Programme

The final pre-conference version of the programme (31 Aug) is available below. Clicking on an author's name will take you to the abstract of the paper.

PLM2009 Workshop sessions in italics.

 

Wednesday, 02 September 2009

Thursday; Friday; Saturday

9:00-9:30 Opening: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk
9:30-10:30 Plenary session: Peter Trudgill “On the growth of variants: Sociolinguistic typology and the development of allomorphy and allophony” (Chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
MELODY VS. STRUCTURE IN PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS (Convened by Geoff Schwartz) DISENTANGLING VARIATION: DISCOURSE IN CONTEXT (Convened by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk) CLINICAL LINGUISTICS (Convened by Monika Połczyńska and Yishai Tobin)

NEW DIALECTS (Chaired by Joanna Kopaczyk)

 

11:00-11:30 DiCanio “Prosodic licensing in Trique: phonetics and phonology” Motschenbacher “Negotiating Europeanness: language and identity construction in the Eurovision Song Contest” Kuehnast “Processing clitic pronouns in Bulgarian – Evidence from normal and agrammatic comprehension” Krug & Hilbert “Emerging standardardization of English in Malta”
11:30-12:00 Sieczkowska & Dogil “Voicing profile of Polish and German sonorants in obstruent clusters” Haładewicz-Grzelak “The symbolic power of radio advertising: A case study of Polish radio commercials” Jaworska, Cieślicka & Rataj “Irony comprehension in schizophrenia” Piotrowski “New-dialect formation: The evitability of colonial languages. The case of Poland”
12:00-12:30 Caratini “Melody vs. structure: German consonants” Kielar “Transitivity as a marker of valuation process in journalistic discourse” Green & Tobin “Phonology as Human Behavior: A prosodic study of high functioning autism”
12:30-13:00 Pöchtrager “The Ω of A” Whyatt “When in Rome do as the Romans do. A comparative study of register differences in texts translated by inexperienced and experienced translators” Marecka & Połczyńska “L1 and L2 processes in speakers with sensorineural hearing loss”
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Plenary session: Karol Janicki “The discourse of befuddlement” Chaired by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak
MELODY VS. STRUCTURE… DISENTANGLING VARIATION… CLINICAL LINGUISTICS
15:45-16:15 Ben Si Said “The interaction between structure and melody” Fabiszak, Hebda & Kokorniak “BELIEF, REASON, AND EMOTION: Abstract categories across genres and world Englishes” Tobin “Bridging the gap between clinical and sociolinguistic data and issues”
16:15-16:45 Bednarska “Vowel quantity and the melody of consonants” Troutman [SPECIAL GUEST, 16:15-17:15] “Attitude and its situatedness in linguistic politeness” Rataj, Szumska, Świerta, Kuczyńska & Jaśkowski “Influence of task type in novel metaphoric and anomalous utterance comprehension in Polish: An ERP study”
16:45-17:15 Bloch-Rozmej “Syllabic consonants and the mechanism of element extension”
17:15-17:45 Coffee break
MELODY VS. STRUCTURE… DISCOURSE & COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS (Chaired by Karolina Rataj)
17:45-18:15 Schwartz “Melody vs. Structure – Auditory considerations and segmental specification” Bobin “Contextual variables in interpersonal conflict”
18:15-18:45 Mierzwińska-Hajnos “Conceptual blending vs. conceptual metaphor theory. A note on the semantics of plant names in English and Polish”

 

Thursday, 03 September 2009

Wednesday; Friday; Saturday

9:00-10:00 Plenary session: Ellen Contini-Morava “The meaning of Agreement” (Chaired by Yishai Tobin)
NOUN CLASSIFICATION (Convened by Marcin Kilarski and Yishai Tobin) WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET (Convened by Barbara Pastuszek-Lipińska and Simone Dalla Bella) CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE: HOW UNIVERSAL/VARIABLE IS IT? (Convened by Joanna Błaszczak, Gisbert Fanselow and Jacek Witkoś) (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Anna Balas)
10:15-10:45 Contini-Morava & Kilarski “Discourse functions of nominal classification” Pastuszek-Lipińska “Music as a tool for improving first and second language acquisition” Mensching [10:15-11:15] “CFSs and the Lexicon: On parametrising C, T and v in Romance”
10:45-11:15 Gąsiorowski “Class struggle: Problems of noun classification in Proto-Indo-European” Rodríguez-Vázquez “The evolution of prosody through songs: The case of English broadside ballads” Wrembel “The impact of a previously learnt foreign language on L3 phonological acquisition”
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
NOUN CLASSIFICATION WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE... (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
11:45-12:15 Buus Florentine & Wonnacott “Phonological and semantic cues in determining Danish gender: Implications for lexical models”
Migdalski “What do V-2 and Second Position Cliticisation have in common? Kaglik & de Mareüil “Foreign accent perception and L2 production: The case of Polish-accented French prosody”
12:15-12:45 Fiałkowska “Grammatical gender in the speech of Polish-English children” Falk & Rathke “The Speech-to-Song-Illusion revisited” Nygård “Subject ellipsis: clausal architecture and phi-feature valuing” Anufryk “On intonational variation in L1 and L2 speech”
12:45-13:15 Even-Simkin & Tobin “Internal vowel alternations in nominal and verbal forms according to the sign-oriented theory of the Columbia School” Białuńska, Dalla Bella & Sowiński “Music favors synchronized movement more than speech: Is isochrony key?” Cegłowski “Clausal gerunds as CPs: Evidence from Polish” Zydorowicz “Cluster modification processes in L1 acquisition: The case of English and Polish”
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 Poster session Chaired by Małgorzata Kul: Aksoyalp, Berkowska & Dalla Bella, Bloch-Trojnar, Caratini, Chang, Gann, Bartoszuk & Anderson, Guz, Kuzio, Letnes, Madrid, Marczak, Murawska, Punske, Ramasamy, Szcześniak & Callies, Trawinski, Vanoudheusden
NOUN CLASSIFICATION WHERE LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MEET CLAUSAL ARCHITECTURE... (SLA) PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Magdalena Wrembel)
15:45-16:15 Van de Velde “Proper names and noun class agreement in the Bantu languages” Ludke “Songs to support foreign language learning” Hong & Lasnik “Defective category C and the Highest Subject Effect in Korean pseudoclefts” Jaworski “Phonetic and phonological vowel reduction in Russian”
16:15-16:45 Olstad “(Automatic) noun class assignment in Swahili Dalla Bella & Berkowska “Musical pitch production can be selectively impaired in tone deafness” Struckmeier “Attributive constructions as subordinate DPs: On typology of phrasal projections” Rominiecka “The role of fortitive processes in the construction of the most influential speeches of the 20th and the 21st centuries”
16:45-17:15 Bukowska “How do measure terms in non-classifier Indo-European languages resemble classifiers?”
Furtak “Language used by Polish Americans: Yet another variant of English spoken by Poles”
17:15-17:45 Coffee break
TEXT LINGUISTICS (Chaired by Elżbieta Wąsik)
17:45-18:15 Kerge & Pajupuu “Variety of linguistic parameters in Estonian text-types”
18:15-18:45
Versloot “The Frisian Language Database as a source of information on language variation”
20:00 PLM Party

 

Friday, 04 September 2009

Wednesday; Thursday; Saturday

9:00-10:00 Plenary session: Nancy Niedzielski “Perceptual experiments and phonetic variation: Finding out what speakers don't know they know, and vice versa” (Chaired by Jarosław Weckwerth)
ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION (Convened by Jarosław Weckwerth) HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE (Convened by Elżbieta Wąsik and Oebele Vries)
10:15-10:45 Campbell-Kibler “Attitudes and variation: What is the attitude object?” Gąsiorowski “The last of the Ingvaeones: The special importance of relict languages”
10:45-11:15 Grondelaers & van Hout “Do speech evaluation scales in a speaker evaluation experiment trigger conscious or subconscious attitudes?” Versloot “Etymological and perceptional distinctiveness of Frisian: Borrowings and the perception of ‘good’ Frisian”
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE

SOCIOPRAGMATICS (Chaired by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak)

11:45-12:15 Impe, Geeraerts, Speelman & Spruyt “Affective Priming as a new method for measuring language attitudes” Jensma “The freedom within: On the 19th century changes in the concept of Frisian freedom” Henkin “Negev Arabic address forms: Senior to junior”
12:15-12:45 Meyerhoff, Schleef & Clark “Attitudes towards varieties of English among Polish immigrants in the UK” Dykstra “The English (and the Americans) as colonists of the Old Frisian mother tribe” Strycharz “With all due respect? The use of local honorifics among three generations of Osaka women”
12:45-13:15 Paunović “Plus ca change... Serbian EFL students’ attitudes to English accents” Vries “The evolution of language demands in Friesland: A comparative approach”
13.15-14.00 Lunch break
14:00-15:00 Plenary session: Dennis Preston “The four elephants of sociolinguistics inspect a ping-pong ball” Chaired by Ernst Håkon Jahr
ATTITUDES TOWARDS SOCIOPHONETIC VARIATION HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE

PHONOLOGY (Chaired by Piotr Gąsiorowski)

15:00-15:30 Bounds “Perception and production of the dialect of Poznań” Walker “North Frisian and politics” Michalski “Split-component phonology and the duality of Polish palatalisation”
15:30-16:00 Ramonienė “New multilingualism in Lithuanian cities” Wicherkiewicz “Frisian as a model minority language in the European context” Noske “Grimm’s and Verner’s laws as a single process”
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
HERITAGE AND IDENTITY OF FRISIANS AND THEIR LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY
16:30-17:00 Buczek “Linguistic-lexical approach to cultural aspects of death in the Old Frisian writings” Stolarski “Size-sound symbolism in the Polish diminutive system on the basis of the /i/ - /a/ vowel opposition”
17:00-17:30 Wąsik “From the ecology of language to the ecological grammar of linguistic communities: A search for the descriptive model in the context to Frisian studies”
19:00 Celtic music evening

 

Saturday, 05 September 2009

Wednesday; Thursday; Friday

9:00-10:00 Plenary session: Andrzej Grzybowski "Ludwik Zamenhof – one of the most important ophthalmologists in the world's culture. On the 150th anniversary of his birth" (Chaired by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk)

SYNTAX (Chaired by Przemysław Tajsner)

ALTERNATIVA IN SOCIAL SEMIOTICS (Convened by Paul Thibault and Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak)
10:15-10:45 Gergel “To bind or not to bind” Thibault “Grounding language and thinking in (inter)action and perception”
10:45-11:15 Dočekal “N-words: predicates or quantifiers” Awedyk & Hamans “The myth of gender copying”
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
SYNTAX ALTERNATIVA IN SOCIAL SEMIOTICS SOCIOPHONETICS (Chaired by Joanna Pawelczyk)
11:45-12:15 Stroński “Variation of ergativity patterns in Indo-Aryan” Pociechina “Social differentiation of modern East-Slavic languages: The new standard and/or slang” Moosmüller “Sound changes and variation in the Viennese dialect”
12:15-12:45 Igarashi “The resultative construction: A pragmatic viewpoint” Baranowski “Sound change in progress: On the role of gender and social class”
12:45-13:15 Wieczorek, Huber & Darkow “Tense/Aspect category in fluent and non-fluent Polish and German aphasia – A contrastive study” Haładewicz-Grzelak “A heuristic suggestion for an associational model of semiotic analysis” Farris & Oueslati “What’s a vowel? Selected problem areas in the phonology of Tunisian Arabic”
13.15-14.30 Lunch break

MORPHOSYNTAX (Chaired by Joanna Śmiecińska)
14:30-15:00

Marchewka “Gender resolution in Polish. Agreement of subject and predicate in sentences with conjoined noun phrases”
15:00-15:30
Cetnarowska, Pysz & Trugman “Distribution of genitives and classificatory adjectives in Polish NPs”
15:30-16:00 Trugman “Instances of posthead modification in Russian NPs”

Prof. Barbara Kudrycka, Minister of Science and Higher Education; Prof. Bronisław Marciniak, Vice-Chancellor of the Adam Mickiewicz University; Mr Ryszard Grobelny, Mayor of the City of Poznań; and Mr Jacek Kowalski, Mayor of the City of Gniezno, will be the honorary patrons of the Meeting.