Ronnie Wilbur
Ronnie Wilbur is an American theoretical and experimental linguist who is a professor of linguistics at the Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her main research field is sign language linguistics in which she made some major contributions including the discovery that sign languages have syllables similar to spoken languages.[1] Wilbur is the director of the sign language linguistics lab at Purdue.[2]
Bibliography (Selection)
- Wilbur, R. B. (1979). American Sign Language and sign systems. Univ Park Press.
- Wilbur, R. B. (1987). American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions (2nd ed.). New York, NY, US: Little, Brown and Co.
- Wilbur, R. B. (2011). Nonmanuals, semantic operators, domain marking, and the solution to two outstanding puzzles in ASL. Sign Language & Linguistics 14: 148-178.
- Wilbur, R. B. (2011). Modality and the structure of language: Sign languages versus signed systems. In M. Marschark & P. Spencer (eds.), The handbook of deaf studies, language, and education, 332-346. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
External Link
- ^ Wilbur, R. (1982). A multi-tiered theory of syllable structure for American Sign Language. Paper presented at the Annual meeting, Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, CA.
- ^ https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/directory/faculty/wilbur_ronnie.html