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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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17761990

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315929

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315980

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316089 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316679 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316494

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316394 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314673 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314618 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316796 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316728

Romanek, P. Z., & Pärgma, J. (2025, March 25). Estonian Sign Language Research: Collaborating with Communities and Emerging Research Practices [PowerPoint slides]. Charles University. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314542

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314413

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18316194

Romanek, P. Z., & Rathmann, C. (2024, September 8–14). Perspectives in Grammar Description of Sign Languages [Paper presentation]. The 21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznań, Poland.  https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314050 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314286 

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18314774

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18313896

Non-Academic Publications

Eesti viipekeele uurimisrühm (2025. September 05). Eesti viipekeele uurimisrühm: 596 päeva teadust, koostööd ja arengut. TLU https://www.tlu.ee/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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315456

Pärgma, J. (2025, March 10) Minutiloeng: kuidas erinevad viibeldud eesti keel ja eesti viipekeel? ERR Novaator https://novaator.err.ee/1609627541/minutiloeng-kuidas-erinevad-viibeldud-eesti-keel-ja-eesti-viipekeel

Laurimaa, S. (2025. January 07). Viipekeelse kogukonna vajadustest ja ootustest. ERR https://www.err.ee/1609569175/sandra-laurimaa-viipekeelse-kogukonna-vajadustest-ja-ootustest 

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315020

Rathmann, C., Romanek, P. Z., & Pärn, Õ. (2024) Professionalization of Estonian Sign Language Education: EVKUR Recommendations I - 2024. EVKUR, Tallinn University. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315172

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 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18315255

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. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17695016

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 https://doi.org/10.60518/cppz-cm63

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.