In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

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...

📌 👉 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!

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

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

Really nice example to bring up in a data science or corpus #linguistics class about dealing with weirdness in your data!

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).

SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos aslsignbank.com #TheASLSignbank

May 10th, we celebrated NSF's 75th Language Science Fair with Dr. Deanna Gagne, Lilly Berggoetz, & @bonniebarrett.bsky.social at the @langscistation.bsky.social!

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...

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 😍

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.

Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

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

@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.

#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...

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 🐰