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Spring 2025 Lab Meeting Schedule

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This Winter Quarter, the NLL will meet in Guggenheim 415L every other Friday at 12:30 am. The meeting schedule is below.

4/18 Qi & Yuting on the MEG ASL visual mismatch study
5/2 Pacific Northwest Sign Language Research meeting (w/ Dr. Kathleen Hall’s group from UBC)
3/16 Yuting on her CSL field trip
5/30 Yoojin ISM poster practice on Korean-English bilingual switch

Winter 2025 Lab Meeting Schedule

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This Winter Quarter, the NLL will meet in Guggenheim 415L every other Friday at 11:30 am. The meeting schedule is below.

1/24 Qi will present on visual statistical learning of ASL handshapes by hearing signers
2/7 Caitlyn et al. will present on ASL stories annotation using ELAN
2/21 Yoojin will present on her GP2 proposal
3/7 Ty et al will present on Pupil Labs eye-tracking glasses

Dr. Qi Cheng and Graduate Student Yuting Zhang present at BUCLD

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Dr. Qi Cheng and and Graduate Student Yuting Zhang presented at the 49th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) in November. Zhang and Cheng

Dr. Cheng’s presentation was titled “American Sign Language transitive sentence comprehension strategies by deaf English-ASL bilinguals: the role of early language environment.”

Zhang’s presentation, co-authored with Hao Lin and Qi Cheng, was titled “Structure flexibility in description of transitive events among native and late CSL signers.” Zhang was also awarded a $350 Paula Menyuk Award and a $300 GPSS travel grant.

NLL at the DeafNation Expo

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The Neuroplasticity & Language Lab held a booth at the DeafNation Expo event at the Seattle Center on Saturday, Oct. 19. Lab director, Dr. Qi Cheng, graduate student Yuting Zhang, and ASL faculty member Kristi Winter were there. We shared our ongoing research with the Deaf community, emphasized the importance of full language access for deaf language development, and connected with many deaf and hearing signers, with many signed up to participate in our future studies.