Diane Brentari

5.3k total citations
83 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Diane Brentari is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Diane Brentari has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 44 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 42 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Diane Brentari's work include Hearing Impairment and Communication (73 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (42 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (30 papers). Diane Brentari is often cited by papers focused on Hearing Impairment and Communication (73 papers), Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (42 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (30 papers). Diane Brentari collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Israel. Diane Brentari's co-authors include Susan Goldin‐Meadow, Marie Coppola, Elena Benedicto, Karen Livescu, Howard Poizner, Laura Mazzoni, Ann Senghas, Karen Emmorey, Greg Shakhnarovich and Bowen Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and American Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Diane Brentari

77 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Diane Brentari United States 24 2.0k 1.1k 935 935 394 83 2.3k
Scott K. Liddell United States 16 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 988 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 323 0.8× 27 2.5k
Ronnie Β. Wilbur United States 28 1.9k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 597 0.6× 966 1.0× 606 1.5× 132 2.4k
Jill P. Morford United States 21 1.5k 0.7× 482 0.5× 681 0.7× 583 0.6× 567 1.4× 49 1.8k
Wendy Sandler Israel 31 2.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.7× 319 0.8× 63 3.0k
Judith Holler Netherlands 26 1.2k 0.6× 334 0.3× 1.2k 1.3× 851 0.9× 465 1.2× 96 2.2k
Patricia Siple United States 11 1.0k 0.5× 478 0.4× 415 0.4× 434 0.5× 436 1.1× 18 1.3k
Aslı Özyürek Netherlands 23 1.8k 0.9× 444 0.4× 1.6k 1.7× 655 0.7× 718 1.8× 72 2.4k
Marianne Gullberg Sweden 28 1.5k 0.7× 322 0.3× 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.3× 446 1.1× 102 2.3k
Cynthia Butcher United States 4 605 0.3× 223 0.2× 381 0.4× 342 0.4× 134 0.3× 6 844
Kathleen M. Eberhard United States 16 1.7k 0.9× 138 0.1× 1.4k 1.5× 821 0.9× 2.3k 5.9× 30 3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diane Brentari

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Diane Brentari, & John M. Davis. (2025). Formal and functional factors in classifier choice: Evidence from American Sign Language and Danish Sign Language. Open Linguistics. 11(1). 1 indexed citations
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Kita, Sotaro, Diane Brentari, & Susan Goldin‐Meadow. (2025). Deaf homesigners can create the foundations of phonetics and phonology without an adult linguistic model. Cognition. 264. 106233–106233.
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Shi, Bowen, Diane Brentari, Gregory Shakhnarovich, & Karen Livescu. (2022). Open-Domain Sign Language Translation Learned from Online Video. 6365–6379. 23 indexed citations
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Shi, Bowen, Diane Brentari, Greg Shakhnarovich, & Karen Livescu. (2021). Fingerspelling Detection in American Sign Language. 4164–4173. 16 indexed citations
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Berent, Iris, et al.. (2020). Amodal phonology. Journal of Linguistics. 57(3). 499–529. 2 indexed citations
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Rissman, Lilia, et al.. (2020). The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language. Cognition. 203. 104332–104332. 11 indexed citations
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Shi, Bowen, et al.. (2018). American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition in the Wild. 145–152. 51 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2018). Emphatic fingerspelling as code-mixing in American Sign Language. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 3(1). 61–61. 5 indexed citations
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Goldin‐Meadow, Susan & Diane Brentari. (2015). Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 40. e46–e46. 181 indexed citations
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Coppola, Marie & Diane Brentari. (2014). From iconic handshapes to grammatical contrasts: longitudinal evidence from a child homesigner. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 830–830. 22 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2013). The interaction of pitch accent and gesture production in Italian and English. 51(1). 83–101. 6 indexed citations
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Berent, Iris, et al.. (2013). Amodal Aspects of Linguistic Design. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e60617–e60617. 18 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (2013). Acquiring Word Class Distinctions in American Sign Language: Evidence from Handshape. Language Learning and Development. 9(2). 130–150. 17 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane. (1999). A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology. The MIT Press eBooks. 485 indexed citations
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Brentari, Diane, et al.. (1988). Parasession on agreement in grammatical theory. 3 indexed citations
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