Wednesday, 25 February 2026
13:45–14:15
Julia Muschalik (HHU Düsseldorf), Dinah Baer-Henney (RU Bochum) & Dominic Schmitz (HHU Düsseldorf)
Introduction: Three modalities, multiple perspectives, shared insights?
14:15–15:15
Anastasia Bauer (U Köln)
Tracing heads: Kinematic and linguistic patterns of non-manual signals in spoken and signed interaction
15:15–15:45
Vera Heyer (TU Braunschweig)
Hearing morphology through the L1 filter: Morpho-graphic spelling in German and Chinese learners of English
15:45–16:30
break
16:30–17:00
Motoki Saito (U Oldenburg) & Ruben van de Vijver (HHU Düsseldorf)
Tracing patterns of meaning in Japanese writing systems
17:00–17:30
Shu Han Lin (CCU Taiwan) & James Myers (CCU Taiwan)
Handwriting correlates of the internal structure of Chinese characters
17:30–18:00
Silva Ladewig (U Göttingen) & Anastasia Bauer (U Köln)
Recurrent head gestures: A cross-modal comparison of pragmatic functions in spoken German and DGS (German Sign Language)
Thursday, 26 February 2026
09:00–10:00
Svetlana Pinet (Université de Lille, CNRS, BCBL)
Language production: Modalities and expertise
10:00–10:30
Alice Blumenthal-Dramé (U Freiburg) & Kyla McConnell (MPI Nijmegen)
Typing as a window into chunking in language: Evidence from multiword units
10:30–11:15
break
11:15–11:45
Jennifer Keller & Ingo Plag (HHU Düsseldorf)
Orthography-informed phonology and phonology-informed spelling in the lexicon
11:45–12:15
Alexandra Navarrete-González (U Barcelona), Lyke Esselink (U Amsterdam), Floris Roelofsen (U Amsterdam), & Brendan Costello (BCBL)
Intra- and cross-modal differences in the processing of phonological categories: Enhanced discrimination in the visual domain
12:15–12:45
Jorina Brysbaert (UC Louvain)
When prosody ‘compensates’ for syntax: Modality-specific marking of contrastive subjects in French
12:45–13:45
lunch break
13:45–14:15
Anna Pressler (U Frankfurt)
Prosodic factors in written and spoken production: A multi-method approach
14:15–14:45
Hadrien Cousin (U Namur)
A modality-agnostic investigation of reference in French Belgian Sign Language and Belgian French
Friday, 27 February 2026
11:45–12:15
Maria Flaksman (U Bamberg)
Patterns of multimodal imitation in spoken languages
12:15–12:45
Marta Herget (U Göttingen)
Modeling ideophonic variation
12:45–13:15
Henriette Huber (HHU Düsseldorf), Stefan Hartmann (HHU Düsseldorf), Simon Petitjean (U Oldenburg), Joshua Wieler (RU Bochum) & Kristian Berg (U Oldenburg)
Haplology effects on morphological processing: Evidence from spelling variation
13:15–13:45
Hagen Hirschmann (HU Berlin), Tine Mooshammer (HU Berlin), Anke Lüdeling (HU Berlin) & Malte Belz (HU Berlin)
Modeling the usage of so in spoken and written German
13:45–14:15
Concluding discussion
Patterns across modalities – where do we go from here