lydia wiernik
@wiernik.bsky.social
hearing neurolinguist interested in bimodal bilingualism and cognition.
currently @mpicbs.bsky.social
currently @mpicbs.bsky.social
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Skilled deaf readers exhibit BILATERAL hierarchical tuning in the visual word form system, unlike matched hearing readers. We suggest a shift from bilateral to left-lateralized processing is not necessary for successful reading. New paper led by Laurie Glezer. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...
Bilateral Word Selectivity Gradients in the Visual Word Form System in Skilled Deaf Readers
Abstract. In hearing people visual word recognition relies on a hierarchical organization in left ventral occipitotemporal (vOT) cortex. While right hemisphere recruitment has been implicated in poor ...
direct.mit.edu
October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Skilled deaf readers exhibit BILATERAL hierarchical tuning in the visual word form system, unlike matched hearing readers. We suggest a shift from bilateral to left-lateralized processing is not necessary for successful reading. New paper led by Laurie Glezer. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...
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New paper with Gab Hodge, Bodo Winter, and Kearsy Cormier on negation in British Sign Language in England: we find the most common strategy is a manual negator, headshake, and mouthing an English negator, with relatively few clauses only marked by headshake 1/2
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses
Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negat...
www.degruyterbrill.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New paper with Gab Hodge, Bodo Winter, and Kearsy Cormier on negation in British Sign Language in England: we find the most common strategy is a manual negator, headshake, and mouthing an English negator, with relatively few clauses only marked by headshake 1/2
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
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Slides from my BUCLD keynote “Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right” are now posted on slla.lab.uconn.edu/family-asl/ (scroll to Related Presentations, open 2024)
Family ASL | Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab
Family ASL is our new research project! We are investigating families with deaf children and hearing parents who have chosen to include American Sign Langua ...
slla.lab.uconn.edu
November 25, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Slides from my BUCLD keynote “Sign Language Acquisition is a Human Right” are now posted on slla.lab.uconn.edu/family-asl/ (scroll to Related Presentations, open 2024)
Reposted by lydia wiernik
Hey, UK! Happy first National Linguistics Day!
Proposals for NLD traditions:
(a) Add language wonder to every conversation.
(b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content.
(c) Sing linguistics carols:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
(d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.
Proposals for NLD traditions:
(a) Add language wonder to every conversation.
(b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content.
(c) Sing linguistics carols:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
(d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.
November 26, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Hey, UK! Happy first National Linguistics Day!
Proposals for NLD traditions:
(a) Add language wonder to every conversation.
(b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content.
(c) Sing linguistics carols:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
(d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.
Proposals for NLD traditions:
(a) Add language wonder to every conversation.
(b) Exchange gifts of linguistics content.
(c) Sing linguistics carols:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
(d) Do deeds to protect languages or linguistic institutions.