PLM2008 Programme
Below is the programme of PLM2008. Clicking on an author's name will take you to the PDF abstract of that author's paper.
Thursday, 11 September 2008
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening | ||
| 9:15-10:15 | Plenary session: Steven Small (Chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) | ||
| 10:30-11:00 | POSTER SESSION I (Convenor: Joanna Pawelczyk) Anna Balas: Feature economy in vowel variation Janina Mołczanow: Intervocalic deletion and positional faithfulness in Russian Marta Rominiecka: Phonostylistic processes as a marker of style-shifting in political discourse Éva Dékány: On the base-position of Hungarian verbal particles |
CLINICAL LINGUISTICS - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Yishai Tobin & Monika Połczyńska) Monika Połczyńska, Yishai Tobin & Shimon Sapir: Correlation between vowel centralisation and incomplete stop articulation in individuals with traumatic brain injury |
MORPHO-SYNTAX (Chair: Przemysław Tajsner) Nicola Lampitelli: How the syntactic change interferes on morphology |
| 11:00-11:30 | Shimon Sapir, Monika Połczyńska, Yishai Tobin, Lorraine Ramig, Cynthia Fox, Jennifer Spielman, Christopher Dromey, Shawn Nissen & Nelson Roy: Formant centralisation ratio (FCR) as a sensitive metric of vowel undershoot: Comparison with vowel space area (VSA) in impaired versus healthy speakers | Isabel Oltra-Massuet: Deriving -ble forms out of unergatives and unaccusatives | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 12:00-12:30 |
POSTER SESSION II |
Yishai Tobin: Phonology as human behavior: Applying theory to the clinic | Michiya Kawai: Verbal morphology, agreement and head movement: Reexamination of Lasnik 1995 |
| 12:30-13:00 | Sa'da Bader & Dafydd Gibbon: Phonological disorders of Arabic-speaking Jordanian children with speech and language impairments | Beata Trawiński: Towards the valuation of PHI-Features | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | Plenary session: Michal Starke (Chair: Jacek Witkoś) | ||
| 15:45-16:15 | TEMPLATES IN MORPHO-SYNTAX AND PHONOLOGY - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Tobias Scheer & Grzegorz Michalski) Michal Starke: Partial reduplication in Kitharaka: Evidence for copying of a full syntactic tree |
Tomohiko Ito, Shinji Fukuda, Suzy E. Fukuda, Kiyoshi Otomo, Hiroshi Fujino & Yuko Yamaguchi: Computational and non-computational aspects of language in Japanese grammatical specific language impairment: A case study | SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (Chair: Aleksandra Wach) Maria Łukasiewicz: Theoretical and psychological foundations of content and language integrated learning. Towards the development of the interlanguage |
| 16:15-16:45 | Grzegorz Michalski: The interface and the domain structure in Polish palatalisation and voice assimilation | Anna Jelec & Karolina Rataj: Over the bridge: Does bypassing the corpus callosum alleviate the symptoms of dyslexia? | Dorota Nowacka: The English language teacher as a communication supporter |
| 16:45-17:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 17:15-17:45 | Steven Small: The mirror neuron system and aphasia therapy |
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| 17:45-18:15 | Monika Połczyńska: Modification and extension of language tests performed during intraoperative electrical stimulation and pre-operative brain mapping methods | ||
| 18:15-18:30 | Anna Cieślicka, Karolina Rataj, Justyna Małaszuk & Dorota Jaworska: Figurative language impairment in aphasic patients: The effects of the type of figurative trope | ||
| 18:45-19:15 | Aleksandra Jełowicka, Thomas H. Bak, Joanna Seniów & William Marslen-Wilson: Stem and affix-processing in Polish aphasics | ||
| 19:15-19:45 | Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro: Phonetically unrealized elements in agrammatism: The case of pro | ||
| 19:45-20:15 | Marcin Morawski: Idiom comprehension in aphasic populations | ||
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Friday, 12 September 2008
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary session: Tobias Scheer (Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski) | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Plenary session: Roberto Heredia (Chair: Anna Cieślicka) | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | LINGUISTIC PROCESSING IN BI- AND MULTILINGUALS - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Anna Cieślicka & Anna Ewert) Anna Cieślicka & Roberto R. Heredia: Cerebral asymmetries in context sensitivity during figurative language processing in L1 and L2 |
NATURAL PHONOLOGY TEACH-IN (Convenor: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk) Patricia Donegan: Hypotheses of Natural Phonology I |
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| 12:00-12:30 | Agnieszka Kujałowicz, Agnieszka Chmiel, Karolina Rataj & Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk: The effect of conference interpreting training on bilingual word production | David Stampe: Hypotheses of Natural Phonology II | |
| 12:30-13:00 | Question period | ||
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Anna Ewert & David Singleton: Understanding conversational implicatures in two languages | Wolfgang U. Dressler: Natural Phonology as part of Natural Linguistics |
COGNITION (Chair: Aleksander Szwedek) Henryk Kardela: Cognitive grammar as a connectionist alternative? A parametrized account |
| 15:00-15:30 | Bogusława Whyatt: Looking into the translating mind – Research methods and future perspectives | Miren Lourdes Oñederra: Stampe reader | Boriana Vukovska: Body metaphors between universality and culture |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Zofia Wodniecka, Sylvain Moreno, Ellen Bialystok & Claude Alain: Neurological correlates of conflict resolution during sentence processing in bilinguals and monolinguals: Evidence from ERP | Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk: NP extension: B&B phonotactics | Dwight Holbrook: Inside out: Reversing the roles of outer world and inner perspective |
| 16:30-17:00 | General summing-up discussion | Konrad Juszczyk: Dialogue between a child and the computer in the process of learning to read. Analysis in joint attention paradigm | |
| 17:00-17:30 | SOCIOLINGUISTICS (Chair: Joanna Pawelczyk) Maciej Baranowski: The development of nasal systems for /ae/ and /aw/ in Charleston, South Carolina |
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY I (Chair: Anna Balas) Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo: Vowel perception in Foreign Language Learning: An empirical study in the framework of Natural Phonology |
HISTORIOGRAPHY (Chair: Piotr Gąsiorowski) Jerzy Bańczerowski: Mikołaj Rudnicki: A forgotten linguistic legacy |
| 17:30-18:00 | Błażej Gałkowski: Formulaic language – linguistic, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives | Geoff Schwartz: Auditory representations in Natural Phonology | Wiesław Awedyk: Mikołaj Rudnicki’s (1881-1978) not-so-recent ideas |
| 18:00-18:30 | Sylwester Jaworski: Inertial and non-inertial lenition processes | Camiel Hamans: Language consciousness and deliberate changes | |
| 20:00 | PARTY | ||
Saturday, 13 September 2008
| 9:30-10:30 | Plenary session: Elena Lieven (Chair: Małgorzata Fabiszak) | |||
| 10:45-11:15 | AFRICAN LANGUAGES IN ADVANCE -WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Karien Brits & Aleksandra Cichocka) DJ Prinsloo & Gertrud Faasz: Noun and verb guessing for automatic POS tagging in Sepedi |
DISCOURSES OF IDENTITY - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Péter Bodor & Małgorzata Fabiszak) Tadeusz Piotrowski: Proper names as discursive parameters of identity |
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY II (Chair: Jarosław Weckwerth) Beata Łukaszewicz: How specific are child-specific phonological patterns? |
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (Chair: Agnieszka Kujałowicz) Magdalena Wrembel & Karolina Rataj: On hearing colours |
| 11:15-11:45 | Karien Brits & Rigardt Pretorius: The development of a rule-based lemmatiser for Setswana: The noun | Agata Daleszyńska: “You feel good knowing that you are a Bequian”: Language variation and identity on Bequia | Beata Łukaszewicz & Bogdan Rozborski: The acoustic grounding of lexical stress in Polish and English: a developmental perspective | Filip Smolik: Facilitating sentence comprehension by syntactic priming |
| 11:45-12:15 | Coffee break | |||
| 12:15-12:45 | Beata Wójtowicz & Piotr Bański: High-detail reference structures in an electronic dictionary of Swahili | Dariusz Galasiński: Identities of failure: Depression and gender identities | Marzena Zygis: Insertions from a phonetic and phonological perspective | MORPHOLOGY (Chair: Wiesław Awedyk) Elin Gunleifsen: On the use of possessive markers |
| 12:45-13:15 | Joanna Pawelczyk & Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak: Speaker and listener in the construction of identity in discourse: A gender mismatch | Iwona Kraska-Szlenk: Correspondence constraints and semantic distance | Witold Kieraś: Grammatical complexity of natural languages. The case of morphology | |
| 13:15-13:45 | Ewa Glapka: Discursive construction and reproduction of gender ideology in the processes of text production and text reception | Iwona Kraska-Szlenk & Marzena Zygis: Phonetic effects at the prefix-stem juncture in Polish and its phonological interpretation | ||
| 13:45-15:00 | Lunch break | |||
| 15:00-16:00 | Plenary session: John Wells (Chair: Włodzimierz Sobkowiak) | |||
| 16:15-16:45 | Péter Bodor: Approaching identity talk and the case of ascribing schizophrenia to Europe and Hungary |
PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY II (Chair: Magdalena Wrembel) Bartłomiej Czaplicki: Functional approaches to metathesis: Evidence from dialects of Polish |
HISTORICAL ANSWERS TO SYNCHRONIC QUESTIONS - DEBATE SESSION (Convenors: Joanna Bugaj & Nikolaus Ritt) INTRODUCTION Speaker 1: Nikolaus Ritt Speaker 2: Tobias Scheer Speaker 3: C.U.C. Ugorji Speaker 4: Yishai Tobin |
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| 16:45-17:15 | Kseniya Timko: Discursive construction of migrants’ identity and the image of their Motherland | Krzysztof Dyczkowski, Norbert Kordek, Paweł Nowakowski & Krzysztof Stroński: A phonetic grammar of the Polish language | ||
| 17:15-17:45 | Monika Kopytowska: Framing the Other: Media (re)construction of Islam | |||
| 17:45-18:15 | Coffee break | |||
| 18:15-18:45 | Vincent Tao-Hsun Chang: Cultural consumption and identity politics in advertising: Campaigning discourse of the Beijing Olympics | Speaker 5: Joanna Bugaj Speaker 6: Dafydd Gibbon Speaker 7: Piotr Gąsiorowski Speaker 8: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk FINAL PLEAS AND BALLOT |
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| 18:45-19:15 | Agnieszka Sowińska: Becoming European: On representations of the EU and its values in the Polish and British press | |||
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| Evening | Celtic music session in the evening (featuring, inter alia, Michał Jankowski and Diarmuid Johnson) | |||
Sunday, 14 September 2008
| 9:00-10:00 | Plenary session: Andrew Breeze (Chair: Sabine Heinz) | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | LANGUAGE AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenors: Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani & Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak) Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani: Invocatory duration of vowel for ritualistic effects: Muḥammad and Ḥusayn in Persian Shiite sermons |
SCOPE OF THEORY AND PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY CELTIC STUDIES - WORKSHOP SESSION (Convenor: Sabine Heinz) Kiyoshi Hara: Comparing the language policies and the revitalization process of Celtic languages at the beginning of 21st Century |
MORPHO-PHONOLOGY (Chair: Jacob Thaisen) Laila Kjærbæk, Hans Basbøll, Claus Lambertsen & Sonja Wehberg: Early morphology and recurring sound patterns: Comparing different kinds of data on the acquisition of Danish noun plurals |
| 10:30-11:00 | Hans-Georg Wolf: Cultural models of religious belief systems in L2 varieties of English | Sabine Heinz: Diminutive formations in modern Welsh/Functions of diminutive formants in Welsh | Hans Basbøll: Positions of suffixes in Word Structure: A general model of phonology-morphology interaction applied to Danish |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30-12:00 | Daniel Gavin Washburn: Enculturation and the language of religious conversion | Karolina Rosiak: On the use of diminutives in Present Day Welsh | TYPOLOGY (Chair: Marcin Kilarski) Christopher Straughn: History vs. theory: The grammaticalization of the Uzbek say complementizers |
| 12:00-12:30 | Muhammad-Reza Fakhr-Rohani: Some religiously-charged linguistic labels: Their regulatory functions and effects in Islamic contexts | Siôn Rees Williams: Giving the wrong message: An example of erroneous Welsh signage from the private sector | Marc Bavant: Proto-Indo-European ergativity... revisited |
| 12:30-13:00 | Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak: The cosmogony of Stalinist propaganda in post-war Poland | Christina Bismark: ‘Connections is drawn’: Subject-verb agreement in non-standard varieties of English and in the Insular Celtic languages | |
| 13.00-14.30 | Lunch break | ||
| 14:30-15:00 | Anna Bloch-Rozmej: Resonance elements in Irish: Licensing and mutual interactions | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | Maria Bloch-Trojnar: The semantics of Light Verb Constructions in Modern Irish | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Bożena Gierek: The Irish language as the first official language in the Republic of Ireland | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Diarmuid Johnson: Neo-Irish: An emerging post-traditional idiom? | ||
PLM2008 is partially supported with funds provided by the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
PLM2008 is held under the honorary patronage of the Vice-Chancellor of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Prof. Bronisław Marciniak, and the Mayor of the City of Gniezno, Mr Jacek Kowalski.