Erin Wilkinson

Guess the floss dance is still the rage! instagram.com/p/CKNr73-j9oU/…

@linasigns @ryanlepic Pretty soon, we should get a hard copy of the issue by snail mail.

@dapiridoobman @ryanlepic @glossa_oa Ryan is a major influence on my work... so excited to see more of his groundbreaking ideas. I cannot do justice in a little tweet here!

Keynote by @ryanlepic now! @ErinWilkinson let’s us KNOW how our influential our Youthful Ryan’s work on ASL morphology had been, especially his excellent @glossa_oa paper! This is Ryan’s 4th #HDLS, and it’s his fave conf (he’s been trying to get me to go for yearsss)

Did you hear? 5 #UNM #WomenInSTEM faculty members have recently created a #linguistics lab focused on child language acquisition of underrepresented #languages. Learn more about the lab and its members in our latest story: ow.ly/wIDz50Cm5SG @LinguisticsUnm @ErinWilkinson

Looking forward to learning from @kristianali_ who will discuss "A sociohistorical description of Bay Islands Sign Language--another puzzle piece in the diversity of signing communities" Happening Sat. Nov. 21, @ 2:45pm MT #HDLS14 #Signedlanguages

At 2:30pm MT (Nov 21) don't miss Melanie McCay-Cody's Q&A on #NorthAmericanIndianSignLanguage "Our Past and Present in Linguistic Study of Intergenerational Transmission of North American Indian Sign Language" #HDLS14 #Signedlanguages

Take a short break but get back by 12:45pm MT for the LIVE panel "Race, Racism, & Racialization in Sign Language Research & Deaf Studies" w/ colleagues @jaceyhill & @linasigns moderating & talks by @munimuninianna Dominic Harrison (Twitter?) & @_CooLDP #HDLS14 #raciolinguistics

The final presenter of the Saturday morning #HDLS14 session is my friend and fellow UNM grad @TwitchPaul will be answering questions about his talk on L2 ASL signers negation transfer, at 11:45am MT #ASLLing #signedlanguagelinguistics

At 11:30am MT my bestest German collaborator🤗@AgnesVillwock answer questions w/ her team, Austin Roth @DenizIlkbasaran Marla Hatrak @eric_halgren & Rachel Mayberry on "Non-linguistic semantic processing in deaf native signers and late first language learners" #HDLS14 #ASLLing

At 11:15 am MT the @MayberryLab w/ @feyga_tzipa, Monica Keller & Rachel Mayberry on "Delayed language exposure and acquisition of plural classifier constructions in ASL: Influence of complexity and frequency" Important for all you #classifierCx buffs out in Twitter land!

1st up Sat. Nov 21 is @ryanlepic's keynote (see above 🤟) followed @ 11am MT by @LinguisticsUnm crew, Lyle Jeff, Brianne Amador, Jill Morford, Barbara Shaffer & Naomi Shin -most of whom aren't on Twitter 🤷‍♀️ on the effects of proximity on demonstratives in child ASL #HDLS14 #ASL

The last talk on Friday Nov. 20 @ 3:15pm MT c'est moi & my amazing colleagues @Ely_Alecrim @bananabull & @andrexavierufpr where we delve into an analysis of movement repetition variation, patterns & motivations in #Libras! #HDLS14 #SignedLanguages

For more on reference Cxs, at 3pm MT Gallaudet's very own @DanielMaierLin answers questions about his work comparing L1 & L2 reference tracking & usage of depiction in extended #ASLnarrative retellings #HDLS14 #Signedlanguages #ASLLing

Right after that, @ 2:45pm MT a sort of #EuropeanDreamTeam🤩w/ Lindsay Ferrara, @bananabull @gab_hodge @tommijantunen @leesonl @mesch_joo & @AnnaLenaNilsso3 discussing reference Cxs across #Auslan #NorwegianSL #FinnishSL #SwedishSL & #IrishSL - Whew! That's gonna be one to see!

Fri Nov 20, post-keynote session starts @ 2:30pm MT w/ the dream team, my bffs @linasigns @ryanlepic & @ErinWilkinson "What’s in a WHAT?" unpacking the function & distribution of the four ASL forms that can be glossed w/ the English word 'what' #HDLS14 #ASL #linguistics

Rounding out the afternoon, the 3pm MT slot goes to my @deafstudieslab colleagues at @RITNTID @jaceyhill & student Kelsey Beers who will talk about "Language attitudes and policies at mainstream and deaf schools in Italy" #LIS #ItalianSL #HDLS14 #LanguageAttitudes

Even tho thread highlights #signedlanguage #gesture talks @HDLSUnm shout out to @c_borstell & @fbisnath who are stepping out of their research zone to talk about preposition usage in #Swedish "On islands in the sea: Swedish preposition usage w/ island nations" @ 3:15pm MT #HDLS14

Sunday, Nov. 22 starts with Catherine Rhoads keynote @ 9:14am MT followed by 3 more #signedlanguages talks! First up Saturday is the Q&A on "Lexical variation & change in #SouthAfricanSignLanguage by Susan Njeyiyana & Kate Huddlestone A topic after my own heart #LanguageChange

At 11:15am MT @naninunenozomi talks about #metaphors in #JapaneseSignLanguage "Semantic Connections Among Signs: the "Argument is War" Metaphor in Japanese Sign" Last but not least, S. Patterson @DillLuvr55 & I will talk about "Phonological & Lexical Variants in #ASL #HDLS14