Lillo-Martin, Diane. Sign Language acquisition is a human right. Invited keynote presentation; Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; Nov. 2024.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gan, Linghui (Eva), Hochgesang, Julie & Chen Pichler, Deborah. Assessing the development of ASL by deaf children: Longitudinal spontaneous production data. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST); Ann Arbor, MI; August 2024.
Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gale, Elaine. ASL phonology develops early for deaf children in non-native signing home environment. International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC); online; May 2024.
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Creamer, Patrice, & Schroeder, Jillian. Family ASL: Research in support of family bimodal bilingual development. International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2024.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah, & Creamer, Patrice. Family bimodal bilingual language development: Longitudinal study of families learning ASL. Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference (EHDI); Denver, CO; March 2024.
Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gale, Elaine. Early development in ASL phonology: A longitudinal study of deaf children with hearing parents. Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting; New York, NY; Jan. 2024
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Conte, Mary Cecilia, Creamer, Patrice, Dale-Hench, Martin, Gale, Elaine, Goodwin, Corina, Gu, Shengyun, Kraus, Kaj, Lee, Chui-Yi, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Palmer, Jeffrey, Petersen, Bettie & Shaw, Meghan. Profile of a family’s bimodal bilingual development. Poster presentation; Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; Nov. 2023.
Zarchy, Razi, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Veyvoda, Michelle. Effects of family-centered ASL instruction on hearing parents’ child-directed signing. Poster presentation; ASHA Convention; Boston, MA; Nov. 2023.
Lillo-Martin, Diane. Modality effects in language structure. International seminar (online); Language Convergence Research Institute, Chosun University, South Korea; July 2023.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah, & Martin, Amber. Sign Language acquisition as a human right. International seminar (online); Language Convergence Research Institute, Chosun University, South Korea; July 2023.
Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. Phonological development in ASL-signing children: Pseudosign repetition. Twelfth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhCxii); Montreal, Quebec; May 2023.
Goodwin, Corina & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Bilingualism effects in deaf and hearing bimodal bilinguals. 2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference (EHDI); Cincinnati, OH; March 2023.
Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Klamt, Marilyn Mafra, Perniss, Pamela & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Visual cohesion in Coda bimodal bilingual productions. Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); November 2022.
Kraus, Kaj, Gu, Shengyun, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. L2 Signer Accent: Phonological Development in ASL Learners. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR); Osaka, Japan; Sept. 2022.
Lu, Jenny, Lillo-Martin, Diane, Brentari, Diane & Goldin-Meadow, Susan. Not all points are the same from a child’s eyes. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR); Osaka, Japan; Sept. 2022.
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Sign language for deaf and hard of hearing children: Pervasive biases that are often overlooked. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2020 postponed to June 2022.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Gale, Elaine. Understanding diverse contexts for bimodal bilingual development: L1 vs. L2 learning. 5th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (FCEI); Bad Ischl, Austria; May 2020 postponed to June 2022.
Kozak, L. Viola, Gu, Shengyun, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Phonological Development in ASL Signing Children: Comparing Approaches to Scoring a Pseudosign Repetition Task. International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA); Boston University / Online; June 2022.
Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Klamt, Marilyn Mafra, Perniss, Pamela & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Visual cohesion in Coda multimodal productions. Poster presentation, International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition (ICSLA); Boston University / Online; June 2022.
Goodwin, Corina, Piotroski, Janina & Lillo-Martin, Diane. Hearing and deaf ASL-English bilinguals show typical early bilingual development. Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); online; November 2021.
Lillo-Martin, Diane. What the acquisition of pronouns in sign languages tells us about their pronominal systems. Invited Plenary for the 3rd International Conference on Theoretical East Asian Psycholinguistics (ICTEAP); online. Hosted by National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; March 2021 postponed to November 2021.
Lillo-Martin, Diane. The acquisition of pointing signs and pronominal systems in sign languages. Invited plenary. North Eastern Linguistic Society (NELS) 52; online. Hosted by Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; October 2021.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Goodwin, Corina & Prunier, Lee. Measuring grammatical development in American Sign Language: ASL-IPSyn vs. MLU. 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL); online. Hosted by University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA; July 2020 postponed to July 2021.
Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah. ASL Pronoun Acquisition: Implications for Pronominal Theory. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA); online. Hosted by University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; originally scheduled August 2020, postponed to May 2021.
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2021). Stuck at beginner level: Hearing parents’ challenges in learning ASL word order. Poster presentation; 20th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021. Received the award for Best Overall Poster Presentation.
Gale, Elaine, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2021). Bimodal Bilingualism for an early start to equitable education for deaf children. 20th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; All online; March 2021.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). Sign language acquisition and linguistic theory. Invited presentation; ABRALIN ao Vivo; online; May 2020.
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Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). Heritage language characteristics of bimodal bilinguals. Plenary presentation; Annual Conference of the German Linguistics Association (DGfS); Hamburg, Germany; March 2020. (Invited for the Workshop on Linguistic diversity and linguistic modalities: New perspectives on bimodal (sign language/oral language) bilingualism)
https://lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de/l2go/-/get/v/36745
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gale, Elaine & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2020). How to support ASL as an L1 for children and L2 for parents: An interactive discussion. 19th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Meeting; Kansas City, MO; March 2020.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Quadros, Ronice, Bobaljik, Jonathan David, Gagne, Deanna, Kwok, Lily, Laszakovits, Sabine, Mafra, Marilyn & Wurmbrand, Susanne (2020). Constraints on code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA; January 2020.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Implications of early and late language. Conference for SLPs who use ASL. Bordentown, NJ; November 2019. NOTE: This pdf contains all the slides including the many that I skipped over! Lillo-Martin_NJ_191101
Hochgesang, Julie, Catt, Donovan, Chen Pichler, Deborah, Goodwin, Corina, Kennedy, Carmelina, Prunier, Lee, Simons, Doreen & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Sign Language Acquisition, Annotation, Archiving and Sharing: The SLAAASh Project Status Report. Poster presentation, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) 13; Hamburg, Germany; September 2019. 190913_TISLR13poster_SLAAAShhandout.pdf
Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2019). ASL Pronoun Acquisition: Implications for Pronominal Theory. Poster presentation, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) 13; Hamburg, Germany; September 2019. TISLR_Poster_Pronouns_handout.pdf
Chen Pichler, Deborah, Gagne, Deanna & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Parents partnering with language researchers. American Society for Deaf Children Conference; Newark, Delaware; June 2019. ASDC-2019_Presentation.pdf
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Raised signing: Heritage language effects. Invited presentation, Eleventh Heritage Language Research Institute; Albuqueruqe, NM; June 2019. NHLC 2019 Presentation.pdf
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2019). Tap your Head and Rub your Tummy: How Complex can Simultaneous Production of Two Languages Get? Invited Plenary, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New York, NY; January 2019.
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Goodwin, Corina, Prunier, Lee & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2018). Parental sign input to Deaf children of Deaf parents: Vocabulary and syntax. Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA; November 2018. BUCLD_2018_Input_Poster
Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2018). Development of pointing signs in ASL and implications for their analysis. Poster presentation, Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA; November 2018. BUCLD_2018_Pointing_Poster_Handout
Lillo-Martin, Diane & Chen Pichler, Deborah (2018). It’s not all ME, ME, ME: Revisiting the Acquisition of ASL Pronouns. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST); Ca ‘Foscari University, Venice; June 18, 2018. Slides
Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2018). Hearing parents and deaf children learning a sign language together. 4th International Congress on Family-Centered Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing; Bad Ischl, Austria; June 15, 2018. Slides
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2018). L2 Sign Language Acquisition by Hearing Parents of Deaf Children: Attitudes and Experiences. Solicited outreach presentation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Barcelona; May 18, 2018. Video below:
Lillo-Martin (2018). ZAS Presentation, April 2018. Slides
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Goodwin, Corina & Prunier, Lee (2017). ASL-IPSyn: A new measure of grammatical development. Poster to be presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; November 2017.
Quadros, Ronice Müller de & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Brazilian bimodal bilingual as heritage signers. Poster to be presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD); Boston, MA; November 2017.
Gökgöz, Kadir, Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Chen Pichler, Deborah & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Constraints on Code-Blending: Distributions of Pointing Subjects and Objects in Bimodal Bilingual Children. Presented at the conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) 13; Palma de Mallorca; September 2017. slides here
Hochgesang, Julie, Crasborn, Onno & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Building the ASL SignBank on the Shoulders of Giants. Poster presented at the Workshop on Corpus-based Approaches to Sign Language Linguistics: Into the second decade; 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference; Birmingham, UK; July 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). SLAAASh Data. Workshop on American Sign Language Resources; LSA Summer Institute; University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; July 12, 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Acquisition of Sign Languages. Course, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute; University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; July 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Natural Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf Children. Invited presentation, Workshop on Assessing A Deaf Child’s ASL; Gallaudet University; June 2017.
Quadros, Ronice Müller de, Davidson, Kathryn, Lillo-Martin, Diane & Emmorey, Karen (2017). Depicting Signs in Bimodal Bilingual Code Blending. Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST); University of Iceland, Reykjavik; June 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017) Bimodal Bilingualism. Invited presentation, Encontro Estadual de Profissionais Tradutores e Intérpretes de Libras; São Paulo, Brazil; May 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane, Prunier, Lee, Hochgesang, Julie & Chen Pichler, Deborah. (2017). Sign Language Acquisition: Annotation, Archiving and Sharing – Status Report. Poster presented at the 8th UConn Language Fest; Storrs, CT; April 2017.
Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). American Sign Language Acquisition Corpus: The SLAAASh Project. Invited workshop, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC); Florianópolis, Brazil; April 2017.
Goodwin, Corina & Lillo-Martin, Diane (2017). Modality effects on English morpheme accuracy by Deaf and Hearing Bimodal Bilinguals; Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; Austin, TX; January 2017.