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My name is Ryan, which rhymes with the English word lion
My last name is Lepic, which rhymes with the English word epic
If you'd like to get in touch, please email my first and last name, separated by a period, at gallaudet dot edu.
You can also check out my Google Scholar page for updates! I bid Twitter goodbye, and I haven't really gotten my Bluesky account going yet.
Sorry, but I don't use any of those other academic social media websites. Even my ORCiD page is only sometimes up to date.
My background
My background
Some major influences on my linguistic interests:
Dabrowska's development of usage-based linguistics, especially her 2014 paper in Cognitive Linguistics
Bybee's development of usage-based linguistics, especially her 2006 paper in Language
Ackerman, Blevins, and Malouf's development of word-based morphology, especially their 2016 papers on this topic
I am not really a fan of handbooks, but the Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar came out at exactly the right time in my career: especially Goldberg and Bybee's chapters!
Croft's approach to linguistic typology, especially his 2001 and 2022 books
Padden's work in "patterned" iconicity, starting with our 2013 paper
Emmorey's textbook on sign language and cognition
van Gelderen's textbooks on English grammar and its history
Links to my previous affiliations:
University of Chicago (where I did my postdoc from 2017-2020)
University of California, San Diego (where I finished my PhD in 2015)
Arizona State University (where I finished my BA in 2008)
Additional resources:
In May 2025 I converted a "language profile" that I wrote for ASL into a webpage, in hopes that others can use it: an ASL profile
Also in May 2025 I created a webpage to explain why I'm Anti "AI"
My favorite axe to grind is how we talk about compounds in ASL
A few years ago I compiled a list of ASL resources, I still stand by a lot of it!
If you're making a poster for a conference, consider making a cloth one!
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