The complete version of my CV is available here.
Sampson, T. (forthcoming). Movement repetition: From iconic isomorphism to arbitrary morphology. Manuscript.
Sampson, T., Becker, A., Campbell, E.E., Pyers, J., Hall, W.C., Sevcikova Sehyr, Z., Czubek, T., DiPerri, K., Henner, J., Emmorey, K., Petrich, J., Dobbs, C.L., Lieberman, A., Coppola, M., Langdon, C., Pontecorvo, E., Gappmayr, P., Lim, A., Higgins, M., Napoli, D.J., Harrison, N.E., Benedict, R., Holcomb, L., Jones, Jr., F., Bottoms, A., Glenn-Smith, E., Clark, M.D., Gabriel, R., Jimenez, L., Delgado, N., Caselli, N. (submitted). Avoiding unintended consequences: Science of reading policies may harm deaf children. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.
Sampson, T. (2025). The search for regular change in sign languages: Response to Law, Power, and Quinto-Pozos. Language.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2025). Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language. Lingua 314, 103852. Paper
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2022). An emerging SELF: The copula cycle in American Sign Language. Language 98(2), 327-358. Project Muse, doi:10.1353/lan.2022.0005. Paper
Shield, A. & Sampson, T. (2021). Research on Deafness and ASD: Challenges, Opportunities, and Goals. In Pettit, Paul R. (Ed.), Deafness: Current Perspectives and Research Developments (pp. 117-148). Nova Science Publishers. Book
Padden C., Meir, I., Hwang, S., Lepic, R., Seegers, A., and Sampson, T. (2013). Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons. Gesture, Volume 13, Issue 3, pages 287-308. Paper
National Institute of Health: National Institute on Deafness and other Communicative Disorders R01: Development of Gaze Control for Integration of Language and Visual Information in Deaf Children - 2026-2027: Postdoctoral Scholar
National Institute of Health: National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders R15: Attention-Regulation Strategies of Deaf and Hearing Parents of Autistic Children - 2024-2029: Consultant
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Institutional Research Training Grant (T32), Boston University Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences - 2023-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) - 2019-2022: PI
San Diego Fellowship, University of California, San Diego - 2017-2019: Fellow
Sampson, T. (2026, June 6). TBD. Keynote Presentation at Formal and Experimental Approaches to Sign Language Theory (FEAST). Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sampson, T. (2025, December 12). Movement repetition: From iconic isomorphism to arbitrary morpho(phono)logy. Multisensory Group Talk Series. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Sampson, T. (2025, November 14). Movement repetition: From iconic isomorphism to arbitrary morpho(phono)logy. Center for Language Science Talk Series. Pennsylvania State University, State Park, PA.
Sampson, T. (2025, October 9). The development of movement repetition: From iconic isomorphism to arbitrary morphology. DCAL Talk Series. University College London, UK.
Sampson, T. (2025, April 9). Signs of Change: The Evolution of American Sign Language. Deaf World Series. Boston University, Boston, MA. Video.
Sampson, T. (2024, May 28). The modal SELF in ASL adjectival predication. Equity & Diversity Panel at the 34th meeting of Semantics and Linguistics Theory. Rochester, NY.
Sampson, T. (2023, April 21). The use of the copular SELF with adjectives in American Sign Language. University of Wisconsin, Madison Linguistics Department Colloquium, Madison, WI.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2022, July 21). An Emerging SELF: The Copula Cycle in American Sign Language. Linguistics Society of America "Meet the Authors" webinar series, online. Talk.
Sampson, T. (2021, February 26). Exploring SELF: A copula in American Sign Language. Linguistics Department Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Slides.
Sampson, T. (2021, February 25). Exploring SELF: A copula in American Sign Language. Meaning & Modality Lab guest lecture, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Slides.
Sampson, T., Caselli, N. & Lieberman, A. (2025, January 14-17). Mapping the distribution of noun-verb pairs in American Sign Language. 15th meeting of the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2025, January 9-12). Adjectival predication strategies in American Sign Language. 100th Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, Philadelphia, PA.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2024, November 2). The modal SELF in ASL adjectival predication. 16th meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Sampson, T., Caselli, N. & Lieberman, A. (2024, November 2). Multiple processes contribute to nominalization. 16th meeting of the High Desert Linguistics Society, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2023, January 7). The use of the copular SELF with adjectives in ASL. Linguistics Society of America 97th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Poster.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2023, January 6). Using Historical Dictionaries and Films to Reconstruct Grammaticalization Pathways in American Sign Language. As a part of Organized Section: Emerging Perspectives on Historical Change in Signed Languages. Linguistics Society of America 97th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Slides.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2022, September 29). Comparing copulas in American Sign Language. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 14, Osaka, Japan/online. Poster.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2021, May 8). A Copular SELF: The Copula Cycle in ASL. Chicago Linguistics Society 57 Conference, Chicago, IL. Slides.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2020, November 20-22). Individually SELF: Preferred pairings of copulas and predicates in ASL. High Desert Linguistics Society 14 Conference, Albuquerque, NM. Talk/poster.
Sampson, T. & Mayberry, R. I. (2019, September 26-28). An Emerging SELF: The Copula Cycle in ASL. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13, Hamburg, Germany. Talk/slides.
National Science Foundation Travel Grant for 14th Meeting of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR14), Osaka, Japan. September 2022.
Institute for the Inclusive Assessment of Multimodal Multilinguals (IAM3), Rochester Institute of Technology, NY & Stockholm University, Sweden. June 2022.
TISLR13 Best Student Stage Presentation - September 2019.
Deaf Studies Capstone Projects: Boston University (Spring 2025)
ASL Linguistics: Northeastern University (Spring 2024)
Introduction/Study of Language: University of California, San Diego (Spring, Winter 2023)
Sign Languages and Their Cultures: University of California, San Diego (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020)
Psycholinguistics of Sign Languages: University of California, San Diego (Winter 2021)