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News: register now for FEAST 2017 June 21-22 in Reykjavík

Posted on March 8, 2017

Via SLLS FEAST 2017 Local organizing committee ———————————————————————— Dear all. Registration is now open for FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory) in Reykjavík, June 21-22. Please consult the conference website for further information: https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast_reykjavik_2017 We will post … Continue reading →

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CFP: The 6th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics (SSLL2017) Dates: 22-24 September 2017 in Osaka, Japan

Posted on March 7, 2017

Conference Announcement via Keiko Sagara on SLLS list Conference: The 6th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics (SSLL2017) Dates: 22-24 September 2017 Location: National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan Organizers: HARA Daisuke (H), IIZUMI Naoko (H), IKEDA Masumi (D), … Continue reading →

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SHARE: Native or early signer (including CODAs)? 18 and older. Please take this online survey about ASL

Posted on March 3, 2017

Calling native and early signers (those who started signing before the age of 6) including CODAs 18 and older, you are invited to participate in a research study on American Sign Language as used by Deaf and signing communities in … Continue reading →

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SHARE: Media piece on Pro-Tactile ASL in Quartz, “A language for the DeafBlind”

Posted on November 3, 2016

  Quartz wrote about Pro-Tactile ASL, link below, featuring faculty member Terra Edwards, her colleague and a DeafBlind user of PT Oscar Serna, and PEN faculty Clifton Langdon. DeafBlind Americans developed a language that doesn’t involve sight or sound “Pro-tactile … Continue reading →

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“The Dept of Linguistics: How We Got Here” – Brown Bag by Professor Emeritus Robert E Johnson 11/4, 12-1 @SAC1011

Posted on October 24, 2016

topic:  “The Department of Linguistics: How we got here.” presenter: Robert E. Johnson, PhD when: Friday, November 4th 2016, 12 to 1 pm where: SAC1011 Summary of presentation: Which people and principles drove the creation and growth of the department. Bio: Robert E. (Bob) Johnson, … Continue reading →

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CFP: FEAST 2017 (Reykjavík, June 21-22)

Posted on October 20, 2016

Call for papers FEAST 2017 (Reykjavík, June 21-22) (shared from the SLLS-LIST, SLLS@lists.slls.eu http://lists.slls.eu/mailman/listinfo/slls) The sixth meeting of the “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory” (FEAST) will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, June 21-22, 2017. FEAST … Continue reading →

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Announcement: New journal “Society for American Sign Language Journal (SASLJ)”

Posted on October 8, 2016

Call for Papers Society for American Sign Language Journal ISSN: Pending (Online) (Copied from email by Jody Cripps – please contact her if you have more questions about this) Society for American Sign Language Journal (SASLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal. The bi-yearly publication of … Continue reading →

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