Elena Koulidobrova
Biographic Data
| ID | 845901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Koulidobrova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Koulidobrova |
| SIGNATURE | KOULIDOBROVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4839-8380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
First steps in the documentation of Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC)
Ecuador is home to 65,000-200,000 deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) adults; most rely on Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC) for communication with family, friends, schooling, etc. LSEC can be traced to three institutions in Quito and a sports team founded by DHH people, but also to some history of ASL through missionary efforts and other socio-economic/-political contact. To date, only very limited literature exists on LSEC, especially in collaboration…
Not a matter of a degree
This paper examines the emergence of gradability (adjectives, comparison strategies) in two types of child corpora (spontaneous production), in which American Sign Language (ASL) acquiring children interact with 2–3 adult caregivers each: a monolingual corpus (Deaf-of-Deaf, N = 4) and a bimodal bilingual corpus (Coda/Heritage Language User, N = 3). Assuming a parametric approach to ASL gradable expressions, we predict the presence of informative …
Finding our Role
Distribution of evidential markers in a Cuzco Quechua corpus
Due to contact, several varieties of Quechua are losing evidential markers. Using a Cuzco Quechua corpus (Macedo et al., 2022), we present the distribution of evidential markers -mi (-n,-ni), -si (-s, -sis), and -chá on discourse connectors (DCs) (Sanchez et. al., 2021) and sentence-level constituents (subject, object, verb, and adverb). To determine how DCs and constituents are marked with evidentiality, we analyze a corpus of semi-structured in…
Revisiting gradability in American Sign Language (ASL)
This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, i.e., there is cross-linguistic variation as to whether languages should be analyzed as degree- or degreeless. For ASL, the degree-based analysis has been assumed or explicitly proposed. For example, due to the visual nature of ASL (as a language that uses the physical signing space), it has been su…
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning
Second language acquisition (SLA) research offers valuable insight on how languages are learned and how they coexist and influence each other. Sign language learners offer unique perspectives on SLA, allowing researchers to test theories that are otherwise constrained by access to only one modality. Current literature on sign language learning focuses primarily on bimodal bilinguals, mostly hearing adults learning their first sign language (M2L2 …
Cripping the “Delay”
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article Front. Commun., 21 December 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.751457
How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context
The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language-Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM). Unlike other indigenous endangered languages (e.g., Sámi), or other sign languages (e.g., American Sign Language, ASL), ÍTM has received certain recognition typically associated with equitable language policy-by law, it is considered the "first language" of the deaf/…
Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language
Research shows that acquisition of sign language phonology is a developmental process and involves multiple articulatory cues. Among these cues, handshape has been shown to be crucial and orientation has been argued to be potentially disregardable as being internal to sign production rather than encoding a minimal contrast. We administered a non-word repetition task and a picture naming task to 17 (age 3-15) deaf and hard-of-hearing signers of Ic…
When You CAN See the Difference
Spoken and signed languages (SL) deliver perceptual cues which exhibit various degrees of perceptual validity during categorization: In spoken languages, listeners develop perceptual biases when integrating multiple acoustic dimensions during auditory categorization (Holt & Lotto, 2006). This leads us to expect differential perceptual validity for dynamic gestural units HANDSHAPE, MOVEMENT, ORIENTATION, and LOCATION produced by manual articulator…
If you use ASL, should you study ESL? Limitations of a modality-b(i)ased policy
In this article, we argue that the current linguistic and educational policies affecting school-age US children whose native language is American Sign Language (ASL) should be changed. Concretely, we demonstrate that ASL-English bilinguals should be eligible for classification as English Learners (EL). While this identification should remain optional in order to be responsive to individual differences and preferences, we argue that identification…
Language interaction effects in bimodal bilingualism
The focus of the paper is a phenomenon well documented in both monolingual and bilingual English acquisition: argument omission. Previous studies have shown that bilinguals acquiring a null and a non-null argument language simultaneously tend to exhibit unidirectional cross-language interaction effects — the non-null argument language remains unaffected but over-suppliance of overt elements in the null argument language is observed. Here subject …
Elide me bare
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning
Second language acquisition (SLA) research offers valuable insight on how languages are learned and how they coexist and influence each other. Sign language learners offer unique perspectives on SLA, allowing researchers to test theories that are otherwise constrained by access to only one modality. Current literature on sign language learning focuses primarily on bimodal bilinguals, mostly hearing adults learning their first sign language (M2L2 …
Elide me bare
How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context
The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language-Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM). Unlike other indigenous endangered languages (e.g., Sámi), or other sign languages (e.g., American Sign Language, ASL), ÍTM has received certain recognition typically associated with equitable language policy-by law, it is considered the "first language" of the deaf/…
If you use ASL, should you study ESL? Limitations of a modality-b(i)ased policy
In this article, we argue that the current linguistic and educational policies affecting school-age US children whose native language is American Sign Language (ASL) should be changed. Concretely, we demonstrate that ASL-English bilinguals should be eligible for classification as English Learners (EL). While this identification should remain optional in order to be responsive to individual differences and preferences, we argue that identification…
Language interaction effects in bimodal bilingualism
The focus of the paper is a phenomenon well documented in both monolingual and bilingual English acquisition: argument omission. Previous studies have shown that bilinguals acquiring a null and a non-null argument language simultaneously tend to exhibit unidirectional cross-language interaction effects — the non-null argument language remains unaffected but over-suppliance of overt elements in the null argument language is observed. Here subject …
Elide me bare
If you use ASL, should you study ESL? Limitations of a modality-b(i)ased policy
In this article, we argue that the current linguistic and educational policies affecting school-age US children whose native language is American Sign Language (ASL) should be changed. Concretely, we demonstrate that ASL-English bilinguals should be eligible for classification as English Learners (EL). While this identification should remain optional in order to be responsive to individual differences and preferences, we argue that identification…
Acquisition of phonology in child Icelandic Sign Language
Research shows that acquisition of sign language phonology is a developmental process and involves multiple articulatory cues. Among these cues, handshape has been shown to be crucial and orientation has been argued to be potentially disregardable as being internal to sign production rather than encoding a minimal contrast. We administered a non-word repetition task and a picture naming task to 17 (age 3-15) deaf and hard-of-hearing signers of Ic…
When You CAN See the Difference
Spoken and signed languages (SL) deliver perceptual cues which exhibit various degrees of perceptual validity during categorization: In spoken languages, listeners develop perceptual biases when integrating multiple acoustic dimensions during auditory categorization (Holt & Lotto, 2006). This leads us to expect differential perceptual validity for dynamic gestural units HANDSHAPE, MOVEMENT, ORIENTATION, and LOCATION produced by manual articulator…
Cripping the “Delay”
CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article Front. Commun., 21 December 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.751457
How to Ensure Bilingualism/Biliteracy in an Indigenous Context
The paper discusses the implementation of a bilingual education language policy in the context of endangered indigenous sign language-Icelandic Sign Language (íslenskt táknmál, ÍTM). Unlike other indigenous endangered languages (e.g., Sámi), or other sign languages (e.g., American Sign Language, ASL), ÍTM has received certain recognition typically associated with equitable language policy-by law, it is considered the "first language" of the deaf/…
Revisiting gradability in American Sign Language (ASL)
This paper addresses gradability in American Sign Language (ASL). The literature has argued that languages may or may not introduce degree variables, i.e., there is cross-linguistic variation as to whether languages should be analyzed as degree- or degreeless. For ASL, the degree-based analysis has been assumed or explicitly proposed. For example, due to the visual nature of ASL (as a language that uses the physical signing space), it has been su…
The Role of Modality in L2 Learning
Second language acquisition (SLA) research offers valuable insight on how languages are learned and how they coexist and influence each other. Sign language learners offer unique perspectives on SLA, allowing researchers to test theories that are otherwise constrained by access to only one modality. Current literature on sign language learning focuses primarily on bimodal bilinguals, mostly hearing adults learning their first sign language (M2L2 …
Distribution of evidential markers in a Cuzco Quechua corpus
Due to contact, several varieties of Quechua are losing evidential markers. Using a Cuzco Quechua corpus (Macedo et al., 2022), we present the distribution of evidential markers -mi (-n,-ni), -si (-s, -sis), and -chá on discourse connectors (DCs) (Sanchez et. al., 2021) and sentence-level constituents (subject, object, verb, and adverb). To determine how DCs and constituents are marked with evidentiality, we analyze a corpus of semi-structured in…
First steps in the documentation of Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC)
Ecuador is home to 65,000-200,000 deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) adults; most rely on Ecuadorian Sign Language (LSEC) for communication with family, friends, schooling, etc. LSEC can be traced to three institutions in Quito and a sports team founded by DHH people, but also to some history of ASL through missionary efforts and other socio-economic/-political contact. To date, only very limited literature exists on LSEC, especially in collaboration…
Not a matter of a degree
This paper examines the emergence of gradability (adjectives, comparison strategies) in two types of child corpora (spontaneous production), in which American Sign Language (ASL) acquiring children interact with 2–3 adult caregivers each: a monolingual corpus (Deaf-of-Deaf, N = 4) and a bimodal bilingual corpus (Coda/Heritage Language User, N = 3). Assuming a parametric approach to ASL gradable expressions, we predict the presence of informative …
Finding our Role
Linguistics (11 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (10 works) · Sign language (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · American Sign Language (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works)