International Conference

Linguistic Evidence

18:00 - 22:00	Reception in the linguistics department, Room 002
	Wilhelmstrasse 19 (across the street from Neuphilologicum)
	There will be a registration desk at the department from 16:00.

Neuphilologicum, Room 037

8:30	Registration

	Psycholinguistics
9:00 - 9:15	Opening
9:15 - 10:15	Invited Talk: Harald Baayen:
	Questioning the unquestionable: Semantics and (ir)regularity
10:15 - 10:45	Heiner Drenhaus, Douglas Saddy, Stefan Frisch:
	Intrusion effects in the processing of negative polarity items
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee break
11:15 - 12:45	Sacha DeVelle:
	Linguistic Theory and On-line Processing: The Case of Aspectual Coercion
	Ilona Steiner:
	The Syntax of DP-Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading Time Studies and Agrammatic Comprehension
	Annette Hohenberger, Eva Waleschkowski:
	Speech errors as evidence for language production processes. A historical journey from Meringer to Leuninger

12:45 - 14:15	Lunch break

	Psycholinguistics
14:15 - 15:15	Invited Talk: Carson Schütze:
	Garbage In, Garbage Out: Thinking about what we're asking subjects to do
15:15 - 16:15	Aria Adli:
	Gradedness and Constituency in Grammaticality Judgments
	Sam Featherston:
	The relationship between judgement data and frequency data in syntactic well-formedness: The Decathlon Model
16:15 - 16:45	Coffee break
16:45 - 18:15	Veronika Ehrich:
	Linguistic constraints on the acquisition of epistemic modals
	Serge Doitchinov:
	Naturalistic and Experimental Data in Language Acquisition: The Case of Epistemic Terms
	Jeffrey Runner, Rachel Sussman, Michael Tanenhaus:
	Reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: Using eye movements as a source of linguistic evidence

20:00	Conference Dinner at the castle

Neuphilologicum, Room 036

	Semantics
9:00 - 10:00	Invited Talk: Manfred Krifka:
	Semantics and pragmatics of the Dative Alternation
10:00 - 10:30	Uli Sauerland, Jan Anderssen, Kazuko Yatsushiro:
	The Plural Involves Comparison
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Massimo Poesio:
	An Empirical Investigation Of Definiteness
	Greg Carlson, Rachel Sussman:
	Seemingly Indefinite Definites
	Derrick Higgins:
	Which statistics reflect semantics? Rethinking synonymy and word similarity

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break

	Computational Linguistics
14:00 - 15:00	Invited Talk: Christiane Fellbaum
	Harvesting Linguistic Evidence from the Web with the LSE: The Case of the Benefactive Alternation
15:00 - 16:00	Postersession, room 027
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00	Erhard Hinrichs, Julia Trushkina:
	Treebank Transformations for Performance Optimizations of a PCFG-based Tagger
	Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Ara Kim, Stephan Oepen:
	Beauty and the Beast: What running a broad-coverage precision grammar over the BNC taught us about the grammar - and the corpus
	Anke Lüdeling, Stefan Evert:
	The emergence of productive non-medical -itis: corpus evidence and qualitative analysis

Neuphilologicum, Room 037

	Diachrony
9:00 - 10:00	Invited Talk: Anthony Kroch:
	Revisiting 'do'
10:00 - 10:30	Augustin Speyer:
	A phonological factor for the decline in Topicalization in English
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30	Katrin Axel:
	Null subjects and verb placement in Old High German
	Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino, Ruth Elizabeth Vasconcellos Lopes:
	Animacy as a driving cue in change and acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese
	Wiltrud Mihatsch:
	Experimental data vs. diachronic typological data: Two types of evidence for linguistic relativity

12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00	Mary Kato, Carlos Mioto:
	European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-questions
	Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch:
	How flexible is constituent order in the midfield of German subordinate clauses? A corpus study revealing unexpected rigidity
	Kris Heylen:
	A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation
	Tanja Schmid, Markus Bader, Josef Bayer:
	Coherent Infinitives in German: An Experimental Perspective

Stephan Kepser

Last modified: Fri Feb 13 16:18:54 MET