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Bonnie Barrett

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PhD Student in Linguistics at Gallaudet University ✰ thinking about stuff & things & everything like that sites.google.com/view/signingscient…

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Dani Wenner @daniwenner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
this is the first time I've noticed this: google scholar now has a built-in link to have gemini summarize research publications for you thanks, I hate it
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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the vintage spaces channel @peacoat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
at the learning center at gallaudet college, 1983 *plans for demolition underway 📸balthazar korab
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Diane Lillo-Martin @dclm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Two Family ASL presentations at FEAST 2026 in Amsterdam. 1️⃣ Barrett, Bonnie, Gan, Linghui Eva, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Syntactic Development of ASL by L2 Hearing Parents of Deaf Children.
Distance view of Deb (speaking English) and Diane (signing IS) and NGT interpreter with title slide projected on a large screen.
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank
Book cover - multicolor pixel-like shapes across the page with text "Cambridge Elements Sign Language" on top, "ASL Signbank" centered and "Julie A. Hochgesang" bottom
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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org
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International Construction Grammar Association
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
And you know who does know something about information access as a public good? Librarians: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin
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Information Access as a Public Good
Learning from Librarians, Libraries and Library Science Inside the Seattle Public Library, photo copyright Emily M. Bender 2019 By Emily Yesterday I posted...
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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Can't wait for this conference! Register now! iccg14.oa-event.com
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
In case anyone's counting, we recently hit 4500 entries! 🎉 #ASLSignbank
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/
A hex sticker with lavender borders and the word(s) "readelan" in red, next to light red annotation cells
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Bonnie Barrett @bonniebarrett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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?...
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Signing Scientists: Introduction to Cognitive Science in ASL
YouTube video by Signing Scientists
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Cognitive Science is stronger when more voices are included. The Broadening Participation initiative funds projects that engage underrepresented communities, bridge disciplines, and create lasting outreach impact. Deadline: April 15 🗓️ Learn more & apply: cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...
Graphic with a dark teal background featuring the title “Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science” in large white text. Below it, in bright lime green text, the tagline reads: “Supporting diverse voices to build a more inclusive and representative field.” Decorative lime green horizontal lines appear on the left, and curved, parallel lime green lines frame the right side of the image.
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Bonnie Barrett @bonniebarrett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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?...
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Signing Scientists: Introduction to Cognitive Science in ASL
YouTube video by Signing Scientists
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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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...
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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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Diane Lillo-Martin @dclm.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
📌 👉 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!
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Ryan @ryanlepic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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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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 ...
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LSA 2025 summer institute @lsa2025uo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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
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Brandon Prickett @bprickett.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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].”
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos aslsignbank.com #TheASLSignbank
One-pager describing the ASL Signbank. Top teal banner with 3 people signing "ASL-SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION" with text below (same as text in skeet). Below background image of lots of signers for the ASL Signbank dimmed. Foregrounded are different boxes - author information (Julie A. Hochgesang, Onno Crasborn and Diane Lillo-Martin, 2017-2025), The ASL Signbank logo with name sign in outlined hands, teal box with white text "The ASL Signbank is a cloud-based lexical database, which has been designed/organized using the Global signbank infrastructure", screenshot of home page of website for ASL Signbank, Screenshot of "all signs" view with "related signs" circled - text overlaid "There are currently 4400+ entries in ASl Signbank and growing. Categories of entry information follow prior signbanks and our proejct annotation conventions." Screenshot of ELAN showing a Black woman signing in ASL and text below with a smaller video linked - next to this is a teal box with white text "Although it can be used for reference and analysis of ASL signs, the primary purpose of the ASL Signbank is to serve as an annotation tool for ASL videos using ELAN, an annotation software (see left). Annotation makes videos machine-readable (searchable, countable, etc). The bottom of the screen has logo for project "SLAASh" along with the hand showing a slash mark. There's acknowledgments for participants and families as well as research assistants and grant information. It also links to the website via text and QR code. It also shows an Instagram logo and @ASLSignbank
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Desirée Kirst @dizydesi.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
May 10th, we celebrated NSF's 75th Language Science Fair with Dr. Deanna Gagne, Lilly Berggoetz, & @bonniebarrett.bsky.social at the @langscistation.bsky.social!
Four volunteers smile for a selfie while standing in front of the ‘guess the story” and ‘in your hands’ booths with flyers, stickers, mini brain toys on the tables.
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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 😍
Julie and Bonnie are standing next to a presentation screen with Bonnie's title slide. Black background with white text "Conclusions: Conclusions • Signers use GEs in ASL by employing a variety of constructions. • GEs in ASL are often used after lists, but they are also used in other constructional environments. • GEs are multifunctional; we have evidence of their grammaticalization." as bulleted list. Bottom of screen has pictures of people signingJulie and Bonnie are standing next to a presentation screen with Bonnie's title slide. Black background with white text "General Extenders in ASL, and stuff like that" (large font) then bottom "Bonnie Barrett, Guided Research Project, Gallaudet University Department of Linguistics, Adviser: Dr. Julie A. Hochgesang, May 2, 2025"
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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.
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Julie A. Hochgesang @jahochcam.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com
Teal background with white text “ASL” on top and “Signbank” on bottom. Two outlined hands top right indicating “s” and “b”
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Language Science Station at Planet Word @langscistation.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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
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Misa Suzuki @yellowmisaru.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@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.
Photo of Misa and Bonnie standing in front of a green and beige wall with “Department of Linguistics” written on it. Text above reads International Conference on Linguistics Communication 2025, 7-10 April 2025. LingComm25.
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LingComm @lingcomm.org · 09/03/2025
#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...
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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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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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 🐰
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Finding out about children’s language | Language Variation and Change | Cambridge Core
Finding out about children’s language
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