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Fontana, S., Corazza, S., Boyes Braem, P. and Volterra, V. (2015) ‘Language research and language community change: Italian Sign Language 1981–2013’, International Journal of Sociolinguistics, 236, pp. 1–30. Reprinted in Sign Language Studies, 17(3) (2017), pp. 363–398.
Boyes Braem, P. and Rathmann, C. (2010) ‘Transmission of sign language in Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands’, in Brentari, D. (ed.) Cambridge Language Surveys: Sign Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 19–45.
*Boyes Braem, P. (2009) Übermittlung der drei schweizerischen Gebärdensprachen. VUGS Informationsheft Nr. 46. Zürich: Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen.
*Boyes Braem, P. and Sutton-Spence, R. (2006) Forschung zum Mundbild in den Gebärdensprachen der Gehörlosen. VUGS Informationsheft Nr. 43. Zürich: Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen.
Boyes Braem, P. and Bräm, Th. (2004) ‘Expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors’, in Müller, C. and Posner, R. (eds) The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures. Berlin: Weidler Buchverlag, pp. 127–144.
Boyes Braem, P., Pizzuto, E. and Volterra, V. (2002) ‘The interpretation of signs by (hearing and deaf) members of different cultures’, in Schulmeister, R. and Reinitzer, H. (eds) Festschrift für Siegmund Prillwitz. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag, pp.187–220.
Boyes Braem, P. 2001 (a). A multimedia database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics. 4:1/2,. 133-143.
Boyes Braem, P., Caramore, B., Hermann, R. and Shores Hermann, P. (2001) ‘Romance and reality: Sociolinguistic similarities and differences between Swiss German Sign Language and Rhaeto-Romansh’, in Monaghan, L. (ed.) Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Language, Identity and Ideology. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, pp. 89–113.
Boyes Braem, P. (2001) ‘Functions of the mouthing component in Swiss German Sign Language’, in Brentari, D. (ed.) Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 1–47.
Boyes Braem, P. and Bräm, T. (2000) ‘A pilot study of the expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors’, in Emmorey, K. and Lane, H. (eds) The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 143–168.
Boyes Braem, P. and Sutton-Spence, R. (eds) (2000) The Hands Are the Head of the Mouth: The Mouth as Articulator in Sign Languages. Hamburg: Signum.
Boyes Braem, P. (1999) ‘Rhythmic temporal patterns in the signing of early and late learners of German Swiss Sign Language’, Language and Speech, 42(2–3), pp. 177–208.
*Boyes Braem, P., Caramore, B., Hermann, R. and Shores Hermann, P. (1997) Romantik und Wirklichkeit. Informationsheft Nr. 30. Zürich: Verein zur U
nterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen.
Boyes Braem, P.(1995). Eine Untersuchung über den Einfluss des Erwerbsalters auf die in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz verwendeten Formen von Gebärdensprache: Ein Überblick zu einem vom Schweizerischen Nationalfonds unterstützuten Projekt des Forschungszentrum für Gebärdensprache, Basel 1991-1995. VUGS Informationsheft Nr. 27. Zürich: Verein zur Unterstützung der Gebärdensprache der Gehörlosen.
Boyes Braem, P. (1990) Einführung in die Gebärdensprache und ihre Erforschung. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 3rd revised edn, 1995.
Boyes Braem, P. (1990) ‘A preliminary analysis of the child’s acquisition of the handshape in American Sign Language’, in Volterra, V. and Erting, C. (eds) From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 107–127.
Boyes Braem, P. (1984) ‘Studying Swiss German Sign Language dialects’, in Loncke, F., Boyes Braem, P. and Lebrun, Y. (e Recent Research on European Sign Languages. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger.pp.
Boyes Braem, P. (1981).Significant Features of the Handshape in American Sign Language. Unublished doctoral dissertation, University of alifornia, Berkeley.

