DAY 3 – AUGUST 8

9:00 am – 9:45 am – Stage Presentation Session (In-person)

Marianthi Koraka, Thomas Finkbeiner, Nina-Kristin Meister, Markus Steinbach, Gautam Ottur: The grammaticalization of a motion verb into an imperative marker in two sign languages

9:45 am – 10:15 am – 5-Minute Presentations (In-person)

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

• Serpil Karabüklü, Aslı Gürer, Burak Çavuşoğlu: Focus prominence in focal and non-focal domains in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)
• Anastasia Parini, Juliette Dalle, Fabio Del Prete, Beatrice Giustolisi, Valentia Aristodemo: Age of acquisition and clausal order effects in temporal clauses: A cross-linguistic study in French Sign Language (LSF) and Italian Sign Language (LIS)
• Daisuke Hara, Makoto Miwa: Phonemic status of the O handshape in Japanese Sign Language
• Justyna Kotowicz, Bencie Woll, Gary Morgan: Cognitive control in hearing children who are native signers

10:15 am – 10:45 – Coffee Break

10:45 am – 11:45 am – Plenary Presentation

Mirko Santoro – Sign language research and linguistic identity

11:45 am – 12:45 pm – Lunch by FedUp

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm – Stage Presentation Session (In-person)

12:45 pm – 1:30 pm – Carlo Geraci, Lena Pasalskaya, Sharon Peperkamp: Word recognition in French Sign Language: on the relevance of macro & micro parameters

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm – Vadim Kimmelman, Marloes Oomen, Roland Pfau: Headshakes in NGT: Relation between phonetic properties & linguistic functions

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm – Business Meeting

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm – Closing

You can find the program for Day 2 right below:

DAY 2 – AUGUST 7

9:00 am – 10:00 am – Plenary Presentation

Lorna Quandt – Sign language gain: how sign experience changes vision and cognition

10:00 am – 10:30 am – Coffee Break

10:30 am – 11:15 pm – 5-Minute Presentations (Remote)

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

• Hao Lin, Yuting Zang: Quantification in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) a preliminary investigation
• Sarah Schwarzenberg, Annika Herrmann: Does it need to be double and novel? – Investigating the structure of metaphorical signs in German Sign Language
• Aysemin Yaşar, Bahadır Kisbet: Complexity of Telicity Marking in TİD
• Natasha Thalluri, Kathryn Davidson: Towards a unified view of “co-sign gesture” depictions as demonstrations
• Kaj Kraus, Marjorie Bates, Desire Kirst, Nikole Patson, Laura Wagner, Makayla Yake, Deanne Gagne: The effect of iconic vs. arbitrary teaching strategies on hearing non-signers’ production accuracy and language attitudes

11:15 pm – 12:00 pm – Stage Presentation Session (Remote)

Justine Mertz, Lena Pagel, Giuseppina Turco, Doris Mücke: Coarticulation in sign language: A kinematic study on French Sign Language (LSF) using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA)

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Lunch by Zingerman’s

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Stage Presentation Session (In-person)

1:00 pm – 1:45 pm – Guilherme Lourenço, Anderson Almeida-Silva, Lorena Figueiredo, Crislaine Santos, Alicia Calderón Verde: A comparative study on articulatory ease in three sign languages: Libras, LSCu and Cena

1:45 pm – 2:30 pm – Gen Fujita, Yuko Asada: Phonological Realizations of Three Types of Compounds in Japanese Sign Language

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Coffee Break

3:00 pm – 3:45 pm – Stage Presentation Session (Remote)

Chiara Branchini, Elena Fornasier, Charlotte Hauser: The role of linguistic and non-linguistic factors in the processing of LIS relative clauses

3:45 pm – 4:30 pm – Stage Presentation Session (In-person)

Serpil Karabüklü, Diane Brentari: Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic production and perception studies

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Conference Dinner at Zingerman’s Greyline (100 N Ashley St).

For virtual/remote attendance, you can join the webinar via bit.ly/FEAST2024.

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

For our in-person venue (Kahn Auditorium) and other venues (evening performance, and the conference dinner), please check our Venues & Livestream/Webinar page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/feast2024/venue-logistics/

You can find the detailed conference program for Day 1 on this page: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/feast2024/conference-program/ and right below:

Conference Program

DAY 1 – AUGUST 6

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

The timestamps in the program are in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).

9:00 am – 9:30 am – Registration & Light Breakfast

9:30 am – 9:45 am – Opening

9:45 am – 10:30 am – Stage Presentation (In-person)

Diane Lillo-Martin, Linghui Eva Gan, Julie Hochgesang, Deborah Chen Pichler: Assessing the Development of ASL by Deaf Children: Longitudinal Spontaneous Production Data

10:30 am – 11:00 am – 5-Minute Presentations (In-person)

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

• Sybil Vachaudez, Roland Pfau, Beyza Sümer: Thoughts vs. actions: Particle choice in Adamorobe Sign Language negation
• Yuko Asada: Transitive and unaccusative V-V constructions in Japanese Sign Language
• Kathleen Hall, Oksana Tkachman: The Monosyllabicity Conspiracy: The history and the future of the claim
• Demet Kayabaşı, Natasha Abner: Handshape representation strategies among signers and gesturers in Turkey
• Karahan Şahin, Kadir Gökgöz: SL-AFE: Pose Estimation-based Sign Language Analysis Framework

11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Crip Linguistics: Plenary panel in honor of Dr. Jonathan Henner

Listening Flexibly: Crip Linguistics in Practice

• Octavian Robinson (Gallaudet University)
• Erin Moriarty (Gallaudet University)
• Lina Hou (UC Santa Barbara)
• Anna Lim (Boston University)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch by FedUp

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm – Stage Presentation Session (Remote)

Raquel Veiga Busto, Marco Degano, Floris Roelofsen: Quexistentials in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): An online experiment

2:15 pm – 2:45 pm – 5-Minute Presentations (Remote)

To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

• Alexandra Navarrete-González, Giorgia Zorzi: New insights on contrast, coordination and subordination in Catalan Sign Language
• Josep Quer, Giorgia Zorzi: Content questions in context: wh-syntax and pragmatics in Catalan Sign Language
• Evgeniia Khristoforova: Relativization strategies in Sign Language of the Netherlands: preliminary corpus and elicitation results

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm – Coffee Break

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm – Stage Presentation Session (In Person)

Shengyun Gu: Crossing the boundary, but with a limit: Non-dominant hand spread in Shanghai Sign Language

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Evening performance titled “Voices Through Sign Langauge: Celebrating Deaf Artistry and Creativity” in ASL with local artists at the Keene Theater in East Quadrangle . (This event will highlight the art of sign language and live interpreting will not be provided.)

Registration and the conference dinner sign-up are now closed. If you missed the deadline and would like to request registration, please email feast2024@umich.edu.

You can still register via this link before registration closes: https://forms.gle/Y39E7dFuYsNayMTz8

If you haven’t registered yet, you can still do so via this link: https://forms.gle/XBjNwgF2ebCDo2Z66 The registration form now includes the dietary restrictions form and the conference dinner ticket.

If you’ve already registered for FEAST 2024, please use the following link to inform us about your dietary restrictions and to sign up for the conference dinner: https://umich-ssc.jotform.com/241425802457960

Keep in mind that you can submit the dietary restrictions form without signing up for the conference dinner if you’re not interested in attending the dinner.

Friendly reminder to register to FEAST 2024 until June 15 regardless of whether you’ll attend in-person or online! The registration form now has an added section for dietary restrictions to ensure that we adjust refreshments and lunch options in a way that fits everyone’s needs. You can also sign up for the conference dinner with the same form!

If you’ve already registered, please use the following link to inform us about your dietary restrictions and to sign up for the conference dinner until June 15: https://umich-ssc.jotform.com/241425802457960

Keep in mind that you can submit the dietary restrictions form without signing up for the conference dinner if you’re not interested in attending the dinner.

Registration for FEAST 2024 is now open until June 15, 2024!

You can fill out this form to register, or check out the Registration tab for the same form.

We will soon have more updates on the separate registration for the conference dinner!

You can find the most updated information on the keynote presenters and the Crip Linguistics Panel in honor of Dr. Jonathan Henner on the Panel and Keynote Presenters Information. Please watch this space for the updated conference program soon.

Crip Linguistics: A panel in honor of Dr. Jonathan Henner

• Octavian Robinson (Gallaudet University)
• Erin Moriarty (Gallaudet University)
• Lina Hou (UC Santa Barbara)
• Anna Lim (Boston University)

Keynote Presenters

• Lorna Quandt (Gallaudet University)
• Mirko Santoro (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)