Principal Investigator
Pamela Perniss’s research takes a multimodal approach to language and has focused in particular on the role of the visual modality and iconicity in shaping language structure and processing. Following her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (2007), she held postdoctoral positions at the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre (University College London) and at Radboud University Nijmegen before joining the Linguistics Department at the University of Brighton. Since 2019, she is a professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne and chair of the sign language interpreting (DGS-German) program.
About
University of Cologne
pperniss@uni-koeln.de
Project
The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension
Selected Publications
- Perniss, P., Vinson, D., & Vigliocco, G. (2020). Making sense of the hands and mouth: the role of “secondary” cues to meaning in British Sign Language and English. Cognitive Science 44(7), e12868.
- Perniss, P., Lu, J., Morgan, G., & Vigliocco, G. (2017). Mapping language to the world: The role of iconicity in the sign language input. Developmental Science, e12551, 1-23.
- Perniss, P., Özyürek, A., & Morgan, G. (2015). The influence of the visual modality on language structure and language conventionalization: Insights from sign language and gesture. Topics in Cognitive Science,7(1), 2-11.
- Perniss, P., Thompson, R.L., & Vigliocco, G. (2010). Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages. Frontiers in Psychology 1, 227.