Robin Thompson

[Thorfinn The Red @JPEGMacDonald]

Labov: Can you tell me where the linguists hang out in heaven?

St Peter: The forth floor.

Labov: Come again?

[Zainab Hermes @ZainabArabic]

Good bye, William Labov. The field of Linguistics lost a giant today.
(1927 - 2024).
https://t.co/wagCzs0Ee7

[Michael Pleyer @symbolicstorage]

Seems like Labov would've had a hard time doing his department store study in China

[dr. olga capirci @olgacapirci]

We are currently offering 2 three-year PhD position at the LaCAM Lab ISTC CNR in Rome
Marie Sklodowska-Curie-UKRI Doctoral Network “SCALA - Spatial Communication and Ageing across Languages” (https://t.co/mYYdFGiSZ5).

[Prof Jemina Napier, PhD, FAHA, FAcSS, FASLI @JeminaNapier]

Good to see this UK Parliament public services committee inquiry about interpreting and translation services in courts. But disappointing to see that there are no experts on sign language interpreting and translation listed to give evidence
https://t.co/wHtLiIC5qZ

[Deaf Studies, Sign Languages & Interpreting Berlin @Deaf_Studies]

The multi-funded project "Deaf access by Deaf people - Deaf mediators, interpreters and translators" will commence in February 2024 & led by @crathmann (@HumboldtUni), Jérémie Segouat (@CNRS) and @drcastone (@wlv_uni). @WASLI_tweets @efsli @efsliDI

[Dr Robbie Love @lovermob]

Please consider joining us in Birmingham in July 2025 for the thirteenth international Corpus Linguistics conference, co-organised by @AstonUniversity, @MyBCU and @unibirmingham!

Call for papers now live: https://t.co/Esyz68AGPO

#CL2025

[Robin Thompson @ASLDoc]

This looks to be a great session of brilliant siblings!

[Multimodallang Dept @MPİ_NL @Multimodallang]

So honored to host these two great psycholinguists at our next Nijmegen Lectures 2025!!

[Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social @OleJensenOHBA]

Our recent MEG study using representational similarity analysis to uncover the time course and brain areas supporting orthographic and semantic parafoveal processing during natural reading
https://t.co/20j2fUDAQu

[Dr Robert A Skinner @RobASkinner]

Yesterday the theme was "inclusive education"... why wouldn't we want deaf children to be taught the curriculum in a language that is natural to them?!?!?

[Robin Thompson @ASLDoc]

Cool stuff @AdamCSchembri

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

Great to work with Calle and Onno on this paper.
For the three signed languages, we found older signers have slower signing durations than younger signers, just as been found for speakers which suggest some lifespan changes in articulation in both modalities. 1/2

[Kristin Snoddon @KristinSnoddon]

Important new open access article by Humphries and colleagues: An approach designed to fail deaf children and their parents and how to change it https://t.co/fV6TfpUvvq

[Robin Thompson @ASLDoc]

@AudiUK @AudiUK I did not contact you Audi- I was surprised at how much trouble @LMcevaddy34771 is having getting a response from you. Your reply shows no one bothers reading posts- just auto answer so you appear responsive.

[Christian Rathmann @crathmann]

Our paper has been released recently: Humphries, T., Mathur, G., Napoli, D.J. et al. An approach designed to fail deaf children and their parents and how to change it. Harm Reduct J 21, 132 (2024). https://t.co/Vq3kYnYbfh

[Adam Schembri @AdamCSchembri]

Excited to have a paper with Calle Börstell and Onno Crasborn 'Signing rate and signing duration in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language, and Swedish Sign Language' accepted for publication in @glossapsycholx!

[Robin Thompson @ASLDoc]

Love love love the cute baby sign babbling

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared.

As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set.

After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling - making speech-like sounds (which often include components of conventional speech) that are - nonetheless - not yet conventionally meaningful.

This babbling phase is a precursor to the use of formal words. And it happens in all languages.

Including sign language.

This video shows an infant (who, by the way, is not hearing impaired) “babbling” to her deaf grandparents.

As they sign to her, she responds in kind, using her hands to approximate the signed communication that they are modeling.

It’s a whole serve and return conversation, just as if they were conversing verbally.

If you’ll watch carefully, you’ll note distinct turn taking.

And - interestingly - that with her grandparents she largely avoids vocalizations, in favor of gesture.

What a treat to see this rich example of bilingual language development.

This fascinating video was shared to TT by mara_mccullough.

[Dr Robert A Skinner @RobASkinner]

Two ways for BSL viewers to keep up with live news coverage of the election throughout tonight and tomorrow.

[Robin Thompson @ASLDoc]

@mggaskell @richard4york I like how someone felt compelled to correct it. 🤣