Program and abstracts

Thursday, 06 Dec 2018

Section 1 What is Language - from within?

08.30-08.45	Introduction	Dr. Lena Baunaz and Lee Barasch (Universität Zürich)
08.45-09.30	Much of language is not language Abstract (PDF, 179 KB)	Prof. Michal Starke (University of Tromsø)
09.30-10.15	Learning inflection: the roles of frequency, neighbourhood density and typology Abstract (PDF, 187 KB)	Prof. Elena Lieven (University of Manchester)
10.15-10.45	Coffee Break
10.45-11.30	On the hierarchical nature of linguistic representations Abstract (PDF, 188 KB)	Prof. Luigi Rizzi (Université de Genève)
11.30-12.15	The extraction of parts-of-speech from child-surrounding speech Abstract (PDF, 179 KB)	Prof. Sabine Stoll (Universität Zürich)
12.15-13.45	Lunch Break
13.45-14.30	Grammatical and conceptual ontology Abstract (PDF, 35 KB)	Dr. Isabelle Roy (U Paris 8 / CNRS – UMR 7023)
14.30-15.15	We’ll never discover what is external, and what is internal, to language without multi-methodological approaches Abstract (PDF, 208 KB)	Prof. Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
15.15-15.45	Coffee Break
15.45-16.30	From language acquisition to linguistic theory: the case of clitics Abstract (PDF, 205 KB)	Prof. Maria Teresa Guasti (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)
16.30-17.15	Grammatical categories: essential or emergent? Abstract (PDF, 209 KB)	Prof. Heike Behrens (Universität Basel)
17.30-18.15	Round Table	animated by Prof. Tom Leu (Univeristé de Québec à Montréal)

Friday, 07 Dec 2018

Section 2 What is Language - from without?

08.30-08.50	Introduction	Prof. Volker Dellwo (Universität Zürich)
08.50-09.35	What have speakers got to do with language anyway? Abstract (PDF, 276 KB)	Dr. Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow)
09.35-10.25	Perceiving and producing affective prosody during speech Abstract (PDF, 22 KB)	Prof. Sascha Frühholz (Universität Zürich)
10.20-10.45	Coffee Break
10.45-11.30	The interaction of linguistic structure and speaker-dependent information in speech Abstract (PDF, 299 KB)	Dr. Willemijn Heeren (Universiteit Leiden)
11.30-12.15	Dynamics of indexical information in speech Abstract	Thayabaran Kathiresan (Universität Zürich) Prof. Volker Dellwo (Universität Zürich)
12.15-13.00	The value of experience: Leveraging shared indexical structure in understanding novel talkers Abstract (PDF, 183 KB)	Prof. Stephanie Borrie (Utah State University)
13.00-14.30	Lunch Break
14.30-15.30	What is Linguistics? Abstract (PDF, 234 KB)	Prof. Frederick Newmeyer (U British Columbia)
15.30-16.30	Round Table	animated by Prof. Marianne Hundt (Universität Zürich) Prof. Balthasar Bickel (Universität Zürich) Prof. Johannes Kabatek (Universität Zürich) Prof. Frederick Newmeyer (U British Columbia)