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)

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)

🚨 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"

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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 🐦 🐦

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)

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...

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...

I did a thing. If you’re a Deaf content creator and would like to be added, let me know.

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Talk about Indigenous people in the present tense. We are still here.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free

Another world is possible if we fight for it

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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!

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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.

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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).

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.

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.

Most recent co-authored manuscript focuses on issues related to comparison groups by hearing status in deaf-focused research.

Written with @lealaholcomb.bsky.social
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