Bonnie Barrett
@bonniebarrett.bsky.social
PhD Student at Gallaudet University ☻
✰ #scicomm #lingcomm #studyingstuff ✰
https://sites.google.com/view/signingscientists/home
✰ #scicomm #lingcomm #studyingstuff ✰
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In Your Hands: Promoting Early Diverse Deaf Engagement in the Cognitive Sciences was funded by the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative.
@yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️
youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...
@yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️
youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...
Signing Scientists: Introduction to Cognitive Science in ASL
YouTube video by Signing Scientists
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In Your Hands: Promoting Early Diverse Deaf Engagement in the Cognitive Sciences was funded by the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative.
@yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️
youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...
@yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️
youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...
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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 Penn’s Department of Linguistics. For more information: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lillo...
January 22, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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 Penn’s Department of Linguistics. For more information: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lillo...
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I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Finding our ROLE: How and why to reframe essentialist approaches to language
Essentialist categorizations of language users, such as native speaker, are widely used but lack empirical validity and reinforce social inequities. T…
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January 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...
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📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📌 👉 The 14th International Construction Grammar conference will be held at Princeton, June 4-7, 2026
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
Usage-based analyses and Empirical methods
Stay tuned for updates!
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What started as a half-baked lecture in 2023 is now an actual article in 2025. I try to define "idiom", look for them in ASL, and identify other ASL constructions, to boot. (We all complain about "reviewer 2", but I got good and helpful revisions on this one!) doi.org/10.1515/cog-... #linguistics
Idioms and other constructions in American Sign Language
Idioms are phrases like English [hit the sack], meaning ‘go to bed’. For linguists working with sign languages, a question arises: “What do idioms look like in a sign language?” This paper proposes a ...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What started as a half-baked lecture in 2023 is now an actual article in 2025. I try to define "idiom", look for them in ASL, and identify other ASL constructions, to boot. (We all complain about "reviewer 2", but I got good and helpful revisions on this one!) doi.org/10.1515/cog-... #linguistics
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We had an incredible Forum Lecture last Sunday with Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)! ✨
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
July 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We had an incredible Forum Lecture last Sunday with Joan Bybee (University of New Mexico)! ✨
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
She gave a fascinating talk on Usage-Based Theory and Language Change.
Thanks to everyone who joined talk
#LSA2025 #Linguistics #ForumLecture #JoanBybee #LanguageChange #UsageBased
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Really nice example to bring up in a data science or corpus #linguistics class about dealing with weirdness in your data!
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
drhagen.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Really nice example to bring up in a data science or corpus #linguistics class about dealing with weirdness in your data!
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A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
![Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uj2g526vwfe3qnpuskjexeyp/bafkreiappchidtcrrumnegykz4uq6chvznuu6fg4pbutw5y7yjaab2iczu@jpeg)
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
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SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION
The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos
aslsignbank.com
#TheASLSignbank
The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos
aslsignbank.com
#TheASLSignbank
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION
The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos
aslsignbank.com
#TheASLSignbank
The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos
aslsignbank.com
#TheASLSignbank
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May 10th, we celebrated NSF's 75th Language Science Fair with Dr. Deanna Gagne, Lilly Berggoetz, & @bonniebarrett.bsky.social at the @langscistation.bsky.social!
May 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
May 10th, we celebrated NSF's 75th Language Science Fair with Dr. Deanna Gagne, Lilly Berggoetz, & @bonniebarrett.bsky.social at the @langscistation.bsky.social!
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Bluesky won't let me post this because too many graph-somethings, but it's important if you have a min. The residential program at the NJ School for the Deaf has been cut from the state budget www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Bluesky won't let me post this because too many graph-somethings, but it's important if you have a min. The residential program at the NJ School for the Deaf has been cut from the state budget www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...
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So proud of @bonniebarrett.bsky.social what a great presentation! Done as one of her PhD milestones in Gallaudet Linguistics PhD program. Love it when it all comes together 😍
May 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So proud of @bonniebarrett.bsky.social what a great presentation! Done as one of her PhD milestones in Gallaudet Linguistics PhD program. Love it when it all comes together 😍
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You can’t replace artists with AI.
You can’t replace teachers with AI.
You can’t replace scientists with AI.
Important work comes from people. AI does not have the creativity, problem solving skills, and humanity necessary for the most important work we do as humans.
You can’t replace teachers with AI.
You can’t replace scientists with AI.
Important work comes from people. AI does not have the creativity, problem solving skills, and humanity necessary for the most important work we do as humans.
May 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You can’t replace artists with AI.
You can’t replace teachers with AI.
You can’t replace scientists with AI.
Important work comes from people. AI does not have the creativity, problem solving skills, and humanity necessary for the most important work we do as humans.
You can’t replace teachers with AI.
You can’t replace scientists with AI.
Important work comes from people. AI does not have the creativity, problem solving skills, and humanity necessary for the most important work we do as humans.
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Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Working on a few things but yay!
aslsignbank.com
Working on a few things but yay!
aslsignbank.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Working on a few things but yay!
aslsignbank.com
Working on a few things but yay!
aslsignbank.com
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Language science explores how people learn + use language. It is integral to our lives, health, education, tech + more. At the Language Science Fair, explore how language works and meet the scientists who study it!
📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair
📍 Planet Word | Free
🔗 Link in bio to register
📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair
📍 Planet Word | Free
🔗 Link in bio to register
April 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Language science explores how people learn + use language. It is integral to our lives, health, education, tech + more. At the Language Science Fair, explore how language works and meet the scientists who study it!
📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair
📍 Planet Word | Free
🔗 Link in bio to register
📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair
📍 Planet Word | Free
🔗 Link in bio to register
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@bonniebarrett.bsky.social and I will be presenting on behalf of the ‘In Your Hands’ project team at #LingComm25! 💫 We’re presenting in ASL, and our presentation will have English interpretation.
March 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
@bonniebarrett.bsky.social and I will be presenting on behalf of the ‘In Your Hands’ project team at #LingComm25! 💫 We’re presenting in ASL, and our presentation will have English interpretation.
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#LingComm25 update: Feast your eyes on these posters.
Zines, African American language, trans language activism, bilingualism, Deaf outreach — and that's just Poster Session *one*
Read more:
lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
Register now:
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Zines, African American language, trans language activism, bilingualism, Deaf outreach — and that's just Poster Session *one*
Read more:
lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
Register now:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intern...
The International Conference on Linguistics Communication 2025
The International Conference on Linguistics Communication (LingComm25) brings together lingcommers from a variety of backgrounds.
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March 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#LingComm25 update: Feast your eyes on these posters.
Zines, African American language, trans language activism, bilingualism, Deaf outreach — and that's just Poster Session *one*
Read more:
lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
Register now:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intern...
Zines, African American language, trans language activism, bilingualism, Deaf outreach — and that's just Poster Session *one*
Read more:
lingcomm.org/lingcomm25/s...
Register now:
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-intern...
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Labov (1971), Finding out about children's language (a.k.a "the bunny paper") has been published (open access) in Language Variation and Change! #linguistics 🐰
Finding out about children’s language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
Finding out about children’s language
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February 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Labov (1971), Finding out about children's language (a.k.a "the bunny paper") has been published (open access) in Language Variation and Change! #linguistics 🐰