102: Signed Language Mailbag (with Adam Schembri, Christy Filipich, and Mark Ellison)
Description
What do signed languages have in common? How do oral languages influence signed languages? How do they influence each other? Here to answer these questions and many more, it's Dr Adam Schembri of the University of Birmingham.
You can watch our chat with Adam Schembri on video, with Christy Filipich doing Auslan interpretation.
That video is here:
https://youtu.be/GcV0218VJ2k
Also joining us as a special guest: Dr Mark Ellison.
Timestamps
Intros: 0:38 News: 3:33 Related or Not: 54:15 Interview with Adam Schembri: 1:05:31 Words of the Week: 2:08:27 Comments: 2:27:56 The Reads: 2:31:21 Listener comment: 2:39:33
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