TLS 2000 Conference Announcement

Tue Feb 1 23:51:44 UTC 2000

Looks like a great conference - are there any plans to publish a book of
proceedings?

Adam
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>From: Claude Mauk <claudeed at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
>Reply-To: "For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages."
>      <SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
>To: SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>Subject: TLS 2000 Conference Announcement
>Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 17:00:48 -0600
>
>Conference Announcement
>
>The 2000 Texas Linguistic Society will hold a conference on
>
>THE EFFECTS OF MODALITY ON LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
>
>to be held at the University of Texas at Austin,
>February 25-27, 2000.
>
>The work of many linguists and psycholinguists has revealed profound
>similarities between signed and spoken languages in their structure,
>acquisition, and processing. However, there may also be interesting
>differences between signed and spoken languages; a close examination of
>modality differences may offer particular insights into the factors that
>shape the nature of language and contribute to linguistic theory. The
>aim of this conference is to explore the extent to which current
>linguistic theory can account for signed languages and the ways in which
>linguistic theories may need to be revised to accommodate both signed
>and spoken languages.
>
>Conference languages: American Sign Language (ASL) and English
>
>Invited Keynote Speakers:
>
>Diane Brentari, Purdue University
>Modality Differences in Sign Language Phonology and Morphophonemics
>
>David Corina, University of Washington
>Is ASL Phonology Psychologically Real?
>
>Diane Lillo-Martin, University of Connecticut
>Modality and Modularity: Where are the Effects?
>
>Registration for the conference will be:
>Students: $25
>Non-Students: $40
>
>Tentative Schedule of Presentations:
>
>Friday, Feb. 25
>Flawn Academic Center, 4th floor Atrium
>
>8:30    Registration & coffee
>9:30    Opening remarks
>9:40    Why different, why the same: Explaining effects and non-effects of
>modality on the structure of signed and spoken languages
>Richard P. Meier, The University of Texas at Austin
>
>Session 1: Deixis
>10:50   A typological study of pronominal reference
>Susan McBurney, University of Washington
>11:20   Deixis in the visual/gestural and tactile modalities
>David Quinto, The University of Texas at Austin
>11:50   Modality effects in the verb agreement morphology of signed
>languages
>Gaurav Mathur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>Session 2: Acquisition
>1:40    Individual differences cross modalities in language acquisition
>Paula Marentette, Augustana University College
>2:10    There must be more to natural signed languages: Insights from the
>processing problems in the acquisition and use of Manually Coded English
>Sam Supalla & Cecile McKee, University of Arizona
>
>Session 3: Syntax
>2:50    When is a modality effect not a modality effect? Aspectual marking
>in
>signed and spoken languages
>Sandra K. Wood & Ronnie Wilbur, Purdue University
>3:20    Accessing nonmanual features in phonological readjustment:
>Sentential
>negation in German Sign Language
>Roland Pfau, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
>
>4:00    Keynote: Modality and modularity: Where are the effects?
>Diane Lillo-Martin,  University of Connecticut
>
>
>Saturday, Feb. 26
>Flawn Academic Center, Room 21
>
>9:00    Keynote:  Is ASL phonology psychologically real?
>David Corina, University of Washington
>
>Session 4: Psycholinguistics
>10:10   The effect of language modality on the architecture of the mental
>lexicon
>Klaudia Grote, University of Cologne
>10:40   The effects of modality on British Sign Language Development in
>exceptional and normal learners
>Gary Morgan & Neil Smith,  University College London
>Ianthi Tsimpi, University of Cambridge
>Bencie Woll,  City University, London
>11:10   Modality-dependent aspects of sign language production: evidence
>from
>slips of the hand and their repairs in German Sign Language (DGS)
>Helen Leuninger, Annette Hohenberger & Daniela Happ, University of
>Frankfurt
>
>Session 5: Space & Gesture
>1:00    The effects of modality on spatial language: How signers and
>speakers
>talk about space
>Karen Emmorey, The Salk Institute
>1:30    A modality independent notion of gesture and how it can help us
>answer
>the morpheme vs. gesture question in sign language linguistics (or at least
>give us some criteria to work with)
>Arika Okrent, University of Chicago
>2:00    Gesture as the substrate in the process of ASL grammaticization
>Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba
>Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico
>
>Session 6: Languages in Contact
>2:40    A cross-linguistic examination of Mexican Sign Language (MSL) to
>French (LSF), Spanish (LSE), and Japanese (JSL) Sign Languages Anne-Marie
>Currie & Amanda Holzrichter, The University of Texas at Austin
>3:10    Analysis of preverbal nominal expressions in signed and spoken
>languages: A case between Hong Kong Sign Language and spoken Cantonese
>Gladys Tang & Felix Sze, Chinese University of Hong Kong
>3:40    The role of Japanese mouthing in Japanese Sign Language
>Daisuke Sasaki, The University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>Sunday, Feb 27
>Flawn Academic Center, Room 21
>
>9:00    Keynote: Modality Differences in Sign Language Phonology and
>Morphophonemics
>Diane Brentari, Purdue University
>
>Session 7: Phonology/Phonetics
>10:10   Phonological similarity in American Sign Language
>Ursula Hildebrant & David Corina, University of Washington
>10:40   Temporal characteristics in sign and speech
>Rachel Channon, University of Maryland
>11:10   On the balance between phonological specification and phonetic
>implementation: Register variation in Sign Language of the Netherlands
>Onno Crasborn, Leiden University
>
>
>For further information, see
>http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2000tls/index.html, or contact
>tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu
>
>The Texas Linguistic Society is an organization composed of graduate
>students interested in the study of language from a theoretical
>perspective.

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