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Publications

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
    • Power, J., Law, D., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (Forthcoming). Sequential structure and diachronic assimilation in signed languages. Diachronica.
    • Power, J., & Meier, R. P. (2026). New insights into nineteenth-century ASL. Diachronica, 43(2), 224–265. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.25020.pow
    • Power, J., Kimmelman, V., Nanitashvili, E., & Makharoblidze, T. (2026). Sign languages of the Soviet Union: A comparison of Georgian, Russian, and Tajik Sign Languages. Open Linguistics, 12(1), 20250077. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0077
    • Power, J., Law, D., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (2025). Advances in the historical linguistics of signed languages. Language and Linguistics Compass, 19(6), e70026. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70026
    • Power, J., Law, D., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (2025). Bringing signed languages into the study of regular sound change. Language, 101(3), e166–e201. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2025.a969623
      • Winner of 2026 Best Paper in Language Award; accompanied by 9 commentaries.
    • Power, J., Law, D., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (2025). Regular change and signed languages: A response to the commentaries. Language, 101(3), e295–e306. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2025.a969632
    • Power, J., & Meier, R. P. (2025). The structure and geography of the ASL signing community in the mid-nineteenth century: The Hartford gatherings of 1850 and 1854. Cadernos de Linguística, 6(1), e790. https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id790
    • Power, J., & Meier, R. P. (2025). Sign historical linguistics in the 21st century. Diachronica, 148–150. https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.25023.bow
      • Commentary, part of Diachrony and Diachronica 40@40.
    • Power, J., & Meier, R. P. (2024). The historical demography of the Martha's Vineyard signing community. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 29, 295–321. https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enad058
    • Power, J., & Meier, R. P. (2023). Demographics in the formation of language communities and in the emergence of languages: The early years of ASL in New England. Language, 99, 275–316. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2023.a900088
    • Power, J. (2022). Historical linguistics of sign languages: Progress and problems. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.818753
    • Power, J., Grimm, G. W., & List, J. (2020). Evolutionary dynamics in the dispersal of sign languages. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191100
  • Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
    • Power, J., & Sagara, K. (2026). Approaches to the comparative linguistics of sign languages. In Adam Ledgeway et al. (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics (pp. 143–163). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119898023.wbcdl145
    • Power, J. (2023). Tajik Sign Language in context. In Shinji Ido & Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (eds.), Handbook of Tajik linguistics (pp. 229–273). De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Peer-Reviewed Proceedings Papers
    • Power, J., Law, D., & Quinto-Pozos, D. (2022). Signed language transcription and the creation of a cross-linguistic comparative database. Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, 173–180. Marseille: European Language Resources Association.
  • Digital Resources
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