| September 24, 2016 | 
  
    | 9:00-9:30 | Resistration Counter Open |  | 
  
    | 9:30-9:35 | Opening Remarks | KIKUSAWA Ritsuko (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan) | 
  
    | 9:35-9:40 | Greetings | SUDO Ken'ichi (Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) | 
  
    | 9:40-9:45 | Business Announcements | SAGARA Keiko  (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) | 
  
    | 9:50-11:00 | Invited Lecture 1: Modality Effects or Rhetorical Style: What are Signed Languages Good at?
 abstract
 | Elisabeth ENGBERG-PEDERSEN (National Museum of Ethnology,Japan, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark) | 
  
    | 11:00-11:15 | Break |  | 
  
    | 11:15-11:55 | Phonological Patterns of Kana-based Signs in Japanese Sign Language abstract
 | BABA Hiroshi (Kwansei Gakuin University) and MATSUOKA Kazumi (Keio University) | 
  
    | 11:55-12:35 | Phonological comparisons between Taiwan Sign Language and Signed Chinese abstract
 | Hsin-hsien LEE (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan / Chiayi Christian Hospital, Taiwan) | 
  
    | 12:35-13:40 | Lunch Break |  | 
  
    | 13:40-14:20 | A Study of Phonological Process in Shanghai Sign Language abstract
 | WANG Zhongnan  (Fudan University, China) | 
  
    | 14:20-15:00 | Segmentation of the Intonational Phrase in Shanghai Sign Language abstract
 | ZHU Xiao  (Fudan University, China) | 
  
    | 15:00-15:20 | Break |  | 
  
    | 15:20-16:00 | The Influence of Spoken Languages on Signed Languages: Loans in Chinese Sign Language (CSL) and Korean Sign language (KSL)
 abstract
 | Hyechung LEE  (Fudan University, China) | 
  
    | 16:00-16:40 | Functions of Mouthing in Interrogatives of Chinese Sign Language abstract
 | LIN Hao (Fudan University, China) | 
  
    | 16:40-17:20 | The Korean Sign Language Corpus abstract
 | Seongok WON, Il HEO, Sungeun HONG, Hyunhwa LEE (Korea National University of Welfare, Republic of Korea) | 
  
    | 17:20-17:30 | Business Announcements | SAGARA Keiko  (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) | 
  
    | 17:45-19:45 | Reception | (Registered participants) | 
  
  
  
    | September 25, 2016 | 
  
    | 9:20-9:40 | Resistration Counter Open |  | 
  
    | 9:40-9:45 | Business Announcements | SAGARA Keiko  (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) | 
  
    | 9:50-11:00 | Invited Lecture 2: Communicative Efficiency in Sign and Speech: A Longitudinal Study
 abstract
 | Jane S. TSAY (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) | 
  
    | 11:00-11:15 | Break |  | 
  
    | 11:15-11:55 | What Does Clause-final Finger Pointing Refer to in JSL? abstract
 | UCHIBORI Asako (Nihon University, Japan) | 
  
    | 11:55-12:35 | Personal Pronoun Copy in Shanghai Sign Language: A Functional View abstract
 | ZHANG Xiaoqian (Fudan University, China) | 
  
    | 12:35-13:40 | Lunch Break |  | 
  
    | 13:40-14:20 | Preverbs in Signed and Spoken Georgian Languages abstract
 | Tamar MAKHAROBLIDZE (Ilia State University, Georgia) | 
  
    | 14:20-15:00 | Verb Agreement in Sign Languages and Beyond abstract
 | KAWASAKI Noriko (Tokyo Women's Christian University, Japan) | 
  
    | 15:00-15:40 | Features Shouldn't Be Too Much Alike: Some Evidence from Japanese Sign Language abstract
 | ASADA Yuko (Showa Women's University, Japan) | 
  
    | 15:40-16:00 | Break |  | 
  
    | 16:00-16:40 | Interpreting from HKSL into Cantonese: The Challenge of Word Order Difference abstract
 | Cat H.-M. FUNG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) | 
  
    | 16:40-17:20 | Modality-(in)dependent Second Language Learning abstract
 | Deborah Chen PICHLER (Gallaudet University), Jeffrey PALMER (Gallaudet University), Helen KOULIDOBROVA (Central Connecticut State University) | 
  
    | 17:20-17:30 | Closing Remarks |  | 
  
  * Invited presentations will be 50 minutes presentation followed by 20 minutes questions and answers. Other presetations will be 30 minutes presentation followed by 10 minutes questions and answers.