Events
Mittwoch
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Donnerstag
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10:45
Acoustics of the collapsing ATR harmony in Igbo
In this talk author aims to describe the state of an asymmetric ATR harmony system of Igbo (/i ɪ u ʊ e o ɔ a/) in reflection of various acoustic...
A disruptive energy: Questions and answers in the direct speech of The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
This paper is a linguistic stylistic analysis of the questions and answers in the direct speech of Muriel Spark's novella "The Driver's Seat"...
V1 in Lopit
A basic syntactic analysis following Bossi & Diercks (2019)
Based on the paper published by Bossi & Diercks (2019) on Kipsigis, I present an analysis of basic syntactic structures in Lopit, an...
11:30
Orientations and Motivations of Arabic Learners in Jordan
What are the reasons and motivations for studying Arabic in Jordan? Is there a difference between those who study colloquial Jordanian Arabic and...
The Psychology of a Language Learner: The Out-Turn of 'Self-Motivation' on a Learner's Linguistic Self-Competence
This poster presentation offers to throw light on the essence of motivation and mainly ‘self-motivation’ as a catalyst to reach linguistic...
Verbal reduplication in Mandarin Chinese
An HPSG account
In Mandarin Chinese, verbs (kan `look’) can be reduplicated (kan-kan `look-look’) to express a delimitative aspectual meaning, namely that the...
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14:45
„Böhmisch erwünscht“?!
Sprachkontaktszenarien in Niederösterreich um 1900 am Beispiel Stockerau und Umgebung
Das ehemalige Kronland Österreich unter der Enns, heute Niederösterreich, wurde historisch meist als einsprachig dargestellt. Ein Grund dafür war,...
Comprehension of gender-neutral forms and the pseudo-generic masculine in German: a visual world eye-tracking study
- "It goes without saying" that everyone is included?
Gender-inclusive language has evolved into a much-debated topic during the past years, discussed interdisciplinarily from theoretical to...
16:15
Vorstellung der German Society for Computational Linguistics (GSCL)
This presentations gives a short introduction on the German Society for Computational Linguistics, which fosters research and networking in the...
International Linguistics Networking
Presentation of the International Association of Language and Linguistics Students (IALS)
Following up on the discussion of international collaboration of language and linguistics students at the last StuTS, this event is aimed at...
19:00
Freitag
09:30
10:45
(Un)marked Gender in German
In this talk I want to show that a standard assumption about markedness can't be applied to German as easy as it might seem: masculine gender is...
Prosody and chunking
This talk will be a work-in-progress report of my MA thesis dealing with how prosody relates to and informs chunking phenomena. Even though...
A study of [unless X] in contemporary English
This study analyzes the construction [unless X] as based on the Construction Grammar framework (cf. FILLMORE et al., 1988; GOLDBERG, 1995, 2006;...
11:30
Fremdes in der Wortbildung
Über französische Wortbildungsmuster im Mittelhochdeutschen
Während das Eindringen fremder Wörter in die deutsche Sprache nicht nur von sogenannten SprachpflegerInnen stets mit Argwohn betrachtet wird,...
Between Past Participle Agreement and Clitic Doubling in Spanish
The role of grammaticalization in diachronic data of object agreement
In this talk, I will compare two different phenomena of agreement with direct objects in diachronic data of Spanish. I focus on Past Participle...
From Pronouns to Copulas in Aramaic
This talk will explore the grammaticalization of first and second person pronouns into copulas in Aramaic, a branch of the Semitic language family....
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13:30
Welsh Workshop
The workshop is aimed at participants who know of Welsh, but have never been in the position to familiarise themselves with that Insular Celtic...
lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks at school - Didactics and curricula
This workshop will provide a space for discussions and ideas about teaching linguistics in schools. We will first hear a 15-minute input in which...
Python for Linguists
Intro to String Manipulation, NLP and Statistics
Python is an easy to learn programming language with a ton of tools for linguistic research, from simple string manipulation and data cleaning, to...
Statistics with R
What to consider before you get started and how to get the most out of those data points...
Welcome to our introduction to the world of statistics for linguists. This workshop is targeted at students of linguistics with no prior knowledge...
15:45
Emotional Prosody Perception
Investigating Negativity Bias and Threat Advantage
Emotional prosody is an important part of speech as it allows us to convey our affective state to listeners. However, the perception of emotional...
Diagnosing verb stranding verb phrase ellipsis in Kiswahili
This talk aims to provide an account for analysing Kiswahili object gaps as verb stranding verb phrase ellipsis (VSVPE). Different tests are used...
16:30
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Samstag
09:30
10:45
Linguistic Complexity as an Indicator of Writing Quality
Exploring correlations between written essay grades and measures of syntactic and lexical complexity.
This work examines correlations between measures of linguistic complexity and writing quality in eighth-grade students' persuasive essays from the...
„… meine Aepfel will ich schon los werden …“
Gibt es ein wollen-Futur im Deutschen?
Der Vortrag kann online unter https://bit.ly/wollen-Futur nachgeschaut werden!
A pragmatic approach to functional restrictions in reportative evidentials
Some languages, in particular Cuzco Quechua (as reported by Faller, 2002), have available quotative readings for these hearsay evidentials, which...
Mixed syntactic categories: The case of Russian numerals
Mixed syntactic categories are those syntactic units that exhibit the behavior of two or more "classical" syntactic categories in different...
11:30
NLMaps
A Natural Language Interface for OpenStreetMap
NLMaps is the Natural Language Interface for OpenStreetMap I built for my Master’s thesis. Users can issue queries like “Where can I find vegan...
Grammatikalisierung in Amazonien
Mit Fokus auf der Entstehung des Futur
Vorgestellt wird eine Studie zur Entstehung von Grammatik in Amazonassprachen. Über 200 Fälle von Grammatikalisierung aus 30 genetisch diversen...
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Einführung in das Baskische und das Baskenland
! Diese Einführung geht 2 Stunden. In dieser Einführung lernt ihr das Baskische, eine isolierte Sprache Nordostspaniens und Südwestfrankreichs,...
Irish Workshop
An introduction to the history, status and basic grammar of the Irish language. We will look at sentence structure, vocabulary and phrases.
Annual General Meeting Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.
Jahreshauptversammlung Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.
- The language of the session will be decided upon at the meeting, depending on who is there - We are excited to invite all those interested to...
19:00
Sonntag
09:30
10:45
Language Learning Motivation of Flemish Secondary-School Students
Master thesis presentation. How motivated are Flemish students to learn German and English in secondary school? How is this motivation influenced...
Polish Morphosyntactic Tagging with a LatticeLSTM Architecture
Morphosyntactic tagging is the task of choosing the correct morphosyntactic analysis for a text. The input to a morphosyntactic tagger are all...
The Indo-European Background of the Slavic Uni-directional and Multi-directional Verbs of Motion
The Slavic languages distinguish two types of verbs of motion — uni-directional and multi-directional. The aim of this research is to find out...
11:30
Das Medienformat Reiseblog: funktional, stilistisch und multimodal
Aufgrund der Globalisierung und Digitalisierung ist die Welt zu einem »globalen Dorf« geworden. Das Verreisen ist in Mode. Zudem erfreut sich das...
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Über die Relevanz der angebotenen deutschen Wörter im niederländischen Fremdsprachenunterricht
Jeder erinnert sich gewiss das Pauken. Wie wichtig Wörter auch sind, Vokabeln lernen ist nicht immer einfach. Manchmal gibt es seltsame Wörter in...
DURel Annotation Tool
Measuring Patterns of Contextual Word Meaning over Time
DURel is an annotation tool for sentence pairs of a word. The annotations are used to form sense clusters of a word and to visualize them over time.
Contact-Induced Language Change in Azerbaijani Relative Clauses
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Anglophone Cultural Domination and Teaching Interculturality in EFL
Examining Teachers’ Practices
Open Data in Computational Historical Linguistics: Upcycling of Chibchan wordlists
This work presents presents an ongoing research project on the phylogeny of the Chibchan language family which adheres to the current...
Gender syncretism
In this talk I want to address a very basic and fundamental question regarding gender: How do gender features look like? In order to approach this...
Kosmetiksprache im Deutschen und Chinesischen
Eine intertextuelle Analyse von deutschen und chinesischen Kosmetikanleitungen auf der Basis „Move-Struktur“
Der Vortrag geht es um eine vergleichende Analyse in deutschen und chinesischen Kosmetikanleitungen, um das Format der Kosmetikanleitungen, sowie...
14:15
Optimizing input complexity for the acquisition of indefinite and definite articles and personal pronouns: An artificial language learning study on gender-like category induction
During language acquisition, German grammatical gender poses difficulty due to a lack of reliable noun cues from which gender can be inferred and...
The Development of Women's Language Use in Disney Films
The representation of women’s language use in the media plays an important role in both perpetuating and challenging stereotypical gender roles in...
Posthumanist Approaches to Language in Digitalized Societies
Uncovering Ideologies of Voice Assistant Users (Siri/Alexa/Google Assistant)
What do the users think about their interactions with their voice assistants? How do they perceive Siri or Alexa – a person, a computer or...
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