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TISLR 11 Provisional programme http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/tislr Weds 10 July Welcome @13.30 Plenary (Keynote): Lars Wallin: Title TBC @14.00 Break @15.00 Victoria Nyst: Towards a new model of sign language affiliation @15.20 Elaine Maypilama, Dorothee Yunggirrnga and Dany Adone: Pointing in an Alternate Sign Language @15.40 Roland Pfau and Markus Steinbach: Headshakes in Jespersen’s Cycle @16.00 Break @16.20 Naja Ferjan Ramirez, Amy Lieberman and Rachel Mayberry: How far and how fast? A longitudinal study of ASL acquisition in adolescent homesigners @16.40 +Beyza Sumer, Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss and Asli Ozyurek: Revisiting modality effects in children’s acquisition of spatial language: Insights from Turkish and Turkish Sign Language @17.00 Marlon Kuntze and Adam Stone: Looking Closely at Iconicity in Child ASL @ 17.20 Poster session 1 @ 17.45‐18.45 Social event (TBC) th
Thurs 11 July Mary Rudner, Eleni Orfanidou, Lena Kästner, Velia Cardin, Bencie Woll, Cheryl Capek and Jerker Rönnberg: Neural substrates of sign language processing differ partially between Swedish and British signers @09.00 Philippe Schlenker: Formal *and* Iconic Features @09.20 Lorraine Leeson, John Saeed, Barbara Shaffer and Terry Janzen: An Embodied View of Pragmatic Inferencing in Signed Language Discourse @09.40 Break 10.00 +Jonathan Udoff and Ignatius Nip: Mouthings and their Reductions: A Kinematic Approach @10.20 Crasborn & van der Kooij: Spreading and echoing: a representational account of the non‐dominant hand @10.40 +Jonathan Keane: Towards an articulatory model of handshape @ 11.00 Break @11.20 Vadim Kimmelman: Topics in RSL and NGT: how prominent are they? @11.40 Gabrielle Hodge & Trevor Johnston: Patterns from a signed language corpus: Clause‐level units in Auslan @12.00 Paweł Rutkowski, Sylwia Łozińska, Joanna Łacheta and Małgorzata Czajkowska‐Kisil: Constituent Order in Polish Sign Language @ 12.20 Lunch @12.40‐13.40 (set up posters) Okan Kubus and Christian Rathmann: Morphological Error Analysis of the M2/L2 Acquisiton of Adult Learners of German Sign Language @13.40 Christopher Stone & David Vinson: Enhanced cognition from L2 BSL acquisition @14.00 Emily Kaufmann, Thomas Kaul and Reiner Griebel: Increasing metalinguistic awareness of non‐manual features in adult learners of German Sign Language as a second language: A transcription task @ 14.20 Break @14.40 *Marcel Giezen, Henrike Blumenfeld and Karen Emmorey: Top‐down cross‐language activation in bimodal bilingual word recognition @15.00 Robin Thompson, Richard Atkinson and Gabriella Vigliocco: The relationship between sign production and sign comprehension: what the hands reveal @15.20 Corrine Occhino‐Kehoe, Jill P. Morford, Paul A. Twitchell, Pilar Piñar, Judith F. Kroll and Erin Wilkinson: The time course of bilingual lexical access in deaf ASL‐English bilinguals @ 15.40 (English) Break @16.00 Zed Sevcikova: Depiction of object handling in BSL and gesture: are handling handshapes used conventionally? @16.20 Brigitte Garcia, Marie‐Thérèse L'Huillier, Angelo Frémeaux and Dina Makouke: Discursive and morphological processes in the formation and the stabilisation of lexematic units in French Sign Language @16.40 Pamela Perniss & Asli Özyürek: Modality effects in action and motion expressions in sign languages: Taking typology into account @ 17.00 Session to finish @17.20 Poster session 2 @17.30‐18.30 SLLS Meeting @ 18.30 – 20.00 Social event (TBC) As at 27 June 13 th
Fri 12 July *Gemma Barberà and Josep Quer: Getting impersonal: Impersonal reference in Catalan Sign Language @09.00 *Helen Koulidobrova: Argument ellipsis in American Sign Language: When there is no space for space @09.20 Celia Alba: The Right Place for Wh‐Expressions in LSC @09.40 Break 10.00 Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach: Shifting contexts – The interpretation of indexicals in role shift @10.20 +Sarah Ebling, Kearsy Cormier, Jordan Fenlon, Penny Boyes Braem and Trevor Johnston: Identifying and Comparing Semantic Relations across Signed and Spoken Languages @10.40 Anne‐Marie Parisot, Karl Szymoniak and Darren Saunders: Body shift and head tilt in three sign languages: American Sign Language, French Sign Language and Quebec Sign Language @ 11.00 Break @11.20 L. Viola Kozak, Carina Rebello Cruz, Aline Lemos Pizzio and Ronice de Quadros: Pseudoword/sign repetition performance across bimodal bilinguals from the US and Brazil: a comparative analysis @11.40 Jordan Fenlon, Kate Rowley and Kearsy Cormier: Lexicalisation in British Sign Language: Implications for phonological theory @12.00 Anna Safar and Onno Crasborn: Handedness in deaf signers @ 12.20 Lunch @12.40‐13.40 (set up posters) Ronice Quadros, Diane Lillo‐Martin, Helen Koulidobrova and Deborah Chen Pichler: Noun Phrases in Koda Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition @13.40 Chiara Branchini and Caterina Donati: Towards a Grammar for Code Blending (and Code Switching) @14.00 *Kathryn Davidson, Corina Goodwin and Diane Lillo‐Martin: Language Transfer in ASL/English Bimodal Bilingual children with CIs @ 14.20 Break @14.40 Amanda Dupuis and Iris Berent: Lexical access to signs is automatic @15.00 Benjamin Anible, Corrine Occhino‐Kehoe and Jeannine Kammann‐Cessac: The Interface of Phonology and Semantics in ASL: An Online‐Processing Study @15.20 (ASL) *So‐One Hwang, Clifton Langdon, Concetta Pucci, William Idsardi and Gaurav Mathur: Temporal integration windows in sign language processing @ 15.40 Break @16.00 Amber Martin: Age of Language Acquisition Affects Spatial Cognitive Development‐ ASL @16.20 Carla Morris: Lexical Variation and Change in American Sign Language: A Multi‐generational Family Case Study @16.40 Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen: Sparkling or still? Flemish native and non‐native signers from 3 generations and the productive lexicon @ 17.00 Session to finish @17.20 Poster session 3 @17.30‐18.30 Social event (TBC) th
Sat 13 July Amy M. Lieberman, Arielle Borovsky, Marla Hatrak and Rachel I. Mayberry: Signing in the Visual World: The time course of lexical recognition in American Sign Language @09.00 Connie de Vos: The syntactic integration of Kata Kolok pointing signs from a developmental perspective @09.20 Rain Bosworth, So‐One Hwang, David Corina, Paul Hildago and Karen Dobkins: Biological attraction for natural language rhythm: Eye‐tracking in infants and children using reversed videos of signs and gestures @ 09.40 Break@10.00 Silke Matthes, Gabriele Langer, Dolly Blanck, Thomas Hanke, Reiner Konrad, Susanne König and Anja Regen: Involving the crowd: How to complement corpus data in the process of dictionary making @10.20 Diane Brentari, Virginia Volterra and Jonathan Keane: Handshape (HS) as an Expression of Agency across Languages and Cultures @10.40 Ceil Lucas, Gene Mirus, Jeff Palmer, Nicholas Roessler and Adam Frost: The Effect of New Technologies on Sign Language Research @11:00 Break @11.20 and prize announcements Plenary (Keynote): Peter Hauser: Title TBC @11.40 Closing remarks @ 12:40 Conference Finish at 13.10 *Shortlisted for Mouton best early career presentation prize +Shortlisted for SLLS best student presentation prize ^Shortlisted for SLLS best student poster prize As at 27 June 13 Poster session 1: Weds 10 July 2013, 17.45‐18.45 Sibaji Panda and Hasan Dikyuva Subtractive numerals in two village sign languages ^Svetlana Dachkovsky, Christina The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody Healy and Wendy Sandler Signs and their development in monastic environments: From the rule of silence in early Agnes Villwock Christian congregations to the emergence of sign language communication in monasteries today Anke Müller Cinematic devices in signed discourse? The case of eyeline match and point‐of‐view editing Anna Puupponen, Tommi Messing with the head: on the form and function of head movements in Finnish Sign Jantunen, Tuija Wainio and Birgitta Language Burger Anne Baker, Patricia Spanjer and Language symptoms of dementia in an older signing population Marielle Fieret Anne Therese Frederiksen, Marla Anaphoric reference in ASL. The developmental trajectory of adolescent learners. Hatrak and Rachel Mayberry Phonological compensation strategies of a one‐handed signer – A case study of German Sign Annika Herrmann Language Cecily Whitworth Learner Errors and ASL Parameters Christina Murmann, Peter Indefrey, Why FORGET needs help but HELP does not – an experimental study on the influence of Thomas Weskott and Markus animacy and agreement on the distribution of the DGS agreement auxiliary PAM Steinbach David Corina, Shane Blau, Todd Lamarr, Matt Leonard and Edward Cortical Stimulation Mapping in a Deaf Signer Chang David Quinto‐Pozos and Lynn Hou Development of perspective‐taking skills by deaf signing children Gemma Barbera (In)definite determiners and referential anchoring in sign language (English) Hope Morgan ‘FIFTH’ but not ‘FIVE‐DAYS‐AGO’: Numeral Incorporation in Kenyan Sign Language Jessica Contreras, Erica Israel and Deaf students’ performance on the Color Trails Test: Effect of early sign language acquisition Peter Hauser Joanna Atkinson and Tanya Challenges to early detection of cognitive decline in deaf signers: A new British Sign Denmark Language Cognitive Screening Test Joni Oyserman and Mathilde de Hearing L2 parents and the fluency in sign language communication Geus Karen Emmorey, Jennifer Petrich, The relation between linguistic and spatial working memory capacity and sign language Lucinda O'Grady, Allison Bassett processing and Erin Spurgeon Kazumi Matsuoka and Jon Gajewski Gradability in the Polarity‐sensitive Mouth Gestures in Japanese Sign Language Kimberley Mouvet, Miriam Taverniers, Liesbeth Matthijs, The exchange of meaning: A systemic functional analysis of young deaf children’s language Gerrit Loots and Mieke Van development Herreweghe Kristen Secora The Action‐Sentence Compatibility Effect in ASL: The role of semantics vs. perception Kurumi Saito and Naotake Eye Gaze and Eye Movement in Japanese Sign Language Tsukidate Lara Mantovan and Carlo Geraci A round trip from Theory to Corpus: the case of Universal 20 in LIS Lynn Hou and Kate Mesh Negation in Chatino Sign Language Lynn McQuarrie, Marilyn Abbott, Charlotte Enns and Brent New Directions: ASL Assessment Tools & ASL Assessment Portal Novodvorski As at 27 June 13 Mara Moita, Maria Vânia Silva Nunes and Ana Mineiro Maria Josep Jarque, Sara Palmer and Esther Pascual Marie Coppola and Deanna Gagne Marie Nadolske and Christine Chynoweth Matthew Dye Mirko Santoro, Carlo Cecchetto and Alessandra Checchetto Molly Flaherty, Susan Goldin‐
Meadow, Ann Senghas and Marie Coppola Natasha Abner Rachel Sutton‐Spence and Michiko Kaneko Rezenet Moges Phonological segments, syllables and lexical components: a parallel linguistic modality analysis in cognitive study Gestures with modal functions in Catalan Sign Language Stories don’t get better with age: Maturation and life experience do not drive narrative structure in emerging languages Semantic “Classifier” Handshape Variation: VEHICLE Descriptions by Different Populations of ASL Signers [ASL] Early Access to Sign Language Inoculates Deaf Children Against Visual Attention Deficits Disclosing VP ellipsis in sign languages, the case of LIS Growing a Spatial Grammar: The Emergence of Verb Agreement in Nicaraguan Sign Language Interpreting Possessives in ASL: Nominal and Verbal Factors Symmetry and the use of two hands in sign language poetry – some quantitative comparisons Sign Language Continuum: A Methodology to a Multi‐Language Community (ASL) Mouthings in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT): Sociolinguistic differences in a Richard Bank heterogeneous community. What happened to standard signs? The effects of the standardisation of NGT lexicon on the Richard Cokart and Trude Schermer variation of signs used within deaf families and their children. (NGT) Cognate facilitation and switching costs in unimodal bilingualism: British Sign Language and Robert Adam Irish Sign Language (BSL) Ronnie Fagundes de Brito and Data Modelling for Sign Language Subtitles in Textual Mode Tarcísio Vanzin Ros Herman, Penny Roy and Fiona Sign Language and Literacy Skills in Deaf Children Kyle Rose Stamp, Kearsy Cormier, British Sign Language (BSL) dialects in contact: Investigating the patterns of accommodation Bronwen Evans and Adam and language change Schembri Ryan Lepic The phonology and morphology of initialized signs in American Sign Language Sally Gillespie Exploring Language Preference within the Deaf Community of Northern Ireland Sara Carvalho, Mara Moita and Ana AQUI_LGP Corpus: a longitudinal corpus of Portuguese Sign Language acquisition Mineiro Acquisition of Verb Agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language by Late Learners in the Jockey Scholastica Lam and Pippen Wong Club Sign Bilingualism and Co‐enrolment in Deaf Education Programme Sigrid Slettebakk Berge Meaning making and construction of sign and gesture towards situated artifacts The Realization of Shared Argument(s) in Serial Verb Constructions in Hong Kong Sign Sin Yee Prudence Lau Language So‐One Hwang, Sharon Seegers, Carol Padden and Susan Goldin‐
The role of gesture in learning for signing children: Implications for sign language theory Meadow Susan Mather Degree of Intensity: The use of mouthing and its face components in ASL As at 27 June 13 Poster session 2: Thursday 11 July 2013, 17.30‐18.30 ^Brendan Costello Three important considerations for sign language agreement: location, location, location ^Iva Korunek, Marina Milkovic and Ronnie Wilbur Gradation and Intensification in Croatian Sign Language Adjectives Cat H.‐M. Fung and Gladys Tang A Universal Explanation for Code‐blending and Code‐switching David Vinson, Neil Fox, Pamela Perniss and Gabriella Vigliocco Involving the body in sentence comprehension: Action‐sentence compatibility effects in British Sign Language and written English Dominique Boutet, Marion Blondel and Sébastien Delacroix Where does the sign end? A Biomechanical exploration of the distinction between gestures and signs Donovan Grose The Iconicity of Scalar Verbs Across Semantic Fields Elaine Maypilama and Dany Adone Accounting for verb classes in an alternate sign language Elena Benedicto and Gladys Tang Parametric variation in H1/H2 Shift: Switch Reference in Serial Verb Constructions Elena I. Liskova Identifying motivations for distribution of nonmanual negation in ASL Elena Tomasuolo, Daniele Capuano and Maria Roccaforte Sign language background, reading habits and eye movements in esploring a written text Elina Tapio A multimodal view on signed interaction – transcribing data from Finnish Sign Language context (English) Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir and Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson Constituent questions in ÍTM Ellen Ormel, Anne de Meijer and Onno Crasborn Coarticulation of thumb position in Sign Language of the Netherlands Emily Carrigan Adult Homesigners in Nicaragua Independently Innovate Features of their Homesign Systems (ASL/English) Emily Kaufmann and Thomas Kaul Bimodal language switching and single‐task/dual‐task switching: a bimodal advantage? Erin Wilkinson and Jesse Stewart Pear Stories Narratives in American Sign Language: A distributional analysis of disfluency types Eva Gutierrez, Heather Payne, Anna Using functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) to investigate hemispheric Safar and Mairead MacSweeney lateralisation of British Sign Language production Evie Malaia and Ronnie Wilbur Functional connectivity for visual language processing Eyasu Tamene Language Use in Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) Felix Yim‐Binh Sze, Connie Chun‐Yi Lo, Lisa Sui‐Wah Lo and Kenny Kwan‐Ngai Chu Felix Yim‐Binh Sze, James Woodward, Adhika Irlang Suwiryo, Laura Lesmana Wijaya, Iwan Satryawan and Silva Tenrisara Pertiwi Isma Nick Palfreyman Gemma Barbera and Marta Mosella Giulia Petitta and Alessio Di Renzo Lexical Variations and Diachronic Change in Hong Kong Sign Language Sign language use and variations in Jakarta Sign Language A thousand kilometres away: sociolinguistic variation in the urban sign language varieties of Indonesia (BSL) (Non‐)specificity marking in restrictive relative clauses in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) (English) Fingerspelling and metalinguistic reference: new data from Italian Sign Language (LIS) discourse Giulia Petitta, Marie‐Anne Sallandre and Paolo Rossini Mouth Gestures and Mouthing in Two Sign Languages (LIS and LSF) Helen Koulidobrova Sign‐speech bilingualism: A pathway to untangling bilingualism effects As at 27 June 13 Hongyu Liu and Jilin Fu A Study on the Aspectual System of Chinese Sign Language (Shanghai Dialect) Hope Morgan Spatial Agreement and Word Order in Kenyan Sign Language Isabella Chiari, Alessio Di Renzo, Giulia Petitta and Paolo Rossini The signed discourse continuum: the issue of segmentation Itamar Kastner and Kathryn Davidson Nominalizing Clauses: Evidence from ASL and a New Typology of Embedding Jana Hosemann The relevance of transition phases in Sign Languages (English) Jane Tsay and Yijun Chen Prosodic cues in Taiwan Sign Language Joanna Atkinson Voice hallucinations in speech and sign provide a new insights into language feedback loops Johanna Mesch and Lars Wallin The non‐dominant hand as delimitation between inner element and outer element Mara Moita, Patrícia Carmo and Ana Mineiro The Handshapes in Portuguese Sign Language: phonological study Natasha Abner Classifying Reduplicated Nominals in ASL Nina‐Kristin Pendzich Lexical layering of manual and nonmanual components within specific signs. An empirical study of German Sign Language (DGS) Päivi Rainò, Marja Huovila and Irja Seilola Paweł Rutkowski, Małgorzata Czajkowska‐Kisil, Joanna Łacheta and Anna Kuder Concept Formation in Mathematics in Finnish Sign Language The Internal Structure of Nominals in Polish Sign Language (PJM): A Corpus‐based Study Pierre Schmitt Blurred languages : The Signing Stage as a Multimodal Semiotic Space Rachel Benedict, Srishti Nayak and Catherine Caldwell‐Harris Group differences in the Acquisition of Bodypart Classifiers in Deaf children: Deaf Parents versus Hearing Parents Raphaël de Courville, Roman Miletitch, Morgane Rébulard, Claire Danet, Dominique Boutet and Patrick Doan Alteration of Signs in French Sign Language Speakers When Exposed to a Bi‐dimensional Still Representation of Their Own Gestures Renata Lúcia Moreira A preliminary description of time deixis in Brazilian Sign Language Ritva Takkinen and Irja Seilola Kinship terms in Finnish Sign Language Robert Adam Unimodal bilingualism in the Australian Deaf community: language contact between Australian Sign Language and Australian Irish Sign Language (BSL). Stephen McCullough Analysis of cortical thickness in deaf signers, hearing native signers, and hearing nonsigners Susan Mather and Sara Malkowski Examining Echo Phonology in American Sign Language (ASL) Szilárd Rácz‐engelhardt Morphological properties of mouthing in Hungarian Sign Language: Code‐blending between a sign language and a Finno‐Ugric spoken language Tommi Jantunen, Ville Viitaniemi, Matti Karppa and Jorma Laaksonen The head as a place of articulation: From automated detection to linguistic analysis Ulrike Zeshan, Keiko Sagara and Anastasia Bradford Multilingual and multimodal aspects of “cross‐signing” – A study of emerging communication in the domain of numerals As at 27 June 13 Poster session 3: Friday 12 July 2013, 17.30‐18.30 ^Ryan Lepic, Gal Belsitzman, Carl Börstell and Wendy Sandler Motivation in two‐handed signs: A cross‐linguistic investigation of word forms Akio Suemori A phylogenetic approach for fingerspelling variation reveals the origin of hieroglyphic letters Allison Hilger, Torrey Loucks, Quinto‐Pozos David and Matthew Dye Characterizing American Sign Language Fluency Using The Spatiotemporal Index Andre Xavier and Plinio Barbosa One or two? That is the question! The variation in the number of hands in the production of some Libras signs as a result of co‐articulation Andrea Lackner and Christian Stalzer The head takes it all! ‐ head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language Angoua Jean‐Jacques Tano DOCUMENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF LANGUE DES SIGNES DE COTE D'IVOIRE (LSCI) Anna‐Lena Nilsson Use of signing space in simultaneous sign language interpretation: marking discourse structure with the body. Annemarie Kocab, Jennie Pyers and Ann Senghas Asako Uchibori and Kazumi Matsuoka Aurore Paligot and Laurence Meurant Paul Twitchell (ASL), Jill Morford (English & ASL), Benjamin Anible, Pilar Pinar and Giuli Dussias Brendan Costello and Manuel Carreiras From gesture to language: Emergence of nonmanual‐markers in Nicaraguan Sign Language Rightward movement of wh‐elements in Japanese Sign Language: A preliminary study The influence of the metalinguistic function on register variation in LSFB Sensitivity to Verb Bias in ASL‐English bilinguals LSE lexicon: Vital Statistics Carl Börstell Revisiting reduplication: Toward a description of reduplication of predicative signs in Swedish Sign Language Caroline Bogliotti and Laetitia Puissant‐Schontz Assessing morphosyntactic skills in French Sign Language Cecily Whitworth ASL Handshapes: Phonetic Features and Phonological Categories Chiara Branchini, Anna Cardinaletti, Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Improper doubling in LIS Donati Christina Healy Affect Verbs in American Sign Language Clark Denmark, Sabine Fries and Jens Hessmann One sign language is not enough: Approaching second sign language acquisition of Deaf people Daisuke Sasaki North Korean Sign Language: A Possible Influence from Korean and Japanese Sign Languages Danny De Weerdt Existential Constructions in Flemish Sign Language and Finnish Sign Language David Corina, Laurie Lawyer, Peter Hauser, Elizabeth Hirshorn and Deborah Cates Dietmar Roehm, Julia Krebs and Ronnie Wilbur Lexical processing in deaf readers: An fMRI investigation of reading proficiency The online processing of classifier constructions in Austrian sign language (ÖGS): An ERP study Ellen Ormel, Marcel Giezen and Els van der Kooij Phonological priming in deaf signers: Developing a continuous measure of phonological overlap in Sign Language of the Netherlands Felix Yim‐Binh Sze and Betty Cheung Development of discourse referencing in Hong Kong Sign Language narratives by Deaf/hard‐
of‐hearing children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co‐enrolment in Deaf Education As at 27 June 13 Programme (English) Jana Hosemann, Nicole Altvater‐
Mackensen, Annika Herrmann and Nivedita Mani Cross‐modal language activation. Does processing a sign (L1) also activate its corresponding written translation (L2)? (English) Jennifer Petrich, Brenda Nicodemus and Lucinda O'Grady Spatial language in dialogue: The role of modality in creating shape‐based referring expressions Jenny Singleton and Melissa Herzig Translating Theoretical Research into Application and Practice Jerry Schnepp, Rosalee Wolfe and John McDonald Jia Li, Scholastica Lam and Cat H‐M. Fung Jill Weisberg, Stephen McCullough, Jennifer Petrich and Karen Emmorey Joanna Filipczak and Piotr Mostowski Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari and Jason Riggle Modeling synchrony and co‐occurrence for nonmanual signals in American Sign Language Acquisition of nonmanual adverbials in Hong Kong Sign Langauge by deaf children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co‐enrolment in Deaf Education Programme The neural correlates of comprehending ASL‐English code‐blends Repetition in Polish Sign Language (PJM): Discourse – grammar – information structure? Dispelling prescriptive rules in ASL fingerspelling: the case of ‐E‐ Jordan Fenlon, Adam Schembri and Rachel Sutton‐Spence Turn‐taking and backchannel behaviour in BSL conversations Joshua Williams Native Deaf and Hearing Second Language (M2L2) Signers’ Lexical Structure: Fingerspelling Julie Rinfret, Anne‐Marie Parisot, Karl Szymoniak and Suzanne Villeneuve Methodological issues in automatic recognition of pointing signs in Langue des signes Québécoise using a 3D motion capture system Keiko Sagara and Ulrike Zeshan Typology of cardinal numerals and numeral incorporation in sign languages Keren Cumberbatch Challenging the Universal on Doubling Structures Martha Tyrone and Claude Mauk ASL Locations as Dynamic Mirko Santoro and Carlo Geraci Weak crossover in Italian Sign Language Rachel Magid and Jennie Pyers Does iconicity help children learn language? Evidence from deaf and hearing preschoolers Rachel Sutton‐Spence and Penny Boyes Braem A comparison of artistic mime and sign language poetry Russell Richie and Charles Yang Elicitation and analytic methods for documenting the lexicons of emerging signed languages Tanya Denmark and John Swettenham Are deaf children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impaired when using emotional and linguistic facial expressions in British Sign Language (BSL)? Tracking grammaticalization through synchronic contextual variation: the frequency and Trevor Johnston, Donovan Cresdee, distribution of signs meaning “finish” in the Auslan (Australian sign language) and BSL (British Bencie Woll and Adam Schembri Sign Language) corpora Vincent Homer and Carlo Geraci Can’t we make it possible? Maybe (not) Wanette Reynolds Young bimodal bilingual narrative acquisition: Overt lexical sequence marking in ASL video‐
retellings – ASL Yijun Chen and James Tai Polar and Content questions in Taiwan Sign Language Yu‐Cheng Ho and Jung‐Hsing Chang Exploring the Form and Function of Body Classifiers in Taiwan Sign Language As at 27 June 13