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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.

Professor and Associate Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University, studying perception, memory, and action using converging cognitive neuroscience methods across the lifespan. Recipient of awards from the NSF, Psychonomic Society, APA, APF, and a fellow of AAAS, APS, APA, the Midwest Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Published three books, two edited volumes, 100 journal articles and articles for Salon, Aeon, and The New York Times.

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.

Sergei Tatevosov is Professor of Linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. His research interests include morphology, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic and Iranian languages.

Thomas McFadden is a Senior Researcher at ZAS in Berlin, working on syntax, morphology and historical linguistics.