Conference Program

The official conference languages are International Sign (IS), American Sign Language (ASL), and English. Presentations will be given in IS, ASL, or English, and interpretation is provided between these languages, alongside live captioning in English. Participants are encouraged to sign during the conference and social events (e.g. breaks and conference dinner).

All sessions will be live-streamed. Webinar link: bit.ly/FEAST2024
The timestamps in the program are in Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4).
To see the posters, please go to bit.ly/2024FEASTPosters.

DAY 1 – AUGUST 6

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.)

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, Bahadı 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