TLS 2000 Conference Announcement

[bonnie collins]

--- Claude Mauk <claudeed at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
> 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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