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3rd keynote of the day: Deanna Gagne from @LingdeptGU on bimodal bilingualism. #LingCologne Image
Code-blending is the simultaneous productions of (aspects of) an utterance in sign and speech.

This is not the same as SimCom🚫, but something that can reveal the structure of and interaction between languages. #LingCologne Image
But what happens if one of the two languages still has an emerging grammar — as in bimodals using Nicaraguan Sign Language? #LingCologne
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Keynote 2 of day 2 at #LingCologne: @ozyurek_a (@GestureSignLab) on the integration of hand gestures in spoken language as multimodal communication. Image
Traditional approaches to language research have focused on the:
— spoken/written (not visual)
— arbitrary (not iconic)
— discrete/categorical
— unichannel (not multimodal)

Luckily, more recent work has broadened the perspective wrt the above points.
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If gesture is only simulated action, gesturing should look the same regardless of one's language. However, the interface model predicts that gesture is integrated with language, such that properties of one's language will influence gesture strategies. #LingCologne Image
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Day 2 of #LingCologne starts with Wendy Sandler giving her keynote on the compositionality of theatrical sign language. Image
Wendy acknowledges the important work of Svetlana Dachkovsky ("our resident squintologist") who has done extensive work on squinting in Israeli SL, for example as a marker of shared information and subordinate clauses. #LingCologne
Facial actions — as a finite set — are grammatical across sign languages, and mostly correspond to spoken language intonation (mainly upper face). Thus, different parts of the body are composite pieces of the linguistic system. #LingCologne Image
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Day 1 of #LingCologne concludes with Anton Stepikhov's keynote on syntactic segmentation of spontaneous speech. Image
Variability of inter-annotator sentence segmentation is noticeable. Many boundaries identified only by single annotators. #LingCologne

(Reflects what we found for Swedish Sign Language: borstell.github.io/pdfs/borstell_…) ImageImage
Text grammar (morphology/syntax), type (narrative = easier), and speaker gender (female = easier) and profession (philology professor = harder) affect difficulty in sentence segmentation. #LingCologne Image
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Up and at it again, after a short lunch break. @katerowley0 on visual word recognition in deaf readers. #LingCologne Image
How do deaf readers connect phonology, orthography, and semantics (since phonology is not directly available)? #LingCologne Image
In a lexical identification task, deaf and hearing readers had same reaction time, but deaf readers were more accurate. #LingCologne Image
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After a quick ☕ break, we're back for the 2nd keynote, Katharina Rohlfing on gesture and language acquisition. #LingCologne
Deictic pointing gestures appear early in communication, reflect interactional skills and coordinated attention, and aid lexical acquisition.
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Iconic gestures come later in the development. They are more complicated. What does the hand represent (object/handling) and from which perspective (observer/character). #LingCologne
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After morning welcome and poster lightning presentations (teasers for afternoon), it's time for the first keynote. Roland Pfau on headshakes as negation in sign and gesture.
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Negation is one domain in which we have a relatively large set of sign languages represented in the literature, so we can start doing cross-linguistic comparisons.
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One hypothesis of the origin of the headshake gesture as negation is avoidance (when being fed).
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