Have the #TISLR15 posters been made available to virtual attendees anywhere? Does anyone have any info? Maybe a shared folder online presenters could drop the poster PDFs they’re willing to share? 🙂

Justine is standing on the left-hand side of a poster that presents results on sign language coarticulation. She is in the middle of talking and is looking as well as gesturing towards the poster.

Recently, Justine Mertz presented her work on sign language kinematics at #TISLR15 in Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia. She even won the Early Career Researcher (ECR) award from the Sign Language Linguistics Society #SLLS! 🥳

TISLR15 sketchbook #TISLR15

So glad and honored to be presenting this at #TISLR15. Big thanks to those who came up to me after and discussed such relevant topics in lieu of no Q&A!

Since I couldn't go to #TISLR15, I had the chance to go to the LOT Winterschool at Radboud University in Nijmegen. I took courses in neurolinguistics and neurocognition. I also had the chance to discover the @mpi-nl.bsky.social where my thesis cosupervisor works and to meet a deaf PhD student!

Starting my long journey back to the US in 2025 from Ethiopia in 2017. Thank you for a magical trip, and all the deaf Ethiopians for their generous hospitality and kindness #TISLR15

The image shows a conference or presentation stage with a large screen displaying the presenter Felicia Bisnath in the left top corner, the IS interpreter in the left bottom corner, ASL interpreter in the right top corner, and Ethiopian Sign Language interpreter in the right bottom corner. In the middle, there is a slide with text reading "by prioritising nativeness we are not describing the majority of DHH sign language use," accompanied by an illustration of multiple figures of people with one figure highlighted in yellow. The audience is partially visible at the bottom of the photo.

I love @fbisnath.bsky.social last slide of her #TISLR15 presentation!

Congratulations, Felicia, on winning a student award for one of the best presentations at the conference!

Erin tells it like it is - honest description

Erin explains the deaf tax they face

Wait wait wait, I have more pictures to share. Can't forget to share Erin's pictures!! #TISLR15

Introduction of panel discussion

Panelist discussion SA sign language recognition

Panelist discussion Kenyan sign language recognition

Panelist discussion Kenyan sign language recognition

I thoroughly enjoyed yesterday's #TISLR15 panel discussion - Sign Language Research for legal recognition: A Call to Action. I learned so much from the panelists. Kudos to my friends Margaret Odhiambo and Simphiwe Mkhize!

Intro slide

Thank you to Ethiopia

Content slide - What is AAVE?

Agenda day 4

Thank you to all who stayed until my presentation on day 4 at #TISLR15. I was so excited to share my ground-breaking research regarding African American English and the findings of the deaf participants who provided distinct linguistic guidance on how to convey AAE when using ASL
It was an honor.

Her research overview

Part 2 - research overview

Palm gesture examples

Sorry, not in agenda order, but I'm STILL behind in trying to share postings from #TISLR15. Allow me to introduce Sovoya Davis who presented on Black women gestures, comparing the gestures used by hearing and deaf women. Yessssss!

Feeling disheartened by the low amount of signing at #TISLR15 conference. It makes me even more grateful for the changes I have seen at #ACEDHH conferences, where hearing folks have increasingly switched from speaking to signing in the past few years.

Congratulations to the #tislr15 ECR winners Shane Blau and Justine Merzt 🏆🥇

Congratulations to the #tislr15 Student Award winners!

The DCAL team at #TISLR15! Pictured here are Kearsy, Heidi, and Veronica, representing DCAL’s contributions to sign language research. #SignLanguageResearch #BSL #DCAL #Linguistics

Kate and Patrick presented on adapting the ASL Comprehension Test for BSL. Their research provides key insights into assessing comprehension skills and developing tools tailored to BSL users. #TISLR15 #BSL #SignLanguageResearch #DCAL

Then there was the unfortunate & unforgivable incident of online posters being excluded from #TISLR15, which made it easier for me to interact with more posters in-person. 6/n

At #TISLR15, my experience of interacting with different posters was highly variable. 1. If the person knew IS, I could communicate with them directly. We could calibrate our signing based on how well we understood each other. 1/n

Veronica's research explores language attitudes of Chilean deaf signers towards lexical variation in Chilean Sign Language (LSCh). This study sheds light on sociolinguistic perceptions within the LSCh community, offering valuable insights into how variation shapes language use and identity. #TISLR15

With #TISLR15 wrapping up, the 5th in the series for me (three in person, two remote), I'm looking forward to #TISLR16, which will be the first one where I can use my preferred sign language as an official conference language!

I'm presenting this virtually at #TISLR15 very soon at 2:35pm today Ethiopia time (3:35am Pacific 😀) !

Maybe the field isn’t ready yet for a #NoTalkTISLR but at the next conference we *could* perhaps have two parallel streams of on-stage presentations, one without interpreting, as a way to ease us towards a sign-only future? #TISLR15

Posting a few more pics because I was so inspired by this plenary presentation. By the end, I was in tears.

Special moment when both presenters honored the memory of Dr. Robert Bayley. #TISLR15

Jenni presenting her poster, wearing a blazer and jeans. Several people stand in front of the poster and the poster title is: “Through the Eyes of the Learner: Examining Attentional Dynamics in Signed Caregiver-Child Interactions using Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking”

In case you missed my poster at #TISLR15 today, find me tomorrow or send me a message and let’s have a chat!
We are able to show that signing children do indeed get parallel input of object and object labels on a regular base and that bimodal bilingual children’s show modality specific patterns!

About historic relatedness of sign languages, @crathmann.bsky.social ‘We see these route, but these languages are significantly different. It is not just enough to say that LSF is the story. It’s part of a much more complex dynamic.’ #TISLR15

Negation and questions are key grammatical features in any language. Kearsy, Adam, and Heidi’s talk at #TISLR15 examined how these structures operate in BSL, offering new perspectives on their linguistic and syntactic organisation.

At #TISLR15, Heidi and Kearsy presented their poster exploring the structure and use of noun phrases in BSL. Their research examines how noun phrases are constructed and function within the grammar of BSL, providing insights into its linguistic complexity. #BSL #SignLanguageResearch #Linguistics

Presented (remotely) at #TISLR15 on how to find continuer backchannels in Swedish Sign Language corpus data from distributional patterns.

Slides are available at borstell.github.io/presentation... but for the full picture, please the published paper in the quoted post:

bsky.app/profile/cbor...

Morphophonology of Kinship Terms in Arab Sign Languages Hosted on the Open Science Framework

أقدم بحثي عن مصطلحات القرابة في لغات الإشارة في العالم العربي اليوم في مؤتمر #TISLR15 ويمكن الحصول على التلخيص المترجم إلى العربية هنا:
osf.io/n5p7r/