The final pre-conference version of the programme (31 Aug) is available below. Clicking on an author's name will take you to the abstract of the paper.
PLM2009 Workshop sessions in italics.
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk | |||
| 9:30-10:30 | Plenary session: Peter Trudgill “On the growth of variants: Sociolinguistic typology and the development of allomorphy and allophony” (Chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) | |||
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |||
| MELODY VS. STRUCTURE IN PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS (Convened by Geoff Schwartz) | DISENTANGLING VARIATION: DISCOURSE IN CONTEXT (Convened by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk) | CLINICAL LINGUISTICS (Convened by Monika Połczyńska and Yishai Tobin) |
NEW DIALECTS (Chaired by Joanna Kopaczyk)
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| 11:00-11:30 | DiCanio “Prosodic licensing in Trique: phonetics and phonology” | Motschenbacher “Negotiating Europeanness: language and identity construction in the Eurovision Song Contest” | Kuehnast “Processing clitic pronouns in Bulgarian – Evidence from normal and agrammatic comprehension” | Krug & Hilbert “Emerging standardardization of English in Malta” |
| 11:30-12:00 | Sieczkowska & Dogil “Voicing profile of Polish and German sonorants in obstruent clusters” | Haładewicz-Grzelak “The symbolic power of radio advertising: A case study of Polish radio commercials” | Jaworska, Cieślicka & Rataj “Irony comprehension in schizophrenia” | Piotrowski “New-dialect formation: The evitability of colonial languages. The case of Poland” |
| 12:00-12:30 | Caratini “Melody vs. structure: German consonants” | Kielar “Transitivity as a marker of valuation process in journalistic discourse” | Green & Tobin “Phonology as Human Behavior: A prosodic study of high functioning autism” | |
| 12:30-13:00 | Pöchtrager “The Ω of A” | Whyatt “When in Rome do as the Romans do. A comparative study of register differences in texts translated by inexperienced and experienced translators” | Marecka & Połczyńska “L1 and L2 processes in speakers with sensorineural hearing loss” | |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch break | |||
| 14:30-15:30 | Plenary session: Karol Janicki “The discourse of befuddlement” Chaired by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak | |||
| MELODY VS. STRUCTURE… | DISENTANGLING VARIATION… | CLINICAL LINGUISTICS | ||
| 15:45-16:15 | Ben Si Said “The interaction between structure and melody” | Fabiszak, Hebda & Kokorniak “BELIEF, REASON, AND EMOTION: Abstract categories across genres and world Englishes” | Tobin “Bridging the gap between clinical and sociolinguistic data and issues” | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Bednarska “Vowel quantity and the melody of consonants” | Troutman [SPECIAL GUEST, 16:15-17:15] “Attitude and its situatedness in linguistic politeness” | Rataj, Szumska, Świerta, Kuczyńska & Jaśkowski “Influence of task type in novel metaphoric and anomalous utterance comprehension in Polish: An ERP study” | |
| 16:45-17:15 | Bloch-Rozmej “Syllabic consonants and the mechanism of element extension” | |||
| 17:15-17:45 | Coffee break | |||
| MELODY VS. STRUCTURE… | DISCOURSE & COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (Chaired by Karolina Rataj) | |||
| 17:45-18:15 | Schwartz “Melody vs. Structure – Auditory considerations and segmental specification” | Bobin “Contextual variables in interpersonal conflict” | ||
| 18:15-18:45 | Mierzwińska-Hajnos “Conceptual blending vs. conceptual metaphor theory. A note on the semantics of plant names in English and Polish” | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary session: Ellen Contini-Morava “The meaning of Agreement” (Chaired by Yishai Tobin) | |||
| NOUN CLASSIFICATION (Convened by Marcin Kilarski and Yishai Tobin) | WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET (Convened by Barbara Pastuszek-Lipińska and Simone Dalla Bella) | CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE: HOW UNIVERSAL/VARIABLE IS IT? (Convened by Joanna Błaszczak, Gisbert Fanselow and Jacek Witkoś) | (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Anna Balas) | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Contini-Morava & Kilarski “Discourse functions of nominal classification” | Pastuszek-Lipińska “Music as a tool for improving first and second language acquisition” | Mensching [10:15-11:15] “CFSs and the Lexicon: On parametrising C, T and v in Romance” | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Gąsiorowski “Class struggle: Problems of noun classification in Proto-Indo-European” | Rodríguez-Vázquez “The evolution of prosody through songs: The case of English broadside ballads” | Wrembel “The impact of a previously learnt foreign language on L3 phonological acquisition” | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee break | |||
| NOUN CLASSIFICATION | WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET | CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE... | (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Buus Florentine & Wonnacott “Phonological and semantic cues in determining Danish gender: Implications for lexical models” | Migdalski “What do V-2 and Second Position Cliticisation have in common? | Kaglik & de Mareüil “Foreign accent perception and L2 production: The case of Polish-accented French prosody” | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Fiałkowska “Grammatical gender in the speech of Polish-English children” | Falk & Rathke “The Speech-to-Song-Illusion revisited” | Nygård “Subject ellipsis: clausal architecture and phi-feature valuing” | Anufryk “On intonational variation in L1 and L2 speech” |
| 12:45-13:15 | Even-Simkin & Tobin “Internal vowel alternations in nominal and verbal forms according to the sign-oriented theory of the Columbia School” | Białuńska, Dalla Bella & Sowiński “Music favors synchronized movement more than speech: Is isochrony key?” | Cegłowski “Clausal gerunds as CPs: Evidence from Polish” | Zydorowicz “Cluster modification processes in L1 acquisition: The case of English and Polish” |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch break | |||
| 14:30-15:30 | Poster session Chaired by Małgorzata Kul: Aksoyalp, Berkowska & Dalla Bella, Bloch-Trojnar, Caratini, Chang, Gann, Bartoszuk & Anderson, Guz, Kuzio, Letnes, Madrid, Marczak, Murawska, Punske, Ramasamy, Szcześniak & Callies, Trawinski, Vanoudheusden |
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| NOUN CLASSIFICATION | WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET | CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE... | (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Magdalena Wrembel) | |
| 15:45-16:15 | Van de Velde “Proper names and noun class agreement in the Bantu languages” | Ludke “Songs to support foreign language learning” | Hong & Lasnik “Defective category C and the Highest Subject Effect in Korean pseudoclefts” | Jaworski “Phonetic and phonological vowel reduction in Russian” |
| 16:15-16:45 | Olstad “(Automatic) noun class assignment in Swahili | Dalla Bella & Berkowska “Musical pitch production can be selectively impaired in tone deafness” | Struckmeier “Attributive constructions as subordinate DPs: On typology of phrasal projections” | Rominiecka “The role of fortitive processes in the construction of the most influential speeches of the 20th and the 21st centuries” |
| 16:45-17:15 | Bukowska “How do measure terms in non-classifier Indo-European languages resemble classifiers?” | Furtak “Language used by Polish Americans: Yet another variant of English spoken by Poles” | ||
| 17:15-17:45 | Coffee break | |||
| TEXT LINGUISTICS (Chaired by Elżbieta Wąsik) | ||||
| 17:45-18:15 | Kerge & Pajupuu “Variety of linguistic parameters in Estonian text-types” | |||
| 18:15-18:45 | Versloot “The Frisian Language Database as a source of information on language variation” | |||
| 20:00 | PLM Party | |||
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary session: Nancy Niedzielski “Perceptual experiments and phonetic variation: Finding out what speakers don't know they know, and vice versa” (Chaired by Jarosław Weckwerth) | ||
| ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION (Convened by Jarosław Weckwerth) | HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE (Convened by Elżbieta Wąsik and Oebele Vries) | ||
| 10:15-10:45 | Campbell-Kibler “Attitudes and variation: What is the attitude object?” | Gąsiorowski “The last of the Ingvaeones: The special importance of relict languages” | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Grondelaers & van Hout “Do speech evaluation scales in a speaker evaluation experiment trigger conscious or subconscious attitudes?” | Versloot “Etymological and perceptional distinctiveness of Frisian: Borrowings and the perception of ‘good’ Frisian” | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee break | ||
| ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION | HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE |
SOCIOPRAGMATICS (Chaired by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak) |
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| 11:45-12:15 | Impe, Geeraerts, Speelman & Spruyt “Affective Priming as a new method for measuring language attitudes” | Jensma “The freedom within: On the 19th century changes in the concept of Frisian freedom” | Henkin “Negev Arabic address forms: Senior to junior” |
| 12:15-12:45 | Meyerhoff, Schleef & Clark “Attitudes towards varieties of English among Polish immigrants in the UK” | Dykstra “The English (and the Americans) as colonists of the Old Frisian mother tribe” | Strycharz “With all due respect? The use of local honorifics among three generations of Osaka women” |
| 12:45-13:15 | Paunović “Plus ca change... Serbian EFL students’ attitudes to English accents” | Vries “The evolution of language demands in Friesland: A comparative approach” | |
| 13.15-14.00 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Plenary session: Dennis Preston “The four elephants of sociolinguistics inspect a ping-pong ball” Chaired by Ernst Håkon Jahr | ||
| ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION | HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE |
PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Piotr Gąsiorowski) |
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| 15:00-15:30 | Bounds “Perception and production of the dialect of Poznań” | Walker “North Frisian and politics” | Michalski “Split-component phonology and the duality of Polish palatalisation” |
| 15:30-16:00 | Ramonienė “New multilingualism in Lithuanian cities” | Wicherkiewicz “Frisian as a model minority language in the European context” | Noske “Grimm’s and Verner’s laws as a single process” |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | ||
| HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE | PHONOLOGY | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | Buczek “Linguistic-lexical approach to cultural aspects of death in the Old Frisian writings” | Stolarski “Size-sound symbolism in the Polish diminutive system on the basis of the /i/ - /a/ vowel opposition” | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Wąsik “From the ecology of language to the ecological grammar of linguistic communities: A search for the descriptive model in the context to Frisian studies” | ||
| 19:00 | Celtic music evening | ||
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary session: Andrzej Grzybowski "Ludwik Zamenhof – one of the most important ophthalmologists in the world's culture. On the 150th anniversary of his birth" (Chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) | ||
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SYNTAX (Chaired by Przemysław Tajsner) |
ALTERNATIVA IN SOCIAL SEMIOTICS (Convened by Paul Thibault and Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak) | ||
| 10:15-10:45 | Gergel “To bind or not to bind” | Thibault “Grounding language and thinking in (inter)action and perception” | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Dočekal “N-words: predicates or quantifiers” | Awedyk & Hamans “The myth of gender copying” | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee break | ||
| SYNTAX | ALTERNATIVA IN SOCIAL SEMIOTICS | SOCIOPHONETICS (Chaired by Joanna Pawelczyk) | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Stroński “Variation of ergativity patterns in Indo-Aryan” | Pociechina “Social differentiation of modern East-Slavic languages: The new standard and/or slang” | Moosmüller “Sound changes and variation in the Viennese dialect” |
| 12:15-12:45 | Igarashi “The resultative construction: A pragmatic viewpoint” | Baranowski “Sound change in progress: On the role of gender and social class” | |
| 12:45-13:15 | Wieczorek, Huber & Darkow “Tense/Aspect category in fluent and non-fluent Polish and German aphasia – A contrastive study” | Haładewicz-Grzelak “A heuristic suggestion for an associational model of semiotic analysis” | Farris & Oueslati “What’s a vowel? Selected problem areas in the phonology of Tunisian Arabic” |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch break | ||
| MORPHOSYNTAX (Chaired by Joanna Śmiecińska) | |||
| 14:30-15:00 | Marchewka “Gender resolution in Polish. Agreement of subject and predicate in sentences with conjoined noun phrases” | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Cetnarowska, Pysz & Trugman “Distribution of genitives and classificatory adjectives in Polish NPs” | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Trugman “Instances of posthead modification in Russian NPs” | ||
Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, Minister of Science and Higher Education; Prof. Bronisław Marciniak, Vice-Chancellor of the Adam Mickiewicz University; Mr Ryszard Grobelny, Mayor of the City of Poznań; and Mr Jacek Kowalski, Mayor of the City of Gniezno, will be the honorary patrons of the Meeting.