TISLR 10 Papers: September 30, 2010 (morning)
8:30-9:00	Opening remarks Stew 214: College of Liberal Arts Dean Irwin Weiser, Diane Brentari, Gaurav Mathur, Sharon Newman-Solow, Stephanie Adams, Ronnie Wilbur
9:00-10:00	PLENARY TALK Stew 214 Ceil Lucas What quantitative sociolinguistics has taught us about the structure of sign languages (PDF, Video)
10:10-11:40	Session A Stew 202 Ritva Takkinen (organizer) Special session: Sign language acquisition I
	Introduction Ritva Takkinen
	Bencie Woll: Early spoken and sign language acquisition
	Ritva Takkinen : Bilingual development in deaf children using cochlear implants (PDF)
11:50-1:20 Special session: Sign language acquisition II
	Sign Language developmental Impairments Kathryn Mason
	Discussants:  Debbie Chen Pichler, Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice de Quadros (PDF)
	General discussion
Session B Stew 218
10:10-11:40 Phonology 1
10:10	The handshape parameter in Kenyan Sign Language Hope Morgan & Rachel Mayberry (PDF)
10:40	Reading between the signs: How are transitions built in signed languages? Kyle Duarte, Sylvie Gibet (PDF)
11:10	Sociolinguistic variation in the 1 handshape in British Sign Language Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Adam Schembri
11:50-1:20 Phonology 2
11:50	On the weight of sentence-final prosodic words Els van der Kooij, Onno Crasborn, Johan Ros (PDF)
12:20	The hands and mouth do not always slip together in British Sign Language David Vinson, Robin Thompson, Robert Skinner, Neil Fox
12:50	On the role of transitions in signed language Tommi Jantunen (PDF)
2:00-3:05 Poster session Stew 302/306: Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics & Language Acquisition (see separate page for poster list and board numbers)

TISLR 10: September 30, 2010 (afternoon)
Session A Stew 202
3:05-4:35 Special Session: Sociolinguistic Variation in Sign Language I Ceil Lucas (organizer)
			Introductory Remarks Ceil Lucas
			Signed languages and usage-based grammars: Evidence from variation in Australian Sign Language Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston
			Linguistic issues in building a corpus for LIS (Italian Sign Language) Carlo Geraci, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto, Caterina Donati
4:45-6:15 Special Session: Sociolinguistic Variation in Sign Language II
			Sign time-capsules: lexical variation and change in NZSL David McKee, Rachel McKee
			Black ASL as a Separate Variety Ceil Lucas, Carolyn McCaskill, Joseph Hill, Robert Bayley (PDF)
Session B Stew 218
3:05-4:35 New Methodologies in Sign Language Research
3:05	Investigating signed language disorders: Case study methods and results David Quinto-Pozos, Jenny Singleton (PDF)
3:35	Defining an articulatory joint space for sign language handshapes Petra Eccarius, Robert Scheidt (PDF)
4:05	Toward an artificial sign language: Foundational experiments in the evolution of sign languages Alex Del Giudice, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden
4:45-6:15 Vision Research on Sign Languages
4:45		Seeing the world through a visual language: Visual world paradigm in British Sign Language Robin Thompson, Neil Fox (PDF)
5:15		Event structure: From perception to sign language production and back again Evie Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur (PDF)
5:45		Analysis of visual properties in American Sign Language Rain Bosworth, Charles Wright, Karen Dobkins (PDF)
6:30-8:00  Sign Language Linguistic Society Meeting Stew 214
TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (morning)
9:00-10:00			PLENARY TALK Stew 214 Carol Padden In search of grammar (PDF, Video)
Session A Stew 202
10:10-11:40 Special session: Sign languages in village communities I Ulrike Zeshan (organizer) (PDF, PPT)
			The linguistic ecology of ‘village sign languages’: methodological pitfalls and good practices Angela Nonaka, Victoria Nyst, Shifra Kisch

	Alipur village, India: The sign language and the deaf community Sibaji Panda
	The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language in Israel Sara Lanesman & Irit Meir
11:50-1:20  Special session: Sign languages in village communities II
	Subject and object in Kata Kolok Connie de Vos (PDF)
	Looking at the lexicon of Yolngu Sign Language (Northern Australia), Country Sign (Jamaica), and Kata Kolok (Bali, Indonesia) Dany Adone, Anastasia Bauer, Keren Cumberbatch, Waldemar Schwager
	The significance of village sign languages for the typological study of sign languages Ulrike Zeshan (PDF)
Session B Stew 218
10:10-11:40  Syntax 1
10:10	Binding Theory in ASL (English) Philippe Schlenker, Gaurav Mathur
10:40	A point well taken: The non-first person category in Sign Language of the Netherlands Emar Maier, Kees de Schepper, Martine Zwets (PDF)
11:10	Strategies for relativization in HKSL Gladys Tang, Prudence Lau, Jafi Lee (PDF)
11:50-1:20 Syntax II
11:50	The psychological reality of ASL syntax: Evidence from syntactic priming Matt Hall, Victor Ferreira (PDF)
12:20	Input ambiguity and head directionality of TP in Hong Kong Sign Language Scholastica Lam, Gladys Tang (PDF)
12:50	Nonmanual aspects of focus particles in sign languages Annika Herrmann (PDF)
2:00- 3:05 Poster session: Crosslinguistic and Theoretical Analyses (see list on separate page)
TISLR 10: October 1, 2010 (afternoon)
Session A Stew 202
3:05-4:35 Morphology
3:05	A unique type of non-concatenative morphology in signed languages Gaurav Mathur, Christian Rathmann (PDF)
3:35	Re-analyzing plural classifier predicates in ASL Nassira Nicola
4:05	Classifier handshape acquisition in ASL Revisited Diane Brentari, Ashley Jung (PDF)
4:45-6:15 Special Session: Prosody, Morphology, and Syntax in the Emergence of Sign Language Marie Coppola (organizer)

	Prosody as point of entry to linguistic analysis of a new language Wendy Sandler
	Evidence of resilient and less resilient properties in linguistic systems Sandra Wood
	Grammaticalization of points in Nicaraguan signing Marie Coppola, Ann Senghas (PDF)
Session B Stew 218
3:05-4:35  Psycholinguistics
3:05	Processing of spatial information in sign languages. Evidence from event-related brain potentials Annika Herrmann, Matthias Schlesewsky, Markus Steinbach, Jana Hosemann
3:35	Investigating recognition of ASL and human actions: Evidence from repetition priming for signs and gestures David Corina, Michael Grosvald (PDF)
4:05	The phonological representation of the non-dominant hand Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey (PDF)
4:45-6:15 Semantics
4:45	When meaning permeates form: Effects of iconicity for phonological decisions in British Sign Language Robin Thompson, Robert Skinner, David Vinson, Neil Fox, Gabriella Vigliocco (PDF)
5:15	Plurality of relations in German Sign Language: Mapping semantics onto morphosyntax  Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach (PDF)
5:45	Serial verb constructions in Hong Kong Sign Language Prudence Lau (PDF)
TISLR 10: October 2, 2010 (morning)
9:00-10:00	PLENARY TALK Stew 214 Josep Quer Signed Agreement: Putting the arguments together (PDF, Video)
10:10-11:40 Session A Stew 202
Special session: Sign Phonetics Martha Tyrone (organizer)
	Introduction Martha Tyrone
	Conditions on sign lowering Claude Mauk (PDF)
	Tutorial on task dynamics and articulatory phonology Elliot Saltzman (PDF)
	Capturing invariance through kinematics Hosung Nam (PDF)
	Summary  Martha Tyrone
11:50-1:20 Prosody
11:50	Does prosody make sign language syntax different? Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice de Quadros

12:20	Cross-modal prosodic effects of A-bar movement Sarah Churng
12:50	Role shift and context shift Philippe Schlenker
Session B Stew 218
10:10-11:40 Space in sign languages
10:10	Spatial categorization in a spatial language Jennie Pyers, Karen Emmorey, Soonja Choi
10:40	The spatial association of nouns in Langue des Signes Quebecoise: Form, function and meaning Julie Rinfret
11:10	How uniform are locative expressions across sign languages? Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli Ozyurek
11:50-1:20   Acquisition
11:50	Effects of learning ASL on co-speech gesture Shannon Casey, Karen Emmorey (PDF)
12:20	The role of animacy in the acquisition of entity constructions in British Sign Language Kearsy Cormier, Sandra Smith (PDF)
12:50	British Sign Language grammaticality judgment task: Exploring age-of-acquisition effects Adam Schembri, Eleni Orfanidou, Kearsy Cormier, David Vinson (PDF)
2:00- 3:05    Poster session: Corpus and Applied Linguistics (see separate page)
TISLR 10: October 2, 2010 (afternoon)
Session A Stew 202
3:05-4:35   Special Session: Bilingualism I      Jill Morford (organizer)
	Cross-language activation during visual word recognition in deaf bilingual children Ellen Ormel, Daan Hermans
	Effects and non-effects of sign language knowledge on written word recognition: A comparison of ASL-English and DGS-German bilingual adults Okan Kubus, Jill Morford, Christian Rathmann, Erin Wilkinson (PDF)
	The development of code-blending in deaf and hearing Kodas Beppie van den Bogaerde, Anne Baker (PDF)
4:45-6:15  Special Session: Bilingualism II
	The morphology of code-blending Catarina Donati, Chiara Branchini
	Two languages but one computation: Code-blending in bimodal bilingual development Ronice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin, Debbie Chen Pichler (PDF)
	Simultaneous production of ASL and English costs the speaker but benefits the listener Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich, Tamar Gollan (PDF)

Session B Stew 218
3:05-4:35 Discourse 1
3:05	ASL renditions of an English narrative: Accommodation through chaining and explaining/connecting-ASL David Quinto-Pozos, Wanette Reynolds (PDF)
3:35	The emergence of referential shift marking in Nicaraguan Sign Language Jennie Pyers, Annemarie Kocab, Anne Senghas
4:05	Segmentation of discourse units in Russian Sign Language Evgenia Prozorova
4:45-6:15 Discourse 2
4:45	Levels of Structure in ASL Narratives: Variations between Native and Nonnative Signers Marie Nadolske
5:15	Prosodic Structure in ASL Narratives: Native, CODA and L2 Signers Diane Brentari, Marie Nadolske
5:45	Eyegaze in Creative Sign Language Michiko Kaneko, Johanna Mesch (PDF)
6:30-7:30	PLENARY TALK    Marlon Kuntze Language and Gesture in ASL: insights from Child Discourse (PDF, Video)

Poster session schedule follows

POSTER SESSION September 30, 2010 2-3 pm
Acquisition Posters [Boards 1-15]:

1	Palm orientation errors are characteristic of deaf children with autism Aaron Shield, Richard Meier (PDF)
2	A study of the school lexicon in American Sign Language Jilly Kowalsky, Richard Meier (PPT)
3	An investigation into the lexicalization of health vocabulary in Australian Sign Language (ASL)  Lindsay Ferrara (PDF)
4	Age of acquisition of ASL and mental rotation in adults Amber Martin (PDF)
5	Prosody in the acquisition of Sign Language: Two case studies of a deaf child (LSF) and a bilingual  Marion Blondel, Fanny Limousin
6	Early language exposure affects the development of phonological representations in sign Matt Hall, Rachel Mayberry, Victor Ferreira (PDF)
7	The composition of early vocabulary in adolescent first language acquisition: When late looks early Naja Ferjan, Amy Lieberman, Rachel Mayberry
8	The role of input in acquisition of verb agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language: A case study Scholastica Lam (PDF)
9	The variability of word order in the acquisition of Brazilian Sign Language Aline Lemos Pizzio (PDF)
10	Sign and speech in family interaction: Code choices of Deaf Parents and their hearing children Ginger Pizer (PDF)
11	Systematic phonological errors in the acquisition of ASL by native-signing Deaf children Shannon Szameitat, Brenda Schick
12	Four eyes and four hands: How mothers scaffold literacy development through ASL Amy Lieberman, Marla Hatrak
13	Cognitive and linguistic control in verbs of motion location: Acquiring plural & arrangement Robert Hoffmeister, Sarah Fish, Marlon Kuntze, Catherine Caldwel-Harris (PDF)
14	Learning verbal plurality in ASL: An experimental study Lynn Hou (PDF)
15	Emergence of depiction in acquisition of American Sign Language Clifton Langdon (PDF)
Psycholinguistics /Neurolinguistics Posters [Boards 28-40]
28	Motion semantics in American Sign Language activate motion-sensitive visual areas in the human brain  Stephen McCullough, Ayse Saygin, Morana Alac, Karen Emmorey
29	The impact of language modality on the linguistic encoding of perceptual categories Brenda Nicodemus, Lucinda O'Grady Batch, Karen Emmorey (PDF)
30	Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL: Evidence from articulatory compensation Jonathan Udoff, Karen Emmorey (PDF)
31	Processing orthographic structure: Associations between print and fingerspelling Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich
32	Deafness, not sign language, enhances peripheral visual attention Matthew Dye
33	Categorical perception of handling handshapes in British Sign Language Zed Sevcikova (PDF)
34	Long-distance coarticulation in ASL: A production and perception study Michael Grosvald, David Corina (PDF)
35	An fMRI study of implicit sign processing: Functional neuro-anatomy of lexical recognition in American Sign Language Niki Spotswood, Elizabeth Hirshorn, Heather Patterson, Peter Hauser, Guinevere Eden, David Corina
36	The Depiction Comprehension Test in American Sign Language Raylene Paludneviciene, Peter Hauser
37	Rates of fingerspelling in American Sign Language David Quinto-Pozos (PDF)
38	Handedness in corpus NGT Anna Safar, Onno Crasborn, Ellen Ormel (PDF)
39	Experimental research on scalar implicatures in a Sign Language Kathryn Davidson
40	Investigating sign language variation through intelligibility testing: The recorded text test retell Elizabeth Parks, Jason Parks (PDF)

POSTER SESSION October 1, 2010 2-3 pm
Phonology [Boards 1-7]:

1	Gesture as a gradient factor: comparing sign language and spoken language Gemma Barbera, Martine Zwets (PDF)
2	Colors on hands: Phonological markedness of sign language color terms Monica Schoonhoven, Roland Pfau, Bart de Boer (PDF, PDF)
3	Are dynamic features required in signs? Harry Van der Hulst, Rachel Channon (PDF)
4	A constraint-based approach to compound formation in ASL Alex Del Giudice
5	The Intersegmental Model of sign language phonology  Waldemar Schwager
6	New horizons in the Intersegmental approach to sign morphology  Waldemar Schwager
7	Mouthings in Sign Language of the Netherlands: Lexical variation  Richard Bank (PDF)
Grammaticalization [Boards 8-9]:
8	From pidgin to creole in a sign language: The case of Israeli Sign Language Irit Meir
9	Grammaticalisation processes in Flemish Sign Language Mieke Van Herreweghe (PDF)
Semantics [Boards 10-14]:
10	Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in ASL Barbara Shaffer (PDF)
11	Signing about signing: Sign metalanguage in LSF and LSFB Laurence Meurant, Brigitte Garcia (PDF)
12	Default temporal interpretation in ASL  Tony Wright
13	Event visibility in Croatian Sign Language: separating Aspect and Aktionsart Marina Milković, Evie Malaia
14	Referring expressions at the interfaces: A relational feature geometric analysis Donovan Grose
Syntax/Structures [Boards 15-40]:
15	Investigating Sign Language in Trinidad and Tobago  Ben Braithwaite, Kathy-Ann Drayton, Leslie Ali, Azim Kallan, Ryan Ramgattan, Paulson Skerrit
16	Expressing plural meaning in Flemish Sign Language  Isabelle Heyerick, Mieke Van Braeckevelt, Danny De Weerdt, Mieke Van Herreweghe, Myriam Vermeerbergen (PDF)
17	Expressing existence in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language Danny De Weerdt (PDF)
18	Expression of quantity in the NP in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) Amelie Voghel
19	The correlation between mouth actions and word class in Irish Sign Language (ISL) Susanne Militzer (PDF)
20	Right dislocated pronominals in Hong Kong Sign Language  Felix Sze (PDF)
21	Is there passive in Hong Kong Sign Language  Felix Sze (PDF)
22	Person-neutral reference markers in PSL: A generative analysis Paweł Rutkowski, Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil (PDF)
23	The syntax of pronominal pointing signs in LIS Carmela Bertone, Anna Cardinaletti (PDF, PPTX)
24	Reflexives in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: modality and universals Vadim Kimmelman (PDF)
25	Accessibility and Space in Sign Language discourse Gemma Barbera (PDF)
26	Joint attention and shifting spacial reference points in ASL Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer (PDF)
27	Agreement...or not...in ASL: Evidence from pro Elena Koulidobrova (PDF)
28	A theoretical look at the Person Agreement Marker in German Sign Language Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Charles Bradley

29	Long distance agreement: Spatial modulations in Inuit Sign Language verbs Joke Schuit (PDF)
30	The interplay of different head movements and their functions in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) Andrea Lackner, Christian Stalzer (PDF)
31	Evidence of telicity marking by nonmanuals in HZJ Lea Dukić, Marina Milković Ronnie Wilbur (PDF)
32	“IN” and “ON” in Turkish and Croatian Sign Languages (TID and HZJ): A parallel architecture view Engin Arik, Marina Milkovic
33	Relative Clauses in Turkish Sign Language (TID)   Okan Kubus (PDF)
34	What negative polar questions can teach us about the C domain for Turkish Sign Language Kadir Gokgoz (PDF)
35	Interrogative constructions in Danish Sign Language Julie Hansen (PPT)
36	Imperative in Norwegian Sign Language Odd-Inge Schroder Slowikowska, Bogumila Schroder
37	Pseudocleft sentences and non-pseudocleft (rhetorical) question-answer pairs revised Myriam Vermeerbergen
38	Multiple strategies for the questioning of the Wh-phrase in ASL Sandra Wood
39	Adjectives in ASL   Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath
40	A case study on instrument classifiers in Tianjin Sign Language  Jia He (PDF)

POSTER SESSION October 2, 2010 2-3 pm

Applied Linguistics Posters [Boards 1-22]:
1	Sign language and interpreter aptitude: a longitudinal study Christopher Stone, Anneka Starling (PDF)
2	Cross-linguistics terminology in Sign Languages: a comparison study between LSB and LGP Sandra Patricia Nascimento, Ana Mineiro
3	The relationship between vocabulary knowledge in ASL and English Sarah Fish, Robert Hoffmeister (PDF)
4	Linguistic and biomechanical adaptations in interpreters: Analysis of expert and beginner sign language interpreters Suzanne Villeneuve (PDF)
5	An analysis of foot placement/movement and its functions in ASL lecture Bryan Grubb, Peter Snelgrove
6	Metalinguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge in ASL antonyms and synonyms in Deaf children  Robert Hoffmeister, Rebecca Williams-McVey
7	Code-blending in Hong Kong Sign Language  Cat H.-M. Fung (PDF)
8	Deaf-friendly research? Examining ethical research conduct through focus group methodology  Jenny Singleton, Gabrielle Jones, Shilpa Hanumantha
9	A lexical comparison of sign languages in East Asia  Daisuke Sasaki
10	A cognitive approach to understanding linguistic politeness in American Sign Language Daniel Roush (PDF)
11	ASL sign lowering as target undershoot: A corpus study  Terry Janzen, Kevin Russell, Erin Wilkinson (PDF)
12	Documenting sign language competencies: Development of a cross-linguistic assessment tool Peter Hauser
13	Sign Language as a Bridge to Literacy :A Bilingual- Bicultural study Etty Moiseyev, Wendy Sandler
14	Online discussion forums within learning intervention environments: the case of the Letras Libras Co Elizabeth Teixeira, Claudia Soares
15	Conversational alternance and backchannel feedback in tactile French Sign Language Sandrine Schwartz
16	Person reference during sign language interpreted conversations Maria Cristina Pires Pereira
17	Bimodal language processing in profoundly deaf children with a cochlear implant Marcel Giezen, Anne Baker, Paola Escudero (PDF)
18	Anthropomorphism in British Sign Language Literature Rachel Sutton-Spence, Donna West (PDF)

19	Making up for the disappearance of NMM in tactile sign languages Carlo Cecchetto, Alessandra Checchetto, Carlo Geraci, Maria Teresa Guasti
20	Lexical Variation and Change in British Sign Language Rosemary Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis (PDF)
21	North American Indian Sign Language Varieties: Historical and contemporary studies Jeffrey Davis, Melanie McKay-Cody (PDF)
22	Historical constitution of the Brazilian Sign Language: Century XVIII - XXI Ana Regina Campello (PDF)
Corpus Posters [Boards 28-39]:
28	The DGS Corpus Project    Thomas Hanke, Susanne Koenig, Lutz Konig, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Christian Rathmann (PDF)
29	How much top-down and bottom-up do we need to build a lemmatised corpus? Susanne Koenig, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Rie Nishio (PDF)
30	Designing elicitation stimuli and tasks for the DGS Corpus Project Thomas Hanke, Sung-Eun Hong, Susanne Koenig, Gabriele Langer, Rie Nishio, Christian Rathmann (PDF)
31	The Danish Sign Language Dictionary Jette Kristoffersen, Thomas Troelsgord (PDF)
32	From open access signed language corpora to deaf digital libraries Onno Crasborn (PDF)
33	Construction of an ID Gloss Database for American Sign Language Karen Alkoby, Jeffrey Merrill-Bernath, Julie Hochgesang, Gene Mirus, Pedro Pascual (PDF)
34	Phonetics, phonology, and transcription practices in American Sign Language Julie Hochgesang, Cecily Whitworth
35	Plains Indian Sign Language: Fieldwork and Digital Archive Project Jeffrey Davis, Melanie McKay-Cody (PDF)
36	A new research tool for exploring the landscape of signed dialogue Gary Quinn, Graham Turner
37	Sign Language and human gestuality corpora: what is at stake? The French CREAGEST Project  Christian Cuxac, Brigitte Garcia, Ivani Fusellier, Marie-Anne Sallandre, Dominique Boutet, Cyril Courtin (PDF)
38	Transcription systems as input to coding systems: SignWriting & SignTyp Rachel Channon, Charles Butler (PDF)
39	Search through lexical sign bases with a constraint based model Michael Filhol