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Notions of topic and focus have been well-studied in sign languages, which - like many spoken languages -  tend to have word orders highly influenced by information structural considerations, along with perhaps some modality-specific considerations provided by suprasegmental nonmanuals, the tight integration of iconic gestures into the grammatical structure, etc. The use of signing space/”loci” […]

There are thousands of pages of texts written in Zapotec from the 17c and 18c. In fact, Zapotec has one of the largest corpora of early alphabetic texts in the Americas. In this talk, I present Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec (https://ticha.haverford.edu; Lillehaugen et al. 2016, Broadwell et al. 2020), a digital […]

As speech technology becomes an increasingly integral part of the everyday lives of humans around the world, issues related to language variation and change and algorithmic inequality will come to […]