News from the lab
New Publication
Villwock, A., Allen, T. E., Morford, J. P., & Wilkinson, E. (2026). Language exposure is key: critical factors shaping bilingual language outcomes in deaf children with deaf and hearing parents. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2026, Article enag02. https://doi.org/10.1093/jdsade/enag029
New Conference Presentation
Wilkinson, E., Villwock, A., Allen, T., & Morford, J. P. Critical factors shaping bilingual language outcomes in deaf children with deaf and hearing parents. Talk presented at the Caribbean Deaf Education conference, School of Education, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, July 2026.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. Bimodal bilingualism enhances semantic processing in a picture priming task. Poster presented at the BRIDGES Symposium on Bilingualism, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, May 2026.
New Conference Presentation
Villwock, A., Loeffler, J., & Herrmann, A. When signs slip the mind: A corpus-based study of the Tip-of-the-fingers phenomenon in German Sign Language (DGS). Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language 17th Annual Meeting, Gallaudet University, Washington DC, September 2025.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, September). Scalar implicature processing in deaf and hearing signers of German Sign Language (DGS): Preliminary findings from some-but-not-all scalar implicatures. Poster at Society for the Neurobiology of Language (17th Annual Meeting), Gallaudet University, Washington D.C., USA.
New Publication
Rathmann, C., Villwock, A., Kubus, O., Durczok, B., & Grin, K. (2025). German Sign Language Sentence Reproduction Test (DGS-SRT). https://github.com/christianrathmann/DGS-SRT
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, June – retracted). Some but not all users of German Sign Language (DGS) make scalar inferences when processing written German quantifier scales. Talk at 15th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, June). Navigating quantifiers: Insights into deaf and hearing German Sign Language (DGS) signers’ processing of written German semantic scales. Talk at IPC19, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, March). Processing of quantifier scales in deaf and hearing users of German Sign Language (DGS) – preliminary results from a truth-value-judgement-task. Poster at 75th CNS Annual Meeting, Boston, USA.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, January). Semantic processing of (mis-)matching picture pairs in deaf and hearing individuals preliminary results from a Semantic Priming Task. Poster at TISLR 15, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2025, January). ALL means SOME but SOME does not mean ALL – preliminary findings on scalar implicature processing in written German. Poster at TISLR 15, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Villwock, A. (2024, November). Some or all? Scalar implicature processing of written German in deaf and hearing users of German Sign Language (DGS). Talk presented at HDLS 16, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. & Kubus, O. (2023, July). Self-initiated repair in German Sign Language (DGS) – results from the Public DGS Corpus. Talk presented at 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
New Publication
Villwock, A. & Grin, K. (2022). Somatosensory processing in deaf and deafblind individuals: How does the brain adapt as a function of sensory and linguistic experience? A critical review. Frontiers in Psychology.
New Conference Presentation
von Randow, S., Kubus, O., & Mpadanes, E. (2022, October). Coming to Grips with Constructed Action (CA) in Sign Language L2 Acquisition – Results of a New Sentence Reproduction Test for DGS. Talk presented at Sign Café 2, University of Catania, Italy.
New Conference Presentation
Villwock, A. , Wilkinson, E., Morford, J. P., Petersen, B. T., & Allen, T. E. Language at home - Language at school: Factors shaping language proficiency in deaf children with deaf and hearing parents. Paper presented at the 14th conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Osaka, Japan, September 2022.
New Conference Presentation
Mpadanes, E. (2022, September). Repairs in German Sign Language (DGS) conversations: results from the DGS Corpus. Poster presented at TISLR 14, National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Japan.