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TISLR 10 Papers: September 30, 2010 (morning) presenters Language of presentation 8:30-9:00 Opening remarks College of Liberal Arts Dean Irwin Weiser, Diane Brentari, ASL and English Gaurav Mathur, Sharon Newman-Solow, Stephanie Adams, Ronnie Wilbur 9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Ceil Lucas ASL 10-10:10 pause 10:10-11:40 Session A Stew 202 Special session: acquisition I Ritva Takkinen (organizer) English Sign language phonological skills Gary Morgan English Sign Language Impairments Ritva Takkinen English Bilingual development in deaf children using cochlear implants Bencie Woll English Early spoken and sign language acquisition

11:40-11:50 pause 11:50-1:20 Special session: Sign language acquisition II Discussant 1 Debbie Chen Pichler ASL Discussant 2 Diane Lillo-Martin ASL Discussant 3 Ronice de Quadros ASL

10:10-11:40 Session B Stew 218 1 10:10 The parameter in Hope Morgan & Rachel Mayberry English 10:40 Reading between the signs: How are transitions built in signed Kyle Duarte, Sylvie Gibet ASL languages? 11:10 Sociolinguistic variation in the 1 handshape in British Sign Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Adam Schembri, BSL Language

11:40-11:50 pause

11:50-1:20 Phonology 2 11:50 On the weight of sentence-final prosodic words Els van der Kooij, Onno Crasborn, Johan Ros English 12:20 The hands and mouth do not always slip together in British David Vinson, Robin Thompson, Robert Skinner, Neil Fox English Sign Language 12:50 On the role of transitions in signed language Tommi Jantunen English 1:20- 2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:05 Poster session: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics & Language Acquisition (see separate page)

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Session A Stew 202 3:05-4:35 Special Session: Sociolinguistic Variation in Sign Language I Ceil Lucas (organizer)

Introductory Remarks Ceil Lucas ASL Signed languages and usage-based grammars: Evidence from Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston BSL variation in Australian Sign Language Linguistic issues in building a corpus for LIS (Italian Sign Carlo Geraci, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina ) Donati

4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Special Session: Sociolinguistic Variation in Sign Language II Sign time-capsules: lexical variation and change in NZSL David McKee, Rachel McKee ASL Black ASL as a Separate Variety Ceil Lucas, Carolyn McCaskill, Joseph Hill, Robert Bayley ASL

Session B Stew 218 3:05-4:35 New Methodologies in Sign Language Research 3:05 Investigating signed language disorders: Case study methods David Quinto-Pozos, Jenny Singleton ASL and results 3:35 Defining an articulatory joint space for sign language Petra Eccarius, Robert Scheidt English 4:05 Toward an artificial sign language: Foundational experiments in Alex Del Giudice, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden English the evolution of sign languages

4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Vision Research on Sign Languages 4:45 Seeing the world through a visual language: Visual world Robin Thompson, Neil Fox ASL paradigm in 5:15 Event structure: From perception to sign language production Evie Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur English and back again 5:45 Analysis of visual properties in Rain Bosworth, Charles Wright, Karen Dobkins ASL

6:30-8:00 Sign Language Linguistic Society Meeting Stew 214

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TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (morning)

9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Carol Padden ASL

10-10:10 pause 10:10-11:40 Session A Stew 202 Special session: Sign languages in village communities I Ulrike Zeshan (organizer) The linguistic ecology of „village sign languages‟: Angela Nonaka, Victoria Nyst, Shifra Kisch English methodological pitfalls and good practices Alipur village, India: The sign language and the deaf community Sibaji Panda IS The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language in Israel Sara Lanesman & Irit Meir IS, English 11:40-11:50 pause

11:50-1:20 Special session: Sign languages in village communities II Subject and object in Kata Kolok Connie de Vos English Looking at the lexicon of Yolngu Sign Language (Northern Dany Adone, Anastasia Bauer, Keren Cumberbatch, English, IS Australia), Country Sign (Jamaica), and Kata Kolok (Bali, Waldemar Schwager Indonesia) The significance of village sign languages for the typological Ulrike Zeshan IS study of sign languages

10:10-11:40 Session B Stew 218 1 10:10 Binding Theory in ASL (English) Philippe Schlenker, Gaurav Mathur English, ASL 10:40 A point well taken: The non-first person category in Sign Emar Maier, Kees de Schepper, Martine Zwets English Language of the Netherlands 11:10 Strategies for relativization in HKSL Gladys Tang, Prudence Lau, Jafi Lee English

11:40-11:50 pause 11:50-1:20 Syntax II 11:50 The psychological reality of ASL syntax: Evidence from Matt Hall, Victor Ferreira ASL syntactic priming 12:20 Input ambiguity and head directionality of TP in Hong Kong Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang English Sign Language 12:50 Nonmanual aspects of focus particles in sign languages Annika Herrmann English

1:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00- 3:05 Poster session: Crosslinguistic and Theoretical Analyses (see separate page) 3

TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (afternoon) Session A Stew 202 3:05-4:35 3:05 A unique type of nonconcatenative morphology in signed Gaurav Mathur, Christian Rathmann ASL languages 3:35 Re-analyzing plural predicates in ASL Nassira Nicola ASL 4:05 Classifier handshape acquisition in ASL Revisited Diane Brentari, Ashley Jung English

4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Special Session: Prosody, Morphology, and Syntax in the Marie Coppola (organizer) Emergence of Sign Language Prosody as point of entry to linguistic analysis of a new Wendy Sandler English language Evidence of resilient and less resilient properties in linguistic Sandra Wood ASL systems Grammaticalization of points in Nicaraguan signing Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas ASL

Session B Stew 218 3:05-4:35 Psycholinguistics 3:05 Processing of spatial information in sign languages. Evidence Annika Herrmann,Matthias Schlesewsky, Markus English from event-related brain potentials Steinbach, Jana Hosemann 3:35 Investigating recognition of ASL and human actions: Evidence David Corina, Michael Grosvald English from repetition priming for signs and gestures 4:05 The phonological representation of the non-dominant hand Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey English

4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Semantics 4:45 When meaning permeates form: Effects of iconicity for Robin Thompson, Robert Skinner, David Vinson, Neil Fox, ASL phonological decisions in British Sign Language Gabriella Vigliocco 5:15 Plurality of relations in : Mapping Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach English semantics onto morphosyntax 5:45 Serial verb constructions in Prudence Lau English

7:30-9:00 Conference Reception, West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union

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9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Josep Quer English

10:00-10:10 pause

10:10-11:40 Session A Stew 202 Special session: Sign Phonetics Martha Tyrone (organizer) Introduction Martha Tyrone English Conditions on sign lowering Claude Mauk English Tutorial on task dynamics and articulatory phonology Elliot Saltzman English Capturing invariance through kinematics Hosung Nam English Summary Martha Tyrone English

11:40-11:50 pause

11:50-1:20 Prosody 11:50 Does prosody make sign language syntax different? Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice de Quadros ASL 12:20 Cross-modal prosodic effects of A-bar Sarah Churng English 12:50 Role shift and context shift Philippe Schlenker English

Session B Stew 218 10:10-11:40 Space in sign languages 10:10 Spatial categorization in a spatial language Jennie Pyers, Karen Emmorey, Soonja Choi ASL 10:40 The spatial association of nouns in Langue des Signes Julie Rinfret English Québécoise: Form, function and meaning 11:10 How uniform are locative expressions across sign languages? Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli Ozyurek English 11:40-11:50 pause

11:50-1:20 Acquisition 11:50 Effects of learning ASL on cospeech gesture Shannon Casey, Karen Emmorey ASL 12:20 The role of animacy in the acquisition of entity constructions in Kearsy Cormier, Sandra Smith BSL British Sign Language 12:50 British Sign Language grammaticality judgment task: Exploring Adam Schembri, Eleni Orfanidou, Kearsy Cormier, David BSL age-of-acquisition effects Vinson

1:15- 2:00 LUNCH

2:00- 3:05 Poster session: Corpus and Applied Linguistics (see separate page)

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Session A Stew 202 3:05-4:35 Special Session: Bilingualism I Jill Morford (organizer) Cross-language activation during visual word recognition in Ellen Ormel, Daan Hermans English deaf bilingual children Effects and non-effects of sign language knowledge on written Okan Kubus, Jill Morford, Christian Rathmann, Erin ASL word recognition: A comparison of ASL-English and DGS- Wilkinson German bilingual adults The development of code-blending in deaf and hearing Kodas Beppie van den Bogaerde, Anne Baker English 4:35-4:45 pause 4:45-6:15 Special Session: Bilingualism II The morphology of code-blending Catarina Donati, Chiara Branchini English Two languages but one computation: Code-blending in Ronice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin, Debbie Chen ASL bimodal bilingual development Pichler Simultaneous production of ASL and English costs the speaker Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich, Tamar Gollan ASL but benefits the listener

Session B Stew 218 3:05-4:35 Discourse 1 3:05 ASL renditions of an English narrative: Accommodation through David Quinto-Pozos, Wanette Reynolds ASL chaining and explaining/connecting-ASL 3:35 The emergence of referential shift marking in Nicaraguan Sign Jennie Pyers, Annemarie Kocab, Anne Senghas ASL Language 4:05 Segmentation of discourse units in Evgenia Prozorova English 4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Discourse 2 3:05 Levels of Structure in ASL Narratives: Variations between Marie Nadolske ASL Native and Nonnative Signers 3:35 Prosodic Structure in ASL Narratives: Native, CODA and L2 Diane Brentari, Marie Nadolske ASL Signers 4:05 Eyegaze in Creative Sign Language Michiko Kaneko, Johanna Mesch ASL/English

6:30-7:30 PLENARY TALK Marlon Kuntze ASL

8:00- 10:30 BANQUET & ENTERTAINMENT & CLOSING "The Flying Words Project": Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner

Poster sessions follow: 6

POSTER SESSION September 30, 2010 2-3 pm Acquisition Posters [Boards 1-15]: 1 Palm orientation errors are characteristic of deaf children with autism Aaron Shield, Richard Meier 2 A study of the school lexicon in American Sign Language Jilly Kowalsky, Richard Meier An investigation into the lexicalization of health vocabulary in Australian Sign Lindsay Ferrara 3 Language (ASL) 4 Age of acquisition of ASL and mental rotation in adults Amber Martin Prosody in the acquisition of Sign Language: Two case studies of a deaf child Marion Blondel, Fanny Limousin 5 (LSF) and a bilingual Early language exposure affects the development of phonological Matt Hall, Rachel Mayberry, Victor Ferreira 6 representations in sign The composition of early vocabulary in adolescent first language acquisition: Naja Ferjan, Amy Lieberman, Rachel Mayberry 7 When late looks early The role of input in acquisition of verb in Hong Kong Sign Scholastica Lam 8 Language: A case study 9 The variability of in the acquisition of Aline Lemos Pizzio Sign and speech in family interaction: Code choices of Deaf Parents and their Ginger Pizer 10 hearing children Systematic phonological errors in the acquisition of ASL by native-signing Shannon Szameitat, Brenda Schick 11 Deaf children Four eyes and four hands: How mothers scaffold literacy development Amy Lieberman, Marla Hatrak 12 through ASL Cognitive and linguistic control in verbs of motion : Acquiring plural & Robert Hoffmeister, Sarah Fish, Marlon Kuntze, Catherine Caldwel-Harris 13 arrangement 14 Learning verbal plurality in ASL: An experimental study Lynn Hou 15 Emergence of depiction in acquisition of American Sign Language Clifton Langdon

[Boards 16-27 intentionally left blank] Psycholinguistics /Neurolinguistics Posters [Boards 28-40] Motion semantics in American Sign Language activate motion-sensitive visual Stephen McCullough, Ayse Saygin, Morana Alac, Karen Emmorey 28 areas in the human brain The impact of language modality on the linguistic encoding of perceptual Brenda Nicodemus, Lucinda O'Grady Batch, Karen Emmorey 29 categories Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL: Evidence from Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey 30 articulatory compensation 31 Processing orthographic structure: Associations between print and Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich 32 Deafness, not sign language, enhances peripheral visual attention Matthew Dye 33 Categorical perception of handling handshapes in British Sign Language Zed Sevcikova 7 34 Long-distance coarticulation in ASL: A production and perception study Michael Grosvald, David Corina An fMRI study of implicit sign processing: Functional neuro-anatomy of lexical Niki Spotswood, Elizabeth Hirshorn, Heather Patterson, Peter Hauser, 35 recognition in American Sign Language Guinevere Eden, David Corina 36 The Depiction Comprehension Test in American Sign Language Raylene Paludneviciene, Peter Hauser 37 Rates of fingerspelling in American Sign Language David Quinto-Pozos 38 Handedness in corpus NGT Anna Safar, Onno Crasborn, Ellen Ormel 39 Experimental research on scalar implicatures in a Sign Language Kathryn Davidson Investigating sign language variation through intelligibility testing: The recorded Elizabeth Parks, Jason Parks 40 text test retell

POSTER SESSION October 1, 2010 2-3 pm Phonology [Boards 1-7]: 1 Gesture as a gradient factor: comparing sign language and spoken language Gemma Barbera, Martine Zwets 2 Colors on hands: Phonological markedness of sign language color terms Monica Schoonhoven, Roland Pfau, Bart de Boer 3 Are dynamic features required in signs? Harry Van der Hulst, Rachel Channon 4 A constraint-based approach to compound formation in ASL Alex Del Giudice 5 The Intersegmental Model of sign language phonology Waldemar Schwager 6 New horizons in the Intersegmental approach to sign morphology Waldemar Schwager 7 in Sign Language of the Netherlands: Lexical variation Richard Bank

Grammaticalization [Boards 8-9]: 8 From pidgin to creole in a sign language: The case of Irit Meir 9 Grammaticalisation processes in Mieke Van Herreweghe

Semantics [Boards 10-14]: 10 Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in ASL Barbara Shaffer 11 Signing about signing: Sign metalanguage in LSF and LSFB Laurence Meurant, Brigitte Garcia 12 Default temporal interpretation in ASL Tony Wright 13 Event visibility in : separating Aspect and Aktionsart Marina Milković, Evie Malaia 14 Referring expressions at the interfaces: A relational feature geometric analysis Donovan Grose

Syntax/Structures [Boards 15-40]: 15 Investigating Sign Language in Trinidad and Tobago Ben Braithwaite, Kathy-Ann Drayton, Leslie Ali, Azim Kallan, Ryan Ramgattan, Paulson Skerrit 8 16 Expressing plural meaning in Flemish Sign Language Isabelle Heyerick, Mieke Van Braeckevelt, Danny De Weerdt, Mieke Van Herreweghe, Myriam Vermeerbergen 17 Expressing existence in Flemish Sign Language and Danny De Weerdt 18 Expression of quantity in the NP in Sign Language (LSQ) Amélie Voghel 19 The correlation between mouth actions and word class in Susanne Militzer (ISL) 20 Right dislocated pronominals in Hong Kong Sign Language Felix Sze 21 Is there passive in Hong Kong Sign Language Felix Sze 22 Person-neutral reference markers in PSL: A generative analysis Paweł Rutkowski, Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil 23 The syntax of pronominal pointing signs in LIS Carmela Bertone, Anna Cardinaletti 24 Reflexives in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: Vadim Kimmelman modality and universals 25 Accessibility and Space in Sign Language discourse Gemma Barbera 26 Joint attention and shifting spacial reference points in ASL Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer 27 Agreement...or not...in ASL: Evidence from pro Elena Koulidobrova 28 A theoretical look at the Person Agreement Marker in German Sign Language Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Charles Bradley 29 Long distance agreement: Spatial modulations in Sign Language verbs Joke Schuit 30 The interplay of different head movements and their functions in Austrian Sign Andrea Lackner, Christian Stalzer Language (ÖGS) 31 Evidence of telicity marking by nonmanuals in HZJ Lea Dukić, Marina Milković Ronnie Wilbur 32 “IN” and “ON” in Turkish and Croatian Sign Languages (TID and HZJ): A parallel Engin Arik, Marina Milkovic architecture view 33 Relative Clauses in (TID) Okan Kubus 34 What negative polar questions can teach us about the C domain for Turkish Kadir Gokgoz Sign Language 35 Interrogative constructions in Julie Hansen 36 Imperative in Odd-Inge Schröder Slowikowska, Bogumila Schröder 37 Pseudocleft sentences and non-pseudocleft (rhetorical) question-answer pairs Myriam Vermeerbergen revised 38 Multiple strategies for the questioning of the Wh-phrase in ASL Sandra Wood 39 in ASL Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath 40 A case study on instrument classifiers in Tianjin Sign Language Jia He

9 POSTER SESSION October 2, 2010 2-3 pm Applied Linguistics Posters [Boards 1-22]: 1 Sign language and interpreter aptitude: a longitudinal study Christopher Stone, Anneka Starling 2 Cross-linguistics terminology in Sign Languages: a comparison study between Sandra Patricia Nascimento, Ana Mineiro LSB and LGP 3 The relationship between vocabulary knowledge in ASL and English Sarah Fish, Robert Hoffmeister 4 Linguistic and biomechanical adaptations in interpreters: Analysis of expert and Suzanne Villeneuve beginner sign language interpreters 5 An analysis of foot placement/movement and its functions in ASL lecture Bryan Grubb, Peter Snelgrove 6 Metalinguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge in ASL antonyms and Robert Hoffmeister, Rebecca Williams-McVey synonyms in Deaf children 7 Code-blending in Hong Kong Sign Language Cat H.-M. Fung 8 Deaf-friendly research? Examining ethical research conduct through focus Jenny Singleton, Gabrielle Jones, Shilpa Hanumantha group methodology 9 A lexical comparison of sign languages in East Asia Daisuke Sasaki 10 A cognitive approach to understanding linguistic politeness in American Sign Daniel Roush Language 11 ASL sign lowering as target undershoot: A corpus study Terry Janzen, Kevin Russell, Erin Wilkinson 12 Documenting sign language competencies: Development of a cross-linguistic Peter Hauser assessment tool 13 Sign Language as a Bridge to Literacy :A Bilingual- Bicultural study Etty Moiseyev, Wendy Sandler 14 Online discussion forums within learning intervention environments: the case of Elizabeth Teixeira, Claudia Soares the Letras Libras Co 15 Conversational alternance and backchannel feedback in tactile French Sign Sandrine Schwartz Language 16 Person reference during sign language interpreted conversations Maria Cristina Pires Pereira 17 Bimodal language processing in profoundly deaf children with a cochlear Marcel Giezen, Anne Baker, Paola Escudero implant 18 Anthropomorphism in British Sign Language Literature Rachel Sutton-Spence, Donna West 19 Making up for the disappearance of NMM in tactile sign languages Carlo Cecchetto, Alessandra Checchetto, Carlo Geraci, Maria Teresa Guasti 20 Lexical Variation and Change in British Sign Language Rosemary Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis 21 North American Indian Sign Language Varieties: Historical and contemporary Jeffrey Davis, Melanie McKay-Cody studies 22 Historical constitution of the Brazilian Sign Language: Century XVIII - XXI Ana Regina Campello

10 [Boards 23-27 intentionally left blank] Corpus Posters [Boards 28-39]: 28 The DGS Corpus Project Thomas Hanke, Susanne König, Lutz König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Christian Rathmann 29 How much top-down and bottom-up do we need to build a lemmatised corpus? Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Rie Nishio 30 Designing elicitation stimuli and tasks for the DGS Corpus Project Thomas Hanke, Sung-Eun Hong, Susanne König, Gabriele Langer, Rie Nishio, Christian Rathmann 31 The Danish Sign Language Dictionary Jette Kristoffersen, Thomas Troelsgård 32 From open access signed language corpora to deaf digital libraries Onno Crasborn 33 Construction of an ID Gloss Database for American Sign Language Karen Alkoby, Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath, Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, Pedro Pascual 34 Phonetics, phonology, and transcription practices in American Sign Language Julie Hochgesang, Cecily Whitworth 35 Plains Indian Sign Language: Fieldwork and Digital Archive Project Jeffrey Davis, Melanie McKay-Cody 36 A new research tool for exploring the landscape of signed dialogue Gary Quinn, Graham Turner 37 Sign Language and human gestuality corpora: what is at stake? The French Christian Cuxac, Brigitte Garcia, Ivani Fusellier, Marie-Anne Sallandre, CREAGEST Project Dominique Boutet, Cyril Courtin 38 Transcription systems as input to coding systems: SignWriting & SignTyp Rachel Channon, Charles Butler 39 Search through lexical sign bases with a constraint based model Michael Filhol

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