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gallaudet edu keynote speakers dr william c stokoe dr stokoe earned doctorate old middle english classical languages cornell university new york taught gallaudet university 29 years 1955 1984 received honorary degrees gallaudet university copenhagen university madonna university dr stokoe research interests culture cognition language especially began presentation tislr conference stress need looking production reception language signs visible instead audible early research signed languages stress similarities spoken languages must study differences two reference points understanding language far superior one dr karen emmorey karen emmorey specialist psychology neurobiology language received ph linguistics 1987 university california los angeles currently senior staff scientist laboratory cognitive neuroscience salk institute biological studies dr emmorey studies signed languages window nature human language relation language spatial cognition determinants brain organization language current research focuses several questions ramifications using space express linguistic contrasts referential spatial domains sign languages understood real time specifically mechanisms required interpret coreference conveyed spatially effects late language acquisition language processing experience signed language impact nonlinguistic visualspatial cognition specifically face processing memory imagery nature working memory sign language neural organization signed spoken language specifically brain areas involved comprehension production spatial language e describing space classifiers prepositions dr emmorey keynote address focus small subset questions address consequences using signing space describe physical space language cognitive processing dr carol padden dr padden received bachelor science degree linguistics georgetown university ph also linguistics university california san diego current work area reading ability signing deaf children areas interest include culture language representational systems sign languages example fingerspelling reading development young deaf children topic keynote presentation reading research signers new research direction dr lars wallin dr wallin faculty member university stockholm stockholm sweden department sign language born deaf attended deaf school growing got phd sign language 1994 stockholm university writing thesis polysynthetic signs swedish sign language phd first phd sign language world others took phd linguistics subjects sign language also first deaf person sweden get phd current work researching training sign language linguistics stockholm university current research use classifier signs free forms noun phrases narrative discourse swedish sign language use handshapes movements bound morphemes signs describing shape size entities swedish sign language preconference workshop thursday november 12 2 00 5 00 p offering workshop familiar theoretical linguistic issues define phonology morphology syntax language 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