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Wednesday 1 February 2006
17.00-20.00 Registration in the foyer of the Brechtbau (Neuphilologikum) Wilhelmstrasse 50

Thursday 2 February 2006
08.00-09.00 Registration and coffee in the foyer of the Brechtbau (Neuphilologikum) Wilhelmstrasse 50
 
9.00-9.20 Opening remarks, announcements
9.20-10.20 Guest speaker I: Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania)
Querying linguistic databases Slides
10.20-10.55 Ruth Kempson (King's College London), Ronnie Cann (Edinburgh University), Matthew Purver (CSLI, Stanford University): Grammar formalisms and explanations of dialogue Slides
   
10.55-11.20 Mid-morning break
   
11.20-11.55 Martin Hackl & Ben Acland (Pomona College): Distinct verification strategies for 'most' and 'more than half': Experimental evidence for a decompositional analysis of quantificational determiners Slides
11.55-12.30 Oliver Bott & Janina Radó (Tübingen University): Quantifying quantifier scope: A cross-methodological comparison Slides
   
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00-15.00 Guest speaker II: Joan Bresnan (Stanford University)
Is knowledge of syntax probabilistic? Experiments with the English dative alternation Slides
15.00-15.35 John Nerbonne & Wilbert Heeringa (University of Groningen) : The geographic distribution of linguistic variation Slides
   
15.35-16.00 Mid-afternoon break
   
16.00-16.35 Laurie A. Stowe1, Jack Hoeksema1, Rob Hartsuiker2, and Magda Devos2 (1: University of Groningen, 2: University of Gent): Perceiving dialects: A magnitude estimation study Slides
16.35-17.10 Chris Sapp (Indiana University / University of Vienna): Focus and verb order in Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence Slides
17.10-17.55 sic Katrin Axel & Tanja Kiziak (Tübingen University) : Contributing to the extraction/parenthesis debate: Judgement studies and historical data Slides
   
18.00-20.00 Poster reception with finger food and drink List of presenters

Friday 3 February 2006
9.00-9.05 Announcements
9.05-10.05 Guest speaker III: Harald Clahsen (University of Essex)
Psycholinguistic perspectives on grammatical representations Slides
10.05-10.40 Anke Karabanov, Peter König & Peter Bosch (University of Osnabrück): Eye-tracking evidence for online processes in the comprehension of referential expressions Slides
   
10.40-11.00 Mid-morning break
   
11.00-11.35 Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam University): On the proper treatment of spillover in real-time reading studies: Consequences for psycholinguistic theories
11.35-12.1o Thomas Hoffmann (Regensburg University): Corpus and experimental data as corroborating evidence: The case of preposition placement in English relative clauses Slides
12.10-12.45 Philip Hofmeister, T. Florian Jaeger, Inbal Arnon, Ivan Sag & Neal Snider (Stanford University): Locality and accessibility in 'wh'-questions Slides
   
12.45-14.30 Poster lunch with buffet List of presenters
   
14.30-15.30 Guest speaker IV: Mark Steedman (Edinburgh University)
Evidence for a semantics and pragmatics of intonation
15.30-16.05 Holger Wunsch (Tübingen University): Anaphora resolution - what helps in German Slides
   
16.05-16.30 Mid-afternoon break
   
16.30-17.05 Stefan Müller & Detmar Meurers (University of Bremen, The Ohio State University) : Corpus evidence for syntactic structures and requirements for annotations of tree banks Slides
17.05-17.40 Louisa Sadler1, Doug Arnold1 & Aline Villavicencio2 (1 University of Essex, 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul): Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and agreement Slides
17.40-18.15 Ilona Steiner (Tübingen University) : Coordinate structures: On the relationship between parsing preferences and corpus frequencies Slides
   
From 19.00 Dinner in the Knights Hall of the Castle.

Saturday 4 February 2006
9.00-9.05 Announcements
9.05-10.05 Guest speaker V: Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern University, Illinois)
Phonological learning and phonological learnability
10.05-10.40 Denisa Lenertová & Stefan Sudhoff (Leipzig University): Corpus data vs experimental results as prosodic evidence: On the case of stressed 'auch' in German Slides
   
10.40-11.00 Mid-morning break
   
11.00-11.35 Roland Meyer (Regensburg University): Patterns of prosodic prominence in Russian Yes-No questions Handout
11.35-12.10 Caroline Féry, Stavros Skopeteas & Ruben Stoel (Potsdam University): Topological data on information structure
   
12.10-13.30 Lunch break
   
13.30-14.05 Britta Stolterfoht, Lyn Frazier & Charles Clifton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) : Adverb position and information structure in processing English Slides
14.05-14.40 Daniel Hardt (Copenhagen Business School): Locality and sloppy identity: Evidence from a web survey Handout
   
14.40.15.00 Mid-afternoon break
   
15.00-15.35 Elena Dieser (Tübingen University): Disparities between comprehension and production in the early stages of bilingual lexical development Slides
15.35-16.10 Kirsten Gengel (University of Stuttgart): Object shift and pseudogapping in the Scandinavian languages Handout
   
16.10 Close and coffee

                

Poster reception Thursday 2 February 18.00-20.00
Augustin Speyer (University of Pennsylvania): Filling the vorfeld in German written and oral discourse  
Bettina Schrader (University of Osnabrück): How does morphological complexity translate? A cross-linguistic case study of word alignment  
Bettina Zeisler (University of Tübingen): The human factor or when the evident is not seen: Language archaeology and other fieldwork in Ladakh  
Dirk Elzinga (Brigham Young University,Utah): Analogy and English adjective comparison  
Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Tübingen): Emphatic multiple negation in substandard Dutch  
Jantien Donkers & Laurie Stowe (Groningen): Wh-questions and the nature of D-linking: a processing perspective  
Katharina Hartmann & Malte Zimmermann (Humboldt University, Berlin): Different perspectives on focus in Hausa  
Laura Kallmeyer (University of Tübingen): Comparing lexicalized grammar formalisms in an empirically adequate way: the notion of generative attachment capacity  
Mareile Knees (Jena University): A corpus study on the anaphoricity of the German pronominal adverb 'danach'  
Ondene van Dulm (Stellenbosch University): Structural aspects of English-Afrikaans intrasentential code switching: Experimental techniques  
Patricia Amaral (The Ohio State University): Evidence from sentence processing for the semantic-pragmatic properties of approximative adverbs  
Remus Gergel (University of Tübingen): Systematic silence on the rise: Diachronic developments in the licensing of vP ellipsis  
Sandra Pappert (1), Johannes Schliesser (1), Dirk P. Janssen (2), & Thomas Pechmann (1) (1 University of Leipzig, 2 University of Kent): Argument-specific cues to syntactic structure in verb-final sentences: Corpus and psycholinguistic evidence  
Serge Doitchinov (University of Tübingen): The acquisition of the reversed time-ordering in 'weil' (`because') sentences by preschool children: A case study  
Daniela Marzo, Verena Rube & Birgit Umbreit (University of Tübingen): Lexical motivation and speaker judgements  
Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu (Freiburg University): Acoustic correlates of new and given information in Cameroon English (CamE) intonation  

                   

Poster lunch Friday 3 February 12.45-14.30
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt University, Berlin), Marco Baroni (University of Bologna) & Stefan Evert (University of Osnabrück): Need and competition in word formation and where to find data to study them  
Antti Arppe (University of Helsinki): On the limits of generalizing from quantitative, corpus-based evidence in a morphologically rich language  
Aria Adli (New York University): Grammaticality judgments with auditory stimuli: Taking into account intonation and interpretation of French wh-in-situ  
Beata Trawinski (University of Tübingen): Using corpus statistics in the modeling of linguistic paradigms  
Boštjan Dvořák (ZAS, Berlin), Ilse Zimmermann (Potsdam University): Imperative subordination in Slovenian  
Carola Trips (Stuttgart University): Linguistic evidence and diachronic truth  
David Bowie (University of Central Florida): Adult linguistic stability and the gathering of linguistic evidence  
Gaëtanelle Gilquin (University of Louvain): Towards an empirically grounded definition of prototypes  
Doris Penka & Hedde Zeijlstra (University of Tübingen): Typological implications as linguistic evidence  
Heide Wegener (Potsdam University): Statistical evidence for the role of phonology in the distribution and motivation of the linking element -s in German  
Heike Zinsmeister (University of Tübingen): Treebank data as linguistic evidence - Coordination in Tüba-D/Z  
Jakob Maché (University of Vienna): Unravelling the secret of the German modal verbs  
Jieun Kiaer & Ruth Kempson (King's College London): Incremental parsing and the architecture of grammar: Evidence from multiple long-distance dependency resolution in Korean  
Jutta Hartmann (Tilburg University): Wh-movement with 'there': Experimental evidence  
Markus Bader & Jana Häussler (University of Konstanz): Word-order variation: Why corpus and judgment data do not go hand in hand!  
Philipp Obrist (University of Tübingen): Blind data vs. philology: Evidence in historical linguistics  
Stella Neumann & Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of the Saarland): Quantitative and qualitative analyses of explicitation in translations  
Tanja Anstatt (University of Tübingen): A comparison of narrative structures: Use of aspect-tense in storytelling by Russian, German and bilingual children  
Timm Lichte & Jan-Philipp Söhn (University of Tübingen): The retrieval and classification of negative polarity items using statistical profiles  
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