Selected Publications
Senghas, A., and D. Roman (in press). La Comunidad Sorda de Nicaragua y su Idioma: Lo que hemos Aprendido de ellos [The Nicaraguan Deaf Community and its Language: What we have learned from them]. (Edited volume). London/Managua: Leonard Cheshire International.
Senghas, A. (in press). ¿De dónde surgió el Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua? [Where did Nicaraguan Sign Language come from?] To appear in A. Senghas and D. Roman, (Eds.), La Comunidad Sorda de Nicaragua y su Idioma: Lo que hemos Aprendido de ellos. London/Managua: Leonard Cheshire International.
Pyers, J. E., and A. Senghas (in press). Referential shift in Nicaraguan Sign Language: A comparison with American Sign Language. To appear in P. Perniss, R. Pfau, and M. Steinbach, (Eds.), Visible variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Senghas, A., S. Kita, and A. Özyürek (in press). Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. To appear in K. Lindgren, D. DeLuca, B. Reynolds, and D. J. Napoli (Eds.), Signs and Voices. Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press. [Reprint of Senghas et al., 2004]
Senghas, A. (2005). Language emergence: Clues from a new Bedouin sign language. Current Biology, 15:12, 463-465. [pdf]
Senghas, A., S. Kita, and A. Özyürek (2005). Linguaggio e evoluzione: I bambini sordi del Nicaragua mostrano come nasce una lingua. Darwin, 2:8, 88-96. [Includes Italian translation of Senghas et al. 2004, with additional text and graphics].
Senghas, A., A. Özyürek, and S. Kita (2005). Language emergence in vitro or in vivo? Response to comment on “Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua.” Science, 309: 5731, 56.
Senghas, A., S. Kita, and A. Özyürek (2004). Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305: 5691, 1779-1782.
Senghas, R. J., A. Senghas, and J. E. Pyers (2005) The emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Questions of development, acquisition, and evolution In J. Langer, S. T. Parker, & C. Milbrath (Eds.), Biology and Knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to psychogenesis. Mahwah, NJ Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.[pdf]
Senghas, A 2003Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language Cognitive Development, 18, 511-531. [pdf]
Senghas, A., A. Ozyürek, and S. Kita 2002Encoding motion events in an emerging sign language: From Nicaraguan gestures to Nicaraguan signs In A. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde & O. Crasborn (Eds.) Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. Hamburg Signum Press.
Saffran, J. R., A. Senghas, and J. C. Trueswell 2001The acquisition of language by children Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98: 23, 12874-12875. [pdf]
Senghas, A 2001Spatial and temporal coding of Nicaraguan Sign Language in MediaTagger: Documenting three dimensions with a two-dimensional tool Sign Language and Linguistics, 4: 1/2, 229-240
Senghas, A., and M. Coppola 2001Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar Psychological Science, 12, 4: 323-328. [pdf]
Snyder, W., A. Senghas, and K. Inman 2001Agreement morphology and the acquisition of noun-drop in Spanish Language Acquisition, 9 (2): 157-173. [pdf]
Senghas, A 2000The development of early spatial morphology in Nicaraguan Sign Language In S. C. Howell, S. A. Fish, and T. Keith-Lucas, (Eds.), BUCLD 24: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston Cascadilla Press, 696-707. [pdf]
Senghas, A 1999Spatial and temporal coding of Nicaraguan Sign Language in MediaTagger: Documenting three dimensions with a two-dimensional tool In Intersign: Sign Linguistics and Data Exchange, European Science Foundation Scientific Network, E. Pizzuto and B. Bergman, (Eds.), Section on Morphosyntax: Text Corpora and Tagging. [full text] [intersign site]
Kegl, J., A. Senghas, and M. Coppola 1999Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua In M. DeGraff, (Ed.), Language Creation and Language Change: Creolization, Diachrony, and Development. Cambridge MIT Press, 179-237.
Senghas, A, M. Coppola, E. L. Newport, and T. Supalla 1997Argument structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language: The emergence of grammatical devices In E. Hughes, M. Hughes, and A. Greenhill (Eds.), BUCLD 21: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston Cascadilla Press, 550-561. [pdf]
Senghas, A 1995Children’s contribution to the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Distributed by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
Senghas, A 1995Conventionalization in the first generation: a community acquires a language USD Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 6, Spring, 1995.
Senghas, A 1995The development of Nicaraguan Sign Language via the language acquisition process In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (Eds.), BUCLD 19: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston Cascadilla Press, 543-552. [pdf]
Senghas, A 1994Nicaragua’s lessons for language acquisition Signpost: The Journal of the International Sign Linguistics Association, 7:1, spring 1994.