Articles

• Meir, Irit. (2020). Topic-open-endedness: Why recursion is overrated. Sign Language and Linguistics 23:1/2. Special issue in memory of Irit Meir.  258-271.
• Sandler, Wendy, Belsitzman, Gal, & Meir, Irit. (2020). Visual foreign accent in an emerging sign language. Sign Language and Linguistics 23:1/2. Special issuein memory of Irit Meir.  233-257.
• Meir, Irit, Cohen Ariel. (2018). Metaphor in Sign Languages.  Frontiers in Psychology.
• Meir, Irit. (2018). Topic-openendedness: Why recursion is overrated.  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, eds. Cuskley, C., Flaherty, M., Little, H., McCrohon, L., Ravignani, A., & Verhoef, T. 295-305.  also posted in Lingbuzz/004030
• Meir, Irit, Aronoff, Mark, Börstell, Carl, Hwang, So-One, Ilkbasaran, Deniz, Kastner, Itamar, Lepic, Ryan, Lifshitz Ben-Basat, Adi, Padden, Carol, and Sandler, Wendy.  (2017).  The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insights from novel communication systems and young sign languages.  Cognition 158. 189-207.
• Kastner, Itamar, Irit, Meir, Wendy, Sandler, Svetlana, Dachkovsky. (2014). ‘The emergence of embedded structure: Insights from Kafr Qasem Sign Language.’  Froniters in Psychology, vol. 5, 1-15.  doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00525
• Uziel-Karl, Sigal, Fadi, Kanaan, Netta, Abugov, Rachel, Yifat, Irit Meir and Dorit Ravid. (2014). ‘Hebrew and palestinian arabic in israel: Linguistic frameworks and SLP services.’ Special issue on ‘Global issues in language disorders: Processes, frameworks and policies’. Topics in Language Disorders 34, 133-154.
• Padden, Carol, Meir, Irit, Lepic, Ryan, So-One, Hwang, Tory, Sampson and Sharon, Seegers. (2014). ‘Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons.’ Gesture 13:3, 287-308.  
• Sandler, Wendy, Aronoff, Mark, Padden, Carol and Meir, Irit (2014). ‘ Language emergence.’ In: Sindell, Jack, Paul Kockelman and Nick Enfield (Eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 250-284.
• Meir, Irit, Sandler, Wendy, Padden, Carol, and Mark Aronoff (2013). ‘Competing iconicities in the structure of languages’. Cognitive Linguistics, 24(2), 309-343.
• Meir, Irit, Israel, Assaf, Sandler, Wendy, Carol, Padden and Mark Aronoff (2013). ‘Community structure and language structure’. Linguistic Variation, 12(2), 247-291.
• Meir, Irit. (2013). ‘Numerals in Modern Hebrew’. In: G. Khan (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics.Boston, MA: Brill, Vol. 2, 903-908.
• Meir, Irit (2013). ‘Sign Language’ (in Hebrew) In: G. Khan (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Boston, MA: Brill, Vol. 3, 561-568.
• Doron, Edit, and Irit Meir (2013). ‘The construct – Modern Hebrew’. In G. Khan (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics,Boston, MA: Brill, Vol. 1, 581-589.
• Ziv, Margalit, Irit Meir, and Lucy Malki (2013). ‘Enhancing Theory-of-Mind Discourse among Deaf Parents of Children with Hearing Loss’. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 1(2), 249-262.
• Doron, Edit and Irit Meir (2013). ‘Amount Definites.’ Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 42, 139-165.
• Padden, Carol, Meir, Irit, Hwang, So-One, Lepic, Ryan, Seegers, Sharon, and Sampson, Tory (2013). Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons.​ Gesture 13(3): 287-308.
• Meir, Irit (2012). ‘The evolution of verb classes and verb agreement in signed languages‘. Theoretical Linguistics, 38(1-2), 145 – 152.
• Meir, Irit (2012). ‘Word classes and word formation’. In: R. Pfau, M. Steinbach, and B. Woll (Eds.). Handbook on Sign Language Linguistics. Mouton De Greuter, 77-112.
• Lanesman, Sara and Irit Meir (2012). ‘The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel’. In: U. Zeshan, and C. De Vos (Eds.). Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Sign Language Typology Series 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton & Nijmegen: Ishara Press, 153-179.
• Lanesman, Sara, and Irit Meir (2012). ‘Algerian Jewish Sign Language – Sociolinguistic sketch’. In: U. Zeshan, and C. De Vos (Eds.). Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights. Sign Language Typology Series 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton & Nijmegen: Ishara Press, 361-364.
• Meir, Irit, Wendy Sandler, Carol Padden and Mark Aronoff (2012). A Dictionary of Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. University of Haifa and University of California, San Diego
• Sandler, Wendy, Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, and Carol Padden (2011). ‘The Gradual Emergence of Phonological Form in a New Language’. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 29, 503–543. 
• Sandler, Wendy, Irit Meir, Svetlana Dachkovsky, Carol Padden and Mark Aronoff (2011). ‘The emergence of complexity in prosody and syntax’. Lingua, 121, 2014-2033. 
• Padden, Carol, Meir, Irit, Sandler, Wendy, and Aronoff, Mark (2010).Against all expectations: Encoding subjects and objects in a new language.In Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B: Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlmutter, D. Gerdts, J. Moore & M . Polinsky, (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 573-595
• Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler (2010). ‘The grammar of space in two new sign languages‘. In: D. Brentari (Ed.). Sign Languages: A Cambridge Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 573-595.
• Meir, Irit, Wendy Sandler, Carol Padden, and Mark Aronoff (2010). ‘Emerging Sign Languages’. In: M. Marschark, and P. Spencer (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education, Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 267-280.
• Meir, Irit (2010). ‘The Emergence of Argument Structure in Two New Sign Languages‘. In: M. Rappaport Hovav, E. Doron, and I. Sichel (Eds.). Syntax, Lexical Semantics and Event Structure. Oxford University Press, 101-123.
• Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler (2010). ‘The grammar of space in two new sign languages‘. In: D. Brentari (Ed.), Sign Languages: A Cambridge Survey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 573-595.
• Meir, Irit, Mark Aronoff, Wendy Sandler, and Carol Padden (2010). ‘Sign languages and compounding‘. In: S. Scalise, and I. Vogel (Eds.). Compounding. John Benjamins, 301-322.
• Meir,Irit (2010). ‘Iconicity and metaphor: Constraints on metaphorical use of iconic forms’. Language, 86(4), 865-896.
• Lanesman, Sara, and Irit Meir (2010). ‘Initial survey of sign languages and signing systems in Arab communities in Israel’. In: S. Panda (Ed.). Sign Languages in Village Communities. Ishara Signed Publications No.2. Nijmegen: Ishara Press.
• Meir, Irit, Adi Lifshitz, Deniz Ilkbasaran, and Carol Padden (2010). ‘The interaction of animacy and word order in human languages: a study of strategies in a novel communication task’. Proceedings of EVOLANG 8, 455-456.
• Meir, Irit (2008). ‘Sentential-Phrase Coordination in Hebrew and the syntax-pragmatics interface‘.Studies in Language, 32:1, 1-21.
• Meir, Irit (2008). ‘The role of prosody in morphological change: the case of Hebrew bound numerals‘. Language Variation and Change, 20, 1-25.
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler (2008). ‘The Roots of Linguistic Organization in a New Language‘. Special Issue of Interaction Studies, 9.1 on Holophrasis, Compositionality and Protolanguage, 133-153
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler (2008). ‘Language is shaped by the body. Open peer commentary to Morten H. Chistiansen and Nick. Chater: Language is shaped by the brain‘. Behavioral and brain sciences, 31, 509-511.
• Meir, Irit, Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler (2007). ‘Re-thinking Sign Language verb classes: The body as subject’. On-line proceedings of TISLR 9 conference, Florianopolis, Brazil.
• Meir, Irit (2007). ‘The morphological realization of semantic fields’. On-line proceedings of TISLR 9 conference, Florianopolis, Brazil.
• Meir, Irit, Carol Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler (2007). ‘Body as subject‘. Journal of Linguistics, 43, 531-563.
• Padden, Carol, Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler, and Mark Aronoff (in press). ‘Against all expectations: Encoding subjects and objects in a new language‘. In: D. Gerdts, J.Moore, and M. Polinsky (Eds.). Hypothesis A/Hypothesis B. MIT Press.
• Meir, Irit (2006). ‘Morphological Levels and Diachronic Change in Modern Hebrew Plural Formation‘. Studies in Language, 2006, 30:4, 827-756.
• Meir, Irit (2006). ‘Question and negation in Israeli Sign Language‘. Sign Language and Linguistics, 7.2, 97-124.
• Wendy Sandler, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Mark Aronoff (2005). ‘The emergence of grammar:  Systematic structure in a new language‘. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Feb. 15, 2005, Vol.102 no.7, 2661-2665.
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, and Wendy Sandler (2005). ‘The paradox of sign language morphology‘. Language, 81.2, 301-344.
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler (2004). ‘Morphological universals and the sign language type‘. In: G. Booj, and J. van Marle (Eds.). Yearbook of morphology. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 19-39.
• Meir, Irit (2003). ‘Modality and Grammaticalization: The emergence of a case marked pronoun in ISL’. Journal of Linguistics, 39.1, 109-140.
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, Carol Padden, and Wendy Sandler (2003). ‘Classifier complexes and Morphology in Two Sign Languages’. In: K. Emmorey (Ed.). Perspectives on Classifiers in Sign Languages. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 53-84.
• Meir, Irit (2002a). ‘A cross-modality perspective on verb agreement’. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 20.2, 413-450.  
• Meir, Irit (2001a). ‘Verb classifiers as noun incorporation in Israeli Sign Language’. Yearbook of Morphology, 1999, 295-315.
• Meir, Irit (2001b). ‘Motion and Transfer: The analysis of two verb classes in Israeli Sign Language’. In: V. Dively (Ed.). Signed Languages: Discoveries from international research. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 74-87.
• Aronoff, Mark, Irit Meir, and Wendy Sandler (2000). ‘Universal and particular aspects of Sign Language morphology’. In: K. K. Grohmann, and C. Struijke (Eds.). University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 10, 1-34.
• Meir, Irit (1999). ‘A perfect marker in Israeli Sign Language‘. Sign Language and Linguistics, Vol. 2;1, 41-60.
• Meir, Irit (1998). ‘Syntactic-Semantic Interaction in Israeli Sign Language verbs: The Case of Backwards Verbs‘. Sign Language and Linguistics, Vol. 1, 3-33.
• Meir, Irit, and Oksana Tkachman. ‘Iconicity.’ In Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics. Ed. Mark Aronoff. New York: Oxford University Press.