Research
From Contact to Conversation: Protactile Language, Modality, and Community

Gagne, D. L., & Broadway, H. (2026). From Contact to Conversation: Protactile Language, Modality, and Community. Annual Review of Linguistics, 12, 81–97. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011724-121536

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Recent publication on Nicaraguan Sign Language

Coppola, M., Flaherty, M., Gagne, D., Gagne, K., Kocab, A., Martin, A., Morales Blanco, D., Morales Ruíz, I., Pyers, J., & Senghas, A. (2025). Convergence and Emergence: How Nicaraguan Signing Has Been Shaped by Transmission, Acquisition, and Interaction. Sign Language Studies, 26(1), 69–103. DOI: 10.1353/sls.2025.a981200

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Studying Sign Language Learning By Deaf and Hard of Hearing Second Language Learners

New MAC Study for 2024!

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Lessons to be Learned from Bimodal Bilingualism

Lillo-Martin, D., Gagne, D., & Chen Pichler, D. (2022)

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"More Is Up"

Davidson, K., & Gagne, D. (2022).

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"A strong language foundation, but not being deaf, supports learning ASL as a second language."

Kraus, K., & Gagne, D. (2021)

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"Literacy in Emerging Sign Language Communities."

Gagne, D. L., & Coppola, M. (2020).

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"False Belief Understanding Requires Language Experience, but Its Precursor Abilities Do Not."

Gagne, D., Goico, S., Pyers, J., & Coppola, M. (2019)

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Visible social interactions do not support the development of false belief understanding in the absence of linguistic input: Evidence from deaf adult homesigners

Visible social interactions do not support the development of false belief understanding in the absence of linguistic input: Evidence from deaf adult homesigners

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