Int. Sign videos: SIGNopsis TISLR13, more videos

1 November 2019

The Five-Minute SIGNopsis was a competition held as part of TISLR 13, the conference on sign language linguistics organized in Hamburg in 2019. Young sign language linguists were invited to present their research in sign language.

The result is several great videos that present research findings in a concise, informative, and appealing way, all with English subtitles.

These titles were submitted and can be found at the link below:

• Natasha Abner, Carlo Geraci, Justine Mertz, and Shi Yu: Articulatory evidence for sign language typology and history
• Sara Cañas: Describing the non-manual marking of polar interrogative in Catalan Sign Language:Approaching its pragmatic function through a feature-based theory of biases
• Ardavan Guity: Meaning of “bflap” in Iranian Sign Language
• Jana Hosemann and Jens-Michael Cramer: The life stories of deaf elderly people: How did deaf people, born between 1930 and 1950 and raised in Germany, find their work profession?
• Britta Illmer: The trial caughtin the middle: An analysis of the trial in DGS as a phenomenon between dual and paucal
• Jana Löffler: The tip-of-the-finger phenomenon in German Sign Language: A corpus-based analysis
• Hannah Lutzenberger: The mystery of child signing
• Mirella De Oliveira Pena Araújo: Mouth non-manual expressions in Libras: Usages and productivity