PLM2012 Programme
This is the current version of our Programme, as of 09 September 2012, subject to change. PLM2012 Workshop Sessions in italics.
Clicking on an author's surname will take you to the corresponding abstract.
Saturday, 08 September 2012
| 14:00 | Coffee | ||
| 14:30 | Opening ceremony | ||
| 14:45–15:45 | Plenary: Dirk Geeraerts: Corpus evidence for non-modularity [chair: Małgorzata Fabiszak; room: Alfa] | ||
| CORPORA AND CORPUS RESEARCHING TOOLS IN POLAND (organised by M. Fabiszak; see description) [room: Gamma] | GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics and phonology [chair: Weckwerth; room: Delta] | GENERAL SESSION: Discourse [chair: Pawelczyk; room: Epsilon] | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Przepiórkowski [see description] | Schwartz, Dobersztyn, Rosołowska, Wełnowska: Phonetic code-switching and L2 interference in the speech of advanced Polish learners of English | Napierała: The clash of political rhetoric in Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s selected 2008 primaries speeches |
| 16:30–17:00 | Pęzik [see description] | Kobiałka, Lonergan: Dublin English. Investigating the factors affecting the acquisition of local accent by Polish migrants | Tao-Hsun Chang: Cultural consumption and identity politics in popular music discourse |
| 17:00–17:30 | Coffee | ||
| CORPORA AND CORPUS RESEARCHING TOOLS IN POLAND [room: Gamma] | GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics and phonology [chair: Weckwerth; room: Delta] | ||
| 17:30–18:00 | Szwabe [see description] | Michalski: Vowel~zero alternations and palatalisation belong in the same phonology: Evidence from Polish | |
| 18:00–18:30 | Kaszubski [see description] | Stolarski: Correlation between the phonetic structure of car names and the size, weight, power and speed of the respective vehicles: further research into size-sound symbolism | |
| 18:30–19:00 | General discussion | ||
| 19:00 | Wine reception | ||
Sunday, 09 September 2012
| 9:00–10:00 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Sarah Hawkins: Evidence for the primacy of context-sensitive pattern perception over identification of formal phonetic categories in speech perception [chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk; room: Alfa] | |||
| CORPUS APPROACHES TO (LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL) SEMANTICS (organised by A. Hebda, I. Kokorniak and K. Krawczak) [room: Delta] | GENERAL SESSION: Language evolution [chair: Gąsiorowski; room: Alfa] | GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics and phonology [chair: Schwartz; room: Gamma] | From dawn to twilight: Potential origins and current developments of the Celtic languages (Satellite session) [room: Epsilon] | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Heylen, Speelman, Geeraerts: Exploring semantic space. Word space models as a research tool for lexical semantics | Barceló-Coblijn: Do transitions in the ontogeny of syntactic networks reflect “jumps” between computational phenotypes within a morphospace? | Łodzikowski, Malarski: The STRUT vowel in urban and rural accents of the West Midlands | Invited speaker: Orin Gensler: Celtic/Hamito-Semitic: A view from twenty years later |
| 10:30–11:00 | Anishchanka, Speelman, Geeraerts: From brown to weekend in the country: Is there a place for basic color terms in advertising | Stadnik: The Complex Adaptive Systems approach to language and cognition: On the application of empirically-based evidence in the study of language | Jekiel: The evolution of English dental fricatives: variation and change | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee | |||
| CORPUS APPROACHES TO (LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL) SEMANTICS [room: Delta] | THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION RESEARCH (organised by P. Żywiczyński, S. Wacewicz and L. McCrohon) [room: Alfa] | GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics and phonology [chair: Schwartz; room: Gamma] | From dawn to twilight: Potential origins and current developments of the Celtic languages (Satellite session) [room: Epsilon] | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Zhang, Speelman, Geeraerts: Metonymic vs. literal expressions: A corpus-based onomosiological study | Invited speaker: Hurford: What is wrong, and what is right, about current theories of language, in the light of evolution? | van Ommen, Kager: Progressive use of metrical cues | Quentel: The Pre-Indo-European substratum of Gaulish and the Brittonic languages |
| 12:00–12:30 | Wojciechowska, Szczepaniak: Metaphtonymic motivation and types of modification of HAND idioms in corpus-based research | Baumann: Struggle for rhythm: An evolutionary approach to stress assignment | Kuczmarski: Linguistic constraints on Fujisaki modeling of Polish intonational patterns | Disterheft: Word order change in Insular Celtic |
| 12:30–13:00 | Krawczak, Kokorniak, Hebda: A corpus-driven quantitative study of think about and its near-synonymous constructions in Polish | Kaźmierski: Exaptation in the history of the English vowel system or: What it really means to take a Darwinian view of language evolution | Duran, Bruni, Schütze, Dogil: Specification in context – incorporation of an aritculatory factor into the Context Sequence Model | Anderson: Fortition in Insular Celtic – problems of phonology and its representation |
| 13:00–13:30 | Gunnarsson, Glynn: ANGER. Corpus evidence for conceptual structure | Cowart, Romanchishina, McDaniel, Pokornowski: Identifying linguistic fossils: a cross-linguistic study on non-hierarchical syntax | Takahashi: Capturing reference-sets for computation in phonology–phonetics interface | McCafferty: The language of barbarians |
| 13:30–14:30 | Lunch | |||
| 14:30–15:15 | Book presentation: Sociolinguistic typology: Social determinants of linguistic complexity by Peter Trudgill [chair: Marcin Kilarski; room: Alfa] | |||
| GENERAL SESSION: Corpora [chair: TBC; room: Delta] | THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION RESEARCH [room: Alfa] | GENERAL SESSION: Morphology [chair: Michalski; room: Gamma] | GENERAL SESSION: Sociolinguistics [chair: TBC; room: Epsilon] | |
| 15:15–15:45 | Spychała: Interessant, wozu Korpora gebraucht werden können. German adjectives with subject clauses: Results of a corpus-based study | Pleyer, Winters: Integrating cognitive linguistics and language evolution research | Ten Hacken, Panocová: Evidence for macro-theoretical questions in morphology | Baló: Difficulties in acquiring authentic linguistic data – the Romani example in Hungary |
| 15:45–16:15 | Czerepowicka: The grammatical dictionary of Polish multi-word units | Lipowska: How to build a tower of Babel in the naming game? | Wójtowicz: How wide the Great Divide: Language endangerment awareness and the school curricula | |
| 16:15–16:45 | Garai: The way collocations compose: Basque bide ‘way’ in collocations and word composition | McCrohon, Cuthbertson: Dating the emergence of language from archaeological evidence of hominid migrations | ||
| 16:45–17:15 | Coffee | |||
| 20:00 | Conference Party at the Brovaria | |||
Monday, 10 September 2012
| 9:00–10:00 | Plenary: Piotr Gąsiorowski: The use and misuse of evidence in linguistic reconstruction [chair: Nikolaus Ritt; room: Alfa] | ||
| THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE STUDY OF PHONOTACTICS (organised by K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) [room: Delta] | GENERAL SESSION: Syntax [chair: Cegłowski; room: Gamma] | MULTIMODALITY IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND THEORETICAL EXPLANATION (organised by C. Müller) [room: Epsilon] | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Kjærbæk, Basbøll, Thomsen, Lambertsen: Reductions, phonological complexity and phonetic variation in Danish children's first words: the role of phonotactics | Pskit: English NPN forms in generative grammar | Ladewig, Bressem: Forming multimodal utterances – Syntactic and semantic integration of gestures into speech |
| 10:30–11:00 | Marecka, Dziubalska-Kołaczyk: Evaluating the models of phonotactic constraints on the basis of the sC cluster acquisition data | Broccias: A network of English VVingPP constructions | Jarmołowicz-Nowikow: The form of gestures dominated by deictic function |
| 11:00–11:30 | Basbøll: Morphonotactics: The Sonority Syllable Model meets the Word | Heggelund: On the use of data in historical linguistics: word order in early English | Juszczyk: Catch it, fold it, put it, turn it – multimodal construction grammar of Polish transitive verbs |
| 11:30–12:00 | Coffee | ||
| THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE STUDY OF PHONOTACTICS [room: Delta] | GENERAL SESSION: Syntax [chair: Cegłowski; room: Gamma] | MULTIMODALITY IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE AND THEORETICAL EXPLANATION [room: Epsilon] | |
| 12:00–12:30 | Celata, Calderone: A computational approach to morphonotactic clusters: evidences from German | Szalontai: An experimental study of Hungarian dative constructions | Buschmeier, Malisz, Skubisz, Włodarczak, Kopp, Wagner: Listener’s behaviour in distracted situations: The listening head and spoken feedback |
| 12:30–13:00 | Orzechowska, Wiese: Preferences and variation: A multi-dimensional evaluation of word-initial clusters in German and Polish | Błaszczak, Jabłońska, Klimek-Jankowska, Migdalski: Experimental evidence on aspectual coercion – the case of Polish adverbial participles | Vedar: Interactive gestures, hand shape, and gender: Insights from a sociolinguistic study of interaction between female and male speakers in homogenous and heterogeneous groups |
| 13:00–13:30 | Moosmüller: Vowel and Plosive sequences in Standard Austrian German | ||
| 13:30–14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30–15:30 | POSTER SESSION (names and abstracts – see below) [chair: Małgorzata Kul] | ||
| THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN THE STUDY OF PHONOTACTICS [room: Delta] | ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRATERRITORIAL VARIETIES: MIGRANTS, WOMEN, AND OTHER PROVIDERS OF “BAD DATA" (organised by M. Włodarczyk) [room: Epsilon] | ||
| 15:30–16:00 | Anderson: Frequency anomalies in Irish consonant clusters | Nordlund: Letter-writing as a communicative practice in a local community – polyphony in Finnish immigrant letters from the 19th cent. | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Ritt: Boundary phonotactics, productivity and historical stability: –hood vs. –dom | Tamosiunaite: Lithuanian on both sides of the Atlantic: dialect contact in immigrant correspondence | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Sairio: Eighteenth-century English as a Second Language: The letters of Joseph Emin (1726-1809) | ||
| 17:00–17:30 | Coffee | ||
| 17:30–18:00 | Dylewski: When did Southern European American English really begin? | ||
| 18:00–18:30 | Kim: Hidden in plain sight: Problems and priorities in the study of Asian American English | ||
POSTERS
Adaktylos: A quantum approach to pronunciation teaching
Blaho, Szeredi: Antiharmonic and vacillating stems in two dialects of Hungarian
Boguska-Kawałek: The pragmatics of malice (on the basis of selected conversations from literary fiction)
Brankačkec: Aorist and imperfect in Upper Sorbian – a purely morphological differentiation?
Dubrovina: The aspectual semantics of composite predicates with the light verb give. A corpus-based study.
Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, Zydorowicz, Jankowski, Wierzchoń, Pietrala, Orzechowska: Explaining morphonotactics: Phonological and morphological constraints on clusters
Gillian, Jaworski: Emergent language skills in English and Polish: A cross-linguistic study
Hamans: What makes a blend
Kanazawa: Syllable Contact Law in OT: a case study of the development of the Italian passato remoto deriving from Latin u-perfect
Marczak: Learning Algorithm of Polish English Word Stress: Phonological and Morphosyntactic Motivations
Murawska: Towards a patient-centred model of medical case report
Schwartz: All TRs are not created equal - Cluster representation and phonetic realization
Šimáčková, Podlipský: In through one ear and not out the other: The effect of immediate L1 use on Czech interpreters’ English speech
Szajbel-Keck: Adjectives as secondary predicates in Polish: not so rare and not so restricted
Szczyszek: Communication management - differences in two kind of dialogue act realisation carried out in the settings of mutual visibility and limited visibility
Tajabadi, Kambuziya: The effect of nasal /n/ on C2 selection in Persian CVC1C2 syllable
Zehentner: -AND vs. -ING: Present Participle and Verbal Noun in Middle Scots
Zhelonkina: Approximation in English