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I am a psycholinguist interested in the acquisition and emergence of language from a multimodal perspective. My research has mainly focused on sign language acquisition by hearing adults and deaf children. I also explore language development in speech and gesture in hearing children across different cultures. I have carried out studies exploring the role of gesture and iconicity in sign language emergence and evolution.

Hannah Gibson is a linguist based at University of Essex. Her work is concerned primarily with linguistic variation, multilingualism and language contact. She has conducted research in eastern and southern Africa.

Jacyra Andrade Mota é Professora Emérita da Universidade Federal da Bahia. É a atual diretora presidente do Projeto Atlas Linguístico do Brasil (ALiB). Possui graduação em Letras pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (1961), mestrado em Letras e Lingüística pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (1980) e doutorado em Letras Vernáculas pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2002). É pesquisadora e bolsista do CNPq, atuando na área de Sociolinguística e Dialetologia.

John Baugh is the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He attended Temple University as an undergraduate, majoring in Speech, Rhetoric, and Communication, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for formulating the concept of linguistic profiling and has conducted research on that topic in the United States, Brazil, the Caribbean, England, France, and South Africa. That research was variously supported by The Ford Foundation, The National Science Foundation, The United States Department of State, The United States Department of Justice, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Most of his research is devoted to finding ways to use linguistic science to advance equality and to improve the human condition globally. His most recent book is titled, Linguistics in Pursuit of Justice. (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He is a past president of the American Dialect Society, and currently serves on the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. He is president-elect of the Linguistic Society of America, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.