Vanessa Tsang
@vanessawytsang.bsky.social
Doctoral student at University of Göttingen | Sign Linguistics, Iconicity, Multimodality | Hongkonger
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Non-signers favor two-handed gestures when expressing inherently plural meanings
Sign languages have been shown to favor two-handed forms to express plural meanings, and in this paper we investigate whether this pattern is similarly found in silent gestures improvised by hearing n...
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New paper with @ryanlepic.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1515/ling....
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Our previous research showed that ✨️inherently plural meanings✨️ favor two-handed signs across sign languages, now we see that hearing non-signers also produce more two-handed forms when asked to gesture plural meanings! 👐🏼
#linguistics
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children | John Benjamins
Abstract
This study investigates the role of action bias in the acquisition of classifier constructions by deaf children acquiring Turkish Sign Language (TİD). While classifier handshapes are morpholo...
doi.org
June 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children. New paper by @beyzasumer.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
doi.org/10.1075/sll.24008.sum
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya!
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📢 We’re pleased to announce IcoLL2026: Joint conference of IcoSem and ILL (21–23 Feb., Nagoya U., Japan). The conference will feature invited talks by Dr. Mutsumi Imai, Dr. Noburo Saji, Dr. Pamela Perniss, and Dr. Neil Cohn. We look forward to welcoming you to Nagoya!
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
🌐 ianjoo.github.io/icosem/4
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
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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Whale song has some of the structure of human languages-I got to talk about this exciting new study out of the @ellengarland.bsky.social lab in Science Magazine. www.science.org/content/arti...
Humpback whale songs are structured like human language
Languagelike patterns in whale songs could make them easier for whales to learn
www.science.org
February 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Whale song has some of the structure of human languages-I got to talk about this exciting new study out of the @ellengarland.bsky.social lab in Science Magazine. www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change 2025 conference at the University of Birmingham, UK: we are now inviting abstracts on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
SLCVC2025 Conference - Call for papers
Call for papers
We are inviting abstracts on original research on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities.
All su...
sites.google.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change 2025 conference at the University of Birmingham, UK: we are now inviting abstracts on any topic related to language contact/translanguaging, sociolinguistic variation, and language change in signing communities. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology | Journal of Linguistic Geography | Cambridge Core
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology
doi.org/10.1017/jlg....
I hope people find it useful!
Reposted by Vanessa Tsang
Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/
January 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Why does Western paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often abbreviations? Our new #eSymb preprint (osf.io/preprints/ps... w Pagnotta, Psujek, Mendoza Straffon and Tylén ) challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices based on cogsci experiments. 1/