Research activities
Funded research projects
2023 - 2027
November 2023 |ANR JCJC - SFL, CNRS| PI: Charlotte Hauser: Sign Language' Syntax and Acquisition (SiLSA) - 4 year project :
This project aims at filling the gap in describing (French) Sign Language Syntax and its Acquisition (SiLSA). A first necessary step in this direction will be descriptive, as a lot is still unknown regarding French Sign Language (Langue des Signes Française, LSF)’s syntax, especially when it comes to complex sentences . Comprehension of complex sentences poses difficulties to typically developing hearing children aged 6/7 y.o. (Bowerman, 1979), and native deaf children as well (Reilly et al., 1990). But native deaf signers, exposed from birth to a sign language (SL), are a minority (5-10% only, Kushalnagar et al., 2010). Most deaf children receive linguistic exposure at a variety of ages, through institutions or associations. A delayed age of acquisition has consequences on their language proficiency that remain in adulthood, especially when facing complex sentences (Boudreault & Mayberry, 2006; Mayberry & Lock, 2003; Hauser et al., 2021; Aristodemo et al., 2021; Zorzi et al., 2021). Thus, we expect the acquisition path of complex structures to vary depending on whether the children are native, early (exposed before 6 y.o.) or late signers (exposed after 6 y.o.). To verify this, the second step of SiLSA aims at investigating LSF’s acquisition, across the variety of linguistic profiles that exists in deaf children.
January 2023 | AAP Université Paris 8 | PI: Charlotte Hauser: Follow up study on LSF eyetracking's experiments
For this project, we want to study in depth the issue of online processing of syntactic structures in French Sign Language (LSF). Sign language research has been at the heart of a growing literature in recent decades, but many gaps remain in grammatical descriptions of specific sign languages. Complete descriptions of most sign languages are not yet available, which has negative consequences not only for linguists but also for a whole range of professionals who need to rely on a complete description of the language, such as teachers, interpreters or clinicians. The study of sign language grammar is also very important for the deaf community itself, providing arguments and tools to defend its status.
Research contracts
Actual:
September 2021 | Université Paris 8 | SFL-CNRS| Permanent associate professor and researcher.
2019-2020
November 2020 - August 2021 | CNRS | Université de Nantes | Supervision of the development of the CHILL project, data collection and analysis, Organization of an international conference, article and scientific report writing, scientific monitoring.
June - November 2020 | CNRS |Ecole Normale Supérieure| Article and scientific report writing, scientific monitoring, Fieldwork with Deaf consultants, Conception, organization and valorization of the international F.E.A.S.T 2020 online conference, Help in the redaction of European funds application, in coordination with 3 countries & 9 international teams. Contribution to the axes 'Grammar' and 'Atlas' of the SIGN-HUB project, Statistical analyses of data from 7 psycholinguistic experiments
Sept. 2019 - Jan. 2020 | SIGN-HUB, Project Horizon H2020 | Université de Paris| Supervision of the axis 'Assesment Tool' within the SIGN-HUB project: Test and debugging of the software developped within the project, Experimental validation: participants recruitment, testing and data, analysis, Management, formation and coordination of interns.
Publications
Fornasiero, E., Hauser, C. & C. Branchini. (to appear in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition) The subject advantage in LIS internally headed relative clauses: an eye-tracking study.
Hauser, C. & Pozniak, C. (to appear) Relative clauses processing in LSF: an eye-tracking innovative experiment.
2023
Hauser, C., V. Aristodemo & C. Donati (2023). A subject advantage in covert dependencies: the case of wh-questions comprehension in French Sign Language.
2022
Hauser, C., Zorzi, G., Aristodemo, V., Giustolisi, B., Gras, D., Sala, R., Amat, J. & Cecchetto, C. & Donati, C. (2022). Asymmetries in relative clause comprehension in three European sign languages. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1).
2021
Hauser, C. (2021). Subordination in French Sign Language (LSF): Sentential and nominal embedding. Sign Language & Linguistics, 24(1), 107-117.
2020
Aristodemo, V. & Hauser, C. (2020) Temporal clauses in LSF : similar but different from LIS. Glossa
SIGN-HUB technical deliverable number 2.20 (2020) Assessing signing children. Donati, C., Friedmann, N., Haluts, N., Pe’er Strugo, L., Levy, D., Annucci, C., Aristodemo, V., Hauser, C. & Gras, D.
2019
Hauser, C. (2019) Subordination in French Sign Language : nominal and sentential embedding. Ph.D. dissertation of the Université de Paris, under the direction of Caterina Donati & Carlo Geraci. PDF
Hauser, Charlotte, Carlo Cecchetto, Naama Friedmann, Caterina Donati. (2019) SYNTRELLSF- Relative clauses comprehension task in LSF. Handle to be attributed. Available under request at https://www.sign-hub.eu/assessment/lsf.
2018
Hauser, C. (2018) Question-answer pairs : the help of LSF. Proceedings of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory Conference Vol. 2. (p. 44-55) PDF
2017
Hauser, C. & Geraci, C. (2017) Relative clauses in French Sign Language (LSF): some preliminary results. Proceedings of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory Conference (p. 16-26) PDF
Conferences with selection committee
2022
Oral presentation, `The comprehension of SRCs and ORCs in LIS: an eye-tracking study' , Bergen (Norway), FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory).
2022
Poster presentation, `Investigating LIS processing of relative clauses - an eyetracking experiment' , York, AmLAP (Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing).
2020
Oral presentation, `‘The effect of age of acquisition in relative clauses across sign languages’' , Paris, FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory).
Poster presentation, `Assessing syntactic competence in sign languages: the case of wh-questions’, Poster presented at the 8th FEAST (Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory)
2019
Poster presentation, `Eye-tracking investigation of LSF relative clauses', Moscow, 25th AmLAP (Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing). PDF
Poster presentation, `LSF and LIS temporal clauses: similar but different', Hamburg, 13th TISLR (Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research). PDF
Oral presentation, `LSF and LIS temporal clauses: similar but different' , Nantes, TFL (Theoretical and Formal Linguistics).
2018
Oral presentation, `LSF temporal clauses in a typological perspective', Hangzhou, 8th ICFL (International Conference in Formal Linguistics).
Oral presentation, `When percolation takes time; the case of question-answer pairs', Hangzhou, 8th ICFL (International Conference in Formal Linguistics).
Oral presentation,`Les clauses temporelles en LIS et LSF: similaires mais pas identiques',Paris, IIIè Rencontres Interdisciplinaires franco-brésiliennes : Surdité, Singularité et Universalité
Oral presentation, `Question-answer pairs in LSF', Florianópolis, 3rd EISSI (Encontro Internacional de Sintaxe e Semântica & Interfaces - Syntax and Semantics & Cognition).
Oral presentation, `Question-answer pairs, the help of sign languages', Venise, Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) Conference.
Invited oral presentation,`Pseudoclefts in LSF', Villejuif, Workshop on Clefts and related focus constructions.
2017
Oral presentation, `Relativization strategies in LSF: a typological perspective', Osaka, Spoken and Sign Languages Linguistics (SSLL) 2017.
Oral presentation, `Relative clauses in LSF: a preliminary study', Reykjavik, Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST) Conference.
Dissemination activities
2020
Participation to the Kotoboo's project (see website here) which aims at providing research grounded advices to caregivers on language acquisition.
2019
Organization of the 8th "Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theories" (FEAST), an international event which gathered 750 people online to learn about advances in the domain of sign language research.
2018
Organization of the "Journée de la Recherche sur la LSF" which gathered 250 people to learn about what the Paris labs are working on regarding LSF linguistics
Bursaries
2021
I-PhD Grand Prix : This is a selective training program that aims at helping researchers to develop deep-tech startups.
2020
PSL - Qlife call for project: Funds aiming at facilitating the transfer of knowledge or inventions from the research groups involved, in order to foster economic and/or societal impact.
2018
LABEX EFL : Bourses de formation ou de conversion thématique, Bursary which covers transportation, registration fee and housing for the Sign-Hub FEAST Summerschool in Como, Italy.
LABEX EFL : Bourses de valorisation de la recherche, Bursary which covers organization costs (interpreters and catering) for the "Journée de la recherche sur la LSF"
2017
LABEX EFL : Bourses de formation ou de conversion thématique, Bursary which covered transportation and housing for a semester in UvA university (Amsterdam).
Sign-Hub summerschool bursary, Gargnano, Italy, Bursary which covered housing and food during the summerschool.
Conferences without selection committee
2022
Oral présentation, Paris, "Découvrir la LSF", Collège Sévigné
Oral présentation, Paris, " La LSF sous l'angle de la linguistique formelle : syntaxe et morphologie", SFL
2018
Oral présentation, Paris, "Journée des relatives" Université Paris Diderot
2017
Oral presentation, Paris, LINGUAE seminars, Institut Jean Nicod, ENS
Oral presentation, Paris, "Journée des doctorants" Université Paris Diderot
Oral presentation, Paris, Syntax Reading Group, Université Paris diderot
2016
Oral presentation, Saint-Germain en Laye, "Journée d'accueil des doctorants", Institut jean Nicod, ENS
Peer review
2023| AMLaP 2023, abstract reviewing
2023| FEAST 2023, abstract reviewing
2023| Colloque des doctorants, SFL abstract reviewing
2022| AMLaP 2022, abstract reviewing
2022| Glossa, article reviewing
2022| Sign Language and Linguistic, article reviewing
2021| Natural Language and Linguistic Theories, article review
2021| National Science Foundation, review project application
2021| AMLaP 2021, abstract reviewing
2021| FEAST 2021, abstract reviewing