Materials and resources
BSL signs with no mouthings
These recordings were used in a priming study that explored lexical access in hearing non-signers and L2 learners. We didn't want participants to get the meaning from the mouthings so they were removed (doubt I'd do the same again). The repository includes BSL videos of 300 signs plus the iconicity ratings from deaf and hearing non-signers.
Public lectures
In this video you can see my Abralin lecture (Sep 2021). The talks is interpreted into IS and LIBRAS.
Normed database of silent gestures (Dutch)
We elicited silent gestures from 20 Dutch adults (hearing non-signers) and we determined the default gestures for each concept (the most common in at least 10 participants). The stimuli consist of professional recordings for each concept, the description of their form, as well as their iconicity ratings.
NGT videos and corresponding images
In this study we investigated whether signs activate low-level visual representations that are suppressed from conscious processing. This repository contains videos of 36 signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) with three different types of iconicity and their iconicity ratings.
This is a brief informative video explaining my research at the University of Birmingham (English subtitles)
In this video, I provide a brief explanation of our normed database of silent gestures and what gesture tells us about the human capacity of language.
In this podcast, Dr Kate Rowley and myself are interviewed by Naomi Paxton for BBC's Arts & Ideas. We discuss British Sign Language, iconicity, gesture, sign language learning and how to promote its acquisition.
In this interview for the sign language interpreting magazine Newsli, I discuss sign languages, iconicity, how the body has potential for meaning, and my personal journey in the field of sign language research.
Newsli (2023) Issue 125, July 2023, p. 18-21
In BBC's Unexpected Elements (World Service), I am asked why there isn't a universal sign language so that people can communicate easily all over the globe. The discussion revolves around sign languages being natural languages that emerge organically, and gestures being a form of universal communication (listen on 30' 41'')