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![An illustration from the poster for MDFF 2022. The illustration shows eight sets of human arms making different ASL signs. The arms are arranged into a group circled by another pair of arms. At the top of the image is a quote, "Together we are stronger" and at the bottom is the text "18th Annual Maine Deaf Film Festival 2022".](https://usm.maine.edu/department-linguistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/109/2023/11/narrow-info-block_mdff22.jpg)
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Linguistics students shadow-sign As You Like It
ASL shadowed productions offer Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences the experience of theater instead of a sole interpreter. Each speaking actor is shadowed by a signing actor.
Prof. McDaniel with child in a language acquisition study
One of Professor McDaniel’s research areas is child language acquisition. She studies children’s syntactic knowledge through language games. This child is describing a scene shown on the computer.