PLM2022 Programme

08:45–09:00

Conference opening

09:00–10:00

KEYNOTE TALK: Alexandra Aikhenvald: In with the new: How technological advances affect minority languages of Amazonia and New Guinea [Abstract]
[Aula] Chair: K Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

SPECIAL SESSION: NEW Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. A special session in honour of Prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk. Organized by Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, Magdalena Wrembel and Piotr Gąsiorowski

GENERAL SESSIONS: Syntax
[Room 120] Chair: J Witkoś

THEMATIC SESSION: How language and emotion interact in a bilingual mind. Convened by Guillaume Thierry and Rafał Jończyk [Room 121]

10:00–10:30

Introduction [Aula]

Damian Herda: From space to time and beyond: On the grammaticalization patterns of a/one step away from [Abstract]

Michał Białek: How to debias thinking: insight from the foreign language effect [Abstract]

10:30–11:00

Paulina Zydorowicz et al.: 15 years of morphonotactics: In honour of Professor Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk

Seongha Rhee: Expressivity as a motivation of grammaticalization: A case of source- and goal-markers in Korean [Abstract]

11:00–11:30

Coffee break [Lobby]

SPECIAL SESSION: NEW Approaches… [Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Syntax [Room 120] Chair: P Tajsner

THEMATIC SESSION: Language and emotion… [Room 121]

11:30–12:00

Tobias Scheer: Do all things in nature have a cause, and in case they do, can they be discovered by man?

Sylwiusz Żychliński and Jacek Witkoś: Possessives as reflexives and pronouns: on imperfect complementary distribution [Abstract]

Vanina Velinova and Veselina Kadreva: In search for the Foreign-language effect in moral judgement [Abstract]

12:00–12:30

Dennis Preston and Nancy Niedzielski: What to do with pholk phonology: Some applied and theoretical concerns

Yuji Shuhama: A labeling approach to the ambiguity of absolute construction in English [Abstract]

Agata Stanisławska: Emotional value of English and Polish subtitles for Studio Ghibli movies [Abstract]

12:30–13:00

Marzena Żygis and Susanne Fuchs: At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering

Rafał Jończyk and Sylwia Michalak: Does the foreign language effect 'stand the test of time'? Moral decision making under time constraint [Abstract]

13:00–14:00

Lunch [Lobby and patio]

SPECIAL SESSION: NEW Approaches … [Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Syntax
[Room 120] Chair: P Cegłowski

14:00–14:30

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska and Kateryna Laidler: Are feminine nouns such as architektka ‘female architect,’ chirurżka ‘female surgeon’ and adiunktka ‘femate assistant professor’ difficult to pronounce? An empirical study

Jacek Witkoś and Paulina Łęska-Bayraktar: The POC and weak pronoun clusters in Polish [Abstract]

14:30–15:00

Kamil Kaźmierski and Karolina Baranowska: Salience of Greater Poland Polish phonological variables

Péter Szűcs: Expanding the empirical landscape of propositional proforms: a covert noun-based adjectival type in Hungarian [Abstract]

15:00–15:30

Joanna Śmiecińska and Olga Sakson-Obada: Testing receptive prosody skills in Schizophrenia spectrum and healthy controls…

Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Luca Molinari: A pilot study on the constructions with functional TAKE in Bulgarian [Abstract]

15:30–17:00

Poster session and PhD Poster session (including coffee) – see list of posters at end of programme [Lobby]

17:00-17:30

Ocke-Schwen Bohn: Universal phonetic biases in cross-language speech perception and L2 speech learning

17:30–18:00

Anna Balas and J Weckwerth: Acoustic and perceptual similarity of L2 English and L3 Norwegian vowels to L1 Polish categories

18:00-19:00

Wine reception (poster session continued) [Lobby of the conference venue]

09:00–10:00

PLENARY: Krzysztof Jassem: Can we defeat Google translate [Abstract]
[Aula] Chair: A Chmiel

THEMATIC SESSION: Investigating bi-/multilingual acquisition in different populations and varied settings from interdisciplinary perspectives. Convened by Magdalena Wrembel (AMU), Ewa Haman (UW), Marit Westergaard (UiT), Anne Dahl (NTNU), Roumyana Slabakova (NTNU), Nina Garmann (OsloMet/MultiLing, UiO) [Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Translation
[Room 120] Chair: M Kajzer-Wietrzny

10:00–10:30

Ewa Haman et al.: The PolkaNorski project: challenges of 5 intertwined studies on monolingual and bilingual children from 0 to 6 yrs [Abstract]

Marija Liudvika Drazdauskiene: Language analysis required to improve AI resources [Abstract]

10:30–11:00

Karolina Mieszkowska et al.: StarWords: early language development in monolingual and multilingual settings - study overview & challenges of remote longitudinal data collection [Abstract]

11:00–11:30

Coffee break [Lobby]

THEMATIC SESSION: Investigating bi-/multilingual acquisition…
[Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Language evolution
[Room 121] Chair: P Gąsiorowski

11:30–12:00

Piotr Garbacz: What enhances or inhibits communication between Poles and Norwegians in workplace interaction? [Abstract]

Klaus Hofmann and Nikolaus Ritt: Modelling the evolution of lexical stress patterns in an agent-based simulation [Abstract]

12:00–12:30

Pernille Hansen et al.: PolkaNorski and StarWords - who needs outreach more: researchers or the world? [Abstract]

Dorota Lipowska: Evolution of synonyms and homonyms in signaling game with reinforcement learning [Abstract]

12:30–13:00

Yulia Rodina and Anastasia Makarova: An L3 perspective on possessives: Acquisition of structural ambiguity in Russian [Abstract]

Julia Trzeciakowska, Elizabeth Qing Zhang and Sławomir Wacewicz: The emergence of phonological structure from vocal imitations is not universal? [Abstract]

13:00–14:00

Lunch [Lobby and patio]

THEMATIC SESSION: Investigating bi-/multilingual acquisition…
[Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Phonetics/phonology
[Room 120] Chair: K Kaźmierski

GENERAL SESSIONS: Historical linguistics and sociolinguistics
[Room 121] Chair: R Dylewski

14:00–14:30

Marta Velnic et al.: Genericity in second and third language acquisition [Abstract]

Paula Orzechowska, Bartłomiej Czaplicki and Małgorzata Cavar: Effects of morphology on consonant assimilation: Evidence from ultrasound imaging [Abstract]

Krzysztof Stroński: Diachrony of select linguistic features in New Indo-Aryan [Abstract]

14:30–15:00

Chloe Castle et al.: Studying cross-linguistic influence in L3 by means of artificial language learning experiments [Abstract]

Marzena Żygis, Sarah Wesolek, Nina Hosseini-Kivanani and Manfred Krifka: The prosody of cheering in sport events [Abstract]

Yoolim Kim: The status of written language in heritage language processing [Abstract]

15:00–15:30

Hanna Kędzierska et al.: Cross-linguistic influence in vowel processing in multilinguals: an ERP study [Abstract]

Camiel Hamans: The syllable in word-formation processes [Abstract]

15:30–16:00

Sylwiusz Żychliński, Anna Skałba et al.: The role of TIME and CONDITION in syntactic CLI: a report on a longitudinal study [Abstract]

19:00

PLM PARTY [Collegium Maius, Fredry 10, Central Poznań – see webpage for details]

09:00–10:00

PLENARY: Johann-Mattis List: From Machine Learning to Machine Training: How linguistically informed models can improve machine learning approaches in comparative linguistics [Abstract]
[Aula] Chair: P Orzechowska

THEMATIC SESSION: Multilingual ecologies in a comparative perspective: well-being of speakers, social practices and challenges to linguistic diversity. Organized by Justyna Olko and Katarzyna Wojtylak [Aula]

THEMATIC SESSION: An AI revolution? Not without speech and language sciences. How much further can AI go with technology and sciences working together? Organized by Zofia Malisz [Room 120]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Ln acquisition
[Room 121] Chair: S Żychliński

10:00–10:30

George Saad & Laura Arnold: Adult vernacular production in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Kacper Łodzikowski: Involving linguists in developing AI for language learning [Abstract]

Rachel Klassen, Nadine Kolb, Holger Hopp and Marit Westergaard: Syntactic and lexical gender congruency in native Spanish speakers acquiring L2 German [Abstract]

10:30–11:00

Alexandra Aikhenvald: Multilingual ecologies in real time: migrations and transformations in a hotspot of linguistic diversity

Kacper Łodzikowski: Automated L2 pronunciation tutoring: bridging the gap between research and commercialisation [Abstract]

Brechje van Osch, Merete Anderssen, Natalia Mitrofanova and Ludovica Serratrice: Cross-linguistic influence in Ln processing: Gender agreement in Norwegian possessives [Abstract]

11:00–11:30

Coffee break

THEMATIC SESSION: Multilingual ecologies… [Aula]

THEMATIC SESSION: An AI revolution?... [Room 120]

GENERAL SESSIONS: Ln acquisition
[Room 121] Chair: A Balas

11:30–12:00

Szymon Gruda & Justyna Olko: Multilingual ecologies in Mexico across time: linguistic diversity, language contact and game-changing factors

Pablo Perez Zarazaga and Zofia Malisz: Detecting whispered speech via machine learning with human-in-the-loop [Abstract]

Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova and Marit Westergaard: Subtractive language groups design – a new standard in L3A research [Abstract]

12:00–12:30

Katarzyna Wojtylak: Animal taboo in Northwest Amazonia: Sociocultural practice that have their roots in belief systems

Gustavo Teodoro Doehler Beck et al.: Wavebender: A speech synthesis tool for phonetic experimentation [Abstract]

Natalia Mitrofanova, Evelina Leivada and Marit Westergaard: Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition: Evidence from artificial language learning [Abstract]

12:30–13:00

Justyna Olko: Endangered languages and the well-being of speakers

Anna Skałba: Shared syntax in the multilingual mind: Evidence from language comprehension by Polish-English-French speakers [Abstract]

13:00–14:00

Lunch

THEMATIC SESSION: Multilingual ecologies… [Aula]

GENERAL SESSIONS: AI and linguistics
[Room 120] Chair: K Malarski

GENERAL SESSIONS: Ln acquisition
[Room 121]

14:00–14:30

Justyna Majerska-Sznajder: Local concepts of well-being and cultural revitalization. The case of Wilamowice

William A. Kretzschmar: AI and complex systems for human languages [Abstract]

Anna Kamenetski and Vicky Tzuyin Lai: Event completion, not ongoingness, is language dependent: Crosslinguistic evidence from ERPs in English and Russian [Abstract]

14:30–15:00

Joanna Maryniak: The curious case of language disuse of a minoritised community - a quantitative approach to the use of Wymysiöeryś

Inez Okulska, Michał Szczyszek, Anna Zawadzka and Anna Kołos: From morpho-syntactic features to digital metrics in StyloMetrix. Automatic classification of advertising and non-advertising posts by detecting the dominance of either perlocution or illocution [Abstract]

Marta Velnic: Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in mirrored properties [Abstract]

15:00–15:30

Charles B. Chang & Sunyoung Ahn: Societal context and the development of emotion words in bilingual children

Maja Miličević Petrović, Radoslava Trnavac and Borko Kovačević: Can linguistic insights on semantic similarity help its automatic treatment? [Abstract]

15:30–17:00

GRAND DEBATE: Alexandra Aikhenvald, Krzysztof Jassem, Johann-Mattis List, Zofia Malisz, Maciej Ogrodniczuk
[Aula] Chair: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk