American Sign Language and Aidan Elliott-McCrea

The ALILI podcast has reached forty episodes! As a fitting start to this fourth decade of language love, we have a first for the show: its first sign language. It was a privilege for me to talk to Aidan Elliott-McCrea, an expert linguist and online etymologist (through ⁠Word Family Friday⁠), about not just American Sign Language but sign languages in general. Our conversation begins with addressing misconceptions about sign languages (there isn't just one!), and moves on to the features of ASL that Aidan particularly likes.

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Transcript (automatically generated) available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m5gw2ewkXN3uUEnYI-yszmLqiugG7v2w5fDEHXK_9-s/edit?usp=sharing

Aidan's etymological website: ⁠https://www.aidanem.com/pages/word-families-overview.html⁠

Aidan's own Patreon: https://patreon.com/aidanem

Aidan's recommendations for reading:

Linguistics of American Sign Language: An Introduction by Clayton ValliSign Language and Linguistic Universals by Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-MartinEveryone Here Spoke Sign Language by Nora Ellen Groce

Host: Dr. Danny Bate

Guest: Aidan Elliott-McCrea

Audio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPadden

Music: Acoustic Guitar by William King

Artwork: Willow Marler