Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank

At #ICCG14 in Princeton (huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social & team for a brilliant conference!) we announced our plans for the International #ConstructionGrammar Association (ICGA), to be officially founded at #ICCG15 in Kiel in 2028. See here for more information: construction-grammar.org

And you know who does know something about information access as a public good? Librarians: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... /fin

Can't wait for this conference! Register now! iccg14.oa-event.com

In case anyone's counting, we recently hit 4500 entries! 🎉 #ASLSignbank

📦 My first #RStats package on CRAN: {readelan} A package dedicated to reading all files associated with ELAN: eaf, etf, ecv. Reads annotations, metadata, controlled vocabularies. Relevant for many in #linguistics perhaps? More info here: borstell.github.io/misc/readelan/

In Your Hands: Promoting Early Diverse Deaf Engagement in the Cognitive Sciences was funded by the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative. @yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️ youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...

Cognitive Science is stronger when more voices are included. The Broadening Participation initiative funds projects that engage underrepresented communities, bridge disciplines, and create lasting outreach impact. Deadline: April 15 🗓️ Learn more & apply: cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

In Your Hands: Promoting Early Diverse Deaf Engagement in the Cognitive Sciences was funded by the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science Initiative. @yellowmisaru.bsky.social and I are excited to share the video developed by our team! ☺️ youtu.be/DDs56EujTNo?...

I am so pleased that my first paper out this year is this multi-coauthored gem with my collaborators in the ROLE Collective. It was so wonderful to serve as a small part of this effort to understand the terms we use as language researchers and their impacts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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 🐰