Presentations
Conferences
Upcoming
2026
Vandenitte, S. | Jumping between creativity and recurrence: A pilot study of depictions of motion events in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB), MMSYM 2026 – Embodied communication in (inter)action (Poster, KULeuven, 9-11 septembre 2026) Link to the poster
Vandenitte, S. | The distribution of event depictions from an external viewpoint in a directly comparable corpus of LSFB and Belgian French: a modality-agnostic approach, 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (On-stage presentation, Universität Osnabrück, 26-29 August 2026)
Vandenitte, S., Hernández, D., Keränen, J., Jantunen, T. & Puupponen, A. | Towards Integrating Pose Estimation with Neuroimaging for the Analysis of Sign Language Video Stimuli, 12th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Language in Motion (Poster, LREC 2026, 16 May 2026) Link to the poster
Vandenitte, S. | Profiling depictions of events from an external perspective in LSFB and Belgian French: A corpus-based study, DEPICT-Workshop: Exploring the Role of Depiction in Signed Languages (Poster, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, 16-17 April 2026) Link to the poster
2025
Jantunen, T., Puupponen, A., Vandenitte, S., Hernández, D., & Keränen, J. | Testing the validity of the telling-showing continuum from kinematic and neurocognitive perspectives, 3rd Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics (SignCAFE 3) (On-stage presentation, University of Warsaw, 19 September 2025)
Vandenitte, S. | Ideophones in signed languages? Mapping ‘depicting constructions’ onto the canonical definition of ideophones, 58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2025) (On-stage presentation, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 27 August 2025)
Vandenitte, S., Puupponen, A., Hernández, D. & Jantunen, T. | Kinematic Perspectives about Constructed Action: What lies behind and beyond the continuum?, 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 10) (On-stage presentation, Radboud University, 10 July 2025)
Vandenitte, S., Puupponnen, A., Hernández, D., & Jantunen, T. | Comparing the Kinematics of Plain Telling and Constructed Dialogue in Signed Discourse: A Motion-Capture Study of FinSL Narratives, TISLR - Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 2025 (Poster, University of Addis Ababa, 14 January 2025) Link to the poster
2024
Vandenitte, S. | Fake it until you Construct it: Recurring Enactment Forms as Potential (Multimodal) Constructions in LSFB and Belgian French, Linguistic Society of Belgium’s Linguists’ Day 2024 (On-stage presentation, University of Mons, 11 October 2024)
Vandenitte, S., Puupponnen, A., Hernández, D., & Jantunen, T. | Comparing Manual Kinematics of Showing and Telling: Harnessing the combined power of corpus work and motion capture, International Congress of Linguists (On-stage presentation, Adam Mickiewicz University, 11 September 2024)
Vandenitte, S. | Comparing Multimodal Enactment in LSFB and Belgian French: A corpus-based study of enacting articulators and degrees of constructed action, International Congress of Linguists (On-stage presentation, Adam Mickiewicz University, 10 September 2024)
Vandenitte, S. | Integrating Multimodal Depiction into (Cross-)Linguistic Research: A Corpus-based Comparison of Enactment in LSFB and Belgian French, 57th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (On-stage presentation, University of Helsinki, 21 August 2024)
Vandenitte, S. & Jantunen, T. | A Hands-on Approach to Manual Kinematics of Showing: Characterising Hand Movements across Different Degrees of Constructed Action, 14th Iconicity in Language and Literature Conference (On-stage presentation, Università di Catania, 30 May 2024)
Vandenitte, S., Puupponnen, A., Hernández, D., Ferrara, L., & Jantunen, T. | Casting a Wider Net: Considering Different Factors Shaping Constructed Action Using a Cross-Disciplinary Approach, 14th Iconicity in Language and Literature Conference (On-stage presentation, Università di Catania, 30 May 2024)
2022
Vandenitte, S., Puupponnen, A., Wainio, T., & Jantunen, T. | One and the same or two of a kind? Comparing constructed action in FinSL and LSFB narratives, SignCAFE - Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Sign Language Linguistics 2 (Poster, Università degli Studi di Catania, 14 October 2022) Link to the poster
Vandenitte, S. | Having a look at direct quotations in LSFB and Belgian French: insights from a multimodal and cross-linguistic perspective, Workshop: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Quoting and Speech Reporting (On-stage presentation, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 7 October 2022)
Vandenitte, S., Lepeut, A., Lombart, C. & Meurant, L. | New Tools on Hand to Compare Signed and Spoken Languages: Building a Directly Comparable Multimodal Corpus of LSFB and French, International Society for Gesture Studies Conference (On-stage presentation, University of Chicago, 14 July 2022)
Vandenitte, S. | (Re-)constructing words and gestures in Belgian French: A multimodal look at utterance reports in the FRAPé Corpus, ISGS - International Society of Gesture Studies Conference (Poster, University of Chicago, 13 July 2022) Link to the poster
Meurant, L., Lepeut, A., Lombart, C., & Vandenitte, S. | Comparable Corpora of Spoken and Signed Languages: Towards a Pluri-semiotic Perspective on Language, 9th International Conference on Grammar and Corpora (On-stage presentation, University of Ghent, 30 June 2022)
2021
Vandenitte, S. | Using the body to quote across languages and modalities: a comparative study on enactment in utterance reports in LSFB and Belgian French, 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Online presentation, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1 September 2021)
Vandenitte, S. | Montrer et faire entendre les référents: vers une étude comparative de l’action construite des signeurs de la LSFB et des locuteurs du français de Belgique (Making Referents Seen and Heard: Towards a Comparative Study of LSFB Signers’ and Belgian French-Speakers’ Constructed Action Practices), Langues et discours 2021 – La référence: (co-) construction et exploitation (Online presentation, Université Grenoble-Alpes, 26 March 2021)
2020
Vandenitte, S. | Construire l’action pour rendre les référents visibles en LSFB: Une étude pilote des mouvements corporels dépictifs (Using Constructed Action to Show Referents in LSFB: A Pilot Study of Depictive Body Movements), Linguistic Society of Belgium’s 2020 Linguists’ Day (Online presentation, University of Namur, 16 October 2020)
2018
Vandenitte, S. | Une approche pragmatique du transfert personnel en langues des signes: La construction du discours et de l’action à visée illustrative (A Pragmatic Approach to Personal Transfer in Signed Languages: The Construction of Discourse and Action with an Illustrative Intent), Linguistic Society of Belgium’s 2018 Linguists’ Day (On-stage presentation, University of Liège, 25 May 2018)
Other presentations
Vandenitte, S. | Montrer l’action en LSFB et en français: une approche de linguistique de corpus (Making actions visible in LSFB and French: A corpus approach), Centre Comprendre et Parler (Brussels, 12 December 2025)
Vandenitte, S. | Telling stories with varying degrees of constructed action: A study on FinSL hand kinematics, LINNORD - Nordic Innovations in Linguistics: Multi-method approaches for understanding language (University of Jyväskylä, 21 March 2025)
Vandenitte, S. | Setting Stories in Motion: Investigating the Kinematics of Finnish Sign Language Narratives with Motion Capture, Nordic Speech Forum seminar (online, 11 November 2024)
Vandenitte, S. | Comparing constructed action across (signing and speaking) communities: Broadening the sample but also our conceptual toolbox, A workshop on/under construction: Annotating and operationalizing enactment and constructed action (KULeuven, 19 March 2023)
Vandenitte, S. | Montrer l’autre qui signe: l’expression d’attitudes langagières par l’action construite (Showing the signing ‘other’: expressing language attitudes through constructed action), UNamur-Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles Seminar on signed languages and deaf cultures (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 29 April 2022)
Vandenitte, S. | Pourquoi cet air si (peu) sérieux ? Comparer l’utilisation dépictive des expressions faciales en LSFB et en français de Belgique (Why so (non-)serious? Comparing the depictive use of facial expression in LSFB and Belgian French), NaLTT conference cycle (University of Namur, 19 April 2022)
Vandenitte, S. | Exploring constructed action in LSFB and Belgian French: Exploring the LSFB and FRAPé corpora, Corpus Linguistics Summer School (University of Birmingham, 7 July 2021)
Vandenitte, S. | Comment expliquer les différences entre signeurs de la LSFB et locuteurs du français belge? Regards croisés entre langue et culture: Le cas de l’action construite (How can differences between LSFB signers and Belgian French speakers be explained? Overlapping prisms of language and culture: the case of enactment), UNamur-Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles Seminar on signed languages and deaf cultures (Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles, 17 December 2020)
Vandenitte, S. | Comparaison des pratiques d’action construite des signeurs de la LSFB et du français belge: quelles contributions de l’iconicité au contenu propositionnel? (Comparing Constructed Action Practices of LSFB signers and of Belgian French Speakers: Which Contributions of Iconicity to Propositional Content?), Research Day on Signed Languages (UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, 16 December 2019)
Meurant, L., Fonzé, S., Lepeut, A., Vandenitte, S., & Heylens, A. | And in Namur, what counts as one annotation?, EURASIGN Workshop: Comparative Approaches on European Sign Languages (Universiteit Gent, 21 November 2019)