ASL Lecture Series: Benjamin Bahan

Professor Bahan gave today's lecture as part of the RADSCC ASL Lecture series, titled The Value of ASL Literature. Professor Bahan presented a fascinating lecture deconstructing the nature of nursery rhymes, poetry, and narratives and described how the embedded structures different between ASL and spoken/written languages. An example of how the structure of spoken language nursery rhymes are found in ASL nursery rhymes can be seen here.