Programme

8:00–9:00

Registration

8.45–9:00

Opening

9:00–10:00

Plenary: Michael Vitevitch: Using complex networks to understand the mental lexicon [see PowerPoint presentation with live links; chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, room C1]

10:00–10:30

Coffee

SYNTAX OF NOMINAL EXPRESSIONS [Organized by Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Jacek Witkoś; description; room C2]

General session: COMPLEXITY
[chair: Dafydd Gibbon; room C1]

10:30–11:00

Barbara Citko. Size Matters: Multidominance and DP Structure in Polish [see abstract]

Kees Hengeveld and Sterre Leufkens. Complexity, difficulty, transparency: three independent notions [see abstract]

11:00–11:30

Ulrike Demske. Changes in the Left Periphery of Nominal Expressions [see abstract]

Damian Blasi and Steven Moran. Cross-linguistic comparison of complexity measures in phonological systems [see abstract]

11:30–12:00

Ewa Willim. Case and Agreement with Polish Genitive of Quantification in the Feature Sharing Theory of Agree [see abstract]

Alexander Piperski. Grammatical maturity as form-meaning asymmetry [see abstract]

12:00–12:30

Heidi Klockmann. Case alternations: The interaction of semi-lexicality and case assignment [see abstract]

Ilona Koutny. Can complexity be planned? [see abstract]

12:30–14:00

Lunch

14:00–16:00

COMPLEXITY DEBATE [description]

16:00–16:30

Coffee

16:30–17:00

SUMMARY OF DEBATE: Peter Trudgill

SYNTAX OF NOMINAL EXPRESSIONS [Organized by Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Jacek Witkoś; description; room C2]

General session: COMPLEXITY
[room C1]

General session: COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
[chair: Maciej Karpiński, room C3]

17:00–17:30

Eva Zehentner. From phrase to clause(-like): on the development of verbal nouns in -ing [see abstract]

Aleksandrs Berdicevskis. Linguistic complexity: a burden or an asset? [see abstract]

Anna Jelec and Dorota Jaworska. Thoughts on the table. Gesture as a tool for thinking in blind and visually impaired children [see abstract]

17:30–18:00

Bożena Rozwadowska. Polish variable behaviour nominalizations in support of neo-constructivist approaches to the lexicon-syntax interface [see abstract]

Norbert Kordek. The Complexity of Script – Evidence from Chinese [see abstract]

Halszka Bąk. Empathy and distress: Internal and external context dependency of emotion term selection [see abstract]

18:00–18:30

Paweł Rutkowski, Małgorzata Czajkowska-Kisil, Joanna Łacheta and Anna Kuder. Nominal Expressions in Polish Sign Language (PJM) [see abstract]

Dafydd Gibbon. Four dimensions of complexity in language [see abstract]

19:00

Wine reception

10:00–10:30

Coffee

SYNTAX OF NOMINAL EXPRESSIONS [Organized by Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Jacek Witkoś; description; room C2]

General session: BILINGUALISM
[chair: Magdalena Wrembel; room C1]

General session: PHONOLOGY/PHONETICS
[chair: Paulina Zydorowicz; room C3]

10:30–11:00

Adeilson Sedrins. On extraction from definite DPs [see abstract]

Philipp Wasserscheidt. Linguistic units as complex signs: consequences for bilingual sentence processing [see abstract]

Antonio Baroni. Strength-Based Faithfulness and the Emergence of Syllable Complexity [see abstract]

11:00–11:30

Bożena Cetnarowska. On topic movement within Polish noun phrases [see abstract]

Eva Valcheva, Elena Tribushinina and Natalia Gagarina. Interactions in a bilingual mind: Connective acquisition by Russian-German early sequential bilinguals [see abstract]

Grzegorz Michalski. Formal restrictions on supernumerary consonants at word edges in English [see abstract]

11:30–12:00

Paweł Rutkowski. Is NA different from NAA? [see abstract]

Jan K. Hognestad. Tonal accents in Scandinavian: Origin and development [see abstract]

12:00–12:30

Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiasen and Diego Gabriel Krivochen. Partitive constructions are not all the same [see abstract]

Luiza Newlin-Łukowicz. A case of linguistic variation among white ethnics in New York City [see abstract]

12:30–14:00

Lunch

General session: BILINGUALISM/TRANSLATION
[chair: Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny; room C1]

General session: MORPHOLOGY
[chair: Marcin Kilarski; room C2]

14:00–14:30

Urszula Paradowska. The impact of student translators – linguistic competence, cultural competence, and Web search expertise on the complexity of search engine query formulation [see abstract]

Raffaela Baechler. Complexity differences in the inflectional systems of closely related varieties [see abstract]

14:30–15:00

Ewa Rudnicka, Marek Maziarz and Maciej Piasecki. Towards a truly bilingual wordnet - plWordNet 2.0 [see abstract]

Anna Mrzygłodzka. Dialect in Translation. The role of the West Yorkshire dialect in Emily Bront–s Wuthering Heights and the strategies of its translation [see abstract]

David Gil. Sign Languages, Creoles, Complexity, and the Development of Predication [see abstract]

15:30–16:00

17:45

Departure for the trip to Gułtowy for the PLM Party (the coach will be waiting by Collegium Minus, Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań)

IN MEMORY OF R. SINGH [description; room 109A]

MONO- AND MULTILINGUAL MIND [Organized by A.B. Cieślicka and R.R. Heredia; description; room C1]

General session: SYNTAX
[chair: Bartosz Wiland; room C2]

10:00–10:30

The session will start with an introduction followed by oral presentations by:

Denis Bouchard (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Nicolas Royer-Artuso (University of Marmara)

Linda Mortensen, Ocke-Schwen Bohn and Dorthe Berntsen. Bilingual memory: No language congruency effect in bilingual story retelling [see abstract]

Kristin Killie. Old English–Late British language contact and the English progressive: the linguistic evidence [see abstract]

10:30–11:00

Rafal Jonczyk. Hemispheric asymmetries for emotional verbal stimuli in Polish-English bilinguals [see abstract]

Ole Letnes. On evidentiality and German "reportive" sollen [see abstract]

11:00–11:30

Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman. Irony processing: L1/L2 interface [see abstract]

11:30–12:00

Coffee

IN MEMORY OF R. SINGH [description; room 109A]

MONO- AND MULTILINGUAL MIND [Organized by A.B. Cieślicka and R.R. Heredia; description; room C1]

General session: DISCOURSE
[chair: Joanna Pawelczyk; room C2]

12:00–12:30

Poster presentation by Probal Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) - presented by Marta Marecka

Presentation by Jayant Lele (Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada) - presented by Jarosław Weckwerth

Anna B. Cieslicka and Roberto R. Heredia. It's all in the eys: How language dominance, salience, and context affect eye movements during idiomatic language processing [see abstract]

Victoria Kamasa. The Polish Catholic Church on IVF. Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis [see abstract]

12:30–13:00

Agnieszka Lijewska. Language competition in trilingual speakers: An eye tracking study [see abstract]

Jakub Jaraczewski. Are "We, The People of the United States" the same as "My, Naród Polski"? Languages of American and Polish constitutions: similarities and differences [see abstract]

13:00–13:30

Maciej Buczowski. Cross-cultural media discourse analysis of the Mali intervention [see abstract]

13:30–15:00

Lunch

15:00–16:00

Plenary: Ron Cole: Conversations with Human and Virtual Teachers: Improving Young Learners’ Science understanding and Scientific Discourse [with K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, D. Pietrala, A. Basińska; room C1]

16:00–16:30

Coffee

16:30–17:30

POSTER SESSION [authors, titles and abstracts – see below]

CELTIC SATELLITE SESSION [Organized by Karolina Rosiak; description; room C3]

MONO- AND MULTILINGUAL MIND [Organized by A.B. Cieślicka and R.R. Heredia; description; room C1]

General session: PHONOLOGY
[chair: Grzegorz Michalski; room C2]

9:00–9:30

INVITED SPEAKER: Steve Hewitt. The traditional/neo-speaker problem in Breton: what degree of aporia? [see abstract]

Wolfgang U. Dressler, Christine Czinglar, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Kumru Uzunkaya-Sharma. Given the right input, bilingual children can outperform monolingual children in both languages: Filling a European lacuna in the causal chain leading to dispriviledged language competencies [see abstract]

Roland Noske. Kluge's Law: chronology, limits on coarticulation, geminate fortition [see abstract]

9:30–10:00

Marta Marecka and Łukasz Budzicz. Does phonological processing contribute to word learning? [see abstract]

Camiel Hamans. From mono- to disyllabic clipped forms. A matter of preferred templates [see abstract]

10:00–10:30

Peadar Ó Flatharta. Legislating for Language Rights: The Official Languages Act Ireland 2003 [see abstract]

Svenja Bepperling and Holden Härtl. Cross-Linguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition: A Study on Event Conceptualization Patterns [see abstract]

Forugh Shooshtaryzadeh and Pramod Pandey. Intricacy in assimilation in atypical phonological development in Farsi [see abstract]

10:30–11:00

Siún Carden. 'Seo chugainn an mBéal Feirste Nua': the Irish language and the 'new' Belfast [see abstract]

Mateusz Jekiel. Comparing rhythm in speech and music: the case of English and Polish [see abstract]

11:00–11:30

Coffee

CELTIC THEMATIC SESSION [Organized by Karolina Rosiak; description; room C3]

General session: PHONETICS
[chair: Jarosław Weckwerth; room C2]

11:30–12:00

Michael Hornsby. Landscapes of the mind: contested ideology of language: and the Welsh linguistic landscape [see abstract]

INVITED SPEAKER: Jeanette Altarriba. Cognition, Memory, and Emotion:  Their Influence on Human Behavior [see abstract]

Małgorzata Zagrodnicka. Am I drunk? Acoustic and linguistic analysis of speech under the influence of alcohol [see abstract]

12:00–12:30

Cassie Smith-Christmas. Family language policy: Gaelic Maintenance effort on the Isle of Skye, Scotland [see abstract]

Grzegorz Aperliński. The acoustics and functions of paralinguistic clicks in English [see abstract]

12:30–13:00

Cassie Smith-Christmas and Stuart Dunmore. Language ideologies and code-switching in Scottish Gaelic discourse: affective stance and coicing the ‘other’ [see abstract]

Jolanta Sypiańska. Multilingual acqusition of VOT [see abstract]

Luiza Newlin-Łukowicz. L1 phonetic interference in the VOTs produced by Polish-English bilinguals [see abstract]

13:30

Conference closes