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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Skilled deaf readers exhibit BILATERAL hierarchical tuning in the visual word form system, unlike matched hearing readers. We suggest a shift from bilateral to left-lateralized processing is not necessary for successful reading. New paper led by Laurie Glezer. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

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Bilateral Word Selectivity Gradients in the Visual Word Form System in Skilled Deaf Readers

Abstract. In hearing people visual word recognition relies on a hierarchical organization in left ventral occipitotemporal (vOT) cortex. While right hemisphere recruitment has been implicated in poor ...

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

New paper with Gab Hodge, Bodo Winter, and Kearsy Cormier on negation in British Sign Language in England: we find the most common strategy is a manual negator, headshake, and mouthing an English negator, with relatively few clauses only marked by headshake 1/2 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses

Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negat...

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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 🐦 🐦

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Diane Lillo-Martin @dclm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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)

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Family ASL | Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab

Family ASL is our new research project! We are investigating families with deaf children and hearing parents who have chosen to include American Sign Langua ...

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hey, UK! Happy first National Linguistics Day! Proposals for NLD traditions: (a) Add language wonder to every conversation. (b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content. (c) Sing linguistics carols: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor... (d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.

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