CUNY conference at La Jolla - why not?

Wed Oct 11 17:11:09 UTC 2006

SignWriting List
October 11, 2006

> Below is the call for papers for the CUNY conference with the special
> session on the psycholinguistics of signed languages to be held in
> San Diego In March, 2007.  Note that for the sign language special
> session, psycholinguistic research is not limited to sentence
> processing.
>
> It looks like it's going to be a great venue and meeting -  I hope
> that many of you working on psycholinguistic projects will be able to
> submit a paper and/or attend!
>
> Best,
> Karen Emmorey

Hello Shane and Everyone!
As you know, Dr. Karen Emmorey used SignWriting in her lab while her  
lab was located at Salk Institute, for writing ASL. Here is an  
article written about that work:

http://www.signwriting.org/library/newsletter/newssp97/spr97p1.html

Dr. Emmorey's Deaf staff were also our DAC members back in the 1980s  
and 1990s, so after awhile, SignWriting started being used in the lab  
in a very casual and natural way, by her Deaf researchers...and at  
one point we discussed the idea of scanning the brain of Deaf people  
fluent in SignWriting, to see how the brain language acquisition  
related to SignWriting processing...to see if there were any  
differences between reading spoken languages and reading signed  
languages...but that experiment never happened.

Then times changed...the DAC members all moved to different places  
around the world and Dr. Emmorey's lab moved to a new location here  
in San Diego. It is very beautiful:

http://emmoreylab.sdsu.edu/

Since then I have visited the new lab, which is located at San Diego  
State University and is a really wonderful place!

I know some individual researchers use SignWriting there...for  
example a whole long list of verbs in ASL were written for one  
dissertation of one of the staff members, but on the other hand we  
need to re-stimulate a Deaf staff to really use it on a regular basis  
again in research here in San Diego.

Recently I have been so ill that I would not be able to present at  
any conference here in San Diego. Of course March is a long way off  
and by that time I am sure I can at least attend at the conference.  
But I personally am not a linguist, so we would have to find another  
person to write the paper with me. I will think about it. Maybe I can  
call Dr. Emmorey to get some ideas from her as to what would be a  
good topic for SignWriting at the conference, and maybe one of the  
linguists in her lab would be interested in partnering with me...

Or is there anyone else on the List who would enjoy coming to San  
Diego to present a paper here? Stuart or Philippe from Iowa, or Adam?  
I would love to see you, and we could have a SignWriting workshop  
before or after the conference. I could teach Advanced SignWriting  
courses and present how to use our new SignPuddle and SignBank  
software...

Thanks for the idea, Shane!

Val ;-)

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On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:09 AM, Shane Gilchrist O hEorpa wrote:

> Val,
>
> see below - why not you give a paper on SW at this conference - it ll
> be taken place at La Jolla :-)
>
> Shane
>
> =
>
> Below is the call for papers for the CUNY conference with the special
> session on the psycholinguistics of signed languages to be held in
> San Diego In March, 2007.  Note that for the sign language special
> session, psycholinguistic research is not limited to sentence
> processing.
>
> It looks like it's going to be a great venue and meeting -  I hope
> that many of you working on psycholinguistic projects will be able to
> submit a paper and/or attend!
>
> Best,
>
> Karen Emmorey
>
> *****************************
>
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> The 20th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing will be
> hosted by the Center for Research in Language at the University of
> California, San Diego.  The conference will be held at the Museum of
> Contemporary Art of San Diego, in La Jolla.  (Please note that the
> MCASD has two locations, one in downtown San Diego, one in La Jolla;
> the conference will be held at the La Jolla location).  The dates of
> the conference are March 29-31, 2007.  Abstracts are solicited for
> papers and posters presenting theoretical, experimental, and/or
> computational research on any aspect of human sentence processing.
> Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, and will be considered both
> for the general conference sessions and for a special session under
> the theme "The Psycholinguistics of Signed and Spoken Language" (see
> below).
>
> Accepted presentations will form a program made up of three days of
> spoken papers presented in plenary session, and three poster sessions
> (one on each day of the conference). Time constraints entail that
> fewer than 20% of accepted presentations can be given as talks at the
> podium. Therefore, reviewers will be asked to identify submissions
> that seem most likely to generate broad interest due to originality
> of ideas or significance to the field.
>
> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2006
>
> This deadline applies to all submissions, paper or poster, special
> session or regular session. Notifications concerning acceptance/
> rejection will be made by mid-January 2007.
>
> ABSTRACT GUIDELINES
>
> The text of the abstract should be no longer than 500 words. You may
> also include examples, references and data summaries (but please, no
> data charts or diagrams). This additional material, taken together,
> should not exceed 15 lines of text.
>
> Abstracts will be submitted electronically. The submissions system is
> presently under construction, but will be available soon at the
> conference website:
>
> http://crl.ucsd.edu/cuny2007/
>
> INFORMATION ON THE SPECIAL SESSION
>
> "The Psycholinguistics of Signed and Spoken Languages."
>
> CUNY 2007 will include a special session that aims to bring together
> insights from signed and spoken language research to shed light on
> fundamental issues in language processing, including the extent to
> which language learning, processing, and representation are modality
> independent or modality dependent; the degree to which the inherent
> and emergent differences between signed and spoken languages affect
> basic processing strategies of the two language types; whether the
> differences between signed and spoken languages lead to corresponding
> differences in the neural organization of language; and how the
> sometimes atypical patterns of language exposure that arise in some
> sign-language communities affects language learning and language
> representation.  Submitted abstracts that describe research on signed
> and/or spoken language that is broadly relevant to the above
> described themes will be given special consideration during the
> review and selection process.  If you or your colleagues are
> conducting research that can contribute to the special session, we
> encourage you to consider this venue and its deadlines for submitting
> and presenting your research.
>
> Invited speakers:
> David Corina (University of California, Davis)
> Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University and UCSD)
> Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut and Haskins Lab)
> Rachel Mayberry (UCSD)
> Gabriella Vigliocco (University College, London).
>
> Most sincerely,
>
> The faculty, staff, and students at the Center for Research in
> Language, University of California, San Diego
>
> Conference email: sentproc at gc.cuny.edu
> Conference website: http://crl.ucsd.edu/cuny2007
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Conference email: sentproc at gc.cuny.edu
> Conference website: http://qcpages.qc.edu/~efernand/CUNY2006
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Val ;-)

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