[Slling-l] Conference on Deaf and Hearing Children in Multilingual Settings

[Nyst, V.A.S.]

Dear all,
We are happy to announce the conference Deaf and Hearing Children in Multilingual Settings, which will be held on August 10, 2019, at the University of Ghana, Legon.
To become a competent language user, a child needs to learn the linguistic system of a language as well as the social system governing its use. Both systems are subtle and complex, even more so when a child is growing up in a multilingual environment.
Over the past two years, the project Language Socialization in Deaf families in Africa, funded by the Leiden University Fund, took place. A longitudinal corpus was compiled of interactions in families with deaf parents in five countries in Africa, including monomodal (i.e. uniquely signing or uniquely speaking) families and bimodal trilingual families.
On Saturday August 10, 2019, the closing conference of this project will be held at the University of Ghana, Legon. The program will consist of presentations on language acquisition and socialization in deaf and hearing families in Africa, as well as in deaf families worldwide.
Keynote speaker:
Lynn Hou (University of Santa Barbara) The case study of “making hands” in one extended signing family
Presenters:
•       Erin Wilkinson (University of New Mexico) A study on cross-lexical activation of American Sign Language and English in young deaf signers: Deaf children connect English print words with ASL signs in a monolingual semantic judgement task
•       Marta Morgado (Leiden University) Bilingual Deaf education in Portugal from a teacher’s perspective
•       Tano Angoua (Université Houphouët Boigny) Deaf parents and their hearing children gestures and signs in expression of negation: case of rural and urban deaf families of Côte d’Ivoire
•       Kidane Admasu (Addis Ababa University) Caregiver’s Sensitivity and Lexical Development Patterns of Hearing Children of Deaf Adults in Ethiopia
•       Yves Beosso (Mission Chrétienne des Sourds au Tchad) Ngambaye home signing : a preliminary analysis of the lexicon of three deaf children and their hearing families in N’Djamena, Chad
Poster presentation:
There is room for poster presentations. If you are interested in presenting a poster on a related topic, please send an abstract to the organization before August 3.
Organizing committee:
George Akanlig-Pare, University of Ghana, Dept. of Linguistics
Marco Nyarko, University of Ghana, Dept. of Linguistics
Timothy Mac Hadjah, Leiden University, LU Centre for Linguistics
Victoria Nyst, Leiden University, LU Centre for Linguistics.

For the abstracts, see: https://deafstudies.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/conference-on-deaf-and-hearing-children-in-multilingual-settings-in-accra-ghana-10-august-2019/
For more information: v.a.s.nyst at hum.leidenuniv.nl

Greetings! Victoria

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