initial stages of language acquisition begun in adolescence: When late looks early. Journal of Child Language, 40 (2), 391-414.

Lieberman, A. M. (2012, June). Eye-gaze and Joint Attention. Visual Language and Visual Learning Science of Learning Center. (Research Brief No. 5). Washington, DC. Available online at: http://vl2.gallaudet.edu/document.php?id=6

Mayberry, R. I., del Giudice, A., & Lieberman, A. (2011). Reading achievement in relation to phonological coding and awareness in deaf readers: A meta-analysis. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 16(2), 164-188.

Lieberman, A., Hatrak, M., & Mayberry, R. (2011). The development of eye-gaze control for linguistic input in deaf children. In N. Danis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 391-403. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Ferjan Ramirez, N., Lieberman, A., & Mayberry, R. (2011). The first words acquired by adolescent first-language learners: when late looks early. In N. Danis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 210-221. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Allen, T. E., Clark, M. Dk., del Giudice, A., Koo, D., Lieberman, A., Mayberry, M., & Miller, P. (2009). Phonology and Reading: A Response to Wang, Trezek, Luckner, and Paul. American Annals of the Deaf, 154 (4), pp. 338-345.

Slobin, D. I., Hoiting, N., Kuntze, M., Lindert, R., Weinberg, A., Pyers, J., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., & Thumann, H. (2003). A cognitive/functional perspective on the acquisition of “classifiers.” In K. Emmorey (Ed.), Perspectives on classifier constructions in sign languages. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Slobin, D. I., Hoiting, N., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., Kuntze, M., Lindert, R., Pyers, J., Thumann, H., Weinberg, A. (2001). Sign language transcription at the level of meaning components: The Berkeley Transcription System (BTS). Sign Language & Linguistics, 4 (1/2), 63-104.

Remmel, E., Bettger, J. G., & Weinberg, A. M. (2001). Theory of mind development in deaf children. In M. D. Clark, M. Marschark, & M. Karchmer (Eds.), Context, cognition, and deafness. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Slobin, D., Hoiting, N., Kuntze, M., Lindert, R., Weinberg, A., Pyers, J., Anthony, M., Biederman, Y., & Thumann, H. (2000). Signed Language—The Berkeley Transcription System. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk. Vol. 1: The Programs (3^rd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., Weinberg, A., & McRoberts, G. W. (1998). Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by infants in the 2nd year. Psychological Science, 9 (3), 228-231.