TISLR 10 Papers: September 30, 2010 Presenters Language of (morning) presentation 8:30-9:00 Opening remarks Stew 214: College of Liberal Arts Dean Irwin Weiser, Diane ASL and Brentari, Gaurav Mathur, Sharon Newman-Solow, Stephanie Adams, Ronnie English Wilbur 9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Stew 214 Ceil Lucas ASL 10-10:10 pause 10:10-11:40 Session A Stew 202 Special session: acquisition I Ritva Takkinen (organizer) English Introduction Ritva Takkinen English Early spoken and sign language acquisition Bencie Woll English Bilingual development in deaf children using Ritva Takkinen English cochlear implants 11:40-11:50 pause 11:50-1:20 Special session: Sign language acquisition II Sign Language developmental Impairments Kathryn Mason English Discussant 1+2+3 Debbie Chen Pichler ASL and Diane Lillo-Martin English Ronice de Quadros General discussion 10:10-11:40 Session B Stew 218 Phonology 1 10:10 The parameter in Kenyan Sign Hope Morgan & Rachel Mayberry English Language 10:40 Reading between the signs: How are Kyle Duarte, Sylvie Gibet ASL transitions built in signed languages? 11:10 Sociolinguistic variation in the 1 handshape in Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Adam BSL Schembri, 11:40-11:50 pause 11:50-1:20 Phonology 2 11:50 On the weight of sentence-final prosodic Els van der Kooij, Onno Crasborn, English words Johan Ros 12:20 The hands and mouth do not always slip David Vinson, Robin Thompson, Robert English together in British Sign Language Skinner, Neil Fox 12:50 On the role of transitions in signed language Tommi Jantunen English 1:20- 2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:05 Poster session Stew 302/306: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics & Language Acquisition (see separate page for poster list and board numbers)

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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: Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston BSL Evidence from variation in Australian Sign Language Linguistic issues in building a corpus for LIS Carlo Geraci, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo English () 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 David McKee, Rachel McKee ASL NZSL Black ASL as a Separate Variety Ceil Lucas, Carolyn McCaskill, Joseph ASL Hill, Robert Bayley

Session B Stew 218 3:05-4:35 New Methodologies in Sign Language Research 3:05 Investigating signed language disorders: Case David Quinto-Pozos, Jenny Singleton ASL study methods and results 3:35 Defining an articulatory joint space for sign Petra Eccarius, Robert Scheidt English language 4:05 Toward an artificial sign language: Foundational Alex Del Giudice, Simon Kirby, Carol English experiments in the evolution of sign languages Padden 4:35-4:45 pause

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

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

TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (morning) 9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Stew 214 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 Angela Nonaka, Victoria Nyst, Shifra English languages’: methodological pitfalls and good Kisch practices 2

Alipur village, India: The sign language and the Sibaji Panda IS deaf community The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language Sara Lanesman & Irit Meir IS, English in Israel 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 Dany Adone, Anastasia Bauer, Keren English, IS (Northern Australia), Country Sign (Jamaica), Cumberbatch, Waldemar Schwager and Kata Kolok (Bali, Indonesia) The significance of village sign languages for the Ulrike Zeshan IS typological 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 Emar Maier, Kees de Schepper, Martine English in Sign Language of the Netherlands Zwets 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: Matt Hall, Victor Ferreira ASL Evidence from syntactic priming 12:20 Input ambiguity and head directionality of TP in Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang English 12:50 Nonmanual aspects of focus particles in sign Annika Herrmann English languages 1:20 - 2:00 LUNCH 2:00- 3:05 Poster session: Crosslinguistic and Theoretical Analyses (see list on separate page)

TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (afternoon) Session A Stew 202 3:05-4:35 Morphology 3:05 A unique type of non-concatenative Gaurav Mathur, Christian Rathmann ASL morphology in signed languages 3:35 Re-analyzing plural classifier predicates in Nassira Nicola ASL ASL 4:05 Classifier handshape acquisition in ASL Diane Brentari, Ashley Jung English Revisited 4:35-4:45 pause

4:45-6:15 Special Session: Prosody, Morphology, and Syntax in the Emergence of Sign Language Marie Coppola (organizer)

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Prosody as point of entry to linguistic analysis Wendy Sandler English of a new language Evidence of resilient and less resilient Sandra Wood ASL properties in linguistic systems Grammaticalization of points in Nicaraguan Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas ASL signing

Session B Stew 218 3:05-4:35 Psycholinguistics 3:05 Processing of spatial information in sign Annika Herrmann, Matthias English languages. Evidence from event-related brain Schlesewsky, Markus Steinbach, Jana potentials Hosemann 3:35 Investigating recognition of ASL and human David Corina, Michael Grosvald English actions: Evidence from repetition priming for signs and gestures 4:05 The phonological representation of the non- Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey English dominant hand 4:35-4:45 pause

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

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

TISLR 10: October 2, 2010 (morning)

9:00-10:00 PLENARY TALK Stew 214 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 Elliot Saltzman English phonology 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 Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice de Quadros ASL different? 4

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 ASL Choi 10:40 The spatial association of nouns in Langue des Julie Rinfret English Signes Québécoise: Form, function and meaning 11:10 How uniform are locative expressions across Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli English sign languages? Ozyurek 11:40-11:50 pause 11:50-1:20 Acquisition 11:50 Effects of learning ASL on co-speech gesture Shannon Casey, Karen Emmorey ASL 12:20 The role of animacy in the acquisition of entity Kearsy Cormier, Sandra Smith BSL constructions in British Sign Language 12:50 British Sign Language grammaticality Adam Schembri, Eleni Orfanidou, BSL judgment task: Exploring age-of-acquisition Kearsy Cormier, David Vinson effects 1:20- 2:00 LUNCH 2:00- 3:05 Poster session: Corpus and Applied Linguistics (see separate page) TISLR 10: October 2, 2010 (afternoon) Session A Stew 202 3:05-4:35 Special Session: Bilingualism I Jill Morford (organizer) Cross-language activation during visual word Ellen Ormel, Daan Hermans English recognition in deaf bilingual children

Effects and non-effects of sign language Okan Kubus, Jill Morford, Christian ASL knowledge on written word recognition: A Rathmann, Erin Wilkinson comparison of ASL-English and DGS-German bilingual adults The development of code-blending in deaf and Beppie van den Bogaerde, Anne Baker English hearing Kodas 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- Ronice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo- ASL blending in bimodal bilingual development Martin, Debbie Chen Pichler Simultaneous production of ASL and English Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich, Tamar ASL costs the speaker but benefits the listener Gollan

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

4:45-6:15 Discourse 2 4:45 Levels of Structure in ASL Narratives: Marie Nadolske ASL Variations between Native and Nonnative Signers 5:15 Prosodic Structure in ASL Narratives: Native, Diane Brentari, Marie Nadolske ASL CODA and L2 Signers

5:45 Eyegaze in Creative Sign Language Michiko Kaneko, Johanna Mesch ASL/English

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

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

Poster session schedule follows:

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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 Jilly Kowalsky, Richard Meier An investigation into the lexicalization of health vocabulary in Lindsay Ferrara 3 Australian Sign 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 Marion Blondel, Fanny Limousin 5 deaf child (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 Naja Ferjan, Amy Lieberman, Rachel Mayberry 7 acquisition: When late looks early The role of input in acquisition of verb agreement in Hong Kong Sign Scholastica Lam 8 Language: A case study The variability of word order in the acquisition of Brazilian Sign Aline Lemos Pizzio 9 Language Sign and speech in family interaction: Code choices of Deaf Parents Ginger Pizer 10 and their hearing children Systematic phonological errors in the acquisition of ASL by native- Shannon Szameitat, Brenda Schick 11 signing Deaf children Four eyes and four hands: How mothers scaffold literacy Amy Lieberman, Marla Hatrak 12 development through ASL Cognitive and linguistic control in verbs of motion : Acquiring Robert Hoffmeister, Sarah Fish, Marlon 13 plural & arrangement Kuntze, Catherine Caldwel-Harris 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- Stephen McCullough, Ayse Saygin, Morana 28 sensitive visual areas in the human brain Alac, Karen Emmorey The impact of language modality on the linguistic encoding of Brenda Nicodemus, Lucinda O'Grady Batch, 29 perceptual categories Karen Emmorey Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL: Evidence Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey 30 from articulatory compensation Processing orthographic structure: Associations between print and Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich 31 32 Deafness, not sign language, enhances peripheral visual attention Matthew Dye Categorical perception of handling handshapes in British Sign Zed Sevcikova 33 Language Long-distance coarticulation in ASL: A production and perception Michael Grosvald, David Corina 34 study An fMRI study of implicit sign processing: Functional neuro-anatomy Niki Spotswood, Elizabeth Hirshorn, Heather of lexical recognition in American Sign Language Patterson, Peter Hauser, Guinevere Eden, 35 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 Elizabeth Parks, Jason Parks 40 recorded text test retell

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POSTER SESSION October 1, 2010 2-3 pm Phonology [Boards 1-7]: 1 Gesture as a gradient factor: comparing sign language and spoken Gemma Barbera, Martine Zwets language 2 Colors on hands: Phonological markedness of sign language color Monica Schoonhoven, Roland Pfau, Bart de terms 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 Israeli Sign Irit Meir Language 9 Grammaticalisation processes in Flemish Sign Language 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 Marina Milković, Evie Malaia Aktionsart 14 Referring expressions at the interfaces: A relational feature Donovan Grose geometric analysis

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 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 Finnish Sign Danny De Weerdt Language 18 Expression of quantity in the NP in (LSQ) Amélie Voghel 19 The correlation between mouth actions and word class in Irish Sign Susanne Militzer Language (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 and Sign Language of the Vadim Kimmelman Netherlands: 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 Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Charles Bradley 8

Language 29 Long distance agreement: Spatial modulations in Inuit Sign Joke Schuit Language verbs 30 The interplay of different head movements and their functions in Andrea Lackner, Christian Stalzer (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 Engin Arik, Marina Milkovic HZJ): A parallel architecture view 33 Relative Clauses in (TID) Okan Kubus 34 What negative polar questions can teach us about the C domain for Kadir Gokgoz Turkish 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- Myriam Vermeerbergen answer pairs revised 38 Multiple strategies for the questioning of the Wh-phrase in ASL Sandra Wood 39 Adjectives in ASL Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath 40 A case study on instrument classifiers in Tianjin Sign Language Jia He

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 Sandra Patricia Nascimento, Ana Mineiro study between 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 Suzanne Villeneuve expert and beginner sign language interpreters 5 An analysis of foot placement/movement and its functions in ASL Bryan Grubb, Peter Snelgrove lecture 6 Metalinguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge in ASL antonyms Robert Hoffmeister, Rebecca Williams-McVey and synonyms in Deaf children 7 Code-blending in Hong Kong Sign Language Cat H.-M. Fung 8 Deaf-friendly research? Examining ethical research conduct Jenny Singleton, Gabrielle Jones, Shilpa through focus group methodology Hanumantha 9 A lexical comparison of sign languages in East Asia Daisuke Sasaki 10 A cognitive approach to understanding linguistic politeness in Daniel Roush American Sign 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 Peter Hauser cross-linguistic 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: Elizabeth Teixeira, Claudia Soares the case of the Letras Libras Co 15 Conversational alternance and backchannel feedback in tactile Sandrine Schwartz 16 Person reference during sign language interpreted conversations Maria Cristina Pires Pereira 17 Bimodal language processing in profoundly deaf children with a Marcel Giezen, Anne Baker, Paola Escudero cochlear implant 18 Anthropomorphism in British Sign Language Literature Rachel Sutton-Spence, Donna West

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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 Jeffrey Davis, Melanie McKay-Cody contemporary studies 22 Historical constitution of the : Century XVIII Ana Regina Campello - XXI

[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 Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, lemmatised corpus? 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 Julie Hochgesang, Cecily Whitworth Language 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? Christian Cuxac, Brigitte Garcia, Ivani Fusellier, The French CREAGEST Project Marie-Anne Sallandre, Dominique Boutet, Cyril Courtin 38 Transcription systems as input to coding systems: SignWriting & Rachel Channon, Charles Butler SignTyp 39 Search through lexical sign bases with a constraint based model Michael Filhol

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