Lindsay Nicole Ferrara
About
Publications
2026
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2026)
The Community and Ethics Shaping the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2026)
Iconicity in signed narratives.
Academic chapter
2025
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Gawne, Lauren;
Andreassen, Helene N.;
Ferrara, Lindsay;
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L..
(2025)
Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo.
Linguistic Typology
Academic article
2024
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
Norwegian Sign Language Corpus – Language Ecology (Retellings and public events).
CLARINO Bergen Centre
Data set
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
Norwegian Sign Language Corpus – Language Ecology (Conversations and private meetings/events).
CLARINO Bergen Centre
Data set
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Jantunen, Tommi;
Mesch, Johanna;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
Corpus research on signed languages in the Nordic countries.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Academic article
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Sikveland, Rein Ove.
(2024)
Investigating Question-Asking in Norwegian Sign Language: A Multi-Method Approach.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
"Your Turn!": Using Finger Pointing and PALM-UP Actions to Ask Questions in Norwegian Sign Language.
Sign Language Studies
Academic article
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Sikveland, Rein Ove.
(2024)
Investigating Question-asking in Norwegian Sign Language: A Multi-Method Approach.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
2023
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Lindsay, Ferrara.
(2023)
Indexing turn-beginnings in norwegian sign language conversation.
Gesture
Academic article
2022
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Bø, Vibeke.
(2022)
Norwegian Sign Language Corpus – Pilot Corpus (Conversations).
CLARINO Bergen Centre
Data set
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald;
Hodge, Gabrielle;
Jantunen, Tommi;
Leeson, Lorraine;
Mesch, Johanna;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena.
(2022)
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages.
Linguistic Typology
Academic article
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Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2022)
Iconicity as Multimodal, Polysemiotic, and Plurifunctional.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
2021
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Halvorsen, Rolf Piene.
(2021)
Norwegian Sign Language Corpus - Halvorsen (2012).
CLARINO Bergen Centre
Data set
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Ringsø, Torill.
(2021)
Norwegian Sign Language corpus – Depicting Perspective.
CLARINO Bergen Centre
Data set
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Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2021)
How can we make language theory more inclusive?.
Acadeafic
Popular science article
2020
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2020)
Some interactional functions of finger pointing in signed language conversations.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
Academic article
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Haualand, Hilde;
Bø, Vibeke;
Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik;
Hjulstad, Johan;
Ringsø, Torill;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald;
Urdal, Gro Hege Saltnes;
Agerup, Charlotte Helene.
(2020)
Når fagfolks manglende kunnskap om språk hindrer hørselshemmede barns utviklingsmuligheter – et tilsvar til Skaug (2020).
Norsk tidsskrift for logopedi
Professional article
2019
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2019)
Coordinating signs and eye gaze in the depiction of directions and spatial scenes by fluent and L2 signers of Norwegian Sign Language.
Spatial Cognition and Computation
Academic article
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Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald.
(2019)
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Ringsø, Torill.
(2019)
Spatial Vantage Points in Norwegian Sign Language.
Open Linguistics
Academic article
2018
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Bø, Vibeke;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Halvorsen, Rolf Piene.
(2018)
Språkøkologi.
Academic chapter
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Hodge, Gabrielle.
(2018)
Language as description, indication, and depiction.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
2017
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena.
(2017)
Describing spatial layouts as an M2 signed language learner.
Sign Language and Linguistics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Halvorsen, Rolf Piene.
(2017)
Depicting and describing meanings with iconic signs in Norwegian Sign Language.
Gesture
Academic article
2015
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Napier, Jemina;
Major, George;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Johnston, Trevor.
(2015)
Medical Signbank as a model for sign language planning? A review of community engagement.
Current Issues in Language Planning
Academic article
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Mesch, Johanna;
Raanes, Eli;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2015)
Co-forming real space blends in tactile signed language dialogues.
Cognitive Linguistics
Academic article
2014
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Hodge, Gabrielle.
(2014)
Showing the story: Enactment as performance in Auslan narratives.
Academic chapter
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Johnston, Trevor.
(2014)
Elaborating who's what: A study of constructed action and clause structure in Auslan (Australian Sign Language).
Australian Journal of Linguistics
Academic article
Journal publications
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Gawne, Lauren;
Andreassen, Helene N.;
Ferrara, Lindsay;
Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L..
(2025)
Open research requires open mindedness: commentary on “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative typology” by Becker and Guzmán Naranjo.
Linguistic Typology
Academic article
-
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2020)
Some interactional functions of finger pointing in signed language conversations.
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
Academic article
-
Haualand, Hilde;
Bø, Vibeke;
Vonen, Arnfinn Muruvik;
Hjulstad, Johan;
Ringsø, Torill;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald;
Urdal, Gro Hege Saltnes;
Agerup, Charlotte Helene.
(2020)
Når fagfolks manglende kunnskap om språk hindrer hørselshemmede barns utviklingsmuligheter – et tilsvar til Skaug (2020).
Norsk tidsskrift for logopedi
Professional article
-
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2019)
Coordinating signs and eye gaze in the depiction of directions and spatial scenes by fluent and L2 signers of Norwegian Sign Language.
Spatial Cognition and Computation
Academic article
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Jantunen, Tommi;
Mesch, Johanna;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
Corpus research on signed languages in the Nordic countries.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena.
(2017)
Describing spatial layouts as an M2 signed language learner.
Sign Language and Linguistics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Halvorsen, Rolf Piene.
(2017)
Depicting and describing meanings with iconic signs in Norwegian Sign Language.
Gesture
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Hodge, Gabrielle.
(2018)
Language as description, indication, and depiction.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
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Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald.
(2019)
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language.
Journal of Pragmatics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Johnston, Trevor.
(2014)
Elaborating who's what: A study of constructed action and clause structure in Auslan (Australian Sign Language).
Australian Journal of Linguistics
Academic article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Anible, Benjamin Donald;
Hodge, Gabrielle;
Jantunen, Tommi;
Leeson, Lorraine;
Mesch, Johanna;
Nilsson, Anna-Lena.
(2022)
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages.
Linguistic Typology
Academic article
-
Napier, Jemina;
Major, George;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Johnston, Trevor.
(2015)
Medical Signbank as a model for sign language planning? A review of community engagement.
Current Issues in Language Planning
Academic article
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Lindsay, Ferrara.
(2023)
Indexing turn-beginnings in norwegian sign language conversation.
Gesture
Academic article
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2024)
"Your Turn!": Using Finger Pointing and PALM-UP Actions to Ask Questions in Norwegian Sign Language.
Sign Language Studies
Academic article
-
Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2022)
Iconicity as Multimodal, Polysemiotic, and Plurifunctional.
Frontiers in Psychology
Academic article
-
Mesch, Johanna;
Raanes, Eli;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2015)
Co-forming real space blends in tactile signed language dialogues.
Cognitive Linguistics
Academic article
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Hodge, Gabrielle;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2021)
How can we make language theory more inclusive?.
Acadeafic
Popular science article
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Ringsø, Torill.
(2019)
Spatial Vantage Points in Norwegian Sign Language.
Open Linguistics
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2026)
The Community and Ethics Shaping the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus.
Academic chapter
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole.
(2026)
Iconicity in signed narratives.
Academic chapter
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Bø, Vibeke;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Halvorsen, Rolf Piene.
(2018)
Språkøkologi.
Academic chapter
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Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Hodge, Gabrielle.
(2014)
Showing the story: Enactment as performance in Auslan narratives.
Academic chapter
Student thesis or dissertation
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Sikveland, Rein Ove.
(2024)
Investigating Question-Asking in Norwegian Sign Language: A Multi-Method Approach.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
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Arnold, Brittany Mason;
Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole;
Sikveland, Rein Ove.
(2024)
Investigating Question-asking in Norwegian Sign Language: A Multi-Method Approach.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral thesis
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2026
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Feature articleNyhus, Marianne Pilskog; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Løkken, Marita; Ringsø, Torill; Moxness, Anne Grete; Raanes, Eli; Berge, Sigrid Slettebakk; Mjøen, Odd Morten; Sinkaberg, Rannveig Frøseth; Nielsen, Brita Fladvad. (2026) Ja til norsk tegnspråk som valgfag i ungdomsskolen.
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LectureBochynska, Agata; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2026) (Perceived) barriers to data sharing and resuse: Results from a discipline-specific needs analysis. FIDELIS Data Reuse Workshop(s)
2025
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2025) Endelig! Lansering av korpus for norsk tegnspråk. Norsk tegnspråk i går, i dag, men hva med i morgen?
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2025) Linguistic diversity as a reflection of human diversity: cases from Nordic sign language communities. Einar Haugen lecture
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Other presentationFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2025) Creating an open-access, multimedia corpus for Norwegian Sign Language: A benefit to researchers and the deaf community. One size does not fit all: New insights into qualitative data sharing
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Conference lectureArnold, Brittany Mason; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Kimmelman, Vadim; Urdal, Gro Hege Saltnes. (2025) Sikt and Open Science Practices Panel. Nasjonal forksningskonferanse om tegnspråk og tegnspråklige
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2025) Launching the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus for the research and deaf community. Nordic Innovations in Linguistics: Multi-method approaches for understanding language (LINNORD)
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Conference lectureAnible, Benjamin Donald; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anda, Lena Mei. (2025) Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in NTS. Nordic Innovations in Linguistics: Multi-method approaches for understanding language (LINNORD)
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2025) Launching the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus for the research and deaf community. Nasjonal forskningskonferanse om tegnspråk og tegnspråklige
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Lepeut, Alysson Maurane. (2025) Backchannels as multimodal displays of seeing and understanding in signed language interaction : Cross-linguistic insights into NTS and LSFB. Nasjonal forskningskonferanse om tegnspråk og tegnspråklige
2023
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald; Anda, Lena Mei Kalvenes. (2023) Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian deaf community. Norsk forskningskonferanse om tegnspråk og døvesamfunn
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2023) Additional language acquisition: adapting semiotic repertoires to new language ecologies. Samtaler om språk
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2023) Vitalitetsindikatorer for norsk tegnspråk. Seminarium om statistik inom teckenspråksområdet
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LectureAndreassen, Helene Nordgård; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2023) Developing a Needs Analysis for Open Scholarship in Linguistics and the Language Sciences. International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data
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Conference lectureAnible, Benjamin Donald; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2023) Referent tracking in conversation with diverse semiotics. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 16)
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LectureAndreassen, Helene Nordgård; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2023) Developing a needs analysis for open scholarship in linguistics and the language sciences. Research Data Alliance 21st plenary meeting
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Conference lectureArnold, Brittany Mason; Sikveland, Rein Ove; Lindsay, Ferrara. (2023) Extending and revising manual holds when managing non-answers to questions in Norwegian Sign Language. ICCA 2023-International Conference on Conversation Analysis
2022
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Lecture
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald; Hodge, Gabrielle; Jantunen, Tommi; Leeson, Lorraine; Mesch, Johanna; Nilsson, Anna-Lena. (2022) A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across different signed languages. Sign CAFE 2
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Conference posterFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Arnold, Brittany. (2022) «Your turn!» Using finger pointing and palm-up actions to ask questions in Norwegian Sign Language. ISGS9
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2022) Symposium Discussant: «A universal conversational infrastructure for creating language: evidence from homesign and small signing communities". ISGS9
2021
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2021) The ethics and responsibility of creating an open-access, multimedia language corpus. Webinar: How to share qualitative data: videos and interviews
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2021) Meningsdanning i det norske tegnspråkøkologi. LFE tegnspråk – landsdekkende fagsamling
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2021) Norsk tegnspråk: når teknologi og språkdokumentasjon går hånd i hånd. Nordisk språkmøte 2021
2020
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Conference lectureHodge, Gabrielle; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2020) The multidimensionality of depiction. UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald; Hodge, Gabrielle; Jantunen, Tommi; Leeson, Lorraine; Mesch, Johanna; Nilsson, Anna-Lena. (2020) A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across different signed languages. HDLS
2019
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Ringsø, Torill; Anible, Benjamin Donald. (2019) Forskning på tegnspråk. Presentation at the Bergen Deaf Association
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LectureAnible, Benjamin Donald; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Language use, documentation, and empowerment: What a sign language corpus means for Norway. Tolkeforbundets fagdag
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Hodge, Gabrielle. (2019) Language use as description, indication and depiction: Evidence from corpus-based investigations of signed and spoken languages. Talk given at the Department of Language and Communication Studies
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Hodge, Gabrielle. (2019) Language use as description, indication and depiction: Evidence from corpus-based investigations of signed and spoken languages. High Seminar at Stockholm University
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Conference posterAnible, Benjamin Donald; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Depicting new referents in Norwegian Sign Language. The Fifteenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-15)
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Regulating turn-taking with pointing actions in Norwegian Sign Language conversation. TISLR (Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research) 13
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Promoting signed language communities through linguistic research. “Sign language research and education: the role of Deaf and hearing people, teachers, and researchers” symposium
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald. (2019) Promoting a Norwegian minority language community through documentation and research. How Sign Language Matters
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Linking conversational moves through pointing actions in signed language interaction. ICLC 15
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) Interactive pointing actions in Norwegian Sign Language. 2019 Nordic Signed Language Corpus and Lexical Database seminar
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2019) The semiotic diversity of signed language interactions and what this means for the study of multimodal communication and language theory. 6th European & 9th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication
2018
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Conference lectureHodge, Gabrielle; Anible, Benjamin Donald; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) The in/visibleness of doing reference in a deaf signed language. Sign CAFE 1
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Scene depictions in fluent and L2 Norwegian Sign Language. DCAL Science Meeting
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Conference lectureHodge, Gabrielle; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald. (2018) The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language. Workshop on Information structure, referential status and referent type in discourse and grammar
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Signed language linguistics: Taking stock: Concepts and terminology: Depiction in signed and spoken languages. ICL20: the 20th International Congress of Linguists
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Conference posterFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Ringsø, Torill. (2018) Perspective in Norwegian Sign Language scene depictions. Eighth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: Gesture and Diversity
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LectureAgerup, Charlotte Helene; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Oppvekst med tegnspråk. Researchers' Night 2018
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Forskning på tegnspråk og tolking. Hvor er vi? Hvor vil vi?. Tiltredelsesseminar til Prof. Anna-Lena Nilsson
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Boklansering - Tolking; Språkarbeid og profejonsutøvelse. Boklansering - Tolking; Språkarbeid og profejonsutøvelse
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2018) Describing spatial layouts as an M2 signed language learner. Leverhulme Network on sign language as second languages project
2016
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Lecture
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Hodge, Gabrielle; Linder, Stephanie. (2016) Time after time: Referential recurrence and discourse cohesion in a deaf signed language. TISLR12
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LectureNilsson, Anna-Lena; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2016) Meaningful use of space: easy or hard for hearing L2 learners?. TISLR12
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LectureHaualand, Hilde; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Ringsø, Torill. (2016) Translanguaging in interpreted signed-spoken language communication - an exploratory study. Symposium on translanguaging and repertoires across signed and spoken languages: Insights from linguistic ethnographies in (super)diverse contexts
2015
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2015) ”Dere i Skandinavia er så opptatt av munnen”. Språkrådets Tegnterm seminar
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LectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2015) "Hvordan lærer voksne hørende tegnspråk". Statpeds Tegnspråkkonsulentseminaret
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LectureNilsson, Anna-Lena; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2015) Depicting from experience: learning to give directions in space. The Fifth Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC V)
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Conference posterBø, Vibeke; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2015) Pilot: Establishing Corpus for Norwegian Sign Language (NTS). Digging into Signs Workshop
2014
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Conference lectureRaanes, Eli; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Nilsson, Anna-Lena. (2014) “Why was that funny?”: Exploring humor and language in Norwegian Sign Language. NORKOG Kognitivt sommerseminar 2014
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Conference lectureFerrara, Lindsay Nicole; Halvorsen, Rolf Piene. (2014) Lingvistisk enhet eller demonstrasjon: en diskusjon om leksikalisering og grammatikalisering av gester i norsk tegnspråk [Linguistic unit or demonstration: a discussion of lexicalization and grammaticalization in Norwegian Sign Language]. NORKOG Kognitivt sommerseminar 2014
2013
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Conference lectureHodge, Gabrielle; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole. (2013) Showing the story: Enactment as performance in Auslan (Australian sign language) narratives. Australian Lingusitics Society Annual Conference