International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia 2013 30 January – 2 February 2013 The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Conference Programme (final version)

30 January 2013, Wednesday Sign Linguistics Venue: LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8:15 – 8:45 Registration & Breakfast 8:45 – 9:15 Opening Ceremony Keynote Speech Psycholinguistic Approaches to the Study of Phonological Structure in Sign Languages 9:15 – 10:15 Gaurav Mathur Gallaudet University Invited Talk Insights from the Phonology and Morphology of Sign Languages: Language Acquisition and 10:15 – 10:55 Emergence Diane Brentari University of Chicago 10:55 – 11:10 Tea Break (15 minutes) Invited Talk Phonetic and phonological activities of the non-dominant hand 11:10 – 11:50 Onno Crasborn Radboud University Nijmegen Sonority and Continuancy in HKSL 11:50 – 12:20 Joe Mak The Chinese University of Hong Kong Lunch (60 minutes) 12:20 – 13:20 Poster session A Keynote Speech Corpus Project of German – State of the Art 13:20 – 14:20 Christian Rathmann University of Hamburg Invited Talk Documenting and describing variation and change in sign languages: Theoretical and applied 14:20 – 15:00 dimensions Adam Schembri La Trobe University Signing varieties in Jakarta and Yogyakarta: dialects or separate languages? 15:00 – 15:30 Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi Isma University of Indonesia Tea Break (40 minutes) 15:30 – 16:10 Poster Session A Lexical Variations and Diachronic Change in : Preliminary observations 16:10 – 16:40 Felix Sze, Kenny Chu, Connie Lo & Lisa Lo The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sociolinguistic variation in varieties: the expression of the completive aspect in Makassar and Solo 16:40 – 17:10 Nick Palfreyman University of Central Lancashire North : A First Study 17:10 – 17:40 Daisuke Sasaki Seikei University Transition (20 minutes) 17:40 – 21:00 Welcome Dinner @ Science Park

31 January 2013, Thursday Sign Linguistics Venue: LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8:30 – 8:45 Reception & Breakfast Invited Talk Cognitive Perspectives on Word Formation in Sign Language 8:45 – 9:25 Jung-Hsing Chang National Chung Cheng University Mouthed verbs in relative clauses 9:25 – 9:55 Mark Penner University of North Dakota Event-related brain potentials during CSL processing: effects of syntactic and semantic violations 9:55 – 10:25 Junfei Liu, Zhaocui Sun & Yiming Yang Jiangsu Normal University and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Language and Cognitive Neuroscience 10:25 – 10:40 Tea Break (15 minutes) The Expression of Comparison in 10:40 – 11:10 Chien-hung Lin & Jung-hsing Chang National Chung Cheng University On the nature of instrument in the classifier predicates of Hong Kong Sign Language and Tianjin Sign Language 11:10 – 11:40 Gladys Tang & Jia He The Chinese University of Hong Kong Lunch (60 minutes) 11:40 – 12:40 Poster session B Development of discourse referencing strategies in signed narratives by Deaf/hard‐of‐hearing children in a sign‐bilingual co‐enrolment program: Some preliminary observations 12:40 – 13:10 Betty Cheung & Felix Sze The Chinese University of Hong Kong How can the early acquisition of Sign Language and Oral Language influence the syntactic performance of the oral language? A preliminary study in with 13:10 – 13:40 prelingually deaf subjects Sónia Silva, Ana Mineiro & Alexandre Castro-Caldas Catholic University of Lisbon Articulatory Suppression effects on digit short term memory of Sign /Spoken Language Bilingual adults 13:40 – 14:10 Hsiu-Tan Liu, ZinXing Zeng & ChunJung Liu Chung Shan Medical University & Graduate institute of Audiology and Speech therapy Code-blends in bimodal-bilingual children 14:10 – 14:40 Ana Mineiro & Sara Carvalho Catholic University of Lisbon Bimodal Bilingual Development: Language Synthesis 14:40 – 15:10 Ronice Muller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin & Deborah Chen Pichler Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, University of Connecticut & Gallaudet University Tea Break (40 minutes) 15:10 – 15:50 Poster Session B The Asia Pacific Sign Linguistics Research and Training Program: An Introduction 15:50 – 16:05 (APSL Program) 16:05 – 17:15 APSL – Researchers’ Presentations Tea Break (15 minutes) 17:15 – 18:00 Transition (30 minutes) Performance 18:00 – 19:10 Kowloon Bay St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School @ Sir Run Run Hall Transition (15 minutes) 19:10 – 21:00 Gala Dinner @ Science Park

1 February 2013, Friday Deaf Education Venue: LT7, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (08:45 – 14:00) LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (14:00 – 18:00)

8:45 – 9:00 Reception & Breakfast Invited Talk Sign Linguistics as a Philosophical Framework for Deaf Education 9:00 – 9:40 James Woodward The Chinese University of Hong Kong Invited Talk Sign Language Programs and Deaf Education in Brazil as Deaf Gains 9:40 – 10:20 Ronice Müller de Quadros Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 10:20 – 10:35 Tea Break (15 minutes) Invited Talk Using Deaf-Centered Projects to Improve Educational Opportunities for Deaf People: The Case of 10:35 – 11:15 Viet Nam Hoa Thi Nguyen Dong Nai University Use Of Sign Communication In Teaching English And Comprehension Of Deaf College Students 11:15 – 11:45 Ruth Reyes De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde Lunch (60 minutes) 11:45 – 12:45 Poster Session C Keynote Speech Towards sustainable bilingual deaf education in the era of cochlear implantation 12:45 – 13:45 Harry Knoors Royal Dutch Kentalis / Radboud University Nijmegen 13:45 – 14:00 Tea Break (15 minutes) A sign bilingual plus partial inclusion experiment for young deaf students in Taiwan: Benefits and challenges 14:00 – 14:30 Min-hua Hsing & Shiou-fen Su National University of & Tainan Municipal Fusing Junior High School Signed language learning by hard-of-hearing pupils: An inclusive practice in a regular primary school in Japan 14:30 – 15:00 Takashi Torigoe Hyogo University of Teacher Education The Twinschool: a co-enrollment program in the Netherlands 15:00 – 15:30 Daan Hermans, Annet De Klerk & Loes Wauters Royal Dutch Kentalis / Radboud University Nijmegen Tea Break (45 minutes) 15:30 – 16:15 Poster Session C The Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme: An Introduction 16:15 – 16:30 (JC-SLCO Programme) 16:30 – 17:00 Voices from the JC-SLCO Participants Quality of bilingual education programs for deaf children: through the children’s eyes and the camera’s lens 17:00 – 17:30 Daan Hermans & Harry Knoors Royal Dutch Kentalis / Radboud University Nijmegen Documenting bilingual strategies used by Deaf mothers and teachers 17:30 – 18:00 Michele Berke & Leala Holcomb California School for the Deaf

2 February 2013, Saturday Deaf Education Venue: LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

8:45 – 9:00 Reception & Breakfast Invited Talk How Deaf Children Learn 9:00 – 9:40 Marc Marschark Rochester Institute of Technology Invited Talk Access and contribution to the classroom by deaf children 9:40 – 10:20 Gary Morgan City University London 10:20 – 10:35 Tea Break (15 minutes) The use of the whole-class Colourful Semantics approach with children experiencing hearing loss in Sri Lanka 10:35 – 11:05 Shyamani Hettiarachchi & Mahishi Ranaweera University of Kelaniya & Curtin University Cognitive aspects of deaf children’s classroom learning: Executive Function and language development in deaf children 11:05 – 11:35 Tanya Denmark, Chloe Marshall, Nicola Botting & Gary Morgan University College London, Institute of Education London & City University London The oral language development of deaf and hard-of-hearing children receiving sign bilingual education 11:35 – 12:05 Tammy Lau, Joffee Lam, Kathy Lee, Gladys Tang & Chris Yiu The Chinese University of Hong Kong 12:05 – 13:20 Lunch (75 minutes) The development of writing assessment of Deaf and hard-of-hearing students 13:20 – 13:50 Gladys Tang, Scholastica Lam, Chris Yiu, Karen Cheung & Velvet Cheng The Chinese University of Hong Kong AoA-effect as a sole predictor for Deaf reading? Insights from four languages with different orthographic systems 13:50 – 14:20 Okan Kubus, Christian Rathmann, Paul Miller, Peter Hauser, Tevhide Kargin, Birkan Güldenoglu & Erin Superegon University of Hamburg 14:20 – 14:40 Tea Break (20 minutes) Literacy Learning and Deaf Students In Taiwan: Issues, Practices and Directions for Future Research 14:40 – 15:10 Hsiu-tan Liu, Jean F. Andrews & Chun-Jung Liu Chung Shan Medical University & Lamar University What (probably) matters in the development of Chinese literacy by D/hh students in a sign bilingual and co-enrolment programme 15:10 – 15:40 Karen Cheung, Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang & Chris Yiu The Chinese University of Hong Kong

15:40 – 16:00 Closing Ceremony