4-year postdoc job opportunity! #linguistics #ComputerVision #SignLanguages

Research on sign language non-manuals at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴. Requirements: knowledge of computer vision methods and experience with sign language/gesture data.

Deadline: 20 Sept 2023!

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https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/249469/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-computer-vision-and-sign-languages-erc-project-nonmanual

This is a day full of updates! The Sign Language Dataset Compendium is out in version 1.3: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lr/compendium/
This adds three new resources and one new language, as well plenty of improvements to the HTML and OLAC metadata. Most importantly though, the compendium is now also available as a PDF, plus associated DOI: https://doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.12017

#SignLanguage #SignLanguages
#SignLanguageDatasetCompendium

Finally got to writing a little tutorial describing some ways I use #RStats and #tidyverse for research on #SignLanguages

https://borstell.github.io/misc/r4sl

@bestiaexmachina Oh yes, #SignLanguages are full of puns and wordplay! It's been a while since I've studied them, so I can't think of any puns off the top of my head, but a well-known form of wordplay is the #ASL ABC Story, where the handshapes used in the story follow the American Manual Alphabet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJWUedN8Pgc

I truly enjoyed Christian Rathmann #IPrA2023 keynote on #signlanguages 🧏‍♀️ Many insights into conceptual space, language learning/change, creation/negotiation of communication systems, to name a few

Update time! The #SignLanguageDatasetCompendium has released version 1.2: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lr/compendium/
It now covers 42 corpora and 81 dictionaries across 81 #SignLanguages. Navigation has been improved, allowing you to flip through entries without returning to the index. And *drumroll* the Compendium is now a metadata provider for the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), helping to make sign language data more discoverable: http://www.language-archives.org/archive/compendium.lr.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de

In addition to all the languages I want to learn, I'd also like to get to a decent level in BSL. Don't necessarily need to be advanced, but it'd be nice to be able to have a conversation.

Just googled the cost of in-person courses though. Ouch!

I wonder if there's a more affordable online option out there.

#bsl #signlanguage #SignLanguages #deaf #language #langtoot @languagelovers

Update time! The sign-lang@LREC Anthology now includes not only all sign-lang@LREC papers as well as #LREC main conference papers about #SignLanguages, but also sign language papers from other LREC workshops, such as all SLTAT7 papers. Where available, posters and video presentations are included. Also, our index of covered languages, tools, datasets and projects has been updated to cover all newly added papers, introducing a new tool subcategory: Avatars! #SignLangLREC
https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/

I presented at the #LSA2023 on mouthing in signed languages, framing it as forms of #multimodal language contact. Slides can be found here:
https://fbisnath.github.io/bisnath-felicia_lsa2023.pdf

Related paper can be found here:https://psyarxiv.com/rxm7w/

@linguistics #languagecontact #signlanguages #mouthing

I'll be at the #LSA2023 presenting on mouthing as multimodal language contact in the #Morphology, Signed languages session (Jan 6th, 2:15-5:15 GMT-7) @linguistics #signlanguages @languagecontact

RT @aucksAdventures
Kang-Suk Byun leads one of the most ambitious #CulturalEvolution experiments: 4 signers of different #signlanguages live together for 3 weeks, their first and last meeting is a colour naming communication game. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.1024340 with @Connie_de_Vos, Zeshan & Levinson

#Review: what has been learned about the #neurobiology of #signlanguages (last 15–20 years), what things remain unresolved & directions for future research. Production & comprehension are addressed separately; unique sign language aspects covered https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.748430/full

#introduction: I'm an associate professor of #linguistics at the University of Bergen 🇳🇴. Working mainly on #SignLanguages 🤟🏻 with a focus on #corpuslinguistics #typology and #iconicity.

Also very much into #RStats #dataviz and a tiny bit of #generativeart & #rtistry.

👋🏻

My paper on mouthings in 37 #signlanguages will be published in the Journal of #Language Contact

https://psyarxiv.com/rxm7w/

This paper describes 4 mouthing constructions in 37 sign languages and the ideologies behind their documentation. It argues that language contact phenomena like mouthing are marginalised in documentation. It also shows that the deaf-rural divide in sign language #typology likely tracks documentation differences more than structural differences.

@linguistics

Bcs #introductions:

I am a PhD student in #linguistics @linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I primarily work on #language contact in #signlanguages. My work is also informed by #creole linguistics.

My #dissertation work will investigate #mouthing in #ASL at two levels of awareness: #ideology and #perception