Robin Thompson

New article is out! What's the right to learn sign language and a right to education in sign language worth, if you don't have the right to access or interact with other people who speak the same language? (with Johan Hjulstad, Ingjerd L. Ødemark and Patrick Kermit) doi.org/10.18061/dsq...

👋 Linguists, I'm organizing a special issue of Sign Language Studies on sign names/name signs in diff. signed lngs. Topic is open but could include phon. patterns, name conventions, socioling patterns, namesign ideologies, etc. If you're interested in contributing an article lmk!

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Ableist Language Teching over Sign Language Research Carl Börstell. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023). 2023.

I'm happy I wrote that paper because it was bothering me (and so many others), but sad to see that this kind of language persists and keeps getting past reviewers and editors.

The link throws an error for me, here's one that should work:
aclanthology.org/2023.resourc...

Very proud of this research on how viewing angle (side, front, etc) impacts BSL comprehension. Excellent work by the whole team (Bodo Winter, Diar Abdlkarim) but most of the credit needs to go to the fabulous Freya Watkins
Open access link: Https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-51330-1/

Interested in a career in language and aphasia? Come help Jiyeon Lee, Nadine Martin, and Vic Ferreira with their project investigating interventions for aphasia recovery! Postdoctoral position described here:

careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf...

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