Felicia Bisnath

I feel a lil sad sometimes bcs jobs on spoken langs seem to not be able to imagine that someone (me) who studied sign langs could do research on spoken langs

Approaching lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language Languages exhibit variation, which may reflect ethnic, geographic, social or age- or gender-based differences between language users. Many sign languages are known to exhibit lexical variation, with m...

New paper on lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language with Swedish colleagues.

Using a combo of elicitation (in-person), survey (online) & corpus data, we look at some changes in lexical choices over time & discuss methods for measuring variation of variation
#linguistics

doi.org/10.16995/glo...

This is our rhythm: academic becoming and realignment in deaf space Abstract. Deaf scholars have long worked at the margins of academic institutions not designed for them. Designated deaf academic spaces—where deaf ways of

Highly recommended for all mentors and advisers who work with deaf students in graduate programs: academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

Figure showing theoretical commitments of centering language contact and participant subjectivities in research design

Yesterday I got to give a guest lecture in Dr. Hannah Lutzenberger's methods class at the Humboldt University of Berlin. It was great and I finally got to make use of this little figure from the methods chapter in my dissertation! I forgot I like explaining things #linguistics

SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...

SynTeach is going to #LSA2026! We're doing focus groups while we're there so if you're interested, fill in the form and tick the LSA box. We're looking for teachers and students, people who loved syntax and people who hated it... anyone with syntax Thoughts! #linguistics forms.gle/PiBYpVPr1yg2...

An outline of a face shape with numbered landmarks in key locations

An outline of a face shape with numbered landmarks in key locations

An outline of a hand shape with numbered landmarks in key locations

An outline of a human stickfigure style with numbered landmarks in key locations

This might be for an extremely limited target group, but if you ever need to visualize landmarks/keypoints of Mediapipe or OpenFace computer vision models, I've created simple coordinate data files for plotting in a Github repo: github.com/borstell/com...

Linguistic Typology Vol. 29 features a debate on the critical need for rigorous replication and robust methods in language typology, with a thought-provoking target article and commentaries discussing empirical scientific methods (degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/lity/29/3/html). #OpenAccess

Yes! But I guess ”fungus” feels too abstract for me and “mushrooms” too concrete. I’m stuck on imagining mushrooms growing out of body 🫣

I was very displeased to learn today that fungal infections like athlete’s foot are called something like the equivalent of mushrooms in English in Swedish and Norwegian 🤢 #linguistics

We are pleased to announce the third Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium 🥳

This year, the conference will take place over two days, with an in-person workshop (UNAM) on 9 April and an online conference on 10 April.

Call for proposals: www.rolecollective.org/events/3rd-r...

more than a year post PhD and it definitely is a lot easier to just write -- the world being in perfect equilibrium is no longer mandatory

everything I write that has to do with numbers I'm like, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OBJECTIVITY

once again looking forward to "vacation", the time I can read all the academic papers I don't have time to do while working #AcademicSky

Aurélia Nanna Gassa Gonga will present at the Silc Seminars next week, Thursday Dec 11th, at 14:30 Norway time on her PhD research - "International Sign Interpreting: New Evidence for a Language-Like System"

Find more information here: www.hvl.no/en/research/...

#linguistics

somehow this Trinidadian, who should have a "sing song" accent in English, produces probably very flat Norwegian (a language that stereotypically has rising intonation over sentences) 🙃

I started doing check lists on Google Keep. One per week and whatever doesn't get done in a week gets moved to the next. I also add stuff to future weeks in other lists. I use a color for the week I'm currently on.

this makes me want to celebrate my holey drafts!

I’m truing to make Norwegian prepositions make sense even though I know better

I love stumbling upon recently-published papers that I can cite in stuff I'm writing #linguistics

The title page

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨
The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social)
Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics
Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

People who use ELAN for research: What is your preferred way of analyzing annotated data?

1) Searching within ELAN
2) Exporting from ELAN and opening as spreadsheet
3) Exporting from ELAN and importing into R (or similar)
4) Other?

#Linguistics

What is the smallest effect size of interest? After two demographic questions, we are interested in your intuition about effect sizes. This survey takes approximately 5-10 minutes.

To all speech scientists: I would be grateful if you could take 5-10 mins of your time to fill in the following short online survey on effect sizes: forms.gle/huQeiPerZBHE...

(apologies for cross-posting)

#Phon-CompLing
#Linguistics

SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...

hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...

Clearapathra is just 🤌

I'm making plans to teach a sociolinguistics class next year at the LOT Summer School in Groningen -- pls let me know about any cool new stuff I should include! #linguistics

Check out our new Interview series 🌟
In conversation with @lhlew.bsky.social, John Rickford reflects on his career in Guyana and the U.S. Through personal and professional stories, he shows how the personal and political are entwined in a life in sociolinguistics.

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love the boundary setting of participants who decline to do an experiment after doing the practice round 😅 #linguistics

#norge #norskforsk

A chart with the title "My dear Watson ..." and subtitle caption "In the four canonical Sherlock Holmes novels, the phrase “My dear Watson” occurs 15 times — 10 times in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"; not even once in "A Study in Scarlet". In the panel below, each square tile (■) represents a line of text — in chronological order — with the highlighted tiles showing the location of the famous phrase in each of the novels." Each highlighted tile representing an occurrence of the phrase is marked with a magnifying glass and a path line tracing the chronological order of phrases across books. Data: {sherlock} via TidyTuesday; Packages: {tidyverse, ggview, marquee}; Visualization: C. Börstell

Elementary, my dear Watson
#TidyTuesday

While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖

Code: github.com/borstell/tid...

#r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2

Trying to listen to podcasts while running to make running less horribly boring 🙏🏽