19.1343, Confs: Sign Language, Phonetics, Phonology/USA

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Date: 20-Apr-2008
From: Rachel Channon < SignTyp at uconn.edu >
Subject: First SignTyp Conference

 

	
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First SignTyp Conference 

Date: 26-Jun-2008 - 28-Jun-2008 
Location: Storrs, CT, USA 
Contact: Rachel Channon 
Contact Email: signtyp at uconn.edu 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics; Phonology 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

The First SignTyp Conference on the phonetics and phonology of sign languages
will be held from June 26 to 28, 2008, at the University of Connecticut at
Storrs.  The conference will be devoted to theoretical aspects of sign
languages, specifically in phonetics and phonology. 

Although the conference is now closed for talks, posters may still be submitted
up to June 1, 2008.  

Further information may be found at:
http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html 

The conference is supported by a NSF grant (BCS-0544944) the aim of which is to
 establish a crosslinguistic sign phonology and phonetics database. Van der
Hulst and Channon are the principle investigators on this project.

Program: 

June 26 Thursday

9.00-9.45	
Harry van der Hulst	
Opening Talk

9.45-10.30	
Rachel Channon	
What is SignTyp?

11.00-11.30	
Cecily Whitworth	
Phonetics and Natural Classes in Signed Languages

11.30-12.00	
Martha Tyrone & Claude Mauk	
Sign Lowering In ASL: The Phonetics of Wonder

12.00-12.30	
Traci Weast	
Properties of Eyebrow Movement in Signed Questions: A Quantitative Approach

14.00-14.45	
Thomas Hanke & Rie Nishio	
Testing Phonological Hypotheses Against Sign Language Corpora Without Direct
Phonological Annotation

14.45-15.30	
Trevor Johnston	
Integrating Lexical Information into Sign Language Databases and Corpora

15.50-16.35	
Jean Ann, James Myers & Jane Tsay	
Influences on Phonological Processing in Taiwan Sign Language

16.35-17.20	
Joe Mak & Gladys Tang	Movement - Simultaneity And Dynamicity In The Phonological
System of Hong Kong Sign Language

17.20-18.05	
Gary Morgan	
The Segmentation of Sign Language: Transitions Between Signs

June 27 Friday	

9.00-9.45	
Gaurav Mathur	
Primed Phonological Matching in American Sign Language

9.45-10.30	
Ulrike Zeshan	
Grammatical and Phonological Words in Sign Languages - Affixes And Clitics

11.00-11.30	
Ayça Müge Sevinç	
Interaction Between Syntax and Prosody

11.30-12.00	
Michael Grosvald & David Corina	
An Investigation of Location-to-Location Coarticulation in American Sign Language

12.00-12.30	
Kathryn Hansen	
ASL Movement Phonemes And Allophones

14.00-14.45	
Richard Meier, Ginger Pizer & Kathleen Shaw	
Child Directed Signing

14.45-15.30	
Wendy Sandler	
Is Phonology Necessary for Language?

15.50-16.35	
Bencie Woll	
Phonological Processing in Deaf Signers and the Impact of Age of First Language
Acquisition

16.35-17.20	
Lodenir Becker Karnopp	
Considerations on the Phonological Acquisition of Signs

17.20-18.05	
Ann Senghas and Shira Katseff	
Competing Forces Behind the Form of Nicaraguan Sign Language Number Signs

June 28 Saturday

9.00-9.45	
Onno Crasborn	
The Resting Hand

9.45-10.30	
David Corina	
Handshape Monitoring in American Sign Language: Effects of Concurrent
Articulation and Phonological Markedness

11.00-11.30	
Petra Eccarius	
A Constraint-Based Account of Distributional Differences in Handshapes

11.30-12.00	
Okan Kubu? & Annette Hohenberger	
The Phonetics and Phonology of Two Handed Signs in TID (Turkish Sign Language)

12.00-12.30	
Leila Boutora & Charalampos Karypidis	
Are Handshapes Phonemic? Categorical Vs. Sensory Perception in Signed Languages

14.00-14.45	
Rachel Channon	
Frequency Characteristics of Signs

14.45-15.30	
Diane Brentari	
The Arbitrary Distribution of Propertiesin Sign Language Handshapes

15.50-16.35	
Susan Fischer	
Marked Handshapes in Asian Sign Languages

16.35-17.20	
Christian Rathmann & Gaurav Mathur	
Constraints on Numeral Incorporation in Signed Languages

17.20-18.05	
Harry van der Hulst	
Summary and Discussion

Posters: 
Daisuke Sasaki	 
How Should We Define ''Similar'' Signs?: A Preliminary Study

Carina Cruz	
Proposal of an Instrument to Assess the Phonological Awareness, Parameter
Handshape, of Brazilian Sign Language Deaf Children Signers

Samuel Supalla, Jody H. Cripps and Cecile McKee	
Revealing Sound in the Signed Medium Through an Alphabetic System

Stephen Parkhurst	
Phonology, The Ebb And Flow of Two Great Forces 

Stephen Parkhurst	
The Role of the Input Structure in Sign Language Phonology

Andrea Lackner	
''Palm-Up'' and ''Touching'' in Austrian Sign Language - Two Interactive
Elements at the Transition Relevance Place in the Turn-taking Process 

Yutaka Osugi and Ted Supalla	
Designing an Ecological Model for Sign Language Phonology

Ted Supalla, Patricia Clark, Donald S. Metlay & Betsy Hicks McDonald	
The Contribution of Historical Corpus Research to Comparative Phonology







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