37.1696, FYI: Making Waves May 2026 Meeting

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Subject: 37.1696, FYI: Making Waves May 2026 Meeting

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Date: 07-May-2026
From: Mariia Pronina [mariia.pronina at uib.cat]
Subject: Making Waves May 2026 Meeting


The upcoming meeting of Making Waves will take place next Wednesday,
May 13, at 16:00! (CET, please, note that this is an hour later than
usual). Serpil Karabuklu will give a talk titled “How to Capture
Differences in Nonmanuals: Behavioral and Computational Analyses”.
We are excited to share that this meeting will have a guest
discussant, Nick Palfreyman (University of Lancashire) and will be
BSL/English interpreted. We would like to thank Adam Schembri and his
SignMorph project for their support.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively
discussion.
Abstract:
Annotation and analysis of nonmanuals (face and body movements) in
sign languages remain challenging due to the lack of unified
annotation guidelines, the significant time and labor required, and
the nuanced differences in their realizations across sign languages.
In this talk, I will briefly review the current annotation practices
and labelling conventions for nonmanuals in the sign linguistics and
discuss what computational approaches can contribute to their
analysis. I will conclude by exploring how cross-linguistic
differences in nonmanuals can inform theoretical accounts in sign
language linguistics.
To wrap up:
Time: 13 May 2026, 16:00! – 17:00 (CET)
Topic: How to Capture Differences in Nonmanuals: Behavioral and
Computational Analyses
Speaker: Serpil Karabuklu (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Guest discussant: Nick Palfreyman (University of Lancashire)
Hosts: Mariia Pronina & Rebecca Woods
Zoom link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/96178988270 (Zoom login required)
The website with all the updated information can be found here -
https://sites.google.com/view/making-waves-group.
Everyone is warmly invited to join us!
See you next week,
Marusia & Becky

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics




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