CRL Talks

Winter Quarter 2024

CRL Talks are Friday at 11:00 a.m. (PST, GMT -08:00) in CSB 280 or via Zoom.

March 15, 2024

Learning Kata Kolok - a case study of language socialization in a Balinese sign language

Hannah Lutzenberger

Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham

Children learn language through social interaction, with conversation being their primary input to make them competent language users. Often (though not universally), parent-child interactions are characterized by altered input (Bunce et al., 2020): speaking parents may modify pitch or syntax and signing parents may sign slower or on the child’s body(Holzrichter & Meier, 2000; Pizer et al., 2011). In addition, child signing is often characterised by modifications: handshapes and locations may be substituted, and movements may be altered. Both child-directed signing and child signing has been little studied in non-Western contexts: In this presentation, I present work on child signing and preliminary insights into work in progress on how deaf children are socialized with the sign language Kata Kolok, a small sign language that is used in rural enclave in Bali, Indonesia. The sign language emerged due sustained congenital deafness and represents an exceptional acquisition setting for deaf children: they receive immediate and rich signing input from many hearing and deaf signers from birth (de Vos, 2012; Marsaja, 2008). Using longitudinal corpus recordings, I analyse phonological modifications children make to signs and document how child-directed signing shapes early social interactions, focusing on 1) child-directed signing strategies and 2) conversational constellations.

CRL Talks Schedule

February 2

Social & Organizational Meeting (with snacks!)

February 16

Grad Data Blast

Matthew Mcarthur-- Pandemic Disruptions and Socioeconomic Status: Examining their Effects on Early Vocabulary Development

Jessie Quinn-- Syntax Guides Bilingual Language Selection

Thomas Morton-- Dynamics of Sentence Planning: Repetition from Representation to Articulation

March 1

What Can Language Models Tell Us About the N400?

James Michaelov

Department of Cognitive Science at University of California, San Diego

March 15

Learning Kata Kolok - a case study of language socialization in a Balinese sign language

Hannah Lutzenberger

Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham

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