Academic publications

• Jordan Fenlon, Kensy Cooperrider, Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Susan Goldin-Meadow.
• Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing.
• Glossa, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019.

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• Leah C Geer, Jonathan Keane.
• Improving ASL fingerspelling comprehension in L2 learners with explicit phonetic instruction.
• Language Teaching Research, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1––19, 2017.

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• Taehwan Kim, Jonathan Keane, Weiran Wang, Hao Tang, Jason Riggle, Gregory Shakhnarovich, Diane Brentari, Karen Livescu.
• Lexicon-Free Fingerspelling Recognition from Video: Data, Models, and Signer Adaptation.
• Computer Speech \& Language, vol. 46, pp. 209––232, 2017.

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• Jonathan Keane, Zed Sevcikova, Karen Emmorey, Diane Brentari.
• A Theory-Driven Model of Handshape Similarity.
• Phonology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 221––241, 2017.

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• Jonathan Keane.
• A theory-driven model of handshape similarity.
• [conference presentation, Linguistic Society of America 2017 Annual Meeting]

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• Taehwan Kim, Jonathan Keane, Weiran Wang, Hao Tang, Greg Shakhnarovich, Jason Riggle, Diane Brentari, Karen Livescu.
• Unrestricted automatic fingerspelling recognition from video.
• [conference presentation, Linguistic Society of America 2017 Annual Meeting]

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• Leah Geer, Jonathan Keane.
• Teaching ASL fingerspelling to second-language learners: explicit versus implicit training.
• [conference presentation, Linguistic Society of America 2017 Annual Meeting]

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• Leah Geer, Jonathan Keane.
• Development of explicit versus implicit phonetic training for adult-learners of ASL.
• [conference presentation, High Desert Linguistics Society]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari.
• Fingerspelling: Beyond Handshape Sequences.
• in Marc Marschark, Patricia Spencer eds., The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice, pp. 146––160, 2016.

• Jonathan Keane.
• MocapGrip.
• [software, Version 0.4 https://github.com/jonkeane/mocapGrip]

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• Jonathan Keane, Leah Geer.
• Understanding fingerspelling comprehension.
• [poster, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 12]

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• Jonathan Keane, Jordan Fenlon.
• Quick tour of ELAN.
• [workshop, sponsered by the Language, Variation, and Change workshop series at The University of Chicago]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Segmentation and pinky extension in ASL fingerspelling.
• in Eric Raimy, Chuck Cairns eds., The Segment in Phonology and Phonetics, pp. 103––128, 2015.

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Similarity of Handshape: an articulatory model.
• in ICPhS 2015, 2015.
• [Paper accepted as a poster, but withdrawn from the conference due to a scheduling conflict]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Quantifying handshape similarity: a theory-driven approach.
• [poster, Midwest Speech and Language Days]

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• Diane Brentari, Alessio Di Renzo, Jonathan Keane, Virginia Volterra.
• Cultural, and Linguistic Sources of a Handshape Distinction Expressing Agentivity.
• Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 95––123, 2015.

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• Leah Geer, Jonathan Keane.
• Exploring Factors that Contribute to Successful Fingerspelling Comprehension.
• in Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis eds., Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), 2014.

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Towards an articulatory model of handshape: What fingerspelling tells us about the phonetics and phonology of handshape in American Sign Language.
• [Doctoral dissertation, defended 22 August 2014 Advisors: Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle, and Karen Livescu]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• AMOHS Python module.
• [software, Version 0.1.0 http://zenodo.org/record/11456]

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• Jonathan Keane, Leah Geer.
• Holds or Transitions: Which Is More Important?.
• [conference presentation, Chicago Linguistics Society 50]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Variation in fingerspelling: time, pinky extension, and what it means to be active.
• [invited talk, Gesture in Accented Language workshop at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• The timing of ASL fingerspelling.
• [poster, Linguistic Society of America 2014 Annual Meeting]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Coarticulation in ASL fingerspelling.
• in Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, no. 42, 2013.

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• Jonathan Keane.
• What handshape tells us about active versus inactive articulators.
• [conference presentation, Phonology 2013]

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• Jonathan Keane, Jason Riggle, Diane Brentari.
• The Timing of ASL Fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, Texas Linguistics Society 14]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Variation in fingerspelling: time, pinky extension, and what it means to be active.
• [invited talk, Language Variation and Change; Language, Cognition, and Computation workshops]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Towards an articulatory model of handshape.
• [conference presentation, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 11; London, UK]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Dispelling prescriptive rules in ASL fingerspelling: the case of -E-.
• [poster, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 11; London, UK]

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• Diane Brentari, Alessio Di Renzo, Jonathan Keane, Virginia Volterra.
• Handshape (HS) as an Expression of Agency across Languages and Cultures.
• [conference presentation, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 11]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Developing an articulatory model of handshape.
• [conference presentation, Midwest Speech and Language Days 2013]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Handshape assimilation in ASL fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, Societas Linguistica Europaea, Loanwords as Evidence in Formal Linguistics]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Categorical vs. Gradient: What ASL fingerspelling teaches us about the phonetics-phonology interface.
• [conference presentation, Texas Linguistics Society 13]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Pinky extension coarticulation in ASL fingerspelling.
• [poster, Illinois Speech Day]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Segments in ASL fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Segment]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Handshape and coarticulation in ASL fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, Linguistic Society of America 2012 Annual Meeting]

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• Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Co-articulation in ASL fingerspelling.
• [poster, North East Linguistic Society 42: University of Toronto]

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• Jonathan Keane, Susan Rizzo, Diane Brentari, Jason Riggle.
• Phonetic coding of fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, Building sign language corpora in North America]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• A new look at scrambling in Japanese.
• [Qualifying paper, defended 24 May 2011 Advisors: Karlos Arregi and Ming Xiang]

• Jonathan Keane.
• Data coding of, and transition time in, ASL fingerspelling.
• [invited talk, The Language, Cognition, and Computation workshop, University of Chicago]

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• Jonathan Keane, Erin Dahlgren, Jason Riggle.
• Variation in segment duration in ASL fingerspelling.
• [conference presentation, Linguistic Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting]

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• Jonathan Keane.
• Segment duration and the phonetics of fingerspelling ASL.
• [Qualifying paper, defended 18 October 2010 Advisors: Jason Riggle and Diane Brentari]

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