First SignTyp Conference Announcement and program

Sun Apr 20 23:51:31 UTC 2008

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 Kubuş & Annette Hohenberger The Phonetics And Phonology
Of Two Handed Signs In TİD (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
Properties In 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

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> Harry van der Hulst

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> Rachel Channon

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> University of Connecticut

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> Department of Linguistics,
Unit 1145

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> 337 Mansfield Road

 <http://linguistics.uconn.edu/sign/index.html> Storrs, CT 06269-1145

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