February 11: Diane Lillo-Martin (@dclm.bsky.social) (University of Connecticut/Yale University) will present on The Truth about Sign Language Acquisition, in collaboration with ASL and Deaf Studies in Pennβs Department of Linguistics. For more information: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lillo...
Hereβs a full shout out from Purdue: www.purdue.edu/newsroom/pur...
Huge congratulations to my beautiful advisor, Ronnie Wilbur, who is 2026 LSA Fellow!! π₯³π Proud advisee moment π₯Ή
Iβm in town for #LSA2026 @lingsocam.bsky.social, presenting our work on typicality, nonmanuals, manual cues in ASL and TID on Saturday, at #FGAE mixer on Friday. Let me know if you want to meet, catch up, chat, hang out!
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Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
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β¨New preprint out!
With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social
We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval.
π3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal
πMore looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors
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I heard about the great questions after our talk and some of my mysterious friends took pictures πsend them and questions to my way. Wish to be able to be there in person. Thank you to the organizers!
LSA First Gen Access & Equity (FGAE) Committee is granting travel assistance to attend to LSA 2026. If youβre a first gen attending to LSA, the application deadline is July 31. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...
LSA Presidential Research Forum
Join us as scholars rethink terms like βnative speakerβ and βbilingualββ and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use.
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Proceedings of FEAST 2024 is out and open source! Some cool research on sign language linguistics! raco.cat/index.php/FE...
AslΔ± GΓΌrer will be presenting our work on prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language at the Multimodal Prosody Across Spoken and Sign Languages. drive.google.com/file/d/1HSZ0...
Excited to have this on our platform!
We found that focus in TID is not only realized as duration increase in focused signs, but also as duration decrease in the extended domain. Sign languages use different domains (manual and nonmanual) to mark focus yielding crosslinguistic patterns.
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WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.
A woman wearing green patterned dress is in a university classroom, standing in front of a big screen that has slides. Slides saying certainty and has two gifs depecting head nod.
It was great to discuss TΔ°D data at TU+ 10! Thank you all for a great conference and feedback. Here are the slides, too.
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Maroon colored poster saying β10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic tu+ Dinnerβ Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 330. A golden colored arrow pointing to right.
Here we go! TU+ 10 is starting tomorrow.
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We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us!
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About historic relatedness of sign languages, @crathmann.bsky.social βWe see these route, but these languages are significantly different. It is not just enough to say that LSF is the story. Itβs part of a much more complex dynamic.β #TISLR15
Here is a summary of my #TISLR15 presentation, "Exploring the heterogeneity of DHH users of ASL in the US outside of nativeness" #linguistics 1/n
Here is a link to a talk through of my presentation (spoken English with English captions youtu.be/-eGHSRsuw6Q and here are my slides, osf.io/truqk/files/... #TISLR15 #linguistics
It should be βthemeβ, not team, but maybe go either way.
So, who signers were getting nonmanual cues in which condition was crucial in their performance.
More interestingly, signers were fast when they had parts of hands visible in the videos and mouthing, but they were less accurate. They were faster and more accurate with head nod when they had fewer amount of cues. They were slower and more accurate with head nod with medium amount of cues.
In the perception study in TID, the signers did not perform better with the highest amount of cues. They benefited from different amount of cues in different conditions.
Our main finding in production study is that both ASL and TID signers increased their nonmanuals to signal atypicality to their interlocutors. There was individual differences in the overall amount of cues but all participants increased the number of cues.
Hereβs our updated slides that I was hoping to present at #TISLR15, Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic production and perception studies. I hope you can view the videos and all the findings. Looking forward to hearing your comments and questions. docs.google.com/file/d/1S5aA...
So suitable for todayβs team, on point.
I donβt know who is in charge of the zoom meeting at #TISLR15, but you are missing the questions coming from the zoom meeting. I hope this gets fixed in the next sessions to have better equality and accessibility.
