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Lilia Rissman

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Publications

10

Citations

186

H-Index

10

Active since

2013

Affiliations

University of Chicago(Current)

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Radboud University Nijmegen

Johns Hopkins University

University of Oxford

Lilia Rissman is an author at University of Chicago specializing in language studies, linguistics, and syntax.

Top concepts

LanguageLinguisticsSyntaxGrammarEngineeringCognitive SciencePsycholinguisticsArtsSemanticsCommunication

Publications per year

2013–2023

10

Publications

10

The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language

Lilia Rissman, Laura Horton, Molly Flaherty et al. · Cognition · 2020 · 31 citations · Full text

Applied Linguistics, Sign Language, Human Communication +14

Using instruments to understand argument structure: Evidence for gradient representation

Lilia Rissman, Kyle Rawlins, Barbara Landau · Cognition · 2015 · 30 citations · Full text

Syntax, Cognitive Science, Engineering +12

The Development of Causal Structure without a Language Model

Lilia Rissman, Susan Goldin‐Meadow · Language Learning and Development · 2017 · 29 citations · Full text

Causal Language, Language Evolution, Language Development +18

Ingredients of Instrumental Meaning

Lilia Rissman, Kyle Rawlins · Journal of Semantics · 2017 · 19 citations

Engineering, Lexical Semantics, Semantics +17

The development of iconicity in children’s co-speech gesture and homesign

Erica A. Cartmill, Lilia Rissman, Miriam A. Novack et al. · Language Interaction and Acquisition · 2017 · 17 citations · Full text

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