Justin Power
@LinguistPower
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RT @UT_Linguistics: Justin Power & Richard Meier's talk on the Martha’s Vineyard signing community will be shown this Sunday, Feb 11, at 2p….
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RT @crathmann: Anna Komarova, a well-respected interpreter, teacher, researcher, heritage signer and advocate in Russian and international….
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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).
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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).
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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.
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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.
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RT @marc_schulder: Getting a sense of what #SignLanguage datasets are out there is hard. So we started the Sign Language Dataset Compendium….
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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.
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RT @abenitezburraco: Happy to have edited "Historical linguistics of sign languages: Progress and problems", by Justin M. Power, for @Front….
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Blog post written together with @LinguList and @Grimmiges discussing considerations in the study of evolution, with a focus on sign language evolution:
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In fact, this is NOT the claim, as we studied only a sample of the world’s sign languages and not ALL of them.
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RT @Grimmiges: Finally, our manuscript (@LinguistPower, @LinguList and me) on the #phylogeny of sign language manual alphabets will see the….
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Part 3 of the #GWoN miniseries on sign languages and manual alphabets: My guest post this week on using networks to study the evolution of handshapes
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RT @Grimmiges: @phylogenypluckr @LinguistPower @LinguList @humcommons PS This week's #GWoN post explains a bit the mapping seen in the pic.….
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RT @Grimmiges: This week on #GWoN, starting a mini-series on #ManualAlphabets used in #SignLanguage (with @LinguistPower and @LinguList).….
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RT @Grimmiges: Nothing can beat to be out-of-(#science) business, 'cause people like @LinguistPower and @LinguList can then get you involve….
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