7.361, Confs: Native American langs, Gesture and language
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Subject: 7.361, Confs: Native American langs, Gesture and language
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 23:25:59 CST
From: reinhol at cc.UManitoba.CA (Charlotte Reinholtz)
Subject: Conf: Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Native American
Languages
2)
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:30:15 EST
From: messing at asel.udel.edu (Lynn Messing)
Subject: announcement of workshop on gesture and language
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 23:25:59 CST
From: reinhol at cc.UManitoba.CA (Charlotte Reinholtz)
Subject: Conf: Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Native American
Languages
Workshop on
STRUCTURE AND CONSTITUENCY IN
NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES
The University of Manitoba
March 29th - 31st, 1996
Preliminary Program
FRIDAY 29 MARCH =20
9:30 Registration & Welcome / Coffee
10:00 Filomena Sandalo (University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie
Mellon University): Category projection and phrase
structure in Kadiwe=82u
10:40 Kevin Russell (University of Manitoba): What's with all
these long words anyway?
11:20 Break
11:35 Liliana Sanchez (California State University, Long
Beach): Why does Southern Quechua agree in person
nominally?
12:15 Eleanor M. Blain (University of British Columbia):
Restrictive complementizer ka- in Plains Cree
12:55 Lunch
2:40 Leslie Saxon, Belcourt Lecturer (University of
Victoria): Reflections of Syntax in the Athapaskan Verb
4:00 Reception
SATURDAY 30 MARCH
10:00 Shanley Allen & Heike Schroeder (Max-Planck-Institut
fuer Psycholinguistik): Discourse effects on argument
representation in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech
10:40 Alana Johns (Memorial University): The Decline of
Ergativity in Inuktitut
11:20 Break
11:35 Martha McGinnis, Invited Speaker (Massachussetts
Institute of Technology): Is there syntactic inversion?
12:35 Lunch
1:35 Michelle Long (University of Manitoba): Obviation and
clausal relations
2:15 Charlotte Reinholtz (University of Manitoba): Real vs
look-alike determiner movement in Swampy Cree
2:55 Break
3:10 Jose Camacho and Liliana Sanchez (University of
Southern California and California State University,
Long Beach): Conjunction in Southern Quechua
3:50 Break
4:05 Rose-Marie Dechaine, Invited Speaker (University of
British Columbia): What Algonquian morphology is really
like: Hockett revisited =20
7:00 Party
SUNDAY 31 MARCH =20
10:00 Roundtable: Current trends in Native American
Linguistics
12:00 Lunch
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2)
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:30:15 EST
From: messing at asel.udel.edu (Lynn Messing)
Subject: announcement of workshop on gesture and language
Workshop on the Integration of Gesture in Language and Speech (WIGLS)
in Newark, Delaware and Wilmington, Delaware
October 7-8, 1996
Keynote speakers: Thomas Huang (on computers and gestures)
David McNeill (on spoken languages and gestures)
Sherman Wilcox (on signed languages and gestures)
WIGLS will be an interdisciplinary workshop examining the relationship
between gesture and language, both spoken and signed. It is a
satellite worskhop of the Fourth International Conference on Spoken
Language Processing (ICSLP 96), which will be held October 3-6, 1996,
in Philadelphia, PA
WIGLS schedule:
October 7, 1996:
8:15 - 8:30 - welcome, opening remarks, by Lynn Messing
8:30 - 9:15 - keynote presentation: David McNeill on gesture and spoken
language
9:15 - 9:35 - discussion
9:35 - 10:00 - coffee break
10:00 - 11:55 - presentations and discussions
Spontaneous Gestures Do Communicate, by Sotaro Kita
Numbers on the Hands, by Arika Okrent
Linguistic Features of Metaphoric Gestures, by Rebecca Webb
What do Aphasic Patients' Facial Expressions & Gestures Reveal?
by Agnes Roman
12:00 - 1:00 - lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - keynote presentation: Sherman Wilcox on gesture and signed
language
1:45 - 2:05 - discussion
2:05 - 2:30 - coffee break
2:30 - 4:00 - presentations and discussions
The Effect of Gesturing on Gestures, by Robert Dufour
Towards an Action-centered Theory of Deixis, by Brenda Farnell
The Intermingling of Gestures and Signs in Hearing Female's
Conversations, by Lynn Messing
4:00 - 4:15 - break
4:15 - 6:15 - 4 presentations and discussion
Spontaneous Gesture and Sign, by Karen Naughton
A Notational Basis for Integrated Accounts of Gesture and Speech,
by William Edmondson
Interactional Synchrony in Speech and Gesture across
Crossed-Conversations,
by Keli D. Yerian
Deictic Gesture and Strategy in Second Language Narratives,
by Marianne Gullberg
8:00 - entertainment
October 8:
8:30 - 9:15 - Keynote presentation: Thomas Huang on computers and
gestures
9:15 - 9:35 - discussion
9:35 - 10:00 - coffee break
10:00 - 12:00 - presentations and discussions
Computer Recognition of Auslan with PowerGloves, by Waleed
Kadous
The Automatic General Segmentation of Simple Non-Specific BSL
Signs, by Philip A. Harling and Alistair D. N. Edwards
Computer Recognition of ASL Fingerspelling, by Roman Erenshteyn
and Pavel Laskov
Hidden-Markov Model Based Recognition of Space-Time
Hand-Gestures for Human-Computer Interaction, by Yanghee Nam
and K. Wohn 12:00 - 1:00 - lunch
1:00 - 2:30 - presentations & discussion
Interface Features Affecting Deixis Production, by Antonella
De Angeli, Walter Gerbino, and Daniela Petrelli
Gestural Prosody in Man-Machine Task-Oriented Dialogues, by
Nadia Bellalem and Laurent Romary
Computer Recognition of the Gestures of People with
Disabilities, by Andrew Moynahan and Richard Foulds
2:30 - 4:30 - self-directed tours of ASEL and Nemours grounds
4:30 - 6:00 - papers on topics not handled in other sessions.
Menu Oriented Computerized Dictionary for Sign Language, by
Yushi Kato and Ichiro Naito
Unsupervised Cross-Modal Chracterization of Expressive
Gestures in Professional Monologue Discourse, by Michael Casey
and Joshua Wachman
A Score for the Analysis of Gestures in Multimodal
Communication, by Isabella Poggi and Emanuela Magno
Caldognetto
6:00 - 6:30 - closing presentation, by Richard Foulds
WIGLS Registration information: The fee for early registration (before
June 21) is $50. Late registration (between June 21 and September 1)
is $60. On-site registration fee is $100 per day. The registration fee
covers workshop proceedings and videotape, lunches, and transportation
from the housing location on the University of Delaware's campus to
the workshop location on the second day of the workshop.
The first day of the workshop will be on the University of Delaware's
campus in Newark Delaware. The second day will be at the Alfred
I. duPont Institute in Wilmington, Delaware.
More complete registration and housing information will be made
available shortly at:
http://www.asel.udel.edu/~messing/WIGLS.html.
The information at this web site will be available via e-mail or
postal mail upon request.
Send inquiries to:
Lynn Messing, WIGLS chair
Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories
Alfred I. duPont Institute
P.O. Box 269
Wilmington, Delaware 19899
e-mail: messing at asel.udel.edu
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