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Poster sessions TISLR 13 Hamburg 20 Poster session 1 Thursday, 26.09.19, 16.30-17:30 West Wing of Main Building (ESA-W), Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1 Rooms 120, 121, and 221 Room 120: Posters 1.01-1.16 Room 121: Posters 1.17-1.32 Room 221: Posters 1.33-1.61 # Presenters Title Natasha Abner, Laura Lakusta, Asymmetries in spatial communication: 1.01 Yasmin Hussein, Rebecca Lotwich, Evidence from sources and goals Emily Miiller, and Anah Salgat Production and perception in a shared tactile 1.02 Kristian Ali and Ben Braithwaite sign language Valentina Aristodemo, Chiara Annucci, Beatrice Giustolisi, Measuring phonological complexity in sign 1.03 Doriane Gras, Justine Mertz, and languages Caterina Donati The “Tip of the Fingers” phenomenon in Juliane Farah Arnone, and Felipe 1.04 Brazilian Sign Language (Libras): A study Venâncio Barbosa about lexical retrieval in deaf people Across-the-board dependencies in Japanese 1.05 Yuko Asada Sign Language Emmanuel Asonye, Oluwasola Sociocultural analysis of lexical signs of an 1.06 Aderibigbe, Ohakwe Onyediziri, indigenous Nigerian Sign Language and Aniefon Daniel Akpan Gemma Barberà and Patricia Indefinite determiners in sign languages: A 1.07 cancelled Cabredo Hofherr typological look Anastasia Bauer and Roman The functions of PALM-UP in primary and 1.08 cancelled Poryadin alternate sign languages Claudia Becker, Patricia Barbeito Narrative development of deaf children in 1.09 Rey-Geißler, and Martje Hansen German Sign Language Gal Belsitzman, Atay Citron, and Realizing the expressive potential of the body 1.10 Wendy Sandler in a Sign Language Theatre Laboratory Simultaneity vs sequentiality: Serial verb 1.11 Elena Benedicto constructions at the intersection. The case of agents in motion predicates First person singular pronouns as a marker of 1.12 Kiva Bennett relative status in American Sign Language On the role of eye gaze in depicting and Inez Beukeleers, Geert Brône, and enacting in Flemish Sign Language: A 1.13 Myriam Vermeerbergen comparative study of narratives and spontaneous conversations Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago 1.14 Felicia Bisnath signing community Sign language dictionary as a digital tool in L2 Thomas Björkstrand, Eira 1.15 teaching: Score evaluation of sentences for Balkstam, and Josephine Willing CEFR levels A1–B2 1.16 Shane Blau Perceptual narrowing in deaf infants Carl Börstell, Onno Crasborn, and Signs of reduction: Frequency, duration, and 1.17 Adam Schembri signing rate in three sign language corpora 1.18 Rain Bosworth, Sarah Tyler, Eli Automaticity of visual word & sign processing TISLR 13 Hamburg 21 # Presenters Title Binder, and Jill Morford in deaf bilinguals: Evidence from the Stroop Task Diane Brentari, Rabia Ergin, Ann How quickly does phonology emerge in a 1.19 Senghas, and Marie Coppola “village” vs. “community” sign language? Coordination and subordination in German 1.20 Fabian Bross Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache) and the Bodily Mapping Hypothesis Chris Brozdowski and Karen Using transitional information in sign and 1.21 Emmorey gesture prediction Conditional and concessive constructions in 1.22 Svetlana Burkova Russian Sign Language What can number tell us about person? 1.23 Raquel Veiga Busto Pronominal reference and person distinctions in Catalan Sign Language Maria Del Carmen Cabeza, José Clause delimitation in Spanish Sign Language 1.24 M. García-Miguel, Ania Pérez, and (LSE): Exploring projections Juan R. Valiño Sentence topics and communicative 1.25 Chiara Calderone strategies in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Shared prosodic contours in LSF poetry and 1.26 Fanny Catteau and Coralie Vincent its spoken translation More than a pointing: Pointing sign as an Kenith Kai Lai Chan, and Felix Yim 1.27 interjective hesitator in Hong Kong Sign Binh Sze Language Richard Cokart and Trude Changes in youth sign language variation in 1.28 Schermer NGT PERSON as a rescue mechanism for plural 1.29 Franziska Conradts cancelledNPs in German Sign Language Frances Cooley and David Quinto- Investigating the role of phonological 1.30 Pozos awareness on reading in deaf native signers Raniere Alislan Almeida Cordeiro, Datilological sign in Libras – Brazilian Sign 1.31 and Aline Lemos Pizzio Language Brendan Costello, Marcel Giezen, Effects of familiarity, iconicity and 1.32 Miguel Ángel Sampedro, Saúl phonological density in the LSE lexicon Villameriel, and Manuel Carreiras Svetlana Dachkovsky, Rose Time will tell: Grammaticalization of time 1.33 Stamp, and Wendy Sandler expressions in Israeli Sign Language (ISL) Turn taking in signed conversations: The state 1.34 Connie de Vos of the art Before or after? Adposition signs in Finnish 1.35 Danny De Weerdt Sign Language: Form and position 1.36 Paul Dudis and Miako Villanueva Application of Depiction Coding System Matthew Dye, Andreas Savakis, Bruno Artacho, Aman Arora, Naomi Perceptual optimization of American Sign 1.37 Caselli, Erin Finton, and Corrine Language: Evidence from a lexical corpus Occhino TISLR 13 Hamburg 22 # Presenters Title Evgeniia Khristoforova and Vadim Relative clauses in Russian Sign Language: 1.38 Kimmelman Where do they come from? Fingers on the Face: Towards an interactional 1.39 Ryan Fan typology of fingerspelling Casey Ferrara and Donna Jo Handshape, movement, and geometry: 1.40 Napoli Communicating shapes in sign languages Regularities in a corpus of spontaneous Sign 1.41 Michael Filhol Language Writing, and a comparison to writing systems The role of early sign language exposure and Allison Fitch and Sudha 1.42 deafness on visual orienting and Arunachalam disengagement Towards a user-friendly tool for automated Manolis Fragkiadakis and Victoria sign annotation: Identification and annotation 1.43 Nyst of time slots and number of hands Anne Therese Frederiksen and Implicit causality and thematic roles in ASL: A 1.44 Rachel Mayberry norming study of 239 implicit causality verbs Multimodal motherese in Israeli Sign 1.45 Orit Fuks Language (ISL) The uses of PALM-UP in interpreted French 1.46 Sílvia Gabarró-López and LSFB productions Brigitte Garcia, Marie-Anne Impersonal human reference in French Sign 1.47 Sallandre, Marie-Thérèse L’Huillier, Language (LSF) and Hatice Aksen Pragmatic constraints on extra-grammatical 1.48 Johnny George morphology in Japanese Sign Language (JSL) onomastics Theory-description-theory: A round trip in 1.49 Carlo Geraci and Justine Mertz French Sign Language phonology Emerging functions of manual holds in 1.50 Austin German Zinacantec Family Homesign NGT lexicon used in IS interpreting by a team 1.51 Aurelia Nana Gassa Gonga of deaf interpreters: A case study Mastering depicting constructions in the L1 1.52 Julia Gspandl acquisition of Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS): Issues of lexicalization Phonological processes in Shanghai Sign 1.53 Shengyun Gu Language Kathleen Currie Hall, Oksana Lexical competition correlates with articulatory 1.54 Tkachman, and Yurika Aonuki enhancement in ASL Language access profiles: A better way to Matthew Hall and Stephanie De 1.55 characterize DHH children’s early Anda communicative input The phonotactics of type-III syllables of 1.56 Daisuke Hara and Makoto Miwa Japanese Sign Language Julie Hochgesang, Donovan Catt, Deborah Chen Pichler, Corina Sign language acquisition, annotation, 1.57 Goodwin, Carmelina Kennedy, Lee archiving and sharing: The SLAAASh project Prunier, Doreen Simons, and status report Diane Lillo-Martin TISLR 13 Hamburg 23 # Presenters Title Andrea Lackner, Nikolaus Riemer Kankkonen, Christian Stalzer, Deaf annotators’ associations with ‘head 1.58 Christian Hausch, Isabel Graf, forward’ in Austrian Sign Language Laura Theuermann, and Elisabeth Scharfetter Kailge Sign Language: A “network-based” Lauren W. 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