Publications on Sign Languages and Gestures
Publikationen über Gebärdensprache und Gesten
Bonsignori, C., P. Boyes Braem, and V. Volterra. “Tracing the Body: Theories of Gesture and Sign Language through History.” In The Handbook of Gesture in Psycholinguistics – Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, edited by E. Nicoladis and M. Makiya, John Wiley & Sons. forthcoming 2028.
Boyes Braem, P. “Gebärdensprachen.” Sprachenräume der Schweiz. Band 1: Sprachen, edited by E. Glaser, J. Kabatek, and B. Sonnenhauser, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2024, pp. 185–209.
Boyes Braem, P. “Early Sign Language Research in Two Settings: USA and Switzerland.” Sign Language Studies Special Issue: The First Wave of Sign Language Research – Selected Memoirs, edited by P. Boyes Braem, V. Volterra, R. Battison, N. Frishberg, and C. Padden, vol. 24, no. 2, 2024, pp. 312–27. 
Boyes Braem, P. “Lautlos über alles sprechen und alles verstehen: Gebärdensprache.” Sprache(n) verstehen, edited by E. Glaser, A. Kolmer, M. Meyer, and E. Stark, vdf Hochschulverlag AG an der ETH Zürich, 2014, pp. 59–84.
*Boyes Braem, P. “Evolving Methods for Written Representations of Signed Languages of the Deaf.” Methods in Contemporary Linguistics, edited by A. Ender, A. Leemann, and B. Wälchli, De Gruyter Mouton, 2012, pp. 411–38.
*Boyes Braem, P. Übermittlung der drei schweizerischen Gebärdensprachen. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 46, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 2009.
*Boyes Braem, P. Die Funktionen der Mundbilder in der Gebärdensprache von Früh- und Spätlernern der Deutschschweizerischen Gebärdensprache DSGS. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 43, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 2006.
*Boyes Braem, P. “A Multimedia Database for the Lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language.” Sign Language & Linguistics, vol. 4, nos. 1–2, 2001, pp. 133–43.
*Boyes Braem, P. “Functions of the Mouthing Component in Swiss German Sign Language.” Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages, edited by D. Brentari, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001, pp. 1–47.
*Boyes Braem, P. "Rhythmic temporal patterns in the signing of early and late learners of German Swiss Sign Language". Language and Speech, 42(2–3), 1999, pp. 177–208.
*Boyes Braem, P. Eine Untersuchung über den Einfluss des Erwerbsalters auf die in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz verwendeten Formen von Gebärdensprache: Ein Überblick zu einem vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds unterstützuten Projekt des Forschungszentrum für Gebärdensprache, Basel 1991-1995. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 27, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 1995.
*Boyes Braem, P. “Zitat und Zitieren in den Gebärdensprachen der Gehörlosen.” Semiotik, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 1992, pp. 79–110.
*Boyes Braem, P. “A Analysis of the Child’s Acquisition of the Handshape in American Sign Language.” From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children, edited by V. Volterra and C. Erting, Springer, 1990, pp. 107–27.
*Boyes Braem, P. Einführung in die Gebärdensprache und ihre Erforschung. Signum Verlag, 1990. 3rd rev. ed., 1995.
Boyes Braem, P. “Swiss Sign Languages.” The Gallaudet Encyclopedia of Deaf People and Deafness, edited by J. V. Van Cleve, McGraw-Hill, 1987, pp. 111–13.
*Boyes Braem, P. “Two Aspects of Psycholinguistic Research: Iconicity and Temporal Structure.” Signs of Life: Proceedings of the Second European Congress on Sign Language Research, edited by B. T. Tervoort, University of Amsterdam, 1986, pp. 65–74.
*Boyes Braem, P. “Studying Swiss German Sign Language Dialects.” Recent Research on European Sign Languages, edited by F. Loncke, P. Boyes Braem, and Y. Lebrun, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1984, pp. 93–103.
*Boyes Braem, P. Die Ausbildung zum Dolmetscher in Gebärdensprache in der französischen Schweiz. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 3, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 1984.
Boyes Braem, P. Einführung in die Struktur der Gebärdensprache. VUGS Informationshefte, nos. 6–11, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 1984–86.
*Boyes Braem, P. Die Ikonizität in der Gebärdensprache. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 5, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 1985.
Boyes Braem, P. “Studying Sign Language Dialects.” Sign Language Research ’83: Proceedings of the III International Symposium on Sign Language Research, edited by W. Stokoe and V. Volterra, Linstok Press, 1983, pp. 247–53.
*Boyes Braem, P. Features of the Handshape in American Sign Language. University of California, Berkeley, 1981. unpub. Doctoral dissertation.
Boyes Braem, P., and T. Bräm. “Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors.” The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures, edited by C. Müller and R. Posner, Weidler Buchverlag, 2004, pp. 127–44.
*Boyes Braem, P., and T. Bräm. “A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Classical Orchestra Conductors.” The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, edited by K. Emmorey and H. Lane, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000, pp. 143–68.
*Boyes Braem, P., B. Caramore, R. Hermann, and P. Shores Hermann. “Romance and Reality: Sociolinguistic Similarities and Differences between Swiss German Sign Language and Rhaeto-Romansh.” Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Language, Identity and Ideology, edited by L. Monaghan, Gallaudet UP, 2001, pp. 89–113.
*Boyes Braem, P., B. Caramore, R. Hermann, and P. Shores Hermann. “ Romantik und Wirklichkeit. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 30, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 1997.
*Boyes Braem, P., L. Fournier, F. Rickli, S. Corazza, M. L. Franchi, and V. Volterra. “Une comparaison de techniques pour exprimer les rôles sémantiques et des relations locatives dans les langues des signes suisse-française et italienne.” Études européennes en langue des signes, IRSA, 1989, pp. 111–40. Also published in English as “A Comparison of Techniques for Expressing Semantic Roles and Locative Relations in Two Different Sign Languages.” SLR ’87: Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research, edited by William Edmondson and W. Karlsson, pp. 114–20.
Boyes Braem, P., P. Groeber, H. Stocker, and K. Tissi. “Weblexikon für Fachbegriffe in Deutschschweizerischer Gebärdensprache (DSGS) und Deutsch.” eDITion: Fachzeitschrift für Terminologie, no. 2, 2012, pp. 8–14.
*Boyes Braem, P., T. Haug, and P. Shores. “Gebärdenspracharbeit in der Schweiz: Rückblick und Ausblick.” Das Zeichen, no. 90, 2012, pp. 58–74.
Boyes Braem, P., and R. Leven. “Drittes Internationales Symposium für Gebärdensprachforschung.” Hörgeschädigtenpädagogik, vol. 38, no. 1, 1984, pp. 11–19.
*Boyes Braem, P., E. Pizzuto, and V. Volterra. “The Interpretation of Signs by (Hearing and Deaf) Members of Different Cultures.” Festschrift für Siegmund Prillwitz, edited by R. Schulmeister and H. Reinitzer, Signum-Verlag, 2002, pp. 187–220.
Boyes Braem, P., and C. Rathmann. “Transmission of Sign Language in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands.” Cambridge Language Surveys: Sign Languages, edited by D. Brentari, Cambridge UP, 2010, pp. 19–45
Boyes Braem, P., and R. Sutton-Spence, editors. The Hands Are the Head of the Mouth: The Mouth as Articulator in Sign Languages. Signum, 2000. *“Introduction”, pp 1-7.
*Boyes Braem, P., and R. Sutton-Spence. “Comparing the Products and the Processes of Creating Sign Language Poetry and Pantomimic Improvisations.” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 37, no. 3, 2013, pp. 245–80. doi:10.1007/s10919-013-0160-2.
*Boyes Braem, P., and R. Sutton-Spence. Forschung zum Mundbild in den Gebärdensprachen der Gehörlosen. VUGS Informationsheft, no. 43, Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen, 2006.
*Boyes Braem, P., and K. Tissi. “In Your Face: Im/Politeness in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS).” Multimodal Im/Politeness: Signed, Spoken, Written, edited by A. H. Jucker, I. Hübscher, and L. Brown, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, vol. 333, John Benjamins, 2023, pp. 27–63.
*Boyes Braem, P., and V. Volterra. “Through the Sign Language Glass: Changing and Converging Views in Spoken and Signed Language Research.” Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics, edited by T. Janzen and B. Shaffer, De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, pp. 23–48.
*Boyes Braem, P. and V. Volterra. “Le ricerche sulle lingue dei segni. L’inizio di un nuovo campo di studi”. La comunicazione parlata – Spoken Communication, Roma 2023-I venti anni del GSCP, edited by M. Roccaforte, Aracne, 2025, pp. 259-269.
Ebling, S., N. C. Camgöz, P. Boyes Braem, K. Tissi, S. Sidler-Miserez, S. Stoll, et al. “SMILE Swiss German Sign Language Dataset.” Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018, pp. 4221–29.
*Ebling, S., R. Konrad, P. Boyes Braem, and G. Langer. “Factors to Consider When Making Lexical Comparisons of Sign Languages: Notes from an Ongoing Study Comparing German Sign Language and Swiss German Sign Language.” Sign Language Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2015, pp. 30–56.
Ebling, S., K. Tissi, S. Sidler-Miserez, C. Schlupf, and P. Boyes Braem. “Single-Parameter and Parameter Combination Errors in L2 Productions of Swiss German Sign Language.” Sign Language & Linguistics, vol. 24, no. 2, 2021, pp. 143–81.
Fontana, S., S. Corazza, P. Boyes Braem, and V. Volterra. “Language Research and Language Community Change: Italian Sign Language 1981–2013.” International Journal of Sociolinguistics, no. 236, 2015, pp. 1–30. Reprinted in Sign Language Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, 2017, pp. 363–98.
Haug, T., S. Ebling, K. Tissi, S. Sidler-Miserez, and P. Boyes Braem. “Development of a Technology-Assisted Assessment for Sign Language Learning.” International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), vol. 17, no. 06 Mar. 2022, pp. 39–56. doi:10.3991/ijet.v17i06.26959.
*Lane, H., P. Boyes Braem, and U. Bellugi. “A Feature Analysis of Handshapes.” The Signs of Language, by E. Klima and U. Bellugi, Harvard UP, 1979, pp. 164–80.
Lane, H., P. Boyes Braem, and U. Bellugi. “Preliminaries to a Distinctive Feature Analysis of American Sign Language.” Cognitive Psychology, vol. 9, 1976, pp. 263–89.
*Maye, C., G. Ringli, and P. Boyes Braem. “The Use of Signs in Switzerland: Projects in the Zurich and Geneva Schools.” Sign and School: Using Signs in Deaf Children’s Development, edited by J. Kyle, Multilingual Matters, 1987, pp. 162–70.
Rosch, E., C. B. Mervis, W. Gray, D. Johnson, and P. Boyes Braem. “Basic Objects in Natural Categories.” Cognitive Psychology, vol. 8, 1976, pp. 382–439
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Roulet, E. P., V. Davidoff, A.-C. Prélaz, B. Borel, F. Rickli, M.-N. Metz-Lutz, et al. “Sign Language in Childhood Epileptic Aphasia (Landau–Kleffner Syndrome).” Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, vol. 42, 2001, pp. 739–44.
*Sutton-Spence, R., and P. Boyes Braem. “Comparing the Products and the Processes of Creating Sign Language Poetry and Pantomimic Improvisations.” Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 37, no. 3, 2013, pp. 245–80. doi:10.1007/s10919-013-0160-2.