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Academic Publications

Pärgma, J. (2026). Systematic Literature Review of Studies on Estonian Sign Language (under review).

Pärgma, J., Janson, L., Romanek, P. Z. & Rathmann, C. (2025). Basic Grammar Description of Estonian Sign Language (under review). Tallinn University, EVKUR.

Rathmann, C., & Romanek, P. Z. (2025). Sign Language Multilingualism: The Case of Language Inequality (under review).

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Language Demography of Deaf Communities and Estonian Sign Language: EVKUR Technical Report 1/2025. EVKUR, Tallinn University

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z, & Rathmann, C. (2025). Viipekeele õpetamine, õppimine ja hindamine Eestis: CEFR-põhine ülevaade (in press)

Presentations

Pärgma, J., Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025, November 27). Arvsõnad ja arv kui grammatiline kategooria eesti viipekeeles: metodoloogiline lähenemine [Poster presentation]. EVKURi teine avatud uste päev, Tallinn University. Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025, November 27). Eesti kurtide kogukonnade keeledemograafia – keelemaastik arvudes [Poster presentation]. EVKURi teine avatud uste päev, Tallinn University. Tallinn University.

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Rathmann, C. (2025, November 27). Viipekeele õpetamine, õppimine ja hindamine Eestis: CEFR-põhine ülevaade [Poster presentation]. EVKURi teine avatud uste päev, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., Janson, L., Jõeveer, T., Pärgma, J. & Rathmann, C. (2025, November 27). Signbank 2.0 ja Visuolab – eesti viipekeele ressursid: jätkuslikkus, liigipäsetavus, andmehaldus ja reprodutseeritav uurimistöö [Poster presentation]. EVKURi teine avatud uste päev, Tallinn University.  

Pärgma, J., Romanek, P. Z., Janson, L., & Rathmann, C. (2025, October 09-10) Grammar description of Estonian Sign Language: Methodological Approaches [Paper presentation]. Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches (MEDAL), Tartu, Estonia.  

Romanek, P. Z., Laurimaa, S., & Rathmann, C. (2025, October 09-10.) Sign Language Users in Estonia: Language Demography Survey [Paper presentation]. Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches (MEDAL), Tartu, Estonia.

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025, October 09-10.) Language Resources in Estonian Sign Language Research [Paper presentation]. Methodological Excellence in Data-Driven Approaches to Linguistics: New challenges, novel approaches (MEDAL), Tartu, Estonia.  

Paabo, R. (2025, August 30). Eesti viipekeele kui võõrkeele õppimise & õpetamise põhitõed B2 ja C1 oskustasemel [Input presentation]. Viipekeele õpetamine praktikas: tööriistad, meetodid ja refleksioon, EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Pärgma, J. (2025, July 25). Plural Expression in Estonian Sign Language [Poster presentation]. Summer School in Sign Language Studies, Berlin.  

Rathmann, C., Quadros, R. de, Geissler, T., Peters, C., & Romanek, P. Z.  (2025, July 25). VisuoLab Platform: Sign Language Documentation, Sign Language Learning & Teaching, Deaf Studies and Translation & Interpreting [Poster presentation]. Summer School in Sign Language Studies, Berlin.

Romanek, P. Z., Quadros, R. de, & Rathmann, C.  (2025, July 23). Signbank 2.0.: Easy to Use, Easy to Administer and Easy to Share [Poster presentation]. Summer School in Sign Language Studies, Berlin.

Romanek, P. Z. (2025, July 22). Methodological Approaches in Grammar Description of Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. Summer School in Sign Language Studies, Berlin.

Õun, M. (2025, June 7). Kas õppematerjalid on kättesaadavad kõigile eesti viipekeele õpetajatele? Milliseid materjale on vaja välja töötada? [Input presentation]. Viipekeele õpetamine praktikas: tööriistad, meetodid ja refleksioon, EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z. (2025, June 7). Milliseid õpetaja pädevusi on vaja ja kuidas neid omandada? [Input presentation]. Viipekeele õpetamine praktikas: tööriistad, meetodid ja refleksioon, EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., & Pärgma, J. (2025, May 21-23). Multilingualism in Sign Language Communities: Language Choice. Multilingualism and Minority Languages in a Global Context, Davos, Switzerland.  

Pärgma, J. (2025, May 19). Eesti viipekeele grammatika visandamine [Paper presentation]. Eesti Keele Keskuse Kevadseminaar, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., Rathmann, C., & Laurimaa, S. (2025, May 19). Keeledemograafia, keelehoiakud ja -valikud: esimesed tulemused [Paper presentation]. Eesti Keele Keskuse Kevadseminaar, Tallinn University.

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025, May 19). Viipekeele õpetamine: esimesed tulemused [Paper presentation]. Eesti Keele Keskuse Kevadseminaar, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., Rathmann, C. (2025. May 19.). Eesti viipekeele ressursid: Signbank 2.0 ja VisuoLab. [paper presentation] Eesti Keele Keskuse Kevadseminaar, Tallinn, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z. (2025, Mai 13). Linguistic demography and language portrait as methods – advantages and issues [Paper presentation]. Seminário de Formação para o Corpus da Libras de Pernambuco e Comemoração dos 23 anos da Lei da Libras, Recife, Brazil.

Romanek, P. Z., & Pärgma, J. (2025, March 25). Estonian Sign Language Research: Collaborating with Communities and Emerging Research Practices [PowerPoint slides]. Charles University.

Romanek, P. Z., Rathmann, C., & Pärgma, J. (2025, January 14–17). Perspectives and Approaches in Grammar Description of Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15): Using Sign Language in Future; the Future is Using Sign Language, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Rathmann, C., Quadros, R. M. de, Geißler, T., Peters, C., Romanek, P. Z., Condé, S., Fernandes, Francisco, F. M. de, Loio, M. P., & França Viera, D. (2025. January 14-17). VisuoLab Platform: Sign Language Documentation, Sign Language Learning & Teaching, Deaf Studies and Translation & Interpreting. [poster presentation]. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR 15): Using Sign Language in Future; the Future is Using Sign Language, Addis-Ababa, Ethiophia

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2024, September 8–14). Perspectives in Grammar Description of Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. The 21st International Congress of Linguists, PoznaÅ„, Poland.   

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2024, October 7–11). Emerging Practices in Grammar Description of Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. Congressos de Pesquisas em Línguas de Sinais, Florianópolis, Brazil.  

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Laurimaa, S. (2024. August 20-24.) Language Choice in Multilingually Diverse Settings in Austria, Estonia, Hungary and Germany: a Comparative Sociolinguistic Study of Sign Language Attitudes [Paper presentation]. Globalising Sociolinguistics 3: Language and Inequality, Tallinn, Estonia

Romanek, P. Z. (2024, April 2). Methodological Aspects in the Development of a Reference Grammar in Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. Sign Language, Interpreting, Language and Communication Seminar, Oslo, Norway.

Non-Academic Publications

Eesti viipekeele uurimisrühm (2025. September 05). Eesti viipekeele uurimisrühm: 596 päeva teadust, koostööd ja arengut. TLU /ht/uudised/eesti-viipekeele-uurimisruhm-596-paeva-teadust-koostood-ja-arengut

Rathmann, C., Paulus, L., Romanek, P. Z., & Durczok, B. (2025). Book of abstracts: Summer School in Sign Language Studies. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Pärgma, J. (2025, March 10) Minutiloeng: kuidas erinevad viibeldud eesti keel ja eesti viipekeel? ERR Novaator

Laurimaa, S. (2025. January 07). Viipekeelse kogukonna vajadustest ja ootustest. ERR  

Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., Laurimaa, S., Verbu, K., & Rathmann, C. (2024, June 03). Ülevaade Eesti Viipekeele Labori (EVKUR) tegevustest: The First Steps and Activities of the Estonian Sign Language Research Lab [Paper presentation]. Eesti Keele Keskuse Kevadseminaar, Tallinn, Tallinn University.

Recommendations

Estonian Sign Language Research Lab (2024). Tallinn Declaration. First Symposium of Deaf Interpreting and Translation, 2024. May 31 – June 1, Tallinn, Estonia.

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., & Pärn, Õ. (2024) Professionalization of Estonian Sign Language Education: EVKUR Recommendations I - 2024. EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P., Rathmann, C., Pärn, Õ., & Pärgma, J. (2024). Eesti viipekeele hariduse professionaalse arengu edendamine: EVKUR-i soovitused 2024. [recommendation] (Õ. Pärn, Trans.) Estonian Sign Language Research Lab, Tallinn University

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Building a Sustainable System for Estonian Sign Language (EVK) Education in Estonia: EVKUR Recommendations II - 2025. EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Eesti viipekeele (evk) hariduse jätkusuutliku süsteemi loomine Eestis: EVKUR-i soovitused 2025  [recommendation] (L. Janson, Trans.) Estonian Sign Language Research Lab, Tallinn University.

Data Sets

Laurimaa, S., Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Data on language demography of Estonian Deaf communities [Unpublished dataset].

Pärgma, J., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Data on language portraits of Estonian Sign Language signers [Unpublished dataset].

Pärn, Õ., Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Corpus of teaching and learning materials of Estonian Sign Language [Dataset]. Tallinn University, EVKUR.

Jõeveer, T., Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025). EVK-Dataset I: Signbank 2.0 for Estonian Sign Language [Dataset]. Tallinn University

Pärgma, J. (2025). Annotated data on Number Expressions in Estonian Sign Language. [Unpublished dataset] EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Dataset from Lexical Familiarity Task of Estonian Sign Language. [Unpublished dataset] EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Softwares

Quadros, R. M. de, Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., Soares Neto, F. F., & Condé, S. (2024). Signbank 2.0 for Estonian Sign Language (Version 2.0) [Web-based software; Estonian translation by Sandra Laurimaa, Liina Janson]. Tallinn University

Manuals

Romanek, P. Z., Jõeveer, T., & Rathmann, C. (2025). User Manual: Signbank 2.0 for Estonian Sign Language. EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Romanek, P. Z., Pärgma, J., & Rathmann, C. (2025). Annotation and Lemmatization Guideline for Estonian Sign Language. EVKUR, Tallinn University.

Documentary movie

Peters, C. (Scriptwriter), Kalvik, K. (Cinematographer) & Romanek, P. Z.  (2025). Elav eesti viipekeel [Documentary film]. Co-created with members of the Estonian Deaf communities. EVKUR, Tallinn University.