<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The eighth meeting of the FEAST (''Formal and Experimental Advances in
Sign language Theory”) colloquium will take place ONLINE on June 23-25, 2020. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">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.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This VIRTUAL EDITION is co-organized by CNRS,
the University of Paris, the Institut Jean-Nicod and Paris 8 University. The
languages of the conference are English and ASL/IS. Interpretation between
these languages will be provided.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">There is no
registration fee, but registration at the following link is necessary to attend
the conference:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://cognitionens.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bDzRsSt2yXP0vgV" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://cognitionens.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bDzRsSt2yXP0vgV</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">All
the talks and poster presentations are asynchronous: the videos will be put
online on the website on Monday, June, 22nd but there is a recommended watching
schedule. The question/answer sessions of talks will be held <strong>live</strong>,
using Zoom, after each slot assigned to the talks in the recommended watching
schedule, as indicated in the program.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">SPECIAL
EVENT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-weight:normal">On Wednesday,
24th at 6 pm (Paris time) </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">we<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> will have the premiere of 'We were there... we are here', a SIGN-HUB documentary
movie based on interviews and life testimonies of elderly Deaf people from France,
Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey. The interviews were
conducted and filmed by Deaf teams in the framework of the research project
“The Sign Hub: Preserving, Researching and Fostering the Linguistic, Historical
and Cultural Heritage of European Deaf Signing Communities with an Integral
Resource” funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 programme
(<a href="http://www.sign-hub.eu/">http://www.sign-hub.eu/</a>).</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(33,33,33)">PROGRAM</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tuesday 23rd
(Paris time):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Person marking in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal pronouns - Raquel Veiga
Busto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
1st Poster session lightning talks (3 minutes for each poster):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Typology of sign
language compound from phonological perspective- Mirko Santoro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A comparison on
nominal structure in Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese- Jieqiong Li &
Gladys Tang</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Filling the gap: A
novel test to elicit nominal plurals in Sign Language of the Netherlands- Cindy
van Boven</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Responding to
assertions in German Sign Language (DGS)- Cornelia Loos, Sophie Repp and Markus
Steinbach</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
The emergence of natural language quantification- Annemarie Kocab, Kathryn
Davidson and Jesse Snedeker</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5:30 pm: Question/Answer
live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Special event</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wednesday 24th
(Paris time):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Argument marking in sign language: the role of hand selection- Chiara Branchini</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Phonemic Handshape Inventory in Russian Sign Language- Anna Klezovich and
Anastasiia Chizhikova,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
2nd Poster session lightning talks (3 minutes for each poster):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Parsing an ASL
Corpus with Categorial Grammar- Michael A. Nix and Deryle W. Lonsdale</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Differentiating
ASL MORE- and BEAT-constructions- Ashley Kentner, Sandra Wood and Ronnie Wilbur</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wh-Questions in
Indian Sign Language: Exploring New Challenges- Neha Kulshreshtha</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Repetition reduction across multiple repetitions in ASL Fingerspelling- Aurora
Martinez del Rio and Diane Brentari</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Premiere of 'We were there ... we are here', the SIGN-HUB documentary</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thursday 25th
(Paris time):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
The Causative-Inchoative Alternation in Turkish Sign Language and the Age of
Acquisition Effects on Complex Clauses- Demet Kayabaşı and Kadir Gökgöz</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk<b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
3rd Poster session lightning talks (3 minutes for each poster):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tracking effects
of age of acquisition and phonology in American Sign Language processing- Anne
Wienholz and Amy Lieberman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Assessing
syntactic competence in sign languages: the case of wh-questions- Valentina
Aristodemo and Charlotte Hauser</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To what extent does
age of acquisition matter: Evidence from Turkish Sign Language (TİD)- Hande
Sevgi and Kadir Gökgöz</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Assessing lexical
competence in European sign languages- Caterina Donati, Chiara Annucci and
Valérie Jendhoubi</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Structural Phylogenetics and the Reconstruction of Sign Language History-
Natasha Abner, Carlo Geraci, Shi Yu, Jessica Lettieri & Anah Salgat</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Predictive Typology of Sign Language Instrumental- Emre Hakguder and Diane
Brentari</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6:30 pm</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
Question/Answer live session on the previous talk</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>