This is the current version of our Programme, as of 24 September 2010..
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| 13:00-14:00 | Registration | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Lunch | ||
| 15:00-15:15 | Conference opening | ||
| PHONOLOGY 1 | SYNTAX 1 | HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS | |
| 15:30-16:00 | R. Sen: ‘Necro-phonetics’: Maddieson’s universal and the evolution of Latin vowels | M. Murakami: Verb movement: The contrast between English and Polish | A. Płaczkowski: Some remarks on the synchronic and diachronic variation within a lexical verb+a particle+an object pattern in present-day English |
| 16:00-16:30 | G. Michalski: Locality and interpretation. Evidence from domino palatalisation in Polish | B. Trawiński: A corpus-based investigation of the distribution and use of nominal conjunction and comitative constructions | M. Charzyńska-Wójcik: The ca(u)se for a clause |
| 16:30-17:00 | G. Schwartz: Onset Prominence, loanword epenthesis, and the phonetics-phonology interface | M. Włodarczyk: Corpus-based or micro-scale – letters of denunciation in the 1820 settler correspondence | |
| 17:00-17:30 | A. Kijak: Intrusive liquids in English | ||
| 17:30-18:30 | Posters and coffee | ||
| 19:00 | Dinner and glass of wine | ||
| 20:30 | Special event – Videoconference plenary: Juliette Blevins: Advances in Evolutionary Phonology: Holistic explanations for common and rare sound patterns (chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) | ||
P. Jasiński: Neurolinguistic data from aphasia: Further problems with syntactic frameworks
Z. Szlachta, A. Jelowicka, M. Bozić & W. Marslen-Wilson: Neuroimaging approach to processing lexical complexity in Polish
A. Goldman: Young minds and blending theory at work
B. Pastuszek-Lipińska: Melodic intonation therapy – a method of speech rehabilitation through music and movement
D. Lipowska: To be fluent or not to be (at all) – in the evolutionary naming-game model
A. Kubisz: Word final devoicing in AAVE
K. Stroński: Contensive typology and the problem of ergativity in Indo-Aryan
L. Wolf & Y. Tobin: Phonological proclivities across languages according to the theory of Phonology as Human Behavior
| 08:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary: Guglielmo Cinque: The syntax and semantics of adjectives: A comparative view (chaired by Jacek Witkoś) | ||
| LEXICAL AND FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION IN SYNTAX | PHONOLOGY 2 | LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS | |
| 10:00-10:30 | B. Cetnarowska, A. Pysz & H. Trugman: Where movement fails: Problems with movement-based accounts of adjective placement | N. Rolle: Featural specifications of non-voiced sonorants | W.U. Dressler, I. Maillochon, K. Korecky-Kröll, M. van Dijk, P. van Geert, S. Laaha & D. Bassano: Language typology and the acquisition of the French, Dutch and German determiner systems |
| 10:30-11:00 | B. Gruber: Indexical pronouns: Generic uses as clues to their structure | E. Even-Simkin & Y. Tobin: The semantic basis of the internal vowel alternation system in English | G. Krajewski: Productivity of a Polish child’s inflectional morphology: Corpus-based studies |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | N. Erteschik-Shir & T. Rapoport: You only need to give once | M. Żygis: Universal properties of contrast dispersion and their phonetic realization | T. Włosowicz: Explaining L3 reading comprehension: Modularity or interactive activation? |
| 12:00-12:30 | D. Šurkalović: Lexical and functional decomposition in syntax: A view from phonology | D. Gibbon & D. Bleiching: Competitive and therefore defeasible? On deciding prosodic outcomes | K. Grzeszkowiak & M. Połczyńska: Speech rate and phonological processes in first and second language in an adolescent autistic individual |
| 12:30-13:00 | K. Miechowicz-Mathiasen: Various guises of C and wh-movement in a framework based on categorial feature checking | K. Kaźmierski: The relation between variation in vowel quantity and vowel quality | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break | ||
| LEXICAL AND FUNCTIONAL DECOMPOSITION IN SYNTAX | PHONETICS | SOCIOLINGUISTICS | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Discussion | S. Moosmüller: Some evidence against the concept of ease of articulation | R. Kim: The linguistic consequences of the Industrial Revolution: Competing external causations in the evolution of American English |
| 15:00-15:30 | Discussion | S. Jaworski & E. Gillian: On the phonetic instability of the Polish /r/ | A. Stępkowska: Language shift in the Raeto-Romansh community |
| 15:30-16:00 | Discussion | B. Pompino-Marshall & M. Żygis: On glottalization in German | E. Peterson: Predicting the outcomes of linguistic contact in an EFL setting |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30-17:00 | P. Álvarez-Mosquera: Delimiting cultural borders: The use of Wordsmith Tools to identify cultural differences in language uses by White or Black rappers | ||
| 17:00-17:30 | R. Dicle: A sociolinguistic analysis of the language variety taken up by Facebook users in Turkey as a speech community | ||
| 18:15 | Dinner | ||
| 19:30 | Theatrical performance by The Shakespeers followed by drinks | ||
| 08:00 | Breakfast | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Plenary: Nikolaus Ritt: Agents or Vehicles? The role of speakers in directing linguistic evolution (chaired by Piotr Gąsiorowski) | ||
| COMPETING EXPLANATIONS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE AND VARIATION | SEMANTICS | DISCOURSE AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS | |
| 10:00-10:30 | W. Awedyk & C. Hamans: We are all heterospeakers | M. Dočekal & I. Kučerová: On the scalar representation of total and partial adjectives: Evidence from reduplication | |
| 10:30-11:00 | U. Okulska: Culturalist and constructionist approaches on the way to explaining synchronic and diachronic aspects of language change | K. Paykin, F. Tayalati & D. Van de Velde: Infinitive phrase with behavior evaluation adjectives: confronting French and English data | A. Mierzwińska-Hajnos: Obamagasm, Bushvestite and Camillagate: Language change and variation in British and American political discourse. A conceptual blending analysis |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | S. Bhattacharja: All that French words like bijouterie tell us about diachronic morphology | E. Rudnicka: Step by step to meaning | R. Augustyn: Neosemantisation as a discourse-guided polysemisation process |
| 12:00-12:30 | R. Noske: Typology driven change or change driven typology? | S. Müller: Im/explicit disjunction and negation in un/grammatical wh-questions in German | D. Bębeniec: Where prepositional categories meet: the case of the from X to Y construction |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Keynote: William Labov: Outward bound: language as a property of the speech community (chaired by Peter Trudgill) | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Discussion | P. Seuren: Competitive explanations in semantics and pragmatics: A logic-based approach to problems in pragmatics | M. Tarantino: “...this grand book the universe...” and the gene library: Multimedia metaphors in scientific discourse |
| 15:00-15:30 | Discussion | A. Szał: The applications of statistical machine translation tool – PGIZA++ | A. Kuzio: The influence of physiological arousal on the television viewer’s employment of stereotypes |
| 15:30-16:00 | |||
| 17:15 | Sightseeing trip to Poznań and PLM Party | ||
| 09:00 | Breakfast | ||
| COMPETING EXPLANATIONS OF PHONOLOGY | MORPHOLOGY & SYNTAX | Shifts and innovations in minority languages in the 21st century, with an emphasis on P- and Q-Celtic [PLM2010 Satellite Session] | |
| 10:00-10:30 | T. Scheer: Intermodular argumentation | S. Berge: Morphology-based explanation of modal auxiliary syntax | G. Zuckermann: STOP, REVIVE, SURVIVE! Lessons from the Hebrew Revival for the resuscitation, maintenance and empowerment of minority languages |
| 10:30-11:00 | P. Rydzewski: You’re the pretender: OT-CC and DOT | A.M. Baló: A current trend or a historic remnant? The case of a Lovari verb-forming suffix | B. Cole: The development of post-modifying adjectives in the Celtic languages |
| 11:00-11:30 | B. Czaplicki: Vowel shifts in Slavic. An evolutionary account based on feature mislocalization | C. Hamans: Elements in doubt between dependency and independency | J.C. Le Ruyet: The extent to which Breton is influenced by French at the junction of two words |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00-12:30 | K. Jaskuła: Polish and Slavic place-names and word-final consonant groups – new affricates and diphthongs in Polish? | M. Hornsby: Lessons from Brittany for the revitalization of the Liv language | |
| 12:30-13:00 | G. Schwartz: Cue vs prosodic licensing – competing explanations and a false dichotomy | S. Heinz & K. Rosiak: Singulatives and diminutives in P-Celtic languages | |
| 13:00-13:30 | Discussion | K. Jędrzejewska-Pyszczak: The Celtic name from a sociolinguistic perspective – the case of multiple renderings of singular nominal entities | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Lunch break | ||
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C. Anderson: A new element theory of consonant mutation in Old Irish | |
| 15:30-16:00 | K. Jaskuła: Compensatory lengthening in Primitive Irish | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | C. Prys: The use of Welsh in social networking sites | ||
| 17:00 | Dinner and coach to Poznań | ||