##TISLR15
Have the #TISLR15 posters been made available to virtual attendees anywhere? Does anyone have any info? Maybe a shared folder online presenters could drop the poster PDFs they’re willing to share? 🙂
Then there was the unfortunate & unforgivable incident of online posters being excluded from #TISLR15, which made it easier for me to interact with more posters in-person. 6/n
February 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Recently, Justine Mertz presented her work on sign language kinematics at #TISLR15 in Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia. She even won the Early Career Researcher (ECR) award from the Sign Language Linguistics Society #SLLS! 🥳
January 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
TISLR15 sketchbook #TISLR15
January 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So glad and honored to be presenting this at #TISLR15. Big thanks to those who came up to me after and discussed such relevant topics in lieu of no Q&A!
The lively delivery yesterdsy by Tory Sampson at #TISLR15 just had to be shared! The photos cannot fully capture her energy and vitality. The topic "Mapping the distribution of Noun/Verb pairs in ASL" was insightful.
January 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Since I couldn't go to #TISLR15, I had the chance to go to the LOT Winterschool at Radboud University in Nijmegen. I took courses in neurolinguistics and neurocognition. I also had the chance to discover the @mpi-nl.bsky.social where my thesis cosupervisor works and to meet a deaf PhD student!
January 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Starting my long journey back to the US in 2025 from Ethiopia in 2017. Thank you for a magical trip, and all the deaf Ethiopians for their generous hospitality and kindness #TISLR15
January 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I love @fbisnath.bsky.social last slide of her #TISLR15 presentation!

Congratulations, Felicia, on winning a student award for one of the best presentations at the conference!
January 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Wait wait wait, I have more pictures to share. Can't forget to share Erin's pictures!! #TISLR15
January 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's #TISLR15 panel discussion - Sign Language Research for legal recognition: A Call to Action. I learned so much from the panelists. Kudos to my friends Margaret Odhiambo and Simphiwe Mkhize!
January 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you to all who stayed until my presentation on day 4 at #TISLR15. I was so excited to share my ground-breaking research regarding African American English and the findings of the deaf participants who provided distinct linguistic guidance on how to convey AAE when using ASL
It was an honor.
January 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Sorry, not in agenda order, but I'm STILL behind in trying to share postings from #TISLR15. Allow me to introduce Sovoya Davis who presented on Black women gestures, comparing the gestures used by hearing and deaf women. Yessssss!
January 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Feeling disheartened by the low amount of signing at #TISLR15 conference. It makes me even more grateful for the changes I have seen at #ACEDHH conferences, where hearing folks have increasingly switched from speaking to signing in the past few years.
January 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations to the #tislr15 ECR winners Shane Blau and Justine Merzt 🏆🥇
January 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to the #tislr15 Student Award winners!
January 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The DCAL team at #TISLR15! Pictured here are Kearsy, Heidi, and Veronica, representing DCAL’s contributions to sign language research. #SignLanguageResearch #BSL #DCAL #Linguistics
January 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Kate and Patrick presented on adapting the ASL Comprehension Test for BSL. Their research provides key insights into assessing comprehension skills and developing tools tailored to BSL users. #TISLR15 #BSL #SignLanguageResearch #DCAL
January 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Then there was the unfortunate & unforgivable incident of online posters being excluded from #TISLR15, which made it easier for me to interact with more posters in-person. 6/n
January 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
At #TISLR15, my experience of interacting with different posters was highly variable. 1. If the person knew IS, I could communicate with them directly. We could calibrate our signing based on how well we understood each other. 1/n
January 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Veronica's research explores language attitudes of Chilean deaf signers towards lexical variation in Chilean Sign Language (LSCh). This study sheds light on sociolinguistic perceptions within the LSCh community, offering valuable insights into how variation shapes language use and identity. #TISLR15
January 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
With #TISLR15 wrapping up, the 5th in the series for me (three in person, two remote), I'm looking forward to #TISLR16, which will be the first one where I can use my preferred sign language as an official conference language!
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I'm presenting this virtually at #TISLR15 very soon at 2:35pm today Ethiopia time (3:35am Pacific 😀) !
✨TISLR 15 stage presentation✨

Spoken languages exhibit communicative efficiency by minimizing speaker+listener effort.

What about signed languages?

ASL handshapes reflect efficiency pressures - but only in native signs, not signs borrowed from English!

aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon... 🧵
January 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Maybe the field isn’t ready yet for a #NoTalkTISLR but at the next conference we *could* perhaps have two parallel streams of on-stage presentations, one without interpreting, as a way to ease us towards a sign-only future? #TISLR15
January 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Posting a few more pics because I was so inspired by this plenary presentation. By the end, I was in tears.

Special moment when both presenters honored the memory of Dr. Robert Bayley. #TISLR15
January 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In case you missed my poster at #TISLR15 today, find me tomorrow or send me a message and let’s have a chat!
We are able to show that signing children do indeed get parallel input of object and object labels on a regular base and that bimodal bilingual children’s show modality specific patterns!
January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM