The Signed Languages reading Group (SLanG) is a reading group that meets regularly to discuss literature about all aspects of signed and manual languages. Anyone from Rutgers or elsewhere is invited to participate.
Unless otherwised specified, we will be meeting in the Linguistics Department (directions).
| Date | Topic |
| 17 April (Thurs) 4:30pm SEM 108 | Jane Grimshaw, topic TBA |
| 7 March (Fri) 10am SEM 108 | Features, Articulatory/Phonetic Constraints, and Markedness •Morén, Bruce 2005 (handout) - "A Unified Approach to Manner of Articulation in Signed and Spoken Languages" •Mathur, Gaurav 2000 - "The Morphology-Phonology Interface in Signed Languages" (Sections 3.1 and 3.2, pp. 163-171) •Sandler, Wendy and Diane Lillo-Martin (2006) "Sign Language and Linguistic Universals" (Chapter 10, especially section 10.4) |
| 9 Nov. (Fri) 10am SEM 108 | How Many Seats in a Chair? The Derivation of Nouns and Verbs in American Sign Language (Supalla and Newport 1978) |
| 19 Oct. (Fri) 10am SEM 108 | The Rightward Analysis of wh-Movement in ASL: A Reply to Petronio and Lillo-Martin (Neidle et al 1998) |
| 21 Sept. (Fri) 10am SEM 108 | David Perlmutter's (1992) "Sonority and Syllable Structure in American Sign Language" |
For further information, to receive notification of SLanG meetings, or to access
the articles we will be reading, join the SLanG site on Sakai, or contact:
Aaron Braver < abraver /æt/ rutgers.edu >
or
Jimmy Bruno < jimmybru /æt/ eden.rutgers.edu >
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