Post-doc at UBC linguistics. Interested in language evolution, multimodality, sign, gesture and the role of body and space in human communication. She/her
Joined April 2011
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2 Feb 2022
New paper day! A review paper on spatial frames of reference in deaf community and village sign languages
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
25 Jul 2023
Oksana Tkachman (@ToxicMaple) presenting our (Tkachman, Sadlier-Brown, Lo & Hudson Kam) "Cross-Linguistic Frequency and Interpretability in Sign Language Animal Signs" at @cogsci_soc Poster Session 1, July 27 (12:45-14:00). escholarship.org/uc/item/7mw…
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
10 Nov 2022
Congratulations to the newest @UBCLinguistics PhD Dr. Oksana Tkachman (@ToxicMaple) who successfully defended her dissertation "Embodiment and emergent phonology in the visual-manual modality: Factors enabling sublexical componentiality" yesterday!
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28 Mar 2022
Having an ASL interpreter only for the speeches related to CODA as if deaf people who watch the Oscars will ONLY be interested in those speeches is 🥴
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17 Mar 2022
Thank you @RussiaUN for your letter dated March 16.
Please see our suggested edits below.
#StandWithUkraine #RespectTheCharter
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5 Mar 2022
If you are a student (postdoc,phd,ma) from a Ukrainian university in the areas of neuropsychology, aphasia, dyslexia or anything related, you are welcome in my lab at Tel Aviv University, with a scholarship for 6 months. Please dm or email intlprojects@tauex.tau.ac.il @TelAvivUni
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3 Mar 2022
Registration is now open for Dr. Wesley Leonard's Lansdowne lecture: "Reflections on Reclamation",
Mon. Mar. 7, 7:00 - 8:30.
uvic.ca/humanities/linguisti…
@IED_UVic @CIRCLE_UVic @UVicHumanities @UVicResearch @UBCLinguistics @SFULinguistics @_ELProject @_FPCC
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4 Mar 2022
Pretty striking that even today in Kyiv, the Ukrainian government press conference had sign language interpretation. Something the UK government still can’t seem to manage.
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4 Mar 2022
what an interesting story!makes you wonder what we could do now @ubcprez forestry.ubc.ca/about/our-hi…
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24 Feb 2022
Dear friends - many of you reached out with words of solidarity and a question "what can I do?". Here are some (rather simple and straightforward) ways you might want to #StandWithUkraine: 1/4
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24 Feb 2022
Ways to DONATE TO SUPPORT UKRAINE - a list with options for any preference: army, women, children, IDPs, ... #StandWithUkraine
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3 Feb 2022
“When everybody around you nod approvingly and praise your research ideas, you should be worried. You are 10 years late!” A. Bjarklev, Universities Denmark. #blueskye #research #linguisticstwitter
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2 Feb 2022
New paper day! A review paper on spatial frames of reference in deaf community and village sign languages
degruyter.com/document/doi/1…
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2 Feb 2022
And if you are interested in Sociotopography in general, do yourself a favour and check out the other papers in this fantastic special issue: degruyter.com/journal/key/li…
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6 Jan 2022
CW // rape, incest
This campaign wants to help 2 of @JoashJG's students; one of them (only 12y) was violently raped by two men (one of them her grandfather). Please help if you can!
5 Jan 2022
JUSTICE FOR LULU: In Nata (Tanzania) where I do my linguistic research a less fortunate girl named Lulu (12) was mercilessly sexually assaulted by her grandpa and his friend (50) when grandma was away. I am raising funds for this girl for her healing. Read gofund.me/ad0d01a2
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
18 Dec 2021
I feel terrible for the students who've been told they're safe from COVID on campus, went and took exams in crowded rooms, and then take it back to vulnerable family members (many waiting on boosters, but that's a different tweet), only to be told they caught it somewhere else.
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
1 Dec 2021
June: bought a ticket with @FlySWISS from @Expedia. 1) Flight cancelled, 2) new ticket issued then voided.
November: no refund yet.
@ExpediaHelp: we can't reach AirSwiss via phone/mail
(>2 months).
Swiss: we'll talk to Expedia, not you.
How do I get my money back?
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
2 Sep 2021
A new paper ('Adult learners’ (non-)acquisition of speaker-specific variation') came out recently in a great volume ('Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition Across the Lifespan" by Ghimenton, Nardy & Chevrot (eds)). Highly recommend the volume. benjamins.com/catalog/silv.2…
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Oksana Tkachman retweeted
31 Aug 2021
.@khia_johnson (@UBCLinguistics)is presenting “Leveraging the Uniformity Framework to Examine Crosslinguistic Similarity for Long-Lag Stops in Spontaneous Cantonese-English Bilingual Speech”
📆 Wed-E-V-4-14, Sep. 1 at 19:00 CEST #interspeech2021
📄isca-speech.org/archive/inte…
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