Our book 'Myths and facts about Multilingualism' from the MultiMind is out!

sticking this sticker of a Jon Henner tweet on my laptop...you can order one too.
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And most importantly, we listened to the deaf researchers share their experiences, and hopes for the future!

Thank you to the wonderful woman at the Lufthansa service desk who rebooked me onto a flight to London when my connecting flight to Birmingham was cancelled. I appreciate it so much, especially after another person at the same desk would not help me.

Linguistic typology is the study of the grammatical diversity in the world’s languages, the recurring patterns we see amongst that diversity, and why those patterns exist.

Want to learn more? I’ve put together a list of resources to get you started:

linguisticdiscovery.com/typology

Spectacularly uninformed understanding of BSL, of how languages work, and of how amazing sign languages actually are (as are all types of languaging).
Is Mandarin, spoken by hundreds of millions of people, ‘crude’ for not marking tense or plurality? Absolute nonsense.

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Canada Geese: bloody immigrants 😂

Insight: None of my family sign and so they don’t really know me (BSL) limpingchicken.com/2024/04/15/ins…

How is Sign Language?

If you missed Professor Adam Schembri's (Adam Schembri) Inaugural lecture last month - it's now available to watch!

Discover the Uni of Birmingham lecture here:👉🏼youtu.be/Bb5JfwziYMM

A feature I contributed to on accent bias and linguistic discrimination (a focus on Brummie accents) was on BBC Morning Live today! The doc is from 10.02 and can be watched on iPlayer (@accentbias)

Where do I find the Deaf and Autistic group?

The idea that 'language' is amodal and separable from its modalities is the primary, traditional tenet of the language sciences that we argue against in our upcoming book The Multimodal Language Faculty visuallanguagelab.com/mlf

For my UK friends, what happened in Sydney was not terror-related. Julia Hartley-Brewer should be ashamed of herself for spewing this BS.

He was a white Australian man, with a surname of Maltese origin, just like me. He appears to have been targeting women.

Congratulations! Black Deaf UK