Presentations

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Upcoming

Felicia Bisnath, Laura Horton, Lina Hou & Savithry Namboodiripad. The heterogeneity of deaf and hard-of-hearing language experience of ASL users in the United States. May 19th 2025 (Talk) at 2nd ROLE Collective Symposium, Online.

Felicia Bisnath & Benjamin Anible. Do depictive and descriptive forms in Norwegian Sign Language differ in morphosyntactic integration? July 14th-18th 2025. (Talk) at International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 17 (ICLC17), Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2025

Felicia Bisnath. Language contact & attitudes to mouthing among deaf and hard-of-hearing users of ASL in the United States. Apr 29th 2025 (Talk) at SilC Seminars, Bergen, Norway. [slides]

Felicia Bisnath. Exploring the heterogeneity of DHH language experiences in ASL users in the US outside of nativeness at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 15 (TISLR15) at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2025 (Talk). [slides].

2024

Felicia Bisnath. Effects of perceiver subjectivity on evaluation of mouthing in American Sign Language (ASL). June 25th 2024 (Talk) at University of Bergen, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.

Felicia Bisnath & Molly Flaherty. The study of sign languages and gesture at Evolang conferences. May 18th-21st 2024 (Talk) at International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang) 2024, Madison, Wisconsin.

Felicia Bisnath. Effects of perceiver subjectivity on evaluation of mouthing in American Sign Language (ASL). Apr 2nd 2024 (Talk) at Making Hands Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, Linguistics Department.

Felicia Bisnath. Types of ASL users in the United States: a bottom-up approach. Mar 20th 2024 (Talk) at Sign Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, Linguistics Department.

Felicia Bisnath. Implicit beliefs about spoken language contact in American Sign Language (ASL). Jan 4th-7th 2024 (Talk) at Centennial Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024), New York City, New York. [slides].

Danielle Burgess, Joy Peltier, Sophia Eakins,Wilkinson DanielWong Gonzales, Alicia Stevers, Ariana Bancu, Felicia Bisnath, Moira Saltzman & Marlyse Baptista. The MULTI Project: Resources for enhancing multi-faceted Creole representation in the linguistics classroom. Jan 4th-7th 2024 (Talk) at Centennial Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2024), New York City, New York.

2023

Yourdanis Sedarous, Felicia Bisnath & Savithry Namboodiripad. 2023. Naturalistic prosody leads to acceptable resumptive pronouns in English: Evidence from audio stimuli. Aug 31st-Sep 2nd 2023 (Poster) at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2023), San Sébastian, Basque Country, Spain.

Felicia Bisnath, Marah Jaraisy, Rehana Omardeen, Hannah Lutzenberger & Adam Schembri. Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: lessons from signed and spoken languages. April 20th 2024 (Talk) at Directions in Language Evolution workshop (DILE), Toruń, Poland.

Felicia Bisnath. Forms of multimodal language contact: mouthing constructions across signed languages. Mar 9th 2023 (Poster) at Coexistence, competition, and change: Perspectives on structural borrowing and the dynamics of asymmetric language contact workshop at 45th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, DGfS), Cologne, Germany. [slides].

Felicia Bisnath. Forms of multimodal language contact: mouthing constructions across signed languages. Jan 5th 2023 (Talk) at 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2023), Denver, Colorado. [slides].

Ariana Bancu, Joy Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins,Wilkinson DanielWong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers & Marlyse Baptista. On ’revitalizing’ attitudes towards Creole languages. Jan 5–8th 2023 (Talk) at 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA 2023), Denver, Colorado.

2022

Felicia Bisnath, Marah Jaraisy, Rehana Omardeen, Hannah Lutzenberger & Adam Schembri. Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: lessons from signed and spoken languages. Dec 16th 2022 (Talk) at Linguistics Typology and Diversity: Theory, methods and ethics in sign language typology workshop at Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT14), Austin, Texas.

Felicia Bisnath. Ideologies about mouthing and language background in American Sign Language (ASL). October 13th 2022 (Talk) at NewWays of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50), Stanford, California, USA. [slides].

Felicia Bisnath, Marah Jaraisy, Rehana Omardeen, Hannah Lutzenberger & Adam Schembri. Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: lessons from signed and spoken languages. Sep 12th 2022 (Poster) at Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Language Evolution (EDILE) workshop at Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE), Kanazawa, Japan and Online.

Felicia Bisnath. The that-trace effect in Trinidadian English Creole. Aug 2nd 2022 (Talk) at 25th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL2022), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago and Online. [slides].

Ariana Bancu, Joy Peltier, Felicia Bisnath, Danielle Burgess, Sophia Eakins,Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales, Moira Saltzman, Yourdanis Sedarous, Alicia Stevers & Marlyse Baptista. On ’revitalizing’ attitudes towards Creole languages. April 7th–9th 2022 (Talk) at Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2022 (SLA 22), Boulder, Colorado.

2021

Felicia Bisnath. Language ideology and language documentation in sign language typology/Implications of ideology and unequal distribution of resources on sign language typology. December 16th–18th 2021 (Talk) at the Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory conference, London/Online.

Felicia Bisnath. Mouthing as a feature of sign language use: the ubiquity of a multimodal multilingual phenomenon at LingCologne2021[online]. 10–11th June 2021 (Poster). [poster].

Savithry Namboodiripad, Felicia Bisnath, Alex Kramer, Noah Luntzlara & Adele Goldberg. Backgroundedness measures predict island status of non-finite clauses in English at 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing [online]. 4–6th March 2021 (Poster). https://www.cuny2021.io/2021/02/24/317/.

2020

Felicia Bisnath. Mouthings as Semiotic Resources in Signed Language Emergence at High Desert Linguistics Society 14 (HDLS14) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States of America. 20th–22nd November 2020 (Poster) https://osf.io/btzfa/.

Carl Börstell & Felicia Bisnath. On Islands in the Sea: Swedish Preposition Usage with Island Nations at High Desert Linguistics Society 14 (HDLS14) at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States of America. 20th–22nd November 2020 (Talk) https://osf.io/d9a7f/.

Felicia Bisnath. Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago Signing Community at Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS56) at the University of Chicago. April 30th–May 2nd, 2020 (Talk) (Cancelled: COVID-19).

Felicia Bisnath. Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago Signing Community at Linguistics in Göttingen 3 (LinG3) at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany. February 5–6th, 2020 (Talk). [slides]

2019

Felicia Bisnath. Wh-questions in the Trinidad and Tobago Signing Community at Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 13 (TISLR13) at the University of Hamburg, Germany. September 26–28th, 2019 (Poster). [poster].

2018

Felicia Bisnath. Verb Types in Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language (TTSL) at the International Conference for Graduate Students on Diverse Approaches to Linguistics 6 (IGDAL6) at the University of Haifa, Israel. 23 April, 2018 (Talk).

2017

Felicia Bisnath. Quantifiers in NGT: A Corpus Study at the T.W.I.S.T. Student Conference at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 21–22 April, 2017 (Poster).

Felicia Bisnath & Silvia De Grandis. A Diachronic Study of Transparency in Sranan at the 38th TABU Dag Conference at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. 22–23 June, 2017 (Poster). [poster]

2016

Felicia Bisnath. Higgins’ Taxonomy of Copular Clauses in Trinidadian French Creole at the 21st Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (SCL) at the University of theWest Indies, Mona, Jamaica. August 1–6, 2016 (Talk).