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Publications

Articles and Chapters

2021

  • Stamp, R. & Jaraisy, M. (2021). Language contact between Israeli Sign Language and Kufr Qassem Sign Language. Sign Language Studies.

  • Stamp, R., & Sandler, W. (2021). The emergence of referential shift devices in three young sign languages. Lingua, 257 (July, 2021). 

  • Stamp, R., Shaban-Rabah, S. & Novogrodsky, R. (2021). Argument omissions by deaf students in three languages and three modalities. First Language, 1-25.

 

2020

  • Lillo-Martin, D., Sandler, W., Coppola, M. & Stamp, R. (2020). Introduction. In Lillo-Martin, D., Sandler, W., Coppola, M. & Stamp, R. (Eds.) Sign Language & Linguistics: Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir. Pg. 1-16.

  • Stamp, R., Dachkovsky, S., & Sandler, W. (2020). Time will tell: Time and discourse as ‘motion through space’ in early Israeli Sign Language (ISL), In R. Pfau, A. Göksel & J. Hosemann (eds.), Our lives – our stories. Life experiences of elderly Deaf people. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

 

2019

  • Stamp R. & Schembri, A. (2019). Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. In M. J. Ball, & J. Damico (eds.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders. USA: SAGE.

 

2018

  • Schembri, A.,  Stamp, R., Fenlon, J. & Cormier, K. (2018). Variation and change in English varieties of British Sign Language. In: Braber, N. and S. Jansen (eds). Sociolinguistics in England. Houndsmills, Pp. 165-188, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • Dachkovsky, S.,  Stamp, R., & Sandler. W. (2018). Constructing complexity in a young sign language. Frontiers. 9(2202). Pp. 1-21.

 

2016

  • Stamp, R. (2016). Do Signers Understand Regional Varieties of a Sign Language? A Lexical Recognition Experiment. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 21(1): pp. 83-93.

  • Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Evans, B.G., & Cormier, K. (2016). Regional Sign Language Varieties in Contact: Investigating Patterns of Accommodation. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 21(1): pp.70-82.

  • Stamp, R. & Sandler W. (2016). The Grammar of the Body and the emergence of complexity in sign languages. In S.G. Roberts, C. Cuskley, L. McCrohon, L. Barceló-Coblijn, O. Feher & T. Verhoef (eds.) The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANG11).

  • Stamp, R. & Woll, B., (2016). Sociolinguistics: Dialects/Regionalisms/Ethnic Varieties. In G. Gertz, & P. Boudreault, (Eds.) The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University. Pp. 906-911.

 

2015

  • Stamp, R. (2015). Sociolinguistic variation, language change and contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon. Sign Language & Linguistics. 18(1): pp. 158-166. DOI: 10.1075/sll.18.1.08sta

  • Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J. & Rentelis, R. (2015). Sociolinguistic Variation & Change in British Sign Language Number Signs: Evidence of Leveling? Sign Language Studies. 15(2), pp.151-181.

 

2014

  • Stamp, R., Schembri, A., Fenlon, J., Rentelis, R. & Cormier, K. Woll, B. (2014). Lexical Variation & Change in British Sign Language. Plos One. 9(4), pp.1-14, e94053. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094053

 

2013

  • Stamp, R.J. (2013) Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Change and Contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon. PhD thesis, UCL (University College London).

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Selected Conference Presentations:

  • Stamp, R., Cohen-Koka, S. & Nir, B., (2021). On one side or the other: Stance-taking in sign language narrative & non-narrative discourse. Presented at UK Language Variation and Change 13. 8-10th September 2021.

  • Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R., Cohen-Koka, S., & Nir, B., (2021). Multimodal Signs:

  • PALM-UP as a Textual Discourse Marker. Presented at SLE. 1st-3rd September 2021.

  • Shaban-Rabah, S., Stamp, R. & Novogrodsky, R. (February, 2020). Syntactic structure in three modalities by Palestinian-Arabic speaking students with hearing impaired: Sign Language, Spoken-Arabic and written Standard-Arabic. A talk presented at the 56th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and Language Association. Tel-Aviv, Israel.

  • Stamp, R., Shaban-Rabah, S. & Novogrodsky, R. (February, 2021). Sensitivity to word order in signed and spoken languages. A talk as part of a symposium on Sign language, simultaneous communication and spoken language: communication characteristics of deaf and hard of hearing children, presented at the 57th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and Language Association. (Zoom).

  • Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2021). Grammaticalization and Lexicalization of TIME-PASS in Israeli Sign Language. Presented at FEAST. 1st-4th June 2021.

  • Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2021). Time will tell: Grammaticalization of time expressions in Israeli Sign Language. Presented at Language Change: Theoretical and empirical perspectives. 20th-21st January 2021.

  • Stamp, R., Ben-Israel, A., Hel-Or, H., Raz, S. & Sandler, W. (2020). It's just a gay thing: A comparative kinematic analysis of gestures and signs in Israel. Accepted as a paper at the 27th Lavender Languages & Linguistics conference. San Francisco, 21-23rd May 2021.

  • Stamp, R., Ben-Israel, A., Hel-Or, H., Raz, S. & Sandler, W. (2020). It's just a gay thing: A comparative kinematic analysis of gestures and signs in Israel. Accepted as a paper at the 23rd Sociolinguistics Symposium conference. Hong Kong, June 7-10th, 2021.

  • Stamp, R., Ben-Israel, A., Hel-Or, H., Raz, S. & Sandler, W. (2019). It’s just a gay thing: A comparative kinematic analysis of gestures and signs in Israel. Invited speaker at the Linguistics Colloquium in the English Literature & Linguistics department at Bar-Ilan University. Israel, April 21st, 2020.

  • Jaraisy, M. & Stamp, R., (2019). Language contact situation between Israeli Sign Language & Kufr Qassem Sign Language: A case of code-switching or borrowing? Paper presented at the 12th UK Language Variation & Change conference. London, September 3rd, 2019.

  • Jaraisy, M. & Stamp, R., (2019). Language contact situation between Israeli Sign Language & Kufr Qassem Sign Language: A case of code-switching or borrowing? Poster presented at the 13th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR13) conference. Hamburg, Germany, September 26th, 2019.

  • Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2019). Time will tell: Dynamics of Grammaticalization & Lexicalization of TIME-PASS in Israeli Sign Language (ISL). Poster presented at the 13th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR13) conference. Hamburg, Germany, September 26th, 2019.

  • Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2019). Gradual Recruitment of Body Articulations for Discourse Structuring in a Young Sign Language. Paper presented at the 6th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research (ISCOP). Acco, Israel. February 12th, 2019.

  • Mesh, K., Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2019). Pointing Toward Conventionalisation in Emerging Sign Languages. Paper presented at the 6th Israeli Conference on Cognition Research (ISCOP). Acco, Israel. February 12th, 2019.

  • Stamp, R., Dachkovsky, S., Hel-Or, H., Cohn, D., Raz, S. & Sandler, W. (2018). A Kinematic Study of Phonetic Reduction in a Young Sign Language. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). Cape Town, South Africa. July 5th, 2018.

  • Stamp, R., Dachkovsky, S., & Sandler, W. (2018). Gradual Recruitment of Body Articulations for Discourse Structuring: Case Study in a Young Sign Language. Paper presented at the 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS). Cape Town, South Africa. July 4th, 2018.

  • Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2018). The Emergence of Referential Devices in Three Young Sign Languages. Paper presented at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL) conference. University of Cape Town, South Africa. July 3rd, 2018.

  • Stamp, R., Hel-Or, H., Cohn, D., Raz, S. & Sandler, W. (2018). Kinect-ing the dots: Motion capture technologies and the sign language lexicon. Paper presented at the International Congress of Linguists (ICL) conference. University of Cape Town, South Africa. July 3rd, 2018.

  • Mesh, K., Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R. & Sandler, W. (2018). Pointing Toward Grammaticalization: Conventionalization of Pointing in Emerging Sign Languages. Paper presented at the EvoLang Conference. Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika W Toruniu, Poland. April 16th, 2018.

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