Selected Publications
Pyers, J. & Senghas, A. (in press). Referential shift in Nicaraguan Sign Language: a comparison with American Sign Language. In R. Pfau, P. Perniss, & M. Steinbeck (Eds.) Crosslinguistic Typology in Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gueyer.
Pyers, J. (in press). Constructing the social mind: Language and false-belief understanding. In S. Levinson & N. Enfield (Eds,). The Roots of Human Sociality.
Pyers, J. (2006). Indicating the body: Expression of body part terminology in American Sign Language. Language Sciences, 28, 280-303.
Senghas, R., Senghas, A., & Pyers, J. (2004). The emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Questions of development, acquisition, and evolution. In S. T. Parker, J. Langer, & C. Milbrath (Eds.), Biology and Knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to psychogenesis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 287-306.
Pyers, J. (2003). The expression of mental states in American Sign Language. In A. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde, & O. Crasborn (Eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on sign language research. Hamburg: Signum Press.
de Villiers, P. A., & Pyers, J. (2002). Language of the deaf -- Sign language. In R. Kent (Ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
de Villiers, J., & Pyers, J. (2002). Complements to cognition: a longitudinal study of the relationship between complex syntax and false-belief understanding. Cognitive Development, 17, 1037-1060.
Gale, E., de Villiers, P., de Villiers, J., & Pyers, J. (1996). Language and theory of mind in oral deaf children. In A. Stringfellow, D. Cahana-Amitay, E. Hughes, & A. Zukowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.