Research Most of my early work compared signed and spoken language acquisition. More recently I have been looking at the existence of SLI in signing children and gestures in hearing people with language difficulties. This research is starting to reveal common and differing patterns of breakdown. My other major long standing interest has been in the relationship between language and cognitive development and this has taken me into research into the role of language in children’s Theory of Mind skills. The next work in this theme will be looking at the role of language experience in the development of executive functions and working memory and how children learn about iconicity. In other research I have been exploring how signed languages have evolved from co-speech gesture and what role language development has played during this transition. Click here - to go to our research centre funded by the ESRC
Papers on sign language and gesture - most are downloadable, contact me for copies if not.
Early signs - phonology Marshall,
C,. Mann, W. &
Morgan, G.
(2011).
Short-term memory in signed languages:
Not just a disadvantage for serial recall. Front. Psychology 2:102 Mann,
W., Marshall, C., Mason, K., & Morgan, G. (2010). The
acquisition of sign language: the impact of phonetic complexity on phonology.
Language Learning and Development 6, 60-86 Non-sign repetition - click here for more information Ortega, G.; Morgan, G. (2010). Comparing child and adult development of a visual phonological system. Language, Interaction and Acquisition. 1 (1) 67-81. Morgan,
G., Barrett-Jones, S. & Stoneham, H. (2007). The first signs of language: phonological
development in British Sign Language. Applied Psycholinguistics, 28,
3-22 Morgan, G. (2006). Children are just lingual: The development of phonology in BSL. Lingua, 116, 1507-1523 Morgan, G. (2005). What is Homesign? Review of S. Goldin-Meadow (2003). The resilience of Language. Psychology press. Journal of Child Language, 32, 925-928. Sign language grammar Morgan, G., Herman, R., Barriere, I. & Woll, B. (2008). The onset and mastery of spatial language in children acquiring British Sign Language, Cognitive Development, 23, 1-9. Commentary on the paper by Dan Slobin Marshall,
C. & Morgan, G. (2008). Review
of Visible Morgan, G. & Woll, B. (eds). (2007). Understanding sign language classifiers through a polycomponential approach. Special Issue Lingua, 117, 7, 1159-1168. Morgan, G., Barriere, I. & Woll, B. (2006) The influence of typology and modality in the acquisition of verb agreement in British Sign Language. First Language, 26, p19-44. Morgan, G., Barriere, I. & Woll, B. (2003). First verbs in British Sign Language development. Working Papers in Language and Communication Science, vol. 2 pp 57-66 Morgan,
G (2003). Transcription of child sign language.
Journal of Deafness and Education International, 5: 3, 157-166. Morgan, G., Herman, R. & Woll, B. (2002). The development of complex verb constructions in BSL. Journal of Child Language, 29, 655 -675. Morgan, G. & Woll, B. (2002). (eds) Directions in sign language acquisition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins BSL narrative discourse and development
Rathmann, C., Mann, W. & Morgan, G. (2007). Narrative structure and narrative development in deaf children. Deafness and Education International, 9, 187-196. Morgan, G. (2005). Transcription of child sign language: A focus on narrative Journal of Sign Language and Linguistics, 8, 119-130 Morgan,
G. (2005). The
development of narrative in British Sign Language. In , B. Schick; M.
Marschark & P. Spencer (eds). Advances in Sign Language Development in
Deaf Children.
Morgan,
G. (2002). The encoding of simultaneity in children's BSL
narratives. Journal
of Sign Language and Linguistics 5:2, 127-161. Morgan, G. (2000). Discourse Cohesion in Sign and Speech. International Journal of Bilingualism, 4, 279-300. Morgan,
G. (1999). Event packaging in British Sign Language discourse. In E. Winston
(ed), Story Telling & Conversation: Discourse in Deaf Communities, pp 27-58.
Morgan,
G. (1999). Narrative development in British Sign Language. In C. Schelletter, C.
Letts and M. Garman (eds), Issues in Child Language: from Phonology to Narrative.
Morgan,
G. (1997) Learning to use referential space in sign language discourse In K.
Bernhardt (ed), Papers in Linguistics from the Univ. Manchester 1, p145-156. Morgan,
G. (1996) Spatial anaphoric mechanisms in British Sign
Language. In Morgan,
G. (1996) Discourse organisation in a British Sign Language Narrative. In E.
Pedro (ed), Discourse Analysis. Lisbon: Colibri. Go to our project on early ToM development in deaf children website - click here A video of an introductory talk on ToM and deafness University of Athens 27.1.12
Meristo,
M., Morgan, G., Geraci, A.,
Iozzi, L., Hjelmquist, E., Surian, L., & Siegal, M. (in press). Belief
attribution in deaf and hearing infants. Developmental Science. Meristo,.
M., Hjelmquist, E., & Morgan, G. (2012). How access to language affects
theory of mind in deaf children. In M. Siegal & L. Surian (Eds.).
Access to language and cognitive development.
Herman, R.
& Morgan, G. (2011). Deafness,
Language and Communication. in K. Hilari and N. Botting (eds). The
Impact of Communication Disability Across the Lifespan. J&R Press Ltd, Meristo et al. (2010). Belief-attribution in deaf and hearing infants: Evidence for the importance of conversational input. Opening Conference of the Cognitive Development Center, January 15-16 2010, Budapest, Hungary Morgan,
G. & Kegl, J. (2006) Atypical sign language and development Go to our sign language SLI project project website - click here
Marshall, C., Rowley, K., Mason, K., Herman, R. & Morgan, G. (2012). Lexical organization in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task. Journal of Child Language. Woll,
B. & Morgan, G. (2012). Language
impairments in the development of sign: Do they reside in a
specific modality or are they modality-independent deficits?
Bilingualism, Language & Cognition, 15, 75-87. Mason, K., Rowley, K. Marshall, C.R.,
Atkinson, J. Herman, R. Woll, B. & Morgan, G. (2010). Identifying
Specific Language Impairment in Deaf children acquiring
British Sign Language: Implications for theory and practice. Morgan, G., Smith, N., Tsimpli, I.M. & Woll, B. (2007). Classifier learning and modality in a polyglot savant. Lingua, 117, 7, 1339-1353 Morgan,
G., Herman. & Woll B (2007). Language impairments in sign language:
breakthroughs and puzzles. International Journal of Language and Communication
Disorders, 42, 97-105 Marshall,
C. R.
Denmark, T. & Morgan, G. (2006) Investigating the underlying causes of
SLI: a non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language. Advances in
Speech-Language Pathology 8(4): 347 – 355. Morgan,
G. (2005). Biology
and Behaviour: Insights from the acquisition of sign language. In
A.
Cutler (ed). Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones. Morgan,
G., Smith, N., Tsimpli, I.M. & Woll, B. (2002). Language against the
odds: the learning of BSL by a polyglot savant. Journal of
Linguistics, 38, 1-41 Morgan,
G., Woll, B., Smith, N, & Tsimpli, I.M. (2002). The
effects of modality on BSL development in an exceptional learner. In R.
Meier, Cormier, K. A. & Quinto, D.G.
(eds), Modality and structure in signed and spoken language.
Sign segmentation - click here for more information Adam,
R., Orfanidou, E., McQueen,
J & Morgan, G. (2012). Sign language comprehension:
Insights from misperceptions of different phonological
parameters. In R. Channon & H. Van der Hulst. Formational
Units in the Analysis of Signs. Ishara Press. (pp 87-106). Orfanidou, E.,
Adam, R., Morgan, G., & McQueen, J.M. (2010) Orfanidou, E., Adam, R. McQueen, J. & Morgan, G. (2009). Making sense of nonsense in British Sign Language (BSL): The contribution of different phonological parameters to sign recognition. Memory and Cognition 37, 302-315
Cocks, N., Morgan, G. & Kita, S. (2011). Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults. Gesture 11, 24–39. Dipper, L., Cocks, N., Rowe, M & Morgan, G. (2011). What can co-speech gestures in aphasia tell us about the relationship between language and gesture?: A single case study of a participant with Conduction Aphasia. Gesture, 11, 2, 123–147 Cocks, N,. Dipper, L., Middleton, R. & Morgan, G. (2011). What can iconic gestures tell us about the language system? A case of conduction aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 46, 423–436 Botting, N., Riches, N., Gaynor, M., Morgan, G. (2010). Gesture production and comprehension in children with specific language impairment. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 51-69
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