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Ronnie Β. Wilbur

Psychology · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1974
Hearing Impairment and CommunicationHand Gesture Recognition SystemsLanguage, Discourse, Communication StrategiesLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identitylinguistics and terminology studies

Publications

227

Citations

5,318

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

53

Publishing since 1974

Research summary
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This researcher studies sign languages (such as Austrian Sign Language and American Sign Language) and how their grammar, meaning, and visual form are produced and understood by the brain and body. Work combines linguistic analysis with methods like motion capture, muscle activity recording (EMG), and EEG/brain imaging to examine how events, verbs, and grammatical structures are physically expressed and mentally processed by deaf signers and non-signers. The research spans sign language linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience of language.

Sign language linguistics and grammarNeural and cognitive processing of visual languageMotion capture and EMG analysis of sign productionEvent structure and verb semanticsDeaf education and bimodal bilingualism

Publication output has been relatively steady but with a gradual decline from earlier peaks (around 8-12 papers/year in 2017-2018) to a more moderate pace (roughly 4-7 papers/year) in recent years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.8/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 12 publications12182019: 6 publications192020: 6 publications202021: 7 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 7 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 7 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • FEAST Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory×4
  • Sign Language & Linguistics×4
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence×3
  • Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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