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Book

Neidle, C., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and R.G. Lee (2000)
The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Journal articles and book chapters

Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2008) WELL, WHAT Is It? Discovery of a New Particle in ASL." In K. A. Lindgren, D. DeCLuca, and D.J. Napoli, eds., Signs & Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts. Gallaudet University Press. pp. 100-116.

Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2008) "Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers," In B. Rosenhahn, R. Klette, and D. Metaxas, eds., Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. Springer. pp. 133-158.

Neidle, C. (2007) "Interplay between manual and non-manual expressions in American Sign Language (ASL)." In Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, and Annie Zaenen, eds., Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan. pp. 127-138.

Tsechpenakis, G., D. N. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2006) "Learning-based Dynamic Coupling of Discrete and Continuous Trackers." Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 104 (2-3), Nov/Dec 2006. pp. 140-156,

Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2006) "Syntactic Agreement across Language Modalities: American Sign Language." João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, eds., Studies on agreement.
John Benjamins.

Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2004) "Language, Gestural." Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (third edition). Elsevier.

Neidle, C. (2003) "Language across modalities: ASL focus and question constructions." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2, pp. 71-98.

Conlin, F., P. Hagstrom, and C. Neidle (2003) "A particle of indefiniteness in American Sign Language." Linguistic Discovery volume 2, 2003.

Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (2002) "The Distribution of Functional Projections in ASL: Evidence from Overt Expressions of Syntactic Features." In G. Cinque, ed., Functional Structure in the DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 195-224.

Neidle, C. (2002) SignStream™: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language.
In Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes-Braem, Thomas Hanke, and Elena Pizzuto, eds., Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, a special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics 4 (2001):1/2, pp. 203-214.

Neidle, C., S. Sclaroff, and V. Athitsos (2001) SignStream™: A Tool for Linguistic and Computer Vision Research on Visual-Gestural Language Data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 33:3,pp. 311-320.

MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, B. Bahan, and R. G. Lee (2000) Morphological Inflections and Syntactic Representations of Person and Number in ASL. In M. Blondel and L. Tuller (eds), Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 29 : Langage et surdité, pp. 73-100.

Bahan, B., J. Kegl, R.G. Lee, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (2000) The Licensing of Null Arguments in American Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry 31:1, pp. 1-27.

Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998) The Rightward Analysis of Wh-movement in ASL: A Reply to Petronio and Lillo-Martin 1997. Language 74:4, pp. 819-831.

Note: there were serious omissions from the published version of this article. Click here to access those passages.

There is also a longer article on this subject, by the same authors, that may be downloaded over the Internet: Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.

Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (1998) SignStream™: A Tool for Linguistic Research on Signed Languages. Sign Language and Linguistics 1:1, pp. 111-114.

Neidle, C., B. Bahan, D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1998) Realizations of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language: Similarities between the Clause and the Noun Phrase.
Studia Linguistica 52:3, pp. 191-226.

Neidle, C., J. Kegl, B. Bahan, D. Aarons, and D. MacLaughlin (1997) Rightward Wh-Movement in American Sign Language. In D. Beerman [sic], D. LeBlanc, and H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Rightward Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 247-278. [errata]

Lee, R.G., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1997) Role Shift in ASL: A Syntactic Look at Direct Speech. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4, Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997, pp. 24-45.

Hoza, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1997) A Unified Syntactic Account of Rhetorical Questions in American Sign Language. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4,
Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997,pp. 1-23.

Kegl, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Hoza, and B. Bahan (1996) The Case for Grammar, Order and Position in ASL: A Reply to Bouchard and Dubuisson. Sign Language Studies 90, 1996, pp. 1-23.

Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995) Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language. In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, pp. 1-12.

Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1995) Lexical Tense Markers in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey, and J. Reilly (eds), Language, Gesture, and Space. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 225-253.

Shepard-Kegl, J., C. Neidle, and J. Kegl (1995) Legal Ramifications of an Incorrect Analysis of Tense in ASL. Journal of Interpretation, 7: 1,pp. 53-70.

Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1994) Subjects and Agreement in American Sign Language. In I. Ahlgren, B. Bergman and M. Brennan (eds), Perspectives on Sign Language Structure: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Sign Language Research, Volume 1. Durham, England: International Sign Linguistics Association, pp. 13-28.

Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1992) Clausal Structure and a Tier for Grammatical Marking in American Sign Language. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 15:103-142.

In press and in progress:

Carol Neidle [in press] "Now we see it, now we don't: Agreement puzzles in ASL." To appear in Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee, eds., Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language & Life. Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University.

Zucchi, Sandro, Carol Neidle, Carlo Geraci, Quinn Duffy, and Carlo Cecchetto [in press] "Functional markers in sign languages: The case of FATTO and FINISH." To appear in Diane Brentari, ed., Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge University Press.

Carol Neidle and Joan Poole Nash [in progress] "Noun Phrase." To appear in Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, and Bencie Woll, eds., Sign Language: An International Handbook. Walter de Gruyter.

Conference Proceedings

Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, Joan Nash, Alexandra Stefan, Quan Yuan, and Ashwin Thangali (2008) "The ASL lexicon video dataset." IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis. June 2008.

Philippe Dreuw, Carol Neidle, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, and Hermann Ney (2008) "Benchmark Databases for Video-Based Automatic Sign Language Recognition," the sixth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Morocco. May 2008.

Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, O. Hadjiliadis, and C. Neidle (2006)
"Robust Online Change-point Detection in Video Sequences." 2nd IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction (V4HCI), in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '06), New York, NY, June 2006.

Castelli, T., M. Betke, and C. Neidle (2006)
"Facial feature tracking and occlusion recovery in American Sign Language."
In A. Fred and A. Lourenço, editors, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recogntion in Information Systems - PRIS 2006, pages 81-90, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006.
INSTICC Press.

He, W., X. Huang, G. Tsechpenakis, D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005)
Discovery of Informative Unlabeled Data for Improved Learning.
In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China).

Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005)
Learning-based dynamic coupling of discrete and continuous trackers.
In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China).

Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995)
Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language.
In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds),
FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1-12.

Project Reports

No. 13
Neidle, C. (2007)
SignStream™ Annotation: Addendum to Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.

No. 12 Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2005)
The Syntactic Organization of American Sign Language: A Synopsis

No. 11 Neidle, C. (2002)
SignStream™ Annotation: Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.

No. 10 Neidle, C. (2000)
SignStream™: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language.

No. 9 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (2000)
SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 2.0.

No. 8 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (1999)
SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 1.5.

No. 7 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, R.G. Lee, and D. Greenfield (1998)
SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 1.0.

No. 6 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998)
Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.

No. 5 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1997)
The SignStream™ Project.

No. 4 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee, eds. (1997)
Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language.

No. 3 MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and R.G. Lee (1996)
Design Specifications for SignStream™, A Multimedia Database Tool for Language Research.

MacLaughlin, D., D. Greenfield, and C. Neidle (1997)
Addendum I to the SignStream™ Design Specifications.

No. 2 Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1996)
Non-Manual Correlates of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language.

Computer Science Technical Reports

No. 2005-024
Castelli, T. J., M. Betke, and C. Neidle (July 7, 2005).
Facial Feature Tracking and Occlusion Recovery in American Sign Language

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Vassilis Athitsos, Carol Neidle, Stan Sclaroff, Joan Nash, Alexandra Stefan, Quan Yuan, and Ashwin Thangali (2008) "The ASL lexicon video dataset." IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis. June 2008.
Philippe Dreuw, Carol Neidle, Vassilis Athitsos, Stan Sclaroff, and Hermann Ney (2008) "Benchmark Databases for Video-Based Automatic Sign Language Recognition," the sixth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Morocco. May 2008.
Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, O. Hadjiliadis, and C. Neidle (2006) "Robust Online Change-point Detection in Video Sequences." 2nd IEEE Workshop on Vision for Human Computer Interaction (V4HCI), in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '06), New York, NY, June 2006.
Castelli, T., M. Betke, and C. Neidle (2006) "Facial feature tracking and occlusion recovery in American Sign Language." In A. Fred and A. Lourenço, editors, Pattern Recognition in Information Systems: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Pattern Recogntion in Information Systems - PRIS 2006, pages 81-90, Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006. INSTICC Press.
He, W., X. Huang, G. Tsechpenakis, D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005) Discovery of Informative Unlabeled Data for Improved Learning. In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China).
Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2005) Learning-based dynamic coupling of discrete and continuous trackers. In the Modeling People and Human Interaction Workshop of ICCV 2005: the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (Beijing, China).
Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995) Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language. In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1-12.

Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2008) WELL, WHAT Is It? Discovery of a New Particle in ASL." In K. A. Lindgren, D. DeCLuca, and D.J. Napoli, eds., Signs & Voices: Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts. Gallaudet University Press. pp. 100-116.
Tsechpenakis, G., D. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2008) "Combining Discrete and Continuous 3D Trackers," In B. Rosenhahn, R. Klette, and D. Metaxas, eds., Human Motion - Understanding, Modeling, Capture and Animation. Springer. pp. 133-158.
Neidle, C. (2007) "Interplay between manual and non-manual expressions in American Sign Language (ASL)." In Jane Grimshaw, Joan Maling, Chris Manning, Jane Simpson, and Annie Zaenen, eds., *Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan.* pp. 127-138.
Tsechpenakis, G., D. N. Metaxas, and C. Neidle (2006) "Learning-based Dynamic Coupling of Discrete and Continuous Trackers." *Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 104* (2-3), Nov/Dec 2006. pp. 140-156,
Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2006) "Syntactic Agreement across Language Modalities: American Sign Language." João Costa and Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva, eds., Studies on agreement. John Benjamins.
Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2004) "Language, Gestural." *Encyclopedia of Neuroscience* (third edition). Elsevier.
Neidle, C. (2003) "Language across modalities: ASL focus and question constructions." *Linguistic Variation Yearbook* 2, pp. 71-98.
Conlin, F., P. Hagstrom, and C. Neidle (2003) "A particle of indefiniteness in American Sign Language." *Linguistic Discovery* volume 2, 2003.
Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (2002) "The Distribution of Functional Projections in ASL: Evidence from Overt Expressions of Syntactic Features." In G. Cinque, ed., Functional Structure in the DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Vol. 1, Oxford University Press. pp. 195-224.
Neidle, C. (2002) SignStream™: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language. In Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes-Braem, Thomas Hanke, and Elena Pizzuto, eds., Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, a special issue of Sign Language and Linguistics 4 (2001):1/2, pp. 203-214.
Neidle, C., S. Sclaroff, and V. Athitsos (2001) SignStream™: A Tool for Linguistic and Computer Vision Research on Visual-Gestural Language Data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers 33:3,pp. 311-320.
MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, B. Bahan, and R. G. Lee (2000) Morphological Inflections and Syntactic Representations of Person and Number in ASL. In M. Blondel and L. Tuller (eds), Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes 29 : Langage et surdité, pp. 73-100.
Bahan, B., J. Kegl, R.G. Lee, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (2000) The Licensing of Null Arguments in American Sign Language. Linguistic Inquiry 31:1, pp. 1-27.
Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998) The Rightward Analysis of Wh-movement in ASL: A Reply to Petronio and Lillo-Martin 1997. Language 74:4, pp. 819-831. Note: there were serious omissions from the published version of this article. Click here to access those passages. There is also a longer article on this subject, by the same authors, that may be downloaded over the Internet: Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.
Neidle, C. and D. MacLaughlin (1998) SignStream™: A Tool for Linguistic Research on Signed Languages. Sign Language and Linguistics 1:1, pp. 111-114.
Neidle, C., B. Bahan, D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1998) Realizations of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language: Similarities between the Clause and the Noun Phrase. Studia Linguistica 52:3, pp. 191-226.
Neidle, C., J. Kegl, B. Bahan, D. Aarons, and D. MacLaughlin (1997) Rightward Wh-Movement in American Sign Language. In D. Beerman [sic], D. LeBlanc, and H. van Riemsdijk (eds), Rightward Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 247-278. [errata]
Lee, R.G., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1997) Role Shift in ASL: A Syntactic Look at Direct Speech. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4, Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997, pp. 24-45.
Hoza, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1997) A Unified Syntactic Account of Rhetorical Questions in American Sign Language. In C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee (eds), Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language. American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project Report No. 4, Boston University, Boston, MA. May 1997,pp. 1-23.
Kegl, J., C. Neidle, D. MacLaughlin, J. Hoza, and B. Bahan (1996) The Case for Grammar, Order and Position in ASL: A Reply to Bouchard and Dubuisson. Sign Language Studies 90, 1996, pp. 1-23.
Bahan, B., J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, and C. Neidle (1995) Convergent Evidence for the Structure of Determiner Phrases in American Sign Language. In L. Gabriele, D. Hardison and R. Westmoreland (eds), FLSM VI, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America, Volume Two. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, pp. 1-12.
Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1995) Lexical Tense Markers in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey, and J. Reilly (eds), Language, Gesture, and Space. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 225-253.
Shepard-Kegl, J., C. Neidle, and J. Kegl (1995) Legal Ramifications of an Incorrect Analysis of Tense in ASL. Journal of Interpretation, 7: 1,pp. 53-70.
Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1994) Subjects and Agreement in American Sign Language. In I. Ahlgren, B. Bergman and M. Brennan (eds), Perspectives on Sign Language Structure: Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Sign Language Research, Volume 1. Durham, England: International Sign Linguistics Association, pp. 13-28.
Aarons, D., B. Bahan, J. Kegl, and C. Neidle (1992) Clausal Structure and a Tier for Grammatical Marking in American Sign Language. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 15:103-142.
In press and in progress:
Carol Neidle [in press] "Now we see it, now we don't: Agreement puzzles in ASL." To appear in Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee, eds., *Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language & Life.* Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University.
Zucchi, Sandro, Carol Neidle, Carlo Geraci, Quinn Duffy, and Carlo Cecchetto [in press] "Functional markers in sign languages: The case of FATTO and FINISH." To appear in Diane Brentari, ed., Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. Cambridge University Press.
Carol Neidle and Joan Poole Nash [in progress] "Noun Phrase." To appear in Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, and Bencie Woll, eds., Sign Language: An International Handbook. Walter de Gruyter.

No. 13	Neidle, C. (2007) SignStream™ Annotation: Addendum to Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.
No. 12	Neidle, C. and R.G. Lee (2005) The Syntactic Organization of American Sign Language: A Synopsis
No. 11	Neidle, C. (2002) SignStream™ Annotation: Conventions used for the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project.
No. 10	Neidle, C. (2000) SignStream™: A Database Tool for Research on Visual-Gestural Language.
No. 9	MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (2000) SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 2.0.
No. 8	MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and D. Greenfield (1999) SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 1.5.
No. 7	MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, R.G. Lee, and D. Greenfield (1998) SignStream™ User's Guide, Version 1.0.
No. 6	Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, R.G. Lee, B. Bahan, and J. Kegl (1998) Wh-Questions in ASL: A Case for Rightward Movement.
No. 5	Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1997) The SignStream™ Project.
No. 4	Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee, eds. (1997) Syntactic Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two Constructions in American Sign Language.
No. 3	MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and R.G. Lee (1996) Design Specifications for SignStream™, A Multimedia Database Tool for Language Research.
No. 3	MacLaughlin, D., D. Greenfield, and C. Neidle (1997) Addendum I to the SignStream™ Design Specifications.
No. 2	Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1996) Non-Manual Correlates of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language.

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