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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: Sign language 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 Phonology 1 10:10 The handshape parameter in Kenyan Sign Language 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) 1 TISLR 10: September 30, 2010 (afternoon) 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 English Language) 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 handshapes 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 British Sign Language 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 American Sign Language Rain Bosworth, Charles Wright, Karen Dobkins ASL 6:30-8:00 Sign Language Linguistic Society Meeting Stew 214 2 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 Syntax 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 Morphology 3:05 A unique type of nonconcatenative morphology in signed Gaurav Mathur, Christian Rathmann ASL languages 3:35 Re-analyzing plural classifier 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 German Sign Language: Mapping Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach English semantics onto morphosyntax 5:45 Serial verb constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language Prudence Lau English 7:30-9:00 Conference Reception, West Faculty Lounge, Purdue Memorial Union 4 TISLR 10: October 2, 2010 (morning) 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 movement 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? 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