09:30-10:00

Registration

Opening Ceremony   

Chair:    Jane Tsay, Director, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University

10:00-10:15

Ovid. J.-L. Tzeng, Vice President

Academic Sinica

James H.-Y. Tai, Director-General

Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Science Council,

and Professor, National Chung Cheng University

Opening Remarks

(TSL interpretator:  Hsin-Hsien Lee)

Keynote Speech

Chair:  Ovid. J.-L. Tzeng

10:15-11:45

Scott Liddell

Gallaudet University, USA

Grammar and Conceptual Mapping in American Sign Language

(TSL interpretator:  Hsin-Hsien Lee)

11:45-13:30

Lunch

Session 1 

Chair:    Wai Lan Gladys Tang, Department of Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong

13:30-15:00

Wayne Smith

Learning Unlimited Language School, USA

TSL Research: An Historical Overview [presented in Chinese]

(TSL interpretator:  Yue-hsia Hsiao Ku)

15:00-15:30

Break

Session 2 

Chair:    Yung-li Chang, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University

15:30-16:30

Jean Ann

State University of New York at Oswego, USA

A Functionalist Look at TSL Phonology

(TSL interpretator:  Yue-hsia Hsiao Ku)

16:30-17:30

James H.-Y. Tai, Jung-hsing Chang & Shiou-fen Su

National Chung Cheng University

The Role of Proforms and Verb Agreement:  TSL Classifiers Re-classified

(TSL interpretator:  Hsin-Hsien Lee)

08:30-09:00

Tea and coffee

Session 3 

Chair:    Gary Chon-Wen Shyi, Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University

09:00-10:00

Jung-Shuang Chiu¹, W.-J. Kuo^1,2, D.-L. Hung¹, O. J.-L. Tzeng¹ &

J.-C. Hsieh²

¹Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, National Yang-Ming University

²Integrated Brain Research Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

An fMRI Study of Taiwan Sign Language Processing:

Comparing Brain Images for Signing and Naming of Pictures

and Words 

(TSL interpretator:  Jung-Shuang Chiu)

10:00-11:00

Susan Duncan

University of Chicago, USA

Discourse Prosody in Taiwan Sign Language

(TSL interpretator:  Jung-Shuang Chiu)

11:00-11:15

Break

Session 4 

Chair:    Hsu Samuel Wang, Linguistics Institute, National Tsing Hua University

11:15-12:15

James Myers, Jane Tsay &

Hsin-hsien Lee

National Chung Cheng University

The Processing of Handshape Change in Taiwan Sign Language 

(TSL interpretator:  Hsin-Hsien Lee)

12:15-13:30

Lunch

Session 5

General Discussion

Chair:    James Myers, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chung Cheng University

13:30-15:00

Participants:  Wai Lan Gladys Tang, discussion initiator

Scott Liddell

Wayne Smith

Jean Ann

James H.-Y. Tai

Jung-hsing Chang

Jung-Shuang Chiu

Susan Duncan

Closing Ceremony

15:00-15:15

Jane Tsay

Closing Remarks

(TSL interpretator:  Hsin-Hsien Lee)

Yu-shan Ku

Happily Sail Away

(Taiwanese song with TSL interpretation)