prepping for #LSA2023 by testing out my mastodon cross-posting 🫣

taking a moment today to watch my superb student @fbisnath critique “complexity” wrt sign language #typology — and give advice for how to move forward — at an excellent ALT workshop put together by Lina Hou & Erin Wilkinson! https://sites.google.com/view/alt2022/workshops?authuser=0 🤩

@amyfou @lisa_b_davidson Leonard 2018 talks about this too & there is a ton of dope theorizing on “proficiency” in SLA/applied ling! Ortega’s 2020 paper on “heritage speakers” and Diane Larsen-Freeman’s work has also been inspiring to me! i’m finding theorization from ling anth & notions such as “community of practice” helpful, so i can say that i’m describing/accounting for conventions within a community and also how those may or may not align with outside norms or standards

#SAFAL2022 continues with a keynote from Megha Sundara on how phonetic cues support morphological learning in young infants (see pic for baby raptly attending to this highly relevant work). At first, infants exploit homophony to induce suffixes, noting token frequency, and later, bottom up processing interacts with top-down info. And now theyre extending this work to Kannada, but we need a lot more #corpora esp. of spoken varieties! #acquisition #linguistics