Talks

Invited talks

• March 14, 2023 "LIS e la sua importanza per l’inclusione anche oltre la sordità", Convegno di presentazione del progetto "Includere con Pimpa Magica", Ca' Foscari University (presented with C. Branchini)

• March 14, 2023 "Includere con Pimpa Magica per le scuole del Veneto e d’Italia", Convegno di presentazione del progetto "Includere con Pimpa Magica", Ca' Foscari University

• July 13, 2022 "The expression of instrument in Italian and in LIS: a comparative analysis between different languages and modalities",  Invited talk at Bicocca Language Group Seminars (presented with A. Suozzi)

• November 16, 2021 "Le lingue dei segni nel Companion Volume e l'insegnamento della LIS nelle Università italiane" - Invited talk at La didattica delle lingue e il Companion Volume. Il testo, i descrittori, gli ambienti digitali telematici, le pratiche e le esperienze" (presented with A. Cardinaletti)

• May 5, 2021 "La prima grammatica digitale della lingua dei segni italiana" - Invited talk at IncluBembo, at Ca' Foscari University (presented with C. Branchini)

• April 12, 2021 "A grammar of Italian Sign Language" - Invited talk at Università per Stranieri di Siena, Department for Teaching and Research (presented with A. Cardinaletti and C. Branchini)

• September 23, 2019 "Il progetto europeo SIGN-HUB. Creazione di risorse innovative per la tutela e la promozione delle lingue dei segni" - Invited talk at the conference "La Giornata Mondiale delle Lingue dei Segni riconosciuta dall’ONU", ENS Milan

• May, 15, 2019 "Sul serio?! L'espressione dell'ironia in LIS" - Invited talk at IncluBembo, at Ca' Foscari University

• December 6, 2018 "A matter of contrast: Exploring irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS) - Guest lecture at the Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)

• July 25, 2018 "The expression and comprehension of irony in LIS" - Invited talk at the workshop "Sign language grammars through the formal and experimental glass" (University of Crete)

• April 6, 2018 "Lo sviluppo di test diagnostici per i disturbi del linguaggio in lingua dei segni" - Invited talk at the workshop “Il contributo dell’unità italiana al progetto SIGN-HUB: primi risultati” (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)

• September 20, 2017 "Visual grammar: the case of Italian Sign Language (LIS)" and "Signing something while meaning its opposite: the expression and comprehension of irony in LIS" - Guest lectures at the Università degli Studi di Verona (Verona)

• April 29, 2015 "Riflessioni sullo stato dell'arte della ricerca sulla LIS" - Invited talk at the conference "La LIS a Scuola: turismo accessibile ed integrazione" (Pordenone)

• March 17, 2014 "La variazione sociolinguistica nelle lingue dei segni: il caso dell’U20 in LIS" - Guest lecture at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin (presented with C. Geraci) 

Conference talks

2024

• December 12, "The historical evolution of the Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpreter: from assistant to recognized professional", Convegno "Translation Across Time: Historical Developments and Modern Adaptations / La traduzione attraverso il tempo: evoluzioni storiche e adattamenti moderni", Università Ca' Foscari, Campus Treviso (presented with P. Rigo)

• June 14, "Da fumetto a video-fumetto: riflessioni sull’accessibilità e sulla traduzione", I Congresso internazionale "Accessibilità audiovisivae inclusione in ambito universitario" (presented with M. Pasquotto)

2023

• May 11, "Il dietro le quinte della «Grammatica della LIS»", 5th National Conference on LIS, Università della Calabria (presented with M. Santoro, C. Branchini, C. Calderone, A. Checchetto, E. Fornasiero)

2022

• October 6, "Inclusive AR-games for Education of Deaf Children: Challenges and Opportunities", 16th European Conference on Games Based Learning (presented with T. Westin, J. Neves, C. Sousa and  P. Mozelius)

• September 9, "Nuovi paradigmi per la valutazione della LIS L2 in ambito accademico" - LV Congresso Internazionale SLI "Confini nelle lingue e tra le lingue", Libera università di Bolzano (presented with M. Pasquotto)

• September 9, "Valutazione dell’eloquio narrativo in LIS " - LV Congresso Internazionale SLI "Confini nelle lingue e tra le lingue", Libera università di Bolzano (presented with B. Giustolisi)

• July 4, "A comparative analysis of instruments in spoken and sign languages: challenges for interpretation between optionality and obligatoriness" - SyntOp 2022 (Syntactic Optionality in Italian), Ca' Foscari University of Venice (presented with A. Suozzi)

2021

• June 1, "Two sides of the same coin - or maybe not: a corpus-based analysis of weak drop and weak prop in LIS" - FEAST 9 conference,  Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• May 7, "On phrase-final lengthening in Italian Sign Language (LIS), a gradient phenomenon at interface" - 57th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

• February 11, "Grammatica della lingua dei segni italiana e digitalizzazione: una nuova frontiera per una più ampia accessibilità" - XXI Congresso Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (presented with C. Branchini)

2020

• April 8-20, "Recognizing irony through gestural cues in spoken and signed language" - workshop "Prosody in Speech Signal, Perception and Gestures" in GLOW 43 Conference (presented with F. Panzeri, B. Giustolisi and C. Calderone)

2019

• December 20, "Joker face. Recognizing irony in the visual mode in spoken and signed language" - workshop "Super Linguistics" in Amsterdam Colloquium (presented with F. Panzeri, B. Giustolisi and C. Calderone)

• May 17, "Il progetto europeo SIGN-HUB: conservazione, ricerca e promozione dell'eredità linguistica, storica e culturale delle comunità europee di Sordi segnanti" - conference "The great gig in Sign Language: la Lingua dei Segni italiana tra accessibilità e comunità linguistica", Padova (presented with C. Branchini)

2018

• November 16, "Are you serious? Exploring irony in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - conference "Priročna slovnica - Handy Grammar" (Ministrstvo za kulturo - Ministry of Culture, Ljubljana)

• November 10, "L'ironia in LIS: quando componenti manuali e non manuali vanno in direzioni opposte" - 4° Convegno Nazionale LIS, Rome (presented with B. Giustolisi and F. Panzeri)

• August 29, "Low referentiality in LIS and LSF" - Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 51st Annual Meeting, Tallinn University (presented with J. Kuhn and C. Geraci)

• July 4, "Great talk! Recognizing irony through non-manual markers in Italian Sign Language" - Ambigo: Workshop on Ambiguity – Theory, Development, and Processing, University of Göttingen (presented with B. Giustolisi and F. Panzeri)

• June 19, "Watch my lips: expressing attitude and irony in LIS through non-manuals" - FEAST 7, Venice (presented with B. Giustolisi and F. Panzeri)

• May 30, "Detecting irony: The rise and fall of lips in LIS" - 2nd experimental pragmatics in Italy conference (XPRAG.it), Pavia (presented with B. Giustolisi and F. Panzeri)

2017

• September 24, "Low Referentiality in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and LSF (French Sign Language)" - 6th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics, Osaka, Japan (presented with J. Kuhn and C. Geraci)

• September 18, "Distinguishing between literal and ironic remarks in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - Research Day organized by Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan

• April 7, "Investigating the nature of non-restrictive relative clauses in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - PRIN workshop in Siena (presented with C. Branchini)

• February 16, "Agreement in Sign Language: the case of backwards verbs" - IGG 43, 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Pavia (presented with C. Geraci, M. Santoro, and V. Aristodemo)

  • February 16, "Low referentiality in LSF and LIS" - IGG 43, 43rd Incontro di Grammatica Generativa in Pavia (presented with J. Kuhn and C. Geraci)

2016

• November 11, "A sociolinguistic view on variable subjects in Italian Sign Language" - Grammar and Corpora conference in Mannheim (presented with M. Santoro, V. Aristodemo and C. Geraci)

• September 1, "Is it going backwards? Not really!" - Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (presented with C. Geraci and V. Aristodemo)

• February 25, "Backward agreement is not so backward after all: the role of loci in the grammar of SL" - 38th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Konstanz, Germany (presented with C. Geraci, M. Santoro, V. Aristodemo)

2015

• November 27, "In search for non-restrictive relative clauses in Italian Sign Language (LIS)”, meeting Morpho-Syntax of Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) and other Sign Languages, Porto (presented with C. Branchini)

• October 24, "Indagine sulle costruzioni relative non restrittive e ridotte in LIS. Dati preliminari", PRIN workshop in Rome, Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (presented with C. Branchini)

• September 2,  "Cardinals and Measure Phrases in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Workshop on "The syntax and semantics of numerals" at University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden (presented with C. Geraci and A. Cardinaletti) 

• May 4, "Decomposing the internal structure of Motion Predicates in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (presented with E. Benedicto and C. Branchini)

• January 13, "The syntax of cardinal numerals in Italian Sign Language (LIS)" - PRIN meeting "Teoria, sperimentazione, applicazione: le dipendenze a distanza nelle forme di diversità linguistica" at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan

2014

• November 1, "The syntax of cardinal numerals in LIS" - 45th annual meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 45), MIT, Boston (presented with Carlo Geraci)

• June 9-11, "'CHILD TWO' or 'TWO CHILD'? The Distribution of Cardinals in LIS" - Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) Conference at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice - Slides here

• April 11-12, "The Distribution of Cardinals in LIS: new insights from nonmanuals" - Workshop "SignNonmanuals Functions of nonmanuals in sign languages", Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria - Slides here

• January 14, "The Syntax of Cardinal Numerals in LIS" - Seminar held at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice 

2013

• January 13, "The syntax of cardinals in Italian sign language" - PRIN workshop in Milan

• January 15, "The Case of Universal 20 in Italian sign language: a corpus-based study" - Seminar held at Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Italy