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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New preprint! Can continuous movement encode linguistic structure? Using computer vision and trajectory analysis, we show that the kinematic organization of ASL and TİD head nods differ by linguistic function in ways hidden by traditional annotation. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I’ll take that! my deal with myself is at least 1 sentence per day, when I feel stuck. You’re doing way better 👊🏻

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Humbled to share that we received a best paper award! Huge shoutout to my co-authors who made this work possible!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We analyze them as declarative sentences with assertive force despite their disguise as questions. We still have puzzles and work to do, looking forward to your inputs!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Unfortunately, I will miss this year's FEAST, but Cem will present our work on TID Clausal Question-Answer Pairs tomorrow afternoon in ASL! I will be in voice. We bring new patterns and insights from TID to these unique structures, which look like questions but contain their own answers.

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lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social @lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Are you a first-gen student interesting in attending the LSA Annual Meeting for the first time? Submissions for the FGAE Travel Assistance Award are open for another month!

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lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social @lsafirstgenaccess.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Submissions for the FGAE Travel Assistance award are now open! Apply for the chance to win $500 in travel assistances to the 2007 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco! Open to first-gen students who are attending the meeting for the first time. Submission link: tinyurl.com/fgae2027trav...

The flyer reads "First Gen Access and Equity: Travel Assistance, $500, submissions open until July 31st.
The LSA First Gen Access and Equity (FGAE) Committee is awarding
$500 for travel assistance to a first-generation student in linguistics
to attend the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
This annual award is intended to increase the participation of first-gen students in the LSA and FGAE committee. The recipient will have the opportunity to explore linguistics topics or pursue their own areas of interest further by
connecting with peers and scholars at the Annual Meeting.

Eligibility: Applicants must:
◦ Be a first-generation graduate or undergraduate student.
◦ Be a first-time attendee at LSA 2027.
◦ LSA member at time of receipt of award.

Applicants do not need to be US citizens to apply. Applicants do not
need to have an accepted abstract to the Annual Meeting.
Apply by July 31.

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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The LSA First Gen Access & Equity (FGAE) Committee is awarding $500 for travel assistance to a first-generation student in #linguistics to attend the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Learn more and apply at this link by July 31st! docs.google.com/forms/d/1Qza...

Flyer with the following text: First Gen Access and Equity Travel Assistance $500 Submissions open until July 31. The LSA First Gen Access and Equity (FGAE) Committee is awarding
$500 for travel assistance to a first-generation student in linguistics
to attend the 2027 LSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. This annual award is intended to increase the participation of first-gen students in the LSA and FGAE committee.
The recipient will have the opportunity to explore linguistics topics or pursue their own areas of interest further by
connecting with peers and scholars at the Annual Meeting. Eligibility: Applicants must:
◦ Be a first-generation graduate or undergraduate student.
◦ Be a first-time attendee at LSA 2027.
◦ LSA member at time of receipt of award.
Applicants do not need to be US citizens to apply. Applicants do not
need to have an accepted abstract to the Annual Meeting.
Apply by July 31:
Scan the QR code to submit your personal statement and resume/CV.
The instagram handle for the committee is las_firstgen.
A QR code for the application form is also included

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Hopefully next time! Have fun at CVPR and in Denver.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I flied back from CVPR today. Sorry to miss you. If I knew that you were there, I’d love to meet and catch up.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Grateful to my collaborators, Shester Gueuwou, @kanishka.bsky.social, Diane Brentari, Greg Shakhnarovich, Karen Livescu.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We probe hands, face, and body cues to find out, by ablating channels. Found out that the model highly relies on hands, insensitive to face and body. I'll be in Denver to present it, and happy to meet and talk more about it and sign languages!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Our preprint is accepted to the CVPR GenSign Workshop! � We introduce ASL-MTP — a benchmark for targeted linguistic analysis of sign language models using minimal translation pairs, and test the SL translation model on capturing sign language structure. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2604.27232

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Targeted Linguistic Analysis of Sign Language Models with Minimal Translation Pairs

Models of sign language have historically lagged behind those for spoken language (text and speech). Recent work has greatly improved their performance on tasks like sign language translation and isol...

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

And special thanks to Rebecca Woods, @languagetales.bsky.social and Mariia Pronina for the organization, and Adam Schembri, @adamcschembri.bsky.social and SignMorph Project for their support!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

📢 Online talk next week! I will present at the Making Waves Group: "How to Capture Differences in Nonmanuals: Behavioral and Computational Analyses" 📅 Wed May 13 | 4pm CEST 🌐 ASL/English presented and BSL/English interpreted | Guest discussant: Nick Palfreyman

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

In this work, we bring new insights from TID to this unique structure, which is a question containing its answer, and acts as an assertion. We're discussing the crosslinguistic features and a semantic analysis of CQAs in TID.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our work with Cem Barutcu on Clausal Question-Answer Pairs (CQAs) in TID is accepted to FEAST as a stage presentation! Huge shout-out to Cem, this work has evolved from Cem's term paper! Way to go, Cem! Looking forward to meeting with everyone in Amsterdam! sites.google.com/view/feast-2...

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FEAST 2026

Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 2026) will take place at the University of Amsterdam, on July 6th–8th, 2026. The official conference languages will be International Sig...

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Wolf Humanities Center @wolfhumanities.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

February 11: Diane Lillo-Martin (@dclm.bsky.social) (University of Connecticut/Yale University) will present on The Truth about Sign Language Acquisition, in collaboration with ASL and Deaf Studies in Penn’s Department of Linguistics. For more information: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/lillo...

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Huge congratulations to my beautiful advisor, Ronnie Wilbur, who is 2026 LSA Fellow!! 🥳🎊 Proud advisee moment 🥹

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m in town for #LSA2026 @lingsocam.bsky.social, presenting our work on typicality, nonmanuals, manual cues in ASL and TID on Saturday, at #FGAE mixer on Friday. Let me know if you want to meet, catch up, chat, hang out! web.cvent.com/event/d45318...

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#LSA2026 Program - LSA 2026 Annual Meeting

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Online Survey Software | Qualtrics Survey Solutions

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Özge Bakay @ozgebakay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

✨New preprint out! With Faruk Akkus and @linguistbrian.bsky.social We show robust evidence for the rapid use of hierarchical relations in memory retrieval. 👉3 VW studies on the Turkish reciprocal 👉More looks to c-commanding subjects & indirect objects than to distractors osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I heard about the great questions after our talk and some of my mysterious friends took pictures 👀send them and questions to my way. Wish to be able to be there in person. Thank you to the organizers!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

LSA First Gen Access & Equity (FGAE) Committee is granting travel assistance to attend to LSA 2026. If you’re a first gen attending to LSA, the application deadline is July 31. www.lsadc.org/content.asp?...

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FGAE Travel Grant

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

LSA Presidential Research Forum Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use. Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Proceedings of FEAST 2024 is out and open source! Some cool research on sign language linguistics! raco.cat/index.php/FE...

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Vol. 6 (2024) | FEAST. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Aslı Gürer will be presenting our work on prosody of focus in Turkish Sign Language at the Multimodal Prosody Across Spoken and Sign Languages. drive.google.com/file/d/1HSZ0...

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Symposium 4.pdf

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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Excited to have this on our platform!

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We found that focus in TID is not only realized as duration increase in focused signs, but also as duration decrease in the extended domain. Sign languages use different domains (manual and nonmanual) to mark focus yielding crosslinguistic patterns. www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/1...

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Duration as a prosodic cue in TİD: Focus realization in the extended domain

Prosodic prominence of focused units reflected through a variety of cues, is well documented in all modalities. Yet, the effect of focus in the extended domain is understudied in sign languages. This ...

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WIRED @wired.com · 23/03/2025

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

WIRED tested the popular AI video generator from OpenAI and found that it amplifies sexist stereotypes and ableist tropes, perpetuating the same biases already present in AI image tools.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It was great to discuss TİD data at TU+ 10! Thank you all for a great conference and feedback. Here are the slides, too. serpilkarabuklu.weebly.com/modals--cert...

A woman wearing green patterned dress is in a university classroom, standing in front of a big screen that has slides. Slides saying certainty and has two gifs depecting head nod.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Here we go! TU+ 10 is starting tomorrow. sites.google.com/usc.edu/tupl...

Maroon colored poster saying ‘10th Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic tu+ Dinner’ Grace Ford Salvatori (GFS) 330. A golden colored arrow pointing to right.

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Alan Yu @aclyu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We are doing an (open-rank) search for an instructional professor in computational linguistics! Come join us! linguistlist.org/issues/36/235/ #EOE/#Vet/#Disability

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LINGUIST List 36.235 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Instructional Professor (open-rank), Computational Linguistics, The University of Chicago

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

About historic relatedness of sign languages, @crathmann.bsky.social ‘We see these route, but these languages are significantly different. It is not just enough to say that LSF is the story. It’s part of a much more complex dynamic.’ #TISLR15

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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here is a summary of my #TISLR15 presentation, "Exploring the heterogeneity of DHH users of ASL in the US outside of nativeness" #linguistics 1/n

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Felicia Bisnath @fbisnath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Here is a link to a talk through of my presentation (spoken English with English captions youtu.be/-eGHSRsuw6Q and here are my slides, osf.io/truqk/files/... #TISLR15 #linguistics

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Felicia Bisnath - Exploring the heterogeneity of DHH language experiences in ASL users.. | TISLR15

YouTube video by Felicia Bisnath

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It should be ‘theme’, not team, but maybe go either way.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Also here’s the OSF link, too. osf.io/7rt6g

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OSF

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So, who signers were getting nonmanual cues in which condition was crucial in their performance.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

More interestingly, signers were fast when they had parts of hands visible in the videos and mouthing, but they were less accurate. They were faster and more accurate with head nod when they had fewer amount of cues. They were slower and more accurate with head nod with medium amount of cues.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In the perception study in TID, the signers did not perform better with the highest amount of cues. They benefited from different amount of cues in different conditions.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Our main finding in production study is that both ASL and TID signers increased their nonmanuals to signal atypicality to their interlocutors. There was individual differences in the overall amount of cues but all participants increased the number of cues.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Here’s our updated slides that I was hoping to present at #TISLR15, Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic production and perception studies. I hope you can view the videos and all the findings. Looking forward to hearing your comments and questions. docs.google.com/file/d/1S5aA...

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So suitable for today’s team, on point.

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Serpil Karabuklu @skarabuklu.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I don’t know who is in charge of the zoom meeting at #TISLR15, but you are missing the questions coming from the zoom meeting. I hope this gets fixed in the next sessions to have better equality and accessibility.

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