[Slling-l] FEAST Barcelona 2015

Thu Apr 2 08:09:16 UTC 2015

Dear SLLing-listers

We are pleased to inform you that the programme of FEAST Barcelona 2015,
the final conference of the SignGram COST Action IS1006, is already
available here:

https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast-2015-barcelona-2/program

You can also find it pasted at the end of this message.

The languages of the conference will be English and ASL/IS. Interpreting
between ASL/IS and English will be provided.

Registration for the conference is free of charge, but if you are not a
member of the COST Action, you must send an email to the conference address
(feast.conference at gmail.com) to tell us you intend to attend. Signing an
attendance sheet during the conference is required.

We hope to see you soon in Barcelona!

Best wishes,

The Organizing Committee

*FEAST conference program *

*Monday, May 4th 2015 (Main session)*

08.45-09.15    Registration

09.15-09.30
Welcome and opening remarks

09.30-10.20   Invited talk: Bimodal bilingual language acquisition and
language synthesis
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut, USA)

10.20-11.00    BIDD: A sign language copula
Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, Rannveig Sverrisdóttir (University of Iceland),
Kristín Lena Thorvaldsdóttir (The Communication Centre for the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing) and Silja Hlín Guðbjörnsdóttir (Lágafellsskóli)

11.00-11.30    Coffee break

11.30-12.10    Distinctive Features of Noun-Verb Pairs in Croatian Sign
Language (HZJ)
Ivana Marić and Marina Milković (University of Zagreb)

 12.10-12.50    Emergent Lexical Categories: Nouns and Verbs in Homesign
and Nicaraguan Sign Language
Natasha Abner (Montclair State University), Molly Flaherty, Katelyn Stangl,
Diane Brentari and Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)

12.50-14.20    Lunch break

14.20-15.00    Distributive quantification in Russian Sign Language
Vadim Kimmelman (University of Amsterdam)

15.00-15.40    The interaction of telicity, grammatical role, and
quantification on the choice of postnominal markers in ASL
Teresa Galloway (Cornell University)

15.40-16.00    Short poster presentation 1

16.00-16.40    Poster session 1 and coffee break

16-40-17.20    Sentence Final Doubling, Negation, and the Syntax/Discourse
Interface
Kathryn Davidson (Yale University) and Helen Koulidobrova (Central
Connecticut State University)

17.20-18.00    On Wh-Complements in Turkish Sign Language
Emre Hakguder (Boğaziçi University)

*Tuesday, May 5th 2015 (Main session)*

09.00-09.40    Event representations constrain the structure of (sign)
language
Carlo Geraci, Brent Strickland, Emmanuel Chemla (CNRS, Institut
Jean-Nicod), Roland Pfau (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Meltem Kelepir
(Boğaziçi University) and Philippe Schlenker (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod)

09.40-10.20    Regular and Backward Agreement Verbs in Libras: outlining a
syntactic derivation
Guilherme Lourenço (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

10.20-10.45    Short poster presentations 2

10.45-11.30    Poster session 2 and coffee break

11.30-12.10    Phonological development in hearing learners of a sign
language: The role of sign complexity and iconicity
Gerardo Ortega (Radboud University, Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics) and Gary Morgan (City University, University College
London

12.10-12.50    Signs activate words. Neurophysiological evidence for
cross-modal co-activation of German (L2) during German Sign Language
sentence processing (L1)
Jana Hosemann (Georg-August University of Goettingen), Nicole
Altvater-Mackensen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences), Annika Herrmann, Markus Steinbach and Nivedita Mani
(Georg-August University of Goettingen)

12.50-14.00    Lunch break

14.00-14.50    Invited talk: Visible semantics and iconic semantics
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS-Paris/New York University)

14.50-15.30    Distinguishing Discourse Referents: A Unified DRT-Analysis
of R-Loci in Sign Languages and Gender in Spoken Language
Markus Steinbach, Derya Nuhbalaoglu, Anne Wienholz and Edgar Onea
(Georg-August University of Goettingen)

15.30-15.50    Short poster presentation 3

15.50-16.40    Poster session 3 and coffee break

16.40-17.10    How does a language-ready brain recognize language?
Information transfer in sign language as measured by fractal complexity of
motion
Evie Malaia (University of Texas at Arlington), Ronnie Wilbur and Joshua
Borneman (Purdue University)

17.10-17.50    Comparative constructions and visible degrees in LIS
Valentina Aristodemo and Carlo Geraci (CNRS, Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris)

17.50-18.00    Closing of the main session

18.00                Business meeting

*Alternate papers for presentation*
'Backwards Agreement' in TID Comparatives; Is it Agreement, Directionality
or Gestural?
Huner Kasikara, A. Surmu Ozsoys and Elvan Tamyurek Ozparlak (Boğaziçi
University)

Real auxiliaries or just person agreement markers? The syntactic status of
agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs (University of Salzburg) and Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University)

Towards a revised typology of mouth actions
Connie de Vos (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)

*POSTER Session 1*
Towards a revised typology of mouth actions
Connie de Vos (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The
Netherlands)

The Role of Animacy in Passive-like Constructions in Turkish Sign Language
(TİD)
Aslı Özkul (İstanbul Bilgi University & Boğaziçi University) and Meltem
Kelepir (Boğaziçi University)

Article Distribution in English/American Sign Language (ASL) Whispered
Code-Blended Speech
Vanessa Petroj (University of Connecticut)

Integration of "secondary" information during comprehension: mouthings in
British Sign Language
David Vinson (University College London), Pamela Perniss (Univeristy of
Brighton) and Gabriella Vigliocco (University College London)

Simultaneous classifier constructions in Sign Language of the Netherlands:
a case of parataxis
Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University Nijmegen)

*POSTER Session 2*
Real auxiliaries or just person agreement markers? The syntactic status of
agreement markers in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs (University of Salzburg) and Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University)

Development of the Kata Kolok Child Signing Corpus
Hannah Lutzenberger (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands)

Description of A Perfective Marker in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
Serpil Karabüklü (Boğaziçi University)

Morphological complexity of lexical signs
Els van der Kooij and Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University Nijmegen)

VP-frozen classifiers in Slovenian Sign Language (SZJ)
Matic Pavlic (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)

*POSTER Session 3*

‘Backward Agreement’ in TID Comparatives; Is it Agreement, Directionality
or Gestural?
Huner Kasikara, A. Sumru Ozsoy and Elvan Tamyurek Ozparlak (Boğaziçi
University)

Mouth lexemes in LSB
Aline Garcia Rodero Takahira (University of São Paulo)

Shifting obligatory – or not? The interpretation of person indexicals in
role shift and the influence of pragmatics
Annika Hübl (Georg-August University of Göttingen)

Experimental evidence for stroke-to-stroke turn-boundary prediction in
signed conversations
Connie de Vos, Marisa Casillas (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen), Onno Crasborn (Radboud University) and Stephen C. Levinson (Max
Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

Metaphor and inhibition—evidence from iconicity in sign languages
Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) and Irit Meir (University
of Haifa)

*COST SignGram Outreach session*

*Wednesday May 6th 2015*

14.00-14.30    Opening

14.30-15.15    The SignGram Blueprint
                        Josep Quer (ICREA-UPF) & Carlo Cecchetto
(Milano-Bicocca)

15.15-15.45    Coffee break

15.45-16.15    The impact of sign language acquisition research for sign
language communities
                        Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut, USA)

16.15-16.45    The link between sign language research and education of
Deaf children and sign language learning/teaching as
        well as policies concerning linguistic rights for Deaf individuals
and communities
                        Christian Rathmann (Universität Hamburg)

16.45-17.15    Looking in two directions: the implications for linguistic
theory and clinical intervention of research on development
            and acquired impairments in sign language
                        Bencie Woll (DCAL, University College of London)

17.15-18.00    Panel discussion

18.00-18.50    Invited speaker: Language Planning and Policy Making:
Identifying the Architects
                        Benjamin Bahan (Gallaudet University, USA)

 18.50-19.00    Closing
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