Lauren W Reed

Linguist working w/ways of signing in Papua New Guinea | Assistant Director @AIATSIS | PhD student @ANUcass @CoEDLang | Sister of Deaf Adults | Auslan signer

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

My MA thesis, "Sign languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their challenges for sign language typology" is now online!

You can download it or read it in the browser (no sign-up required) here: https://t.co/sgeISFQ5NR

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

When I first started in linguistics, it took me about 2 years to ask a question in a departmental talk. The first Q (or rather comment) I ever posed was to recommend @BencieWoll's "echo phonology" to the speaker.

Very proud to now engage with Bencie's proposal in my new paper.

[Kensy Cooperrider @kensycoop]

Big sticking point for gestural theories of language origins: How could a primarily gestural protolanguage give rise to speech? One suggestion is the "echoic" route—the mouth echoes the hands.

Interesting new take on this idea by Planer & @lareedling.
https://t.co/3Zd7IdiS6T

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

Thank YOU @NickPalfreyman for all of your support and expertise in putting this together, and BIG thanks 🙏 to Debbie Kennewell for the Auslan abstract!

@CoEDLang @ANUcass

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@naomippyong @AdamCSchembri An Aussie!! This brought back such a flood of nostalgia to me - haven't seen an Aussie on a pizza menu for years ❤️

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@AliceRGaby I feel you, Alice!!!

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@AdamCSchembri The sign language I am working with in PNG does not appear to have a body-anchored timeline at all. No back = past or forward = future (or vice versa) whatsoever. The one displaced time sign appears to mean 'nonpresent' (either past or future) - and it has no forward/back motion.

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@susymacqueen @RuthJSinger Congratulations Ruth!!

[David Codling 🏳️‍🌈 @david_psychSHO]

Someone needs to invent a word for the period of mutual discomfort between waving goodbye and finding the ‘leave meeting’ button

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@DrSarahJWhite Do they use them only in certain contexts, e.g., in talking about Hallowe'en? (My Aussie radar is totally broken here, because my kids' father and stepfather are both American!)

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@JuliaSalzinger @bananabull @becauselangpod I had two tutorials last semester. I didn't give any directions as to cameras on/off. In one, all the students had cameras off. In the second, most had their cameras on. I know I was a much better teacher in the second.

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

"Hi, I was just wondering if you were at capacity?" #thingswedidntsayin2019

[Rachel Hendery @RHendery]

okay this one is my favourite

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@ameliarchaeo Love it!!! 🤣

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@RebeccaDefina @ourANU

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@hlutzenberger @AdamCSchembri @davidadger Totally agree with @hlutzenberger - very similar situation to Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Small networks with a prototypical shape of one deaf signer + many hearing signers. I have read Neveu's thesis and it is excellent!

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@sallybgally https://t.co/6wwx3g9MWL

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@sallybgally WHERE IS THIS MAGICAL PLACE??!!??

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@yammering_on @haspelmath @AdamCSchembri "user" and "communicator" are all right, but ?usee and ?comunicatee ? Thus, what about "sender" and "receiver"? (Although this runs up into the same problem as "I am an Auslan 'sender' and 'receiver'...)?

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

@yammering_on I like @haspelmath 's addresser/addressee (thank you to @AdamCSchembri for resurrecting this thread) but this only works in a moment of interaction, not in a more imperfective way ("I am an addresser and addressee of Auslan" does not work)

[Lauren W Reed @lareedling]

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