Participating in Conferences and Seminars

Participation at the 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition in Portugal

Date: 21/03/2013 - 23/03/2013

The 1st Symposium on Sign Language Acquisition remarks a major milestone of the global research on acquisition of sign language. The main goal of the conference was “to spread robust knowledge on language acquisition, mainly on sign language acquisition”. This remarking symposium was organized by the Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa.

Researchers at the Centre presented 4 papers in this conference:

Sign Language development by deaf children

• “Acquisition of the Syntax of Functional Signs in HKSL: A Case Study on CAN and NOT-HAVE produced by child late learners of HKSL in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme”
• “Acquisition of Verb Agreement in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL)”
• “Acquisition of nonmanual adverbials in Hong Kong Sign Language by deaf children in the Jockey Club Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment in Deaf Education Programme”

Bilingual development by deaf children

• “Simultaneous Acquisition of Hong Kong Sign Language and Cantonese: Violation of Code-blending Grammar”