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This afternoon I had the pleasure of sneaking in to a session of Scottish Programming Languages and Verification Summer School, organised by @edwinb and colleagues in Computer Science at St Andrews.

@dorchard gave a neat talk on graded modalities. It’s neat to see substructural logics applied in the wild, and there was some logical insight, too, on the different behaviour of box-type and diamond-type modalities in a constructive setting.

Speakers aren't blank slates (with respect to sign-language phonology)!

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Asks the straightforward (but overlooked) question:
"Is phonological knowledge, in fact, fully modality-specific?"

➡️ Not just whether spoken & sign languages share formal structures
➡️ Nor if speakers & signers rely on common brain regions

But (to be concrete) can an English speaker extract some of the phonological structure of ASL signs?

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