Justin Power

[UT Linguistics Dept @UT_Linguistics]

Justin Power & Richard Meier's talk on the Martha’s Vineyard signing community will be shown this Sunday, Feb 11, at 2pm CST on CSPAN 3. Their work on the historical demography of the island's signing community was recently published in JDSDE https://t.co/av5orYmxGk.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@LinguList Many congratulations, Mattis. Fully deserved!

[Christian Rathmann @crathmann]

Anna Komarova, a well-respected interpreter, teacher, researcher, heritage signer and advocate in Russian and international Deaf communities, passed away this morning. Here is an online remembrance book https://t.co/oc6uI6JlsJ You are welcome to pay tribute to Anna.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@crathmann Yes, very sad. Anna was an exceptional scholar and a kind human being. In addition to her work with the Russian Deaf community and Russian Sign Language, she also spent time in Tajikistan, supporting the Tajik Society for the Deaf.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

Only 6 delegates voted against these declarations: Denison, his four American colleagues (including Gallaudet), and Richard Elliot of England (see Van Cleve & Crouch, A Place of Their Own).

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

#OTD in #Deaf #History James Denison enrolled at the American School for the Deaf on June 30 1846. Denison is perhaps best known as the only deaf delegate (out of 164) to the infamous Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf, which met in Milan in 1880.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

Eg, one declaration read: "given the incontestable superiority of speech over signs...the oral method ought to be preferred to sign" (cf Moores, 2010, p309 in the American Annals).

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

The 1880 Milan Congress produced a number of declarations that in effect led to the suppression of sign language in schools for the deaf in many countries and that were a boon to the oralist movement in the US.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

After graduating from ASD's High Class, Denison became a teacher at the school for the deaf in Flint, Michigan. He was recruited in 1857 by his former teacher at ASD, Edward M. Gallaudet, to teach at the Kendall School in DC. Denison later served as Principal there from 1870–1909

[Marc Schulder @[email protected] @marc_schulder]

Getting a sense of what #SignLanguage datasets are out there is hard. So we started the Sign Language Dataset Compendium! 76 languages, 41 corpora and 71 lexical resources, 27 data collection tasks used by multiple datasets, and more to come: https://t.co/rZYZfWhy3u

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

I thoroughly enjoyed @LinguList’s Edictor 2.0 tutorial today. Although not designed for use with sign data, I’ve found the tool very useful for editing, annotation and analysis.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@AdamCSchembri @abenitezburraco @FrontPsychol @crathmann Thanks, Adam. The language name isn't capitalized in some other scholarly work that I'd seen—eg, by Cuxac and by Delaporte. But, I'm happy to be corrected on that point.

[A.Benítez-Burraco @abenitezburraco]

Happy to have edited "Historical linguistics of sign languages: Progress and problems", by Justin M. Power, for @FrontPsychol
https://t.co/qtOXYKxYLf
👌🏻 Thanks also to the reviewers @AdamCSchembri and @crathmann for an awesome job!
#Deaf #signlanguage

[Austin FC @AustinFC]

Battling it out right here on Twitter.
2:30pm CT.

https://t.co/3RIyHFOmlH

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@c_borstell Where are you, Calle?

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

Blog post written together with @LinguList and @Grimmiges discussing considerations in the study of evolution, with a focus on sign language evolution: https://t.co/0CbATLAgbS

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@AdamCSchembri @c_borstell Just to follow up here and sorry for the delay. I’m not much of a Twitter user. I received your email. Thank you for reaching out. I’ve since replied, as you’ve probably seen, and I look forward to better understanding your perspective.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

In fact, this is NOT the claim, as we studied only a sample of the world’s sign languages and not ALL of them. https://t.co/JFuF5rnqFn

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@AdamCSchembri @c_borstell Of course it is also possible to sample from other parts of the language, but that also doesn’t mean one is getting the full picture and that all aspects of a sign language necessarily have the same evolutionary history.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@AdamCSchembri @c_borstell If the point is that sampling manual alphabets tells us nothing about the evolution of sign languages, I have to disagree.

[Justin Power @LinguistPower]

@AdamCSchembri @c_borstell This is a good point, and in fact we do acknowledge this in the paper.