Events
Donnerstag
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The Yeniseian rising/falling tone: Gradient lenition as a window on the evolution of obstruents
The Yeniseian languages are the only known tonal languages in Siberia. In this contribution, we investigate the diachrony of one of the four...
The Divergence of Sino-Korean Vocabulary in North and South Korea:
The Impact of Language Policies After the Division of the Korean Peninsula
Cavineña, or, (almost) Everything is an Enclitic
A look at some features of the indigenous Cavineña language through the lens of its extensive clitic system
Cavineña is an ergative Tacana language spoken in the Bolivian part of the Amazon. Notable for its large number of enclitics and strict rules...
11:50
Be Water, My Friend — But Don't Get Arrested
Conceptual Metaphors and Corpus Evidence of BE WATER in Reddit Discourse between 2019–2020 on the 2019 Hong Kong Protests
In 2019, Hong Kong protesters adopted Bruce Lee’s “Be water, my friend” as a tactical slogan. Lee had drawn on Daoist philosophy of water in...
Shitty signs? An analysis of signs in bathrooms at the University of Cologne
Does writing influence spoken language?
First results from a cross-linguistic study.
It has long been claimed that subordination is more common in writing (Chafe 1982: 35–52; Ong 1982: 36–38; inter alia). Furthermore, in languages...
12:25
Sentiment Arcs in Manga: From the Page to Polarity Analysis
Sentiment analysis of literary texts is not new. In the past, for example, dramatic works by various authors have been examined to see how the...
Multimodal Cues in the Interpretation of Imperative Speech Acts
An Empirical Investigation
Imperatives present a classic form-function mismatch in language since the same imperative utterance can be interpreted as a command, plea,...
Prosody in Language Documentation
A proposal for analysis of Macanese Portuguese and Maquista
I will be presenting the methodological outline for the work I have been doing with LabFon at the university of Lisbon, its theoretical outline and...
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14:00
Kasus I
Phonetics Lab Tour(s)
Please register for this event via this link: https://terminplaner.dfn.de/public/bookings/2a2719f3-56f3-442b-bc3b-04613bacf3d0
Stadtführungen / City Tours
15:30
Kaffeepause
Investigating germanic urban vernaculars under neo-emergentism - a proposal for a comparative analysis
My presentation will be about my idea to do a comparative study of germanic urban vernacular varieties analyse them, in particular I want to relate...
"W chat or L chat?" Measuring Emote Toxicity Across Twitch Communities
Live-streaming platforms such as Twitch are central meeting hubs for young people, and their chats are dominated by emotes, small images posted...
Illusion of Intelligence
Sycophancy, Hallucination, and the Limits of Understanding in LLMs
This paper asks what ChatGPT’s inability to self-correct, express uncertainty, or resist user pressure reveals about the nature of machine...
Sprachliche Vereinfachung und Komplexität
Kausalitätsmarker zwischen DaF und Leichte Sprache
Das vorliegende Dissertationsprojekt untersucht die systematische Reduktion sprachlicher Komplexität an der Schnittstelle von Deutsch als...
Acoustic correlates of word stress in Turkish converbs
Keywords: converbs, word stress, acoustics, Turkish
This study acoustically investigates word stress in Turkish manner -(y)ARAK and temporal -(y)INCA converbs using production experiment data....
Linguistic Knowledge as a Resource for AI, Digital Education and Cross-Cultural Business Communication in the Multilingual World
Liakhova Kateryna
Why Slovene Is Not a Pro-Drop Language (and Why Using This Term Can Be Problematic)
The poster challenges the well-established term ‘pro-drop’ and argues that it reflects an English bias. Based on corpus data from Slovene, it shows...
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Freitag
09:30
09:45
10:55
Stressed Vowels in Batsbi
An Exploratory Acoustic Investigation of Vowel Quality and Duration
This presentation reports on an exploratory acoustic investigation of stressed vowels in Batsbi (Tsova-Tush), an endangered Nakh language spoken in...
Zwischen Zirkuszauber und Zukunftsangst. Eine korpusbasierte Sprachgeschichte der Saltimbanques im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts
Im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhunderts bieten Saltimbanques als wandernde Komödianten der breiten Bevölkerung kleine Spektakel dar. Ihre...
“Auf einmal ich geh Pause“: Morphologische und syntaktische Innovationen in der multiethnischen Jugendsprache Wiens
1. „Wenn ich so Flugzeug bin und ich hab kein WLAN“ 2. „Auf einmal die reden schlecht über mich hinter meinen Rücken“ 3. „Aber deren neueste Lied...
?jetzt mach mal ja doch aber halblang!: Discourse particle stacking in Manadonese, a Malay-based creole
11:30
Metaphorische Verwendungsarten der polnischen Präposition po
Versuch der Übertragung einer für das Russische entworfenen Einteilung auf das Polnische
Die Fragestellung beschäftigt sich mit den metaphorischen Verwendungsarten der polnischen Präposition po ‚über, durch‘. Diese Thematik wurde bisher...
Lippenmuskelaktivität und Betonung
Eine EMG-Untersuchung
In einem Experiment wurde die Lippenmuskelaktivität in Abhängigkeit der Betonung mit Hilfe von Elektromyographie gemessen. Die bei der...
Idiolinguistics in Action: Exploring Affect and Entrenchment at the Individual Level
Linguistic research often seeks patterns that generalize across speakers and communities. But what can we learn when we take the individual speaker...
Conceptual metaphors involving body parts in Taruma (South America)
Talk about conceptual metaphors involving body part vocabulary in Taruma (Guyana, South America)
12:05
(th)-variation in Nigerian English
A corpus-based investigation of interdental fricative realisation in Educated Nigerian English
This talk examines variation in the realisation of interdental fricatives in Educated Nigerian English using the phonetically annotated Nigerian...
"Alles für Stadt und Verein"
Exploring the connection between a city and its football club on transgressive stickers
Stickers of football clubs can be seen everywhere in the city. But what do they tell us about the connection between the club, the city and its...
Lesen mit einer Hörbehinderung
Zum Einfluss des Hörvermögens auf die Lesekompetenz
Es ist offensichtlich, dass eine Hörbehinderung zunächst die auditive Sprachverarbeitung betrifft. Beim Lesen werden die Informationen jedoch über...
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14:00
Quarto for academic writing
Quarto is a free, open-source publishing system for literate programming, i.e. the combination of text and code in a single document. With Quarto,...
Let's Talk AI
How Are Linguists Using AI Tools?
How are linguists currently using AI tools in their research, teaching, and everyday academic work? What opportunities do these tools offer, and...
'You want war with Athena, you gonna get war': Verbal Threatening in English
Verbal threats may appear in a variety of contexts, such as ransom notes or courtroom proceedings, but also in non-forensic contexts such as...
Conlang Lab
A Hands-on Workshop in Building a Language Together
In this interactive workshop, we will collaboratively create a constructed language (conlang) from scratch. Starting with a brief introduction to...
(The) Writings on the Wall - Linguistic Landscapes as a Research Method
This workshop will serve as a basic introduction to the field of Linguistic Landscapes, the study of public signage. After setting the scope of the...
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15:45
"If they cease to function, they cease to live": Exploring pain communication among the Bolivian Quechua people
Reproduction of Gender Sensitive Language effects on Job listing views
Open science as a movement has created more opportunities for high-quality linguistic research. Through increased access and transparent scientific...
The od(d) behaviour of Polish comparatives
In Polish, there are multiple constructions available for expressing the comparative. Two of them – namely those introduced by particles ‘niż’ and...
Rhyme AND Reason: The Linguistics of Hip-Hop
A linguistic analysis of selected hip-hop works, focusing on rhyme, rhythm, and lyricism
We'll focus on three central aspects of hip-hop music: rhyme, rhythm, and lyricism. First, we'll conduct a schematic analysis of rhyme schemes...
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Lexikalische Lücke bei der Übersetzung
Bekämpfung lexikalischen Lücken bei der Übersetzung eines fachhistorischen Aufsatzes aus dem deutschen ins tschechischen
Der Beitrag zeigt anhand konkreter Beispiele aus einem fachhistorischen Text, dass sich nicht alle sprachlichen und terminologischen Besonderheiten...
„Absolutes Unding, bei uns wird nicht gedopt“ – Wahrheitsverfälschung und -verhüllung von Doping im Radsport
Eine exemplarische, linguistisch-pragmatische Analyse
Egal ob Jan Ullrich oder Lance Armstong – zu Zeiten dieser Fahrer war der professionelle Radsport nachweislich dopingverseucht und nahezu jeder...
Informationsstrukturelle Analyse der Satzanfänge eines mittelkymrischen Erzählzusammenhangs
Mein Vortrag widmet sich der syntaktischen und funktionalen Analyse eines Kapitels aus Brut y Brenhinedd, der walisischen Übersetzung der Historia...
Austronesian Voice Typology and the Historical Development of the Indonesian Type: Insights from Borneo and Beyond
Austronesian symmetrical voice languages have typically been classified into two groups, namely Philippine- and Indonesian-type languages, a...
16:50
Heritage speakers of Latvian in Germany: language biographies and language skills
Around 27,000 Latvian citizens are registered as living in Germany, and some of their children grow up with Latvian at home and German almost...
„[...] der war so dümming“
Das mecklenburg-vorpommersche ing-Diminutiv und sein Gebrauch
Das ing-Diminutiv ist singulär im deutschen Sprachraum: Es durchbricht die binäre Unterteilung deutscher Diminutivsuffixe in l- und k-/ch-Suffixe...
Substrate Interference from Dravidian in Marathi
In recent decades, the idea that the Indo-Aryan language family has been influenced through intimate contact with Dravidian languages has been...
Between Arabic and German: linguistic contact and identity in German Gangsta Rap
My thesis investigates the influence of diaspora languages on contemporary German, with particular attention to Arabic, in the context of the...
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Samstag
08:30
Die Politisierung des Privaten: Instrumentalisierte Trauer in Todesanzeigen und Kondolenztexten zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Wie (totalitäre) Herrschaftssysteme bis in Privates, Emotionales und Alltägliches eindringen, wird in vielen Disziplinen erforscht – auf...
Die kognitiven Prozesse und die Wahrnehmung hinter einer polysynthetischen Sprache anhand des Beispiels Lakota
This poster tackles the incremental processing of a polysynthetic language in Lakota. We will rely on prior research on polysynthetic (although not...
Present Perfect in L2 English: The Role of L1 Background and Proficiency Level in Temporal Adverbial Use
This study investigates how L1 background and proficiency affect temporal adverbial use in L2 English present perfect constructions, using written...
Committing to Slurs
And How Propositionality Can Make Us Implicit
Committing to Slurs Slurs remain a prominent topic in common ground pragmatics, and perhaps not due to their unique workings, but due to their very...
Figuring out doxastic attitude verbs in Romanian: Aspect and entailment
Using a poster as visual support, I will be presenting part of the research I completed for my BA thesis about factive change-of-state doxastic...
The Impact of Multilingualism and its Implications for Language Use and Well-Being among First-Generation Russian-Speaking Immigrant Students in Germany
My poster to shares insights from my research on the experiences of first-generation Russian-speaking immigrant students in Germany. Germany has...
Cartographic Erasure: Critical Toponymy, Africanisms, and Female Names in Brazilian Quilombola Territories
This presentation examines toponymic trends in Brazilian Quilombola communities, focusing on female place names (anthropotoponyms) and the presence...
09:30
Kasus IIIa
Representing Schizophrenia in British News Media: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
This study investigates how schizophrenia is represented in the British press from 2020-2024, examining the left politically leaning newspaper The...
Non-local interpretations of expressive adjectives
Expressives such as "damn" convey a negative speaker attitude, but the target of that attitude is often not the expression’s syntactic sister. In...
Code-Mixing in den Linguistic Landscapes von Hongkong
Die Arbeit untersucht empirisch das Phänomen des kontaktinduzierten Code-Mixings auf Schildern der Straßen Hongkongs. Dabei ist Code-Mixing...
Grammaticalization Paths
On the Applicability of the Progressive-Imperfective Shift Proposal
This work is the result of a collaborative term paper project for a seminar on aspect and language change; we want to present it here in order to...
10:05
Noch Angst oder schon Hoffnung? Affektmobilisierung und Weaponisation of Emotions im politischen Diskurs über FRIEDEN und KRIEG
In politischer Kommunikation repräsentiert Sprache nicht primär die Realität. Vielmehr sind die persuasive Erzeugung von Zustimmungsbereitschaften...
Bildung und Verwendung von "i-Wörtern" (Omi, Profi, Mausi, usw.)
Formation and Meaning of "i-Words" like bestie, yuppie, doggie, etc.
Der Vortrag soll eine Beschreibung des Phänomens einer (informellen) Kurzwortbildung mit -i im Deutschen und Englischen darstellen, die womöglich...
The Effect of Task Types on Fluency
A study on young, intermediate learners of English
Geschlechtergerechte Sprache in der Politik Frankreichs - Korrelationsanalysen mithilfe von Instagram
Im Fokus dieser Masterarbeit steht eine produktionsorientierte Analyse von Instagrambeiträgen französischer Politiker:innen, die Aufschluss darüber...
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11:45
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Why pain may be better than you think: Affective ratings for pain words in Bolivian Quechua
"Have you had the surgery?"
A study on politeness in conversation with trans people
Politeness appears to decline in conversation with minorities. This observation motivated the study for my BA thesis, which more specifically looks...
If the child knows 'dog', when is 'frog' learnt? – The effect of form-meaning overlapping on word acquisition
The development of the early vocabulary is a central question when investigating language acquisition. As pointed out by previous research,...
Because is Why!
On the use of lama as a causal conjunction in Modern Hebrew
Modern Hebrew has many causal conjunctions, which differ both in their syntactic distribution and in the types of causality they express. Here, the...
13:45
Can we trust linguistics research?
How to test the reproducibility and robustness of published studies in the language sciences
Meet linguistics PhDs: Q&A session
14:00
Kasus IIIb
ELAN workshop
Workshop about the basics of using ELAN for annotating media files
How to assess multilingual(s)?
Sprachdiagnostische Herausforderungen im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit
Auch wenn Einsprachigkeit oftmals noch als Norm angesehen wird, ist Mehrsprachigkeit – insbesondere in unserer heutigen Gesellschaft – in vielen...
Breslau or Wroclaw, /londn/ or /london/, Beijing or Peking - what languages do with foreign place names, transnationally
Have you ever learned a language in which your home city suddenly has a different name or pronunciation, or in which you had to add inflectional...
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