31.1743, Confs: Sign Language; Gen Ling/Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1743. Tue May 26 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1743, Confs: Sign Language; Gen Ling/Online

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Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 13:58:45
From: caterina donati [cdonati at linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr]
Subject: FEAST Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory

 
FEAST Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 
Short Title: FEAST 

Date: 23-Jun-2020 - 25-Jun-2020 
Location: Paris, France 
Contact: Carlo Geraci 
Contact Email: feast2020paris at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/feast-2020-online?authuser=0 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

FEAST is a regular forum to discuss formal approaches to sign language grammar
(in particular in the generative tradition), experimental approaches to sign
languages, and their interaction.

***Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, FEAST 2020 will not be held in Honk-Kong nor
in Paris. FEAST 2020 will be organized by a team of linguistic departments
based in Paris and held ONLINE on June 23-25 (*new dates*)***

The program is ready, and briefly given below. Please visit the webpage for
important details about how to attend, how to register (no fees) and any other
information. 
 

Program Information: 

Tuesday, June 23 (Paris time):
2 pm: Age of acquisition matters. Effects of age of first sign language
exposure in role-shift processing in three different sign languages (LIS, LSC
and LSF) - Beatrice Giustolisi, Valentina Aristodemo, Giorgia Zorzi, Rita
Sala, Doriane Gras, Jordina Sánchez Amat and Carlo Cecchetto

2:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion (Zoom)

3 pm: Person marking in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal pronouns - Raquel
Veiga Busto

3:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

4 pm: 1st Poster session lightning talks:
 - Typology of sign language compound from phonological perspective- Mirko
Santoro
 - A comparison on nominal structure in Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese-
Jieqiong Li & Gladys Tang
 - Filling the gap: A novel test to elicit nominal plurals in Sign Language of
the Netherlands- Cindy van Boven
 - Responding to assertions in German Sign Language (DGS)- Cornelia Loos,
Sophie Repp and Markus Steinbach

5 pm:  The emergence of natural language quantification- Annemarie Kocab,
Kathryn Davidson and Jesse Snedeker

5:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

6 pm: Social event

Wednesday, June 24 (Paris time):
2 pm: Argument marking in sign language: the role of hand selection- Chiara
Branchini

2:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

3 pm: Phonemic Handshape Inventory in Russian Sign Language- Anna Klezovich
and Anastasiia Chizhikova, 

3:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

4 pm: 2nd Poster session lightning talks:
 - Parsing an ASL Corpus with Categorial Grammar- Michael A. Nix and Deryle W.
Lonsdale
 - Differentiating ASL MORE- and BEAT-constructions- Ashley Kentner, Sandra
Wood and Ronnie Wilbur
 - Semantics and lexical properties of adjective signs affect their word order
position in American Sign Language- Paula Rubio-Fernández, Anne Wienholz,
Simon Kirby and Amy Lieberman
 - Wh-Questions in Indian Sign Language: Exploring New Challenges- Neha
Kulshreshtha

5 pm: Repetition reduction across multiple repetitions in ASL Fingerspelling-
Aurora Martinez del Rio and Diane Brentari

5:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

6 pm: Let's watch together ! 'We were there ... we are here', The Sign-Hub
documentary.

Thurday, June 25 (Paris time):
2 pm: The Causative-Inchoative Alternation in Turkish Sign Language and the
Age of Acquisition Effects on Complex Clauses- Demet Kayabaşı and Kadir Gökgöz

2:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

3 pm: The effect of age of acquisition in relative clauses across sign
languages- Charlotte Hauser, Giorgia Zorzi, Beatrice Giustolisi, Doriane Gras,
Jordina Sánchez, Rita Sala and Carlo Cecchetto 

3:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

4 pm: 3rd Poster session lightning talks: 
 - Tracking effects of age of acquisition and phonology in American Sign
Language processing- Anne Wienholz and Amy Lieberman
 - Assessing syntactic competence in sign languages: the case of wh-questions-
Valentina Aristodemo and Charlotte Hauser
 - To what extent does age of acquisition matter: Evidence from Turkish Sign
Language (TİD)- Hande Sevgi and Kadir Gökgöz
 - Assessing lexical competence in European sign languages- Caterina Donati,
Chiara Annucci and Valérie Jendhoubi

5 pm: Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Sign Language
History- Natasha Abner, Carlo Geraci, Shi Yu, Jessica Lettieri & Anah Salgat 

5:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion

6 pm: Predictive Typology of Sign Language Instrumental- Emre Hakguder and
Diane Brentari 

6:30 pm: Question/Answer live discussion





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