Alysson Lepeut

Research Projects

publications and other research outputs

Publications

Beukeleers, I. & Lepeut, A. (2022). Who’s got the upper hand? A cross-linguistic study on overlap in VGT and LSFB. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36, 212-246.

Lepeut, A. (2022). When hands stop moving, interaction keeps going: A study of Holds in the management of LSFB and spoken French interactions, Languages in Contrast, 22(2), 290-321.

 

Lepeut, A. & Shaw, E. (2022). Time is ripe to make interactional moves: Bringing evidence from four languages across modalities, Frontiers in Communication, 7. 

 

Lepeut, A. (2021). Freezing the hands when signing: A corpus-based study of manual holds in French Belgian Sign Language conversations, Travaux du Cercle Belge de Linguistique, 14.

 

Lepeut, A., Lombart, C., Vandenitte, S., & Meurant, L.  (Under review). Spoken and Sign Languages Hand in Hand: Building and Using Parallel and Directly Comparable Corpora of LSFB and Belgian French, Corpora.

 

Conference Presentations

Presentations during conferences with scientific selection committee (peer-reviewed)

Collaborative Signing in a Multiparty Interaction: The case of Overlap. Oral Communication (with E. Shaw) at IPrA18, July 9-14, 2023, Brussels.

Negotiation of mutual understanding in signed conversation: Backchannels in LSFB. Oral Communication at the 45th DGfS Conference (Workshop: Creativity and routine in linguistic feedback, AG04). March 8-10, 2023, Cologne.

When Hands Stop Moving, Interaction Keeps Going: A Study of Holds in the Management of Signed and Spoken Interactions in Belgium. Oral Communication at SignCafé 2, October 13-15, 2022, Ragusa.

Freezing the hands when signing: A study of HOLDS in spontaneous French Belgian Sign Language conversations. Oral Communication at Linguists’ Day (CBL: Linguistic Society of Belgium), October 16, 2020, Namur (Online: ZOOM due to the Covid pandemic).

 

New tools on hand to compare signed and spoken languages: Building a directly comparable multimodal corpus of LSFB and French (with Lombart, C., Vandenitte, S., and Meurant, L.). Oral Communication at the 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 13-15, 2022, Chicago.

 

And in Namur, what counts as one annotation? Oral Communication at EuraSign Workshop, (with L. Meurant, S. Fonzé, S. Vandenitte, A. Heylens) (Org. K. Mouvet), November 21-22, 2019, Ghent. 

Comparable corpora of spoken and signed languages: towards a pluri-semiotic perspective on language (with Lombart, C., Vandenitte, S., and Meurant, L.). Oral Communication at Grammar and Corpora (GaC), June 30-July 2, 2022, Ghent.

Crossroads between Gesture, Sign, and Language: Palm-Up in the management of spoken and signed interaction in French-speaking Belgium. Oral Communication at the 6th European and 9th Nordic Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication (MMSYM), September 9-10, 2019, Leuven.

Interaction management strategies of older deaf adults: Cross-linguistic insights from American Sign Language (ASL) and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) (with E. Shaw). Oral Communication at the 5th International Conference Corpora for Language and Aging Research (CLARe). March 9-11, 2022, Anchorage, Alaska (Online: ZOOM due to the Covid pandemic)

A study of the interactive function of manual and non-manual movements in older Belgian French (BF) speakers and Belgian French Sign Language (LSFB) signers. Oral Communication at the 20th International Congress of Linguists (ICL), July 2-6, 2018, Cape Town. 

Gesture and sign on common ground: The social functions of manual and gaze behavior in older Belgian French (BF) speakers and Belgian French Sign Language (LSFB) signers’ interactions. Oral Communication at the 8th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 4-8, 2018, Cape Town. 

An exploration into the interactive world of older Belgian French speakers and Belgian French Sign Language (LSFB) signers’ interactions, Oral Communication at the Linguists’ Day, CBL, May 25, 2018, Liège. 

Interpersonal relationships in intergenerational interaction: A corpus-based approach to interactive gesture in older adults (with C.T. Bolly). Oral Communication at the 7th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) “Gesture- Creativity-Multimodality”, July 18-22, 2016, Paris.

Poster presentations (peer-reviewed):

Who’s Got the Upper Hand? A Cross-linguistic Study on Overlap Resolution Strategies in VGT and LSFB, Poster Accepted (with I. Beukeleers) at SignCafé2, October 13-15, 2022, Ragusa.

 

Linguistic and interactive forces at work in signed language discourse: Cross-linguistic and cross-modal insights from four languages. Poster Accepted (with E. Shaw) at the 14th Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 14), September 26-29, 2022, Osaka (Online).

Getting to the Point: A study of the interactive functions of index pointing in signed and spoken conversation. Poster Presented at the 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 13-15, 2022, Chicago

What’s up with our hands? A cross-linguistic and cross-modal comparison of palm-up in four languages, Poster Presented (with E. Shaw) at the 9th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), July 13-15, 2022, Chicago.

 

Analysis of interactive gestures, signs, and space among older Belgian French (BF) speakers and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) signers. Poster presented at the International CLARe3 Conference. Encounters in Language and Aging Research: Pragmatic Spaces, Longitudinal Studies and Multilingualism, March 6–8, 2017, Berlin.