Diane Brentari – Conference presentations
2024
2024. Brentari, D., A. Senghas, and Marie Coppola. The effects of animacy on the creation of verb agreement: Clues from Lengua de Señas Nicaragüense. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York City, NY (paper).
2024 Karabuklu, S., and D. Brentari. Accommodation in atypical situations: Crosslinguistic. production and perception studies. Formal and Experimental Approaches to Sign Theory (FEAST). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. August 6-8 (paper).
2024 Karabuklu, S., and D. Brentari. Formal and Experimental Approaches to Sign Theory (FEAST). University. 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. May 16. (paper).
2023
2023. Edwards, T., and D. Brentari. Finding Minimal Pairs in Protactile Language: Where pragmatics, semantics, and the human knuckle meet. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver, CO (paper).
2022
2022 Brentari,D., M. Coppola, R. Ergin, A. Senghas. Becoming More Nuanced in Describing Sign Language Communities. Workshop on Emerging Languages, Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, Austin TX, December 16, 2022.
2022 Shi, B. D. Brentari, G. Shakhnarovich1, K. Livescu. Open-domain Sign Language Translation Learned from Online Video. 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. December 7-11, Abu Dhabi poster)
2022 Martinez del Rio, A. and D. Brentari. Comparing reduction across the ASL lexicon: fingerspelling and lexical signs. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Osaka, Japan. Sept. 27-30. (poster)
2022 Quam, M., D. Brentari and M. Coppola. Lexical conventionalization requires a community of primary users, communicative interactions are not enough. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Osaka, Japan. Sept. 27-30. (paper)
2022 Lu, J. D. Lillo-Martin, D. Brentari, and S. Goldin-Meadow. Not all points are the same from a child’s eyes. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Conference, Osaka, Japan. Sept. 27-30. (paper)
- Brentari, D. What we learn by comparing sign language and gesture. International Society of Gesture Studies. Plenary talk.
2022 Brentari D. How sign languages have contributed to understanding language. National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. January 21, 2022.
2022 Edwards, T., and D. Brentari. How ASL Handshape is Transformed in Protactile Language: The case of “indicating verbs”. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (paper). January 5-9, 2022.
2021
2021 Edwards, T., and D. Brentari. The Surprising Grammar of Touch: Language Emergence in DeafBlind Communities. Linguistic Society of America. Webinar. January 17, 2021
2021 Martinez del Rio, A., and D. Brentari. 2021. Repetition reduction across multiple repetitions in ASL Fingerspelling. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (paper).
2020
2020 Brentari, D. The effects of modality and social factors on phonological systems: Insights from sign languages. Conference on Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics. Tokyo, Japan (keynote speaker). October 2,2020.
2020 Brentari, D., How quickly does phonology emerge in a “village” vs. “community” sign language. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6-9, 2020 (poster).
2020. Brentari, D. Feeling phonology: Proprioceptive constructions in protactile sign language. Paper presented the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, as part of the symposium Toward a more tactile future: learning from Protactile DeafBlind communities. Seattle, Washington, February 13-15.
2019
The Sign Language Linguistics lab had a great showing at TISLR13 in Hamburg, Germany this past September. Check out links below to see some of our work:
- Brentari & Edwards on the emergence of tactile phonological patterns in protactile communities in the United States
- Brentari et al. on the emergence of phonology in both village and community sign languages
- Martinez del Rio on polysyllabic forms in the American Sign Language lexicon
- Montemurro et al. on the emergence of spatial modulation in Nicaraguan Sign Language