Tsang, Wing Yan, & Perniss, P. (submitted). What’s seen as iconic in a sign and what’s not?: Evidence from iconicity ratings by signers and non-signers in the HKSL lexicon.

de Souza Santos, T., & Perniss, P. (submitted). Looking at verb modification in German Sign Language (DGS) through the lens of prominence.

Bauer, A., Mitchell, A., Träuble, B., Perniss, P., & Hellwig, B. (submitted). Children’s Multimodal Feedback Practices Across Cultures: A lens on Social-Cognitive Development.

Spruijt, D., Schumacher, P. B., & Perniss, P. (submitted). A database for lexical signs of DGS (German Sign Language) and corresponding gestures: transparency, iconicity and gesture-sign resemblance. OSF preprint: https://osf.io/vqftb/files/wcygv 

Schiefner, A., Ortega, G., & Perniss, P. (submitted). Iconic strategies in two unrelated sign languages: How iconicity drives form overlap in concrete and abstract concepts.

Politimou, N., Motamedi, Y., Rozic, G., Perniss, P., Marshall, C. R., & Vigliocco, G. (submitted). Learning Words Beyond the Here-and-Now: How Displacement and Iconic Prosody Shape Verb Acquisition in Young Children.

Spruijt, D., Schumacher, P. B., & Perniss, P. (accepted). Can gesture help? Investigating the potential for transfer in the L2M2 acquisition of a sign language. Open Linguistics.

Seyfeddinipur, M., Perniss, P., & Wegener, C. (in print). Taking language use seriously. On the importance of multimodaliy and interaction in documentary practices. In S. Riesberg, U. Reihöhl, & B. Hellwig (eds.), The documentarist turn. From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Fischer, O., Akita, K., & Perniss, P. (Eds.) (2026). Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Fischer, O., Perniss, P., & Akita, K. (2026). Introduction: On the iconic system underlying all forms of language and language behavior. In Fischer, O., Akita, K., & Perniss, P. (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language, 1-8. Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192849489.013.0058

de Souza Santos, T., Dietrich, A., Steinbach, P. & Perniss, P., (2025). Differential Object Marking (DOM) in DGS: The use of AUF based on naturalistic data. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.11591

Gu, Y., Donnellan, E., Grzyb, B., Brekelmans, G., Murgiano, M., Brieke, R., Perniss, P., & Vigliocco, G. (2025). The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language. Scientific Data 12, 89. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04405-1

Spruijt, D., Perniss, P., & Schumacher, P. (2023). The contribution of individual parameters to perceived iconicity and transparency in gesture-sign pairs. FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory), Vol.5, 194-209. DOI:10.31009/FEAST.i5.16 

Motamedi, Y., Murgiano, M., Perniss, P., Wonnacott, E., Marshall, C., Goldin-Meadow, S., & G. Vigliocco (2021). Linking language to sensory experience: onomatopoeia in early language development. Developmental Science, 24(3). doi: 10.1111/desc.13066 

Perniss, P., Vinson, D., & Vigliocco, G. (2020). Making sense of the hands and mouth: the role of "secondary" cues to meaning in British Sign Language and English. Cognitive Science 44(7), e12868. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12868  

Dingemanse, M., Perlman, M., & Perniss, P. (2020). Construals of iconicity: Experimental approaches to form-meaning resemblances in language. Language and Cognition 12(1), 1-14. doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2019.48

Perniss, P. (2020). Use of sign space - experimental perspectives. In J. Quer, R. Pfau, A. Herrmann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research, Chapter 17. Milton: Routledge.

Perniss, P. (2020). Introduction. In P. Perniss, O. Fischer & C. Ljungberg (Eds.), Operationalizing Iconicity, pp. ix-xii. Iconicity in Language and Literature 17. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi.org/10.1075/ill.17 

Perniss, P., Fischer, O., & Ljungberg, C. (Eds.) (2020). Operationalizing Iconicity. Iconicity in Language and Literature 17. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315754499-17 

Vigliocco, G., Motamedi, Y., Murgiano, M., Wonnacott, E., Marshall, C. R., Milan Maillo, I., & Perniss, P. (2019). Onomatopoeias, gestures, actions and words in the input to children: How do caregivers use multimodal cues in their communication to children? Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX. http://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v263k

Perniss, P. (2018). Why We Should Study Multimodal Language. Frontiers in Psychology 9, 1109. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01109.

Perniss, P. (2018). Review of Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silvia Ladewig, David McNeill, Sedinha Teßendorf (Eds.) (2014). Body - language - communication. An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction (vol 1 & 2). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Linguistische Berichte, 253.

Perniss, P., Lu, J., Morgan, G., & Vigliocco, G. (2017). Mapping language to the world: The role of iconicity in the sign language input. Developmental Science. ISSN 1363-755X DOI: 10.1111/desc.12551

Sümer, B., Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2017). A first study on the development of spatial viewpoint in sign language acquisition. In: Ketrez, F.N., Küntay, A.C., Özcaliskan, S. & Özyürek, A. (Eds.), Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç, pp. 223-240. Trends in Language Acquisition Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.21.14sum 

Vinson, D., Perniss, P., Fox, N., & Vigliocco, G. (2016). Comprehending sentences with the body: Action compatibility in British Sign Language? Cognitive Science, 1-28.https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12397

Sümer, B., Perniss, P., & Özyürek A. (2016). Viewpoint preferences in signing children's spatial descriptions. In Proceedings of the 40^th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 40). Boston: Cascadilla Press. https://www.mpi.nl/publications/item2253232/viewpoint-preferences-signing-childrens-spatial-descriptions

Sümer, B., Zwitserlood, I., Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2016). Yer Bildiren Ifadelerin Türkçe ve Türk İşaret Dili'nde (TİD) Çocuklar Tarafından Edinimi [The acquisition of spatial relations by children in Turkish and Turkish Sign Language (TİD)]. In E. Arik (Ed.), Ellerle Konuşmak: Türk İşaret Dili Araştırmaları [Speaking with hands: Studies on Turkish Sign Language], 157-182. Istanbul: Koç University Press.

Perniss, P., Zwitserlood, I., & Özyürek, A. (2015). Does space structure spatial language? A comparison of spatial expression across sign languages. Language 91(3), 611-641. DOI:10.1353/lan.2015.0041 

Pyers, J., Perniss, P., & Emmorey, K. (2015). Viewpoint in the Visual-Spatial Modality: The Coordination of Spatial Perspective. Spatial Cognition and Computation 15(3), 143-169. DOI:10.1080/13875868.2014.1003933

Perniss, P. (2015). Collecting and Analyzing Sign Language Data: Video Requirements and Use of Annotation Software. In Orfanidou, E., Woll, B., & Morgan, G. (Eds.), Research Methods in Sign Language Studies: A Practical Guide, 55-73. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118271416.html 

Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2015). Visible cohesion: A comparison of reference tracking in sign, speech, and co-speech gesture. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7(1), 36-60. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12122 

Perniss, P., Özyürek, A. & Morgan, G. (Eds.) (2015). The influence of the visual modality on language structure and conventionalization: Insights from sign language and gesture. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7(1). DOI: 10.1111/tops.12127

Perniss, P., & Vigliocco, G. (2014). The bridge of iconicity: From a world of experience to the experience of language. Phil. Trans. Royal Society B. 369(1651), 20130300, 1-13. DOI:10.1098/rstb.2013.0300

Vigliocco, G., Perniss, P., Thompson, R., & Vinson, D. (Eds.) (2014). Language as a Multimodal Phenomenon: Implications for Language Learning, Processing, and Evolution. Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 369(1651). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0292

Sümer, B., Perniss, P., Zwitserlood, I., & Özyürek, A. (2014). Learning to express "left-right" & "front-back" in a sign versus spoken language. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M., & Scassellati, B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1550-1555. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 

Debrelioska, S., Özyürek, A., Gullberg, M., & Perniss, P. (2013). Gestural Viewpoint Signals Referent Accessibility. Discourse Processes 50(7), 431-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2013.824286 

Sümer, B., Zwitserlood, I., Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2013). Acquisition of locative expressions in children learning Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and Turkish. In E. Arık (Ed.), Current directions in Turkish Sign Language research, 243-272. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-5107-C 

Zwitserlood, I., Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2013). Expression of multiple entities in Turkish Sign Language (TİD). In E. Arık (Ed.), Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research, 272-302. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.mpi.nl/publications/item1711560/expression-multiple-entities-turkish-sign-language-tid

Perniss, P., Vinson, D., Fox, N., & Vigliocco, G. (2013). Comprehending with the body: Action compatibility in sign language? In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1133-1138. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12t095zb

Perniss, P., Vinson, D., Seifart, F., & Vigliocco, G. (2012). Speaking of shape: the effects of linguistic encoding on the semantic representation of objects. Language and Cognition 4(3), 223-242. doi:10.1515/langcog-2012-0012 

Zwitserlood, I., Perniss, P. & Özyürek, A. (2012). An empirical investigation of expression of multiple entities in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): Considering the effects of modality. Lingua 122, 1636-1667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2012.08.010

Perniss, P. (2012). Use of Sign Space. In Pfau, R., Steinbach, M., & Woll, B. (Eds.), Sign language: An international handbook, 412-431. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261325.158 

Sümer, B., Zwitserlood, I., Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2012). Development of locative expressions by Turkish deaf and hearing children: Are there modality effects? In A. K. Biller, E. Y. Chung, & A. E. Kimball (Eds.), BUCLD 36: Proceedings of the 36th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol. 2, 568-580. Boston: Cascadilla Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2066/101639 

Özyürek, A., & Perniss, P. (2011). Event representations in signed languages. In: Pedersen, E. & Bohnemeyer, J. (Eds.), Event Representation in Language. Encoding Events at the Language-Cognition Interface, 84-107. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782039

Perniss, P., Özyürek, A. & Zwitserlood, I. (2011). Does Space Structure Spatial Language? Linguistic Encoding of Space in Sign Languages. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1595-1600. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sg78556

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Perniss, P., Thompson, R.L., & Vigliocco, G. (2010). Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages. Frontiers in Psychology 1, 227. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00227

Özyürek, A., Zwitserlood, I., & Perniss, P. (2010). Locative expressions in signed languages: A view from Turkish Sign Language (TİD). Linguistics 48-5, 1111-1145. https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2010.036

Perniss, P., & Zeshan, U. (2008). Possession and existence in Kata Kolok. In Zeshan, U., & Perniss, P. (Eds.), Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages, 125-149. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.

Perniss, P., & Zeshan, U. (2008). Possessive and existential constructions: Introduction and overview. In Zeshan, U., & Perniss, P. (Eds.), Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.

Zeshan, U., & Perniss, P. (Eds.) (2008). Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. Sign Language Typology Series, No. 2. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.

Perniss, P., & Özyürek, A. (2008). Representations of action, motion, and location in sign space: A comparison of German (DGS) and Turkish (TİD) Sign Language narratives. In: Quer, J. (Ed.), Leading research in sign language. Selected papers from TISLR 8. Hamburg: Signum Verlag.

Zwitserlood, I, Özyürek, A., & Perniss, P. (2008). Annotation of sign and gesture cross-linguistically, In: Crasborn, O., Hanke, T., Efthimiou, E., Zwitserlood, I., & Thoutenhoofd, E. (Eds.), Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora. 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, pp. 185-190. Paris: ELDA.

Perniss, P. (2008). Space and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). Dissertation abstract, MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 45, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2007. Sign Language & Linguistics 11:1, 123-129.

Perniss, P. (2007). Achieving spatial coherence in German Sign Language narratives: The use of classifiers and perspective. Lingua 117, 1315-1338.

Perniss, P., Pfau, R., & Steinbach, M. (2007). Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure. In: Perniss, P., Pfau, R., & Steinbach, M. (Eds.), Visible Variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure, pp. 1-34. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.  

Perniss, P., Pfau, R., & Steinbach, M. (Eds.) (2007). Visible Variation: Comparative studies on sign language structure. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Perniss, P. (2007). Locative Functions of Simultaneous Perspective Constructions in German Sign Language Narratives. In: M. Vermeerbergen, L. Leeson, & O. Crasborn (Eds.), Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and Function, pp. 27-54. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 

Perniss, P. (2007). Space and iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 45, Radboud University Nijmegen. (PhD dissertation)