PLM 2019 Programme

16 September | MONDAY

12:00-13:00

Registration opens

13:00-13:45

Coffee break

13:45-14:00

Conference opening [room Aula]

14:00-15:00

KEYNOTE TALK: Nicholas Evans, Straight talk, bent meanings: Semantics on the watershed [Chair: K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, room Aula]

THEMATIC SESSION: Empirical investigations into the forms of mediated discourse at the European Parliament (convened by M. Kajzer-Wietrzny and M. Perdek) [room 120]

THEMATIC SESSION: Linguistic landscape and memory: Linguistics, geography and cultural studies in urban research (convened by M. Fabiszak and I. Buchstaller) [room 121]

GENERAL SESSION: Phonetics and Phonology [Chair: P. Zydorowicz, room 125]

15:00-15:30

Defrancq et al. Ut interpres: The linguistic influence of interpreters on MEPs

Shaeffer et al. Renaming to remain the same? Presidential tribute and public protest in Kazakhstan

Pieniowska A case study on the influence of progressive alcohol intoxication on speech features measured with My-Voice Analysis Python library

15:30-16:00

Ferraresi et al. Let’s collaborate! Methods and tools for the construction of a complex translation and interpreting corpus

Unser-Schutz Redesigning and alienating a neighborhood: An analysis of the critical reception of Takanawa Gate Way Station

Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and Wrembel Modelling multilingual acquisition of speech: Natural Growth Theory of Acquisition

16:00-16:30

Grabowski Translation patterns and discoursal functions in English-to-Polish translation: The case of recurrent phrases

Kumar Metonymy of madness: Echoing linguistic landscape

Konert-Panek Music, language and identity. The loss of rhoticity in Bob Dylan’s Southern American English stylisation in the light of frequency effects

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-17:30

Ivaska and Ferraresi Operationalizing formality in European Parliament data: Bringing together human judgements and corpus-driven detection

Hornsby and Roger The hierarchization of regional languages in the linguistic landscapes of Brittany

17:30-18:00

Kajzer-Wietrzny et al. “Thanks very much President…” or “Thank you Mr President...” Investigating formality in mediated and non-mediated discourse

Listewnik A fo bont, bid ben: Power and ownership in debates on renaming Second Severn Crossing and the National Assembly for Wales

18:00-19:00

Poster session (see below) [Chair: M. Kul] and PhD project posters [Chair: J. Pawelczyk]

19:00-20:00

Wine reception (poster session continued)

PhD PROJECT POSTERS: Baranowska Exposure to English as a foreign language through subtitled videos: Cognitive load, language comprehension and vocabulary acquisition at different proficiency levels; Dekier Morphosyntax of indefinite markers; Dobkiewicz The effect of ideology on the production and perception of simultaneously interpreted political discourse; Naranowicz Understanding L2 when emotions take over: The influence of mood on semantic integration in bilingualism – an ERP study; Piotrowska A diachronic perspective on the semantic and syntactic attributes of possessive expressions in Swedish and Danish; Sawicka-Stępińska Towards an automatized classification of /s/-allophones in Guayaquil Spanish

GENERAL POSTERS: Hasanpanah An analysis of street names in relation to architecture and social identity in Bana, Iran and Sulaymania, Iraq; Khaldarova The effect of ethnicity on the linguistic landscape of three south Kazakhstani villages: Aksukent, Mankent and Karabulak; Kobayashi The evidence for the constraint MINIMALITY in casual French speech; Kříž Slovaks in Czechia: L1 attrition and L2 acquisition in two closely related languages; Wojtkowiak Is there really a Prosodic Hierarchy in Polish?; Zabielska and Żelazowska-Sobczyk Interdisciplinarity in the research on healthcare communication

17 September | TUESDAY

09:00-10:00

PLENARY TALK: Stefan Frisch Language sound structure: Linguistics at the interface between biology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience [Chair: P. Gąsiorowski, room Aula]

THEMATIC SESSION: Empirical investigations into the forms of mediated discourse at the European Parliament (convened by M. Kajzer-Wietrzny & M. Perdek) [room 120]

THEMATIC SESSION: Linguistic landscape and memory: Linguistics, geography and cultural studies in urban research (conv.: M. Fabiszak & I. Buchstaller) [room 121]

GENERAL SESSION: Literary studies and linguistics [Chair: K. Burzyńska, room 125]

WORKSHOP: Surfing the brainwaves: Workshop on EEG data analysis in linguistics (run by R. Jończyk) [room Aula] (Abstract)

10:00-10:30

Karakanta et al. Detecting linguistic variation in translated vs. interpreted texts using relative entropy

Fabiszak et al. Commemorative street naming in Zbąszyń

10:30-11:00

Pisanski Peterlin and Mikolič Južnič Identifying differences between spoken and written language varieties with corpora: What can we learn from EPTIC-SI?

Schneider and Buchstaller To rename or not to rename …. Investigating commemorative street renaming in Eastern Germany

Kizelbach King Henry VI: The pragma-stylistics of war discourse

11:00-11:30

Swallow Conservatism in edited and translated language

Griese and Alvanides Investigating the geography of street name changes: A spatio-temporal approach

Holbrook The time and distance that language cannot configure

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

THEMATIC SESSION: Linguistic landscape and memory: Linguistics, geography and cultural studies in urban research (convened by M. Fabiszak & I. Buchstaller) [room 121]

12:00-12:30

Szperka Modal adverbs of certainty in a corpus-based study of EP debates: Polish-English perspective

Kolehmainen and Wessman The multiple roots of multilingualism: Different voices, changing commemorative practices and traces of migration in a cemetery linguistic landscape

Wasak Synthetic -ing compounds in English: Adjectives or nouns?

12:30-13:00

Hu The multi-level and multi-layer of history and memory behind the linguistic landscape of Dali Old Town in China

Hamans The fluid nature of word formation

13:00-13:30

Al-Gabali Linguistics, memory, geography and culture: Place and street names as a model

Mattiello Blends vis-à-vis compounds in English

13:30-14:30

Lunch

GENERAL SESSION: Corpus linguistics and linguistic education [Chair: I. Kokorniak, room 120]

GENERAL SESSION: Sociolinguistics [Chair: A. Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, room 121]

GENERAL SESSION: Syntax and Morphology [Chair: P. Cegłowski, room 125]

14:30-15:00

Mettouchi and Chanard Query languages and linguistic categories: Annotating and searching spoken electronic corpora in indigenous languages

Beneš How to investigate non-spatiotemporal linguistic entities: Preliminary remarks

Chan Sentence-final particles in contact: An exoskeletal approach

15:00-15:30

Sobol et al. Corpus-derived inoffensive vocabulary for blacklists

15:30-16:00

Tarantino Refurbishing academic training for CLIL/EMI mediators

Dufek Promoting consumption: The language and discourse of advertising in socialist Czechoslovakia

16:00-16:30

Charitonidis Semantic prosody of extended lexical units: A case study

Paradowski et al. Bridging applied linguistics and complexity science: The contributions of Social Network Analysis

19:00-23:00

PLM Dinner and Party [Collegium Maius, Fredry 10]

18 September | WEDNESDAY

09:00-10:00

PLENARY TALK: Zofia Wodniecka, Life in two languages from a cognitive psychology perspective [Chair: R. Jończyk, room Aula]

10:00-11:00

Debate: "Linguistics: Between science and humanities. An overview of contributing disciplines and research agendas" with N. Evans, S. Frisch, A. Jacobs, P. Siemund and Z. Wodniecka [Chair: K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, room Aula]

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

THEMATIC SESSION: Modern phonetics and phonological representation: New outlook on the old controversy (convened by E. Wojtkowiak and K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) [room 120]

THEMATIC SESSION: On cognitive and affective mechanisms behind bilingual language processing (convened by K. Jankowiak, K. Bromberek-Dyzman, R. Jończyk, and M. Naranowicz) [room 121]

GENERAL SESSION: Syntax and morphology [Chair: J. Witkoś, room 125]

11:30-12:00

Brzoza Phonetic training in L2 and its effect on the representation of L2 phonology

INVITED TALK: Arthur Jacobs, Neurocognitive poetics or how the brain works in literature (Chair: K. Jankowiak)

Buczek Germanic and Polish influences on expressions of modality in Wymysorys

12:00-12:30

Chabot Blank slates: Where are features in “crazy” phonologies?

Viberg Breaking the law and cutting the deficit: A contrastive study of the patterns of polysemy of Cutting and Breaking verbs in English and Swedish

12:30-13:00

Kocel-Duraj Palatalization as a non-uniform phonetic process: diachronic analysis

Kissler and Bromberek-Dyzman How mood affects processing of emotional adjectives in L1 and L2: An ERP study

Kokorniak From theoretical modelling to quantitative testing in aspectual distinctions of English and Polish mental predicates

13:00-13:30

Hutin Phonetic detail needs phonological representations: Why phonology is not all computation

Schneider “When you are my age… what age is that?”: Reconstruction of facts in two languages in persons living with Alzheimer’s dementia

Jarosz The formation of bare and modal conclusives of strong conjugation verbs in Proto-Sakishima

13:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:30

PLENARY TALK: Peter Siemund On the advantages and disadvantages of multilingualism: Towards a more realistic assessment [Chair: M. Wrembel, room Aula]

THEMATIC SESSION: Modern phonetics and phonological representation: New outlook on the old controversy (convened by E. Wojtkowiak and K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) [room 120]

THEMATIC SESSION: On cognitive and affective mechanisms behind bilingual language processing (convened by K. Jankowiak, K. Bromberek-Dyzman, R. Jończyk, and M. Naranowicz) [room 121]

GENERAL SESSION: Syntax and morphology [Chair: P. Tajsner, room 125]

15:30-16:00

Gąsiorowski et al. Delocalised cues for stress and the importance of the foot

Tsui The relationship between spoken and written L2-production

Witkoś Spelling out pronouns as half-baked reflexives solves a c-command riddle

16:00-16:30

Pieniowska et al. Shadowing synthesized speech: Analysis of phonetic convergence

Korpal and Jankowiak Simultaneous interpreters converge emotionally with the speaker during the process of interpreting

Chromý What is “good-enough” about the processing of garden-path sentences in Czech

16:30-17:00

Schwartz Phonetically-based abstractions

Lijewska Cognate processing by bilingual and trilingual speakers: Evidence from a sentence reading task

Żychliński Partial acceptability in Polish and English generative research

17:00-17:15

Coffee break

17:15-17:45

Sypiańska and Constantin Production accuracy of new and similar L2 sounds

Rataj et al. Creativity and neuroscience: What neural oscillations tell us about generating and processing of creative ideas

Trawinski A unified account of Polish zeby-clauses under negation

17:45-18:15

Uffmann London calling (or cooling?)

Schneider "Yeah, yeah! ¡Sí, Sí!” - Competing English and Spanish interjections in bilingual people living with Alzheimer’s dementia

Łęska Quantifier scope and the argument structure of Polish ditransitives

18:15-18:45

Orzechowska and Nowak Phonotactic constraints and preferences are domain specific: A cognitive proposal