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Sign Language Linguistics Research This year we had several publications in sign linguistics, including a paper on sociolinguistic variation in mouthing in the BSL Corpus, and a chapter on the future of sign language corpora in a new edited volume on sign language corpora from Gallaudet University Press. We have continued work on several sign linguistics projects including writing up papers on sign sentence types, questions, and negation in BSL, and collecting data for a project on sign order for an ESRC funded project on language evolution. In sign language technology, we published a conference paper on tools for automatically identifying sign boundaries. With colleagues from University of Surrey and Oxford, we organised a workshop on Sign Language Recognition Translation and Production. We also continue to work on EASIER, a large EU project on automatic translation processes for European sign languages with partners around Europe including the European Union of the Deaf.