New Trends in ASL Variation Documentation

Abstract

Sign Language Studie s Vol. 21 No. 3 Spring 2021 Corrine Occhino (white hearing American woman, fluent in English and proficient in ASL) is a research assistant professor and director of the Multimodal Language Lab in the Center on Culture and Language at NTID at RIT. Jami N. Fisher (white hearing American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is the director of American Sign Language in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics. Joseph C. Hill (Black Deaf American man, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, director of the Deaf Studies Lab in the Center on Culture and Language, and assistant dean for Faculty Recruitment and Retention at NTID at RIT. Julie A. Hochgesang, (white Deaf American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet University. Emily Shaw (white hearing American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University. Meredith Tamminga, (white hearing American woman, fluent in English and learning ASL) is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and director of the Language Variation and Cognition Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. R E P O R T O N O N G O I N G R E S E A R C H