29.1675, Confs: Sign Language, Linguistic Theories, Psycholinguistics/Italy

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-1675. Wed Apr 18 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.1675, Confs:  Sign Language, Linguistic Theories, Psycholinguistics/Italy

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:57:46
From: Chiara Branchini [chiara.branchini at unive.it]
Subject: Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory

Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory 
Short Title: FEAST 

Date: 18-Jun-2018 - 20-Jun-2018 
Location: Venice, Italy 
Contact: Chiara Branchini 
Contact Email: chiara.branchini at unive.it 
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/feast-2018-venice 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics 

Language Family(ies): Sign Language 
Meeting Description: 

The seventh meeting of the “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language
Theory” (FEAST) colloquium will take place at the University of Venice on June
18-19-20, 2018. 

FEAST is the official conference 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”
(2016-2020) funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020
programme.
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.

Invited speakers will be:

Meltem Kelepir (Boğaziçi University)
Carlo Geraci (Institute Jean-Nicod)
Luca Des Dorides (Istituto Statale Sordi di Roma)
Krister Schönström (Stockholm University)

The official languages of the conference will be English and ASL. Interpreting
between ASL and English will be provided.

Program: 

June 18, 2018

8:15-8:45:
Registration

8:45:
Welcome and opening

9:00:
TBA
Meltem Kelepir - invited speaker (Boğaziçi University).

9:50:
Are plain verbs really plain?: Location as the exponent of agreement in
Brazilian Sign Language. Guilherme Lourenço (Federal University of Minas
Gerais), Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University).

10:30:
Causativity and transitivity in classifier predicates in Tianjin Sign
Language: a case study. Jia He and Gladys Tang (The Chinese University of Hong
Kong).

11:10: Coffee break

11:40: 
Word order asymmetries in NGT coordination: The impact of Information
Structure.
Iris Legeland (UvA), Katharina Hartman (JW Goethe University Frankfurt),
Roland  Pfau (UvA).

12:20:
Phonological priming in the visual world: An eye tracking study on German Sign
Language.
Anne Wienholz (University of Göttingen), Derya Nuhbalaoglu (University of
Göttingen), Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen), Annika Hermann
(University of Hamburg), Nivedita Mani (University of Göttingen). 

13:00: Lunch break

14:20:
Iconicity matters: Signers and speakers view spatial relations differently
prior to linguistic production.
Francie Manhardt, Susanne Brouwer, Beyza Sumer, Asli Özyürek (Radboud
University, Netherlands).

15:00
It’s not all ME, ME, ME: Revisiting the Acquisition of ASL Pronouns. 
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut), Deborah Chen Pichler
(Gallaudet University).

15:40:
Poster presentation

16:10: Coffee break

16:40:
Poster session

17:20:
SIGN-HUB session: sign language assessment 

17:50:
Insights from the development of Swedish Sign Language assessments - some
issues and challenges
Krister Schönström - invited speaker (Stockholm University)

18:40-19:00:
Business meeting

20:00: Social dinner

June 19, 2018:

9:50:
Quotation in RSL: insights from a corpus study and elicitation. 
Vadim Kimmelman (University of Amsterdam), Evgeniia Khristoforova (Russian
State University for the Humanities).

10:30:
Does INDEX matter? Selecting referents in German Sign Language and Turkish
Sign Language. 
Derya Nuhbalaoglu (University of Göttingen)

11:10: Coffee break

11:40:
A preliminary description of evaluative morphology in LIS. 
Elena Fornasiero (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

12:20:
Watch my lips: expressing attitude and irony in LIS through non-manuals. 
Lara Mantovan, Beatrice Giustolisi, Francesca Panzeri (University of
Milan-Bicocca).

13:00: Lunch break

14:20:
Path and (a)telicity in space: Motion predicates in LSCu (Sign Language of
Cuba).
Alicia Calderon Verde (CENDSOR, Cuba), Donny Wilson Limonta (CENDSOR, Cuba),
Gilma Cervantes Soliño (CENDSOR, Cuba), Ariel Hernández Hernández (CENDSOR,
Cuba), Elena Benedicto (Purdue University)

15:00:
Directness of causation constraints on resultative constructions in ASL and
English.
Cornelia Loos (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen).

15:40:
Poster presentation

16:10: Coffee break

16:40: 
Poster session

17:20: 
SIGN-HUB session: sign language Atlas and grammars 
17:50:
Interviewing Deaf elederly signers:methodological issues and practical
problems in Italian SIGN-HUB interviews
Luca Des Dorides - invited speaker (Istituto Statale Sordi di Roma)

18:40: 
Getting ready for the cinedeaf

19:00-20:00: Cinedeaf (Istituto Statale Sordi di Roma)

June 20, 2018:

9:00:
TBA
Carlo Geraci - invited speaker (Institute Jean-Nicod)

9:50:
What looks like a question followed by an answer in LSF. Charlotte Hauser
(Université 
Paris Diderot Institut Jean Nicod), Caterina Donati (LLF, CNRS).

10:30: Coffee Break

11:00:
Feeling phonology: The emergence of tactile phonological patterns in
protactile communities in the United States.
Terra Edwards (Saint Louis University).

11:40:
“Rhythm ratio” in sign languages: A measure of phrasal rhythm.
Diane Brentari (University of Chicago), Joseph Hill (Rochester Institute of
Technology-National Technical Institute for the Deaf).

12:20:
Closing session

Posters:

June 18, 2018: 

Word order and intonation in embedded polar interrogatives in TİD.
Emre Hakguder (The University of Chicago). (First alternate)

Verb types and semantic maps.
Marloes Oomen (University of Amsterdam).

Starting to make sense: Further developing a nonsense sign repetition task.
Ulrika Klomp (University of Amsterdam).

Grammatical and iconic constraints on serial verb constructions in TİD.
Ayşe Özçiçek, Kadir Gökgöz (Boğaziçi University).

Age of sign language acquisition affects processing of word order: EEG
evidence.
Julia Krebs (University of Salzburg), Evie Malaia (University of Freiburg),
Dietmar Rohem (University of Salzburg).

Modal signs and scope relations in TİD.
Serpil Karabüklü (Purdue University), Fabian Bross (University of Stuttgart),
Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University), Daniel Hole (University of Stuttgart).

June 19, 2018

Coordination in Catalan Sign Language: &Phrase. Giorgia Zorzi (Pompeu Fabra
University). (Second alternate)

A negation-tense interaction in Georgian Sign Language. Roland Pfau (UvA),
Tamar Makharoblidze (Ilia State University).

Can formal features be predicted from form? Using Machine Learning to predict
transitivity class from the form of pantomime and ASL classifier
constructions. Chuck Bradley (Purdue University).

The dialogic nature of epistemic markers in two unrelated sign languages.
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen).

Distribution of Lexical Contrast in Kenyan Sign Language.
Hope Morgan (University of Haifa).

Manual and nonmanual cues for speech act perception in DGS.
Elisabeth Volk (University of Göttingen).

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