PLM 2015 Programme

Status as of 18 Sep 2015

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17 Sep 2015 (Thursday)

The Language Endangerment satellite session is organized with support of the "Academia Europaea 2015 Hubert Curien Fund"

Logo of Academia Europaea

8:00-9:00

Registration

Main lobby, ground floor

9:00

Conference opening

Room: Aula

9:30-10:30

Plenary talk. Wolfgang U. Dressler : On inadequacies in transferring concepts from one to another linguistic subdiscipline

Room: Aula

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

Main lobby, ground floor

 

Syntax

Room: 126

Morphology

Room: 127

Satellite session: Language endangerment

Room: 120

Thematic session: Language processing in translation

Room: 121

11:00-11:30

Grete Dalmi: What does it take to be a copula?

Stela Manova & Bartosz Brzoza: Suffix combinations in the mental lexicon

Gunter Senft: Culture change - language change: Missionaries and moribund varieties of Kilivila

11:00-11:45 Invited speaker: Arnt Lykke Jakobsen: The current state of translation process research - with some unsolved challenges

11:30-12:00

Fujio Nakamura: Diachrony of present participles & gerunds followed by not

Paula Orzechowska, Bartosz Brzoza & Stela Manova: Word formation in terms of two-suffix combinations: Evidence from Polish

Alain Peyraube: On some endangered Sinitic languages spoken in Northwestern China: Tangwang, Gangou, Linxia

11:45-12:30 Invited speaker: Ricardo Muñoz Martín: Updating the interpretation of data in TPR

12:00-12:30

Jacek Witkos & Dominika Dziubala-Szrejbrowska: Morphology meets nano-syntax: the puzzle of the Polish Genitive of Quantification

 

 

Elwira Sobkowiak & Marcin Kilarski: A ‘small’ language in contact with a ‘big’ one: The loss of alienability distinction in Teenek (Mayan) under Spanish influence.

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Main lobby, ground floor

14.:00-15:00

Plenary talk. Gunter Senft : Understanding pragmatics

Room: Aula

 

Grammatical categories

Room: 126

Phonetics and phonology

Room: 127

Satellite session - Language endangerment

Room: 120

Thematic session: Language processing in translation

Room: 121

15:00-15:30

Dafydd Gibbon & Sascha Griffiths: Recursion or recursions? Understanding a family of linguistic concepts

A Balas: Selective attention to features: How Polish learners of English and French perceive Dutch vowels

J Sallabank: Purism, variation, change and ‘authenticity’: ideological challenges for language revitalisation

A Hunziker Heeb: Language processing in professional L2 translation: indications from research behaviour

15:30-16:00

Agata Rozumko: Linguistic concepts across languages: the category of adverbs in English & Polish

Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo: Mapping the perceptual vowel space – Articulatory, acoustic & perceptual relations between vowel categories

Justyna Olko & John Sullivan: Bridging Gaps & Empowering Speakers: An Inclusive Approach to Nahuatl Research and Revitalization.

Olha Lehka-Paul: Does personality matter in translation?

16:00-16:30

Åke Viberg: Understanding the concept MEANING POTENTIAL. A discussion based on a corpus study of the Swedish verbs of putting

Zofia Malisz & Marzena Zygis: The interaction of word, stress and accent domains in Polish

Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Tymoteusz Król  & Justyna Olko: Awakening the language and speakers' community of Wymysiöerys

Agnieszka Chmiel and Agnieszka Lijewska: Eye-voice span in the processing of high and low-frequency lexical items in sight translation

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Main lobby, ground floor

 

 

Phonetics and phonology

Room: 127

Satellite session - Language endangerment

Room: 120

Thematic session: Language processing in translation

Room: 121

17:00-17:30

 

Zofia Malisz, Aleksandra Cwiek and Petra Wagner: The perception of prominence by Polish native speakers: a crowdsourcing study

Michael Hornsby & Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska: Schools as agents of transmission: Language revitalization in Brittany & Kashubia

Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Oliver Culo and Jean Nitzke: Priming Effects in Post-Editing Machine Translation

17:30-18:00

 

Xiaoliang Luo: On the concept of neutral tone in Mandarin Chinese

Wolfgang U. Dressler: Independent, dependent and interdependent variables in language decay and language death

Olga Witczak: Can machine translation boost productivity in human translation? Post-editing vs. translation from scratch

18:00-18:30

 

Cormac Anderson: Basic-level categories and image schemata in a cognitive model of phonology

Discussion

 

18:30

Wine reception

(at conference venue: Main lobby, ground floor

 

18 Sep 2015 (Friday)

9:00-10:00

Plenary talk. Steven Small : What constitutes the neurobiology of language & why is it relevant for linguistics (and linguistic concepts in particular)?

Room: Aula

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Main lobby, ground floor

 

Thematic session: Multimodal communication

Room: 120

Thematic session: Interaction among spatial, temporal & inferential domains

Room: 126

Syntax

Room: 127

Phonetics and phonology

Room: 121

10:30-11:00

Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska: Figuration across artistic texts – master tropes in language & the visual arts

Keynote lecture. Yukinori Takubo: On the nature of mapping among space, time and conditional domains

Mihaela Zamfirescu: Experimental data for the licensing of PPIs in Romanian

Paula Orzechowska: Feature setting in phonotactics: a study on Polish and English word-initial clusters

11:00-11:30

Sigrid Norris: A methodology that allows to gain new insight into the study of language and interaction: Examining video conferencing among family members

Eva Zehentner: On competition and constructionalisation in Middle English ditransitives

Andreas Baumann & Kamil Kazmierski: A structured-population dynamical-systems approach to the evolution of morphonotactic and lexical consonant clusters

11:30-12:00

Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska: Image-text relations in online science popularization: A critical multimodal analysis of newscientist.com

Setsuko Arita: Temporal and modal expressions in Japanese conditionals

Justyna Olko & John Sullivan: Spanish Impact on the Syntax of Colonial & Modern Nahuatl

Paul John & Walcir Cardoso: On the syllabic status of final consonants: Evidence from an L2 system

12:00-12:30

Rebecca Jackson: The Case of @Emoticoncaselaw – Multimodality, and the Pragmatic Interpretation of Emoji in Pictorial Twitter Narratives

Wojciech Guz: Temporal and spatial readings of pre- and postverbal adverbs in English

 

Adam Olender & Geoff Schwartz: Affrication of /tr/ & /dr/ onsets in English — phonetics or phonology?

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Main lobby, ground floor

14:00-15:00

Poster session

Main lobby, ground floor

Magdalena Zabielska & Magda Zelazowska: Generic creativity in interactive case reports from professional medical journals

Marija Liudvika Drazdauskiene: Understanding linguistic conceptions and products

Andreas Konietzko & Vera Hohaus: On the Concept of Proforms

Mariya Timofeeva: On shaping linguistic concept of introspection

Dawei Jin: Topicality, Intervention and Why-questions

Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman & Daria Arndt. Do they hear smiles and frowns in their L2?

Krzysztof Jassem, Rafal Jaworski & Krzysztof Stronski: IATagger – a Tool for Tagging Indo-Aryan Texts

Mikolaj Nkollo: Quirks in Old Spanish Noun Paradigms: a case-study in inflectional morphology and its interfaces

Peter Juul Nielsen: Second order zero in morphology and the case of the Danish imperative

Nicolas Royer-Artuso: The systemic nature of linguistic theory.

Dorota Jaworska-Pasterska: Boys will be boys, and what of girls? On gender differences in teenage irony comprehension


 

Thematic session: Multimodal communication

Room: 120

Thematic session: Interaction among spatial, temporal & inferential domains

Room: 126

 

Thematic session: Language processing in translation

Room: 121

15:00-15:30

Christian Bendl, Nadja Kerschhofer-Puhalo & Werner Mayer: The multimodal cocktail in primary school classrooms – Verbal & non-verbal  interaction in space

Eri Tanaka: The semantics of measure phrases in the verbal domain

Meet the editor: A workshop on publishing in Brain & Language by Steven Small

Room: 127

Invited speaker: Sandra Halverson: Cognitive grammatical constructs in Translation Studies: enabling interdisciplinarity and multimethods research

15:30-16:00

Marta Boguslawska-Tafelska: A ‘holographic’ sign as a package of multimodal information:  research hypotheses

Szymon Grzelak: Pragmatic functions of scalar discourse markers in Japanese

16:00-16:30

Andrew Wilson, Malgorzata Haladewicz-Grzelak: Cognitive dynamics in car design: a semantic differential analysis

Dwight Holbrook: Where Is Language?

B Whyatt, M Kajzer-Wietrzny and K Stachowiak: Similar or different? Cognitive rhythm in translation and paraphrasing

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

Main lobby, ground floor

 

 

Thematic session: Interaction among spatial, temporal & inferential domains

Room: 126

Phonetics and phonology

Room: 127

Thematic session: Language processing in translation

Room: 121

17:00-17:30

 

Hisako Ikawa: Japanese Anaphora Resolution: Doppelgaenger and Perception

Halszka Bak & Jeanette Altarriba: Keeping an ear out for negativity – L2 emotion recognition bias for emotional 

L Dutka & Agnieszka Szarkowska: Investigating the competences of interlingual respeakers – a preliminary study

17:30-18:00

 

 

Ben Hermans & Francesc Torres Tamarit: Understanding the syllable

Agnieszka Chmiel: Does the direction of interpreting influence the interpreter’s mental lexicon?

18:00-18:30

 

 

 

Pawel Korpal: Psychological stress and simultaneous interpreting: The effect of the speed of delivery

20:00-24:00

Conference party (Bazar Hotel)

 

19 Sep 2015 (Saturday)

10:00-11:00

Plenary talk. John Harris : The phonetic shape of phonological heads

Room: Aula

 

Thematic session: Does phonology need heads?

Room: 126

Psycholinguistics

Room: 120

Sociolinguistics

Room: 127

11:00-11:30

Florian Breit: The Element |L| and Why We Need to Talk About Heads

Anna Cieslicka & Roberto Heredia: Bilingual Nonliteral Language Processing

Anna Zieba: A sociolinguistic perspective on the 500 billion word corpus

11:30-12:00

Grzegorz Michalski: Headedness in Element Theory: facts, myths, use, and abuse

Steven Coats: Non-standard lexical & grammatical resources in Finland Twitter English

12:00-12:30

Cormac Anderson: Losing the head: sequential ordering in vowel systems

Agnieszka Lijewska & Hanka Blaszkowska: Cognate facilitation in the trilingual mental lexicon: the role of learning experience

Marcin Lewandowski: Do EFL learners care about gender representation in grammar textbooks?

12:30-13:00

Geoff Schwartz: Formalizing modulation and the emergence of heads

Choonkyu Lee: Flexible principles & fuzzy boundaries in semantics-pragmatics

 

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Main lobby, ground floor

14:00-15:30

Debate panel on understanding linguistic concepts: Marzena Zygis; Greg Króliczak; Wlodzislaw Duch; Gunter Senft; Jacek Witkos

Room: Aula

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

Main lobby, ground floor

 

 

Phonetics and phonology

Room: 120

Discourse/semantics

Room: 127

16:00-16:30

 

M Jekiel, K Malarski: Role of musical rhythm perception in language rhythm acquisition among Polish advanced learners of English

May Olaug Horverak: Understanding the concept of “genre” and its implications for ESL writing instruction

16:30-17:00

 

 

Ewa Rudnicka & Wojciech Witkowski: Semantic concepts in wordnets

17:00-17:30