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Shai Lynne Nielson
@shailynneguist.bsky.social
Ling/CogSci PhD Candidate @ UCSD
Sign language phonologist 👐🏻 (hearing)
Anti-racist, inclusive, equity-based, student-centered educator 👩🏼‍🏫
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We found no effects of ASL age of acquisition (AoA) on pseudosign production, but did find that AoA modulated parameter errors in real sign repetitions for deaf signers:
later AoA -> more errors in movement
earlier AoA -> more errors in handshape
indicating... (1/2)
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
We found no effects of ASL age of acquisition (AoA) on pseudosign production, but did find that AoA modulated parameter errors in real sign repetitions for deaf signers:
later AoA -> more errors in movement
earlier AoA -> more errors in handshape
indicating... (1/2)
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🚨 Publication Alert 🚨
Our paper (and my 1st first-author 🙈) is now available online & open access: "Production of real signs but not pseudosigns affected by age of acquisition in American Sign Language"

link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Production of real signs but not pseudosigns affected by age of acquisition in American Sign Language - Memory & Cognition
Research shows that insufficient language access in early childhood significantly affects language processing. While the majority of this work focuses on syntax, phonology also appears to be affected,...
link.springer.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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Slides from my BUCLD keynote “Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right” are now posted on slla.lab.uconn.edu/family-asl/ (scroll to Related Presentations, open 2024)
Family ASL | Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab
Family ASL is our new research project! We are investigating families with deaf children and hearing parents who have chosen to include American Sign Langua ...
slla.lab.uconn.edu
November 25, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Template for writing your reps, how to find your reps, bill explainer in ASL, Senator press release, and full text of bull available here. open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
November 25, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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Good morning this is your reminder that you can add your pronouns on here to make it nice and easy for others to see them! I love seeing a good pronoun label on someone else’s posts, nothing better bsky.app/profile/pron...
November 22, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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I did a thing. If you’re a Deaf content creator and would like to be added, let me know.

go.bsky.app/Fnx7oL9
November 20, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Talk about Indigenous people in the present tense. We are still here.
November 20, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
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I have created this with a few of us listed but I know there are more of us on Bluesky: contact me if you wish to be added! 😊 go.bsky.app/CLzeYDN
November 16, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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PSA for newbies:

Please include ALT text on your images.

This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.

Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.

Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.

Thanks!
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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Hey! I'm teaching "Linguistics of Sign Languages" at the Linguistics Society of America's Summer Institute this summer (w/ Ryan Lepic). There are going to be so many great classes and instructors. I'd appreciate if you'd share this and send good students our way!

center.uoregon.edu/LSA/2025/pro...
The Linguistics of Sign Languages
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute
center.uoregon.edu
November 15, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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A systematic review of correlations between sign language and spoken/written language. This work will become an important citation for those of us striving to break anti-sign language stigmas in deaf children’s education.

bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...?
Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis on cross-linguistic correlations between sign language and spoken/written language competences in bilingual d/Deaf learners. A total ...
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Sign languages are not universal. Just like spoken languages, they are tied to specific people and places and are not nutually intelligible. To date, over 200 independent sign languages exist across the globe (and counting).
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to.

The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

I'll start: Amazon makes more money out of their Cloud services than out of their e-commerce platform.
September 5, 2024 at 7:03 AM
I saw the final step in account creation over here is sharing some cuties, so here are mine: Maya, an absolute goon when it comes to toys, and Fawkes, after getting some good meds during a dental cleaning.
November 15, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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Most recent co-authored manuscript focuses on issues related to comparison groups by hearing status in deaf-focused research.

Written with @lealaholcomb.bsky.social
@jascott.bsky.social and Wyatte Hall.

academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...
Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research
Abstract. This study critically examines the biases and methodological shortcomings in studies comparing deaf and hearing populations, demonstrating their
academic.oup.com
November 14, 2024 at 3:47 AM