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Diane Brentari publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diane Brentari sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 110 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Diane Brentari D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diane Brentari sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Diane Brentari is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research profile focused on psychology and computer science. Their work spans various subfields including developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, language and linguistics, human-computer interaction, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The primary research topics in Diane Brentari's corpus include hearing impairment and communication, language, discourse, communication strategies, hand gesture recognition systems, language, metaphor, and cognition, human pose and action recognition, phonetics and phonology research, and child and animal learning development.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Diane Brentari cover impactful topics in language and communication. Notable publications include:

  • "Sign language, like spoken language, promotes object categorization in young hearing infants" (2021, Cognition)
  • "The Grammatical Incorporation of Demonstratives in an Emerging Tactile Language" (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Feeling phonology: The conventionalization of phonology in protactile communities in the United States" (2020, Language)
  • "The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language" (2020, Cognition)
  • "How Pointing is Integrated into Language: Evidence From Speakers and Signers" (2021, Frontiers in Communication)

Diane Brentari's frequent collaborators include Susan Goldin-Meadow, Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas, Karen Livescu, and Greg Shakhnarovich, indicating a collaborative approach across interdisciplinary teams.

Their work has often been published in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Cognition, Frontiers in Psychology, Language, and Phonology, with multiple papers appearing in these respected outlets.

In recognition of their scholarly contributions, Diane Brentari was awarded the Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A Prosodic Model of Sign Language Phonology

    Diane Brentari

  • Gesture, sign and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies

    Susan Goldin-Meadow;Diane Brentari

  • Where did all the arguments go?: argument-changing properties of classifiers in asl

    Elena Benedicto;Diane Brentari

  • Sign Language Phonology

    Diane Brentari

  • When does a system become phonological? Handshape production in gesturers, signers, and homesigners

    Diane Brentari;Marie Coppola;Laura Mazzoni;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages : A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation

    Diane Brentari

  • Aphasic and parkinsonian signing: differences in phonological disruption.

    D. Brentari;H. Poizner;J. Kegl

  • Categorical perception in American Sign Language

    Karen Emmorey;Stephen McCullough;Diane Brentari

  • Prosody on the hands and face: Evidence from American Sign Language

    Diane Brentari;Laurinda Crossley

  • Establishing a sonority hierarchy in American Sign Language: the use of simultaneous structure in phonology

    Diane Brentari

  • Modality and structure in signed and spoken languages: Modality differences in sign language phonology and morphophonemics

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  • Symmetry and dominance: A cross-linguistic study of signs and classifier constructions

    Petra Eccarius;Diane Brentari

  • Watching Language Grow in the Manual Modality: Nominals, Predicates, and Handshapes

    S. Goldin-Meadow;D. Brentari;M. Coppola;L. Horton

  • Cognitive, Cultural, and Linguistic Sources of a Handshape Distinction Expressing Agentivity

    Diane Brentari;Alessio Di Renzo;Jonathan Keane;Virginia Volterra

  • American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition in the Wild

    Bowen Shi;Aurora Martinez Del Rio;Jonathan Keane;Jonathan Michaux

  • A Phonological analysis of a deaf Parkinsonian signer

    Diane Brentari;Howard Poizner

  • Amodal Aspects of Linguistic Design

    Iris Berent;Amanda Dupuis;Diane Brentari

  • Sensitivity to visual prosodic cues in signers and nonsigners.

    Diane Brentari;Carolina González;Amanda Seidl;Ronnie Wilbur

  • Handshape complexity as a precursor to phonology: Variation, emergence, and acquisition

    Diane Brentari;Marie Coppola;Pyeong Whan Cho;Ann Senghas

  • The phonology of sign languages

    Jordan Fenlon;Kearsy Cormier;Diane Brentari

  • SECONDARY LICENSING AND THE NONDOMINANT HAND IN ASL PHONOLOGY

    Diane Brentari;John A. Goldsmith

  • Acquiring word class distinctions in American Sign Language: Evidence from handshape.

    Diane Brentari;Marie Coppola;Ashley Jung;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Handshape in Sign Language Phonology

    Diane Brentari

  • Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing

    Jordan Fenlon;Kensy Cooperrider;Jon Keane;Diane Brentari

  • The double identity of linguistic doubling

    Iris Berent;Outi Bat-El;Diane Brentari;Amanda Dupuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Karen Livescu
Karen Livescu Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Howard Poizner
Howard Poizner University of California, San Diego
Gregory Shakhnarovich
Gregory Shakhnarovich Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Karen Emmorey
Karen Emmorey San Diego State University
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Virginia Volterra
Virginia Volterra National Research Council (CNR)
Amanda Seidl
Amanda Seidl Purdue University West Lafayette
Richard E. Ladner
Richard E. Ladner University of Washington
Ronnie B. Wilbur
Ronnie B. Wilbur Purdue University West Lafayette

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