Programme

Note that the official workshop languages are English and International Sign (IS). English ⇄ IS interpreting will be provided for all presentations and discussion sessions. Please contact us if you have questions about the interpreting services provided.

Day 1: Thursday, 6 November

Time	Session
08:00 – 09:00	Registration & Coffee
09:00 – 09:30	Opening Session Organising Team
09:30 – 10:15	Invited Presentation Carlo Cecchetto The Challenge of Simultaneity for Formal Accounts of Sign Language Grammars	Chair: Patrick C. Trettenbrein
10:15 – 10:45	Cornelia Loos Challenging Linearization: Temporally Iconic Simultaneity in Complex Predicates in DGS
10:45 – 11:15	Christian Rathmann (presenting) & Gaurav Mathur Beyond Morphology: Agreement, Gesture, and Multimodal Grammar
11:15 – 11:45	Coffee Break & Group Photo
11:45 – 12:30	Invited Presentation (🌐 Remotely Via Zoom) Vadim Kimmelman Can Computer Vision Provide Insight Into the Nature of Nonmanual Markers in Sign Languages?	Chair: Nina-Kristin Meister
12:30 – 13:00	Alexandra Navarrete-González (presenting), Lyke Esselink (presenting), Floris Roelofsen, & Brendan Costello Do we See the Same Thing? Perception of Phonemic Contrasts in Sign Languages
13:00 – 13:30	Serpil Karabüklü (🌐 Remotely Via Zoom) Form and Meaning Relations of Head Nods Across Sign Languages
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:00	Janika Stille, Anne Wienholz (presenting), Annika Herrmann, & Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber The Impact of Age of Acquisition on the Processing of Agreement Verbs in Deaf Children Perceiving German Sign Language Sentences	Chair: Thomas A. Finkbeiner
15:00 – 15:30	Door Spruijt (presenting), Ingmar Brilmayer, Pamela Perniss, & Petra B Schumacher On Categoriality and Tolerance in Sign Comprehension: Evidence From ERPs
15:30 – 16:15	Invited Presentation (🌐 Remotely Via Zoom) Rachel I. Mayberry Childhood Language Shapes the Adult Brain-Language System: Insights from American Sign Language
16:15 – 17:15	Coffee Break & Poster Session
17:15 – 18:00	Round Table Discussion #1
19:00	Workshop Dinner

Abstracts for Poster Session

The poster session takes place in the foyer outside the Wilhelm Wundt Room where coffee will be served during breaks. The numbers in the list below correspond to the numbers on the poster boards.

Mike Ofori Antwi (presenting), Reginald Akuoko Duah, & George Akanlig-Pare: Focus marking in Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL)
~~Maharrem Ayar (presenting), Hilal Özdemir, & Dilay Z. Karadöller: MySignAPP: An Intervention Program for Supporting Sign Language Acquisition~~ (Abstract Withdrawn)
Matt Brown: Disjunction, Non-manuals, and Scalar Implicatures in British Sign Language
Youngju Choi: Composite Utterances and Perspective Blending in Korean Sign Language Narratives
Alessio Di Renzo (presenting), Gabriele Gianfreda, Isabella Chiari, & Olga Capirci: Analysis of the Linguistic Structure of Italian Sign Language (LIS): Sequentiality, Simultaneity, and Segmentation Methodologies
Alejandro D. Fojo (presenting), Roberto Aguirre, Mauricio Castillo, María Noel Macedo, & Belén González: Decisión léxica en la Lengua de Señas Uruguaya (LSU)
Min-Joo Kim, Youngju Choi (presenting), & Arum Kang: Definiteness Marking in Korean Sign Language
Anastasia Parini (presenting), Beatrice Giustolisi, & Maria Teresa Guasti: LIS Comprehension in Deaf L1 and Hearing L2 Signers: Methodological Issues
Vanessa W. Y. Tsang (presenting), Gladys Tang, & Yiu Leung Aaron Wong: The Organisation, Grammaticalization, and Modulation of Entity Classifiers
Monica Xiao Wei (presenting), Diar Abdlkarim, Sang-Hoon Yeo, & Robin L. Thompson: The Role of Motor Feedback in Second Language Sign Learning
Monica Xiao Wei (presenting), Diar Abdlkarim, Sang-Hoon Yeo, & Robin L. Thompson: Linguistic and Motor Influences in Second Sign Language Production
Colin Wilson (presenting) & Marina Bedny: Kinematic Modeling of Eyebrow Raising and Lowering Gestures in ASL

Day 2: Friday, 7 November

Time	Session
09:00 – 09:45	Invited Presentation Marloes Oomen Do Signers Interpret R-Loci as Regions or Points? Insights From an Online Probe Recognition Task	Chair: Markus Steinbach
09:45 – 10:15	Linghui E. Gan (presenting) & Jon Gajewski Why Do Sign Languages Make Prominent Use of the Sentence Final Position?
10:15 – 10:45	Kirill Aksenov (presenting), Anique Schüller, & Brendan Costello Difference Between Signed and Spoken Languages is Rooted in Duality of Patterning, Not in Amount of Iconicity
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00	Invited Presentation David P. Corina Neurobiological Perspectives on Sign Production: Implications for Predictive Models of Sign Language Processing	Chair: Emiliano Zaccarella
12:00 – 12:30	Anna Pietrzak (presenting), Anastasia Parini, Charlotte Hauser, Beatrice Giustolisi, Justine Mertz, & Mauro Viganò (presenting) Sign Language Assessment in Aphasia: New Tools, Preliminary Data, and Insights for Clinical Practice
12:30 – 13:00	Maria Zimmermann (presenting), Monika Kozub, Joanna Huczyńska, Piotr Tomaszewski, Annemarie Kocab, & Marina Bedny Neural Encoding of Verbs in Natural Sign Language Narrative
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45	Invited Presentation Karen Emmorey From Perception to Phonology: Neural Tuning for Visual-Manual Phonological Structure	Chair: Angela D. Friederici
14:45 – 15:15	Stefania Mattioni Exploring the Role of the Visual Ventral Stream in Processing Sign Language
15:15 – 15:45	Akshi (presenting), Miriam Hauptman, Matthew Sampson, Qi Cheng, & Marina Bedny Multivariate fMRI Uncovers Classifier-Invariant and Language-specific ASL Verb Representations in Deaf Signers
15:45 – 16:30	Round Table Discussion #2
16:30 – 16:45	Closing Session Organising Team
16:45 – 17:00	Coffee & Farewell

Side Event: Saturday, 8 November

As a side event, we offer an excursion to the Wilhelm Wundt Collection at University of Leipzig. The room contains original devices, manuscripts and other artefacts from the father of experimental psychology and his laboratory. The guided tour will be given by Robert P. O’Shea (Professor for History of Psychology) in English and should last for approximately one hour. Note that for this side event we will unfortunately not be able to offer interpreting into International Sign (IS)! However, English ⇄ German Sign Language (DGS) interpreting will be available.

Prior registration is required (e-mail Patrick at trettenbrein@cbs.mpg.de). Regardless of whether you are a presenter at the workshop or have registered as a non-presenting participant, you have to register again to join the excursion! The maximum number of participants is 20. Spots are allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.

We will meet in front of the workshop venue in Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig on Saturday, 8 November at 10:00 and jointly walk to the university building in the city centre (about 10 mins. walk). Alternatively, you can join us directly at the Wilhelm Wundt Institute of Psychology at Städtisches Kaufhaus, Neumarkt 9, 04109 Leipzig at 10:30 sharp.