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for years. Meir finished high school at the top of her class, serving as valedictorian at its graduation ceremony. In 1975 she spent a pre-induction year of
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Sandler, Wendy, Aronoff, Mark, Padden, Carol & Meir, Irit. (2014). Language emergence. In J. Sindell, P. Kockelman & N. Enfield (Eds.),
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Sandler, Wendy, Aronoff, Mark, Meir, Irit, Padden, Carol. (2011). The
Gradual Emergence of Phonological Form in a New Language.
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Irit Meir: Thematic
Structure and Verb Agreement in Israeli Sign Language, submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998
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Her research interests include sign language linguistics with a special focus on iconicity and its interaction with grammar.
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Meir, Irit. 2002. A cross-modality perspective on verb agreement.
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The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language.
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A Language in Space: the Story of
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