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StuTS 702021-11-172021-11-20400:15Europe/Berlinhttps://talks.stuts.de2021-11-17T15:00:00+01:0015:0003:00🧉stuts70-706-registrationhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/706falseRegistrationRegistration starts at 3 PM at the foyer of A&O Hostel (Sonnwendgasse 11, 1100 Vienna)2021-11-17T15:00:00+01:0015:0003:00👾stuts70-707-onboardinghttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/707falseOnboardingIf you have any questions about the way our online platform works, if want to test uploading files or if you simply want to try it out, feel free to meet us here. 2021-11-17T18:00:00+01:0018:0001:00👾stuts70-671-analyzing_crisis_communication_during_the_covid-19_pandemichttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/671falseAnalyzing Crisis Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic.A Case StudylectureenThis lecture presents results from a qualitative discourse-historical analysis of governmental crisis communication in Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, and New Zealand during the global lockdown from March 2020 to May 2020 and the transition phase to the relaxation of some restrictions over the summer of 2020. By analysing a sample of important speeches and press conferences by government leaders (all performing as the “face of crisis management”), it is possible to deconstruct a range of strategies coping with the COVID-19 pandemic where everybody is in danger of falling ill, regardless of their status, position, education, and so forth. I focus on four frames that have been employed to mitigate the “dread of death” (Bauman 2006): a “religious frame”, a “dialogic frame”, a frame emphasizing “trust”, and a frame of “leading a war”. These interpretation frameworks are all embedded in “renationalizing” tendencies, specifically visible in the EU member states where even the Schengen area was suddenly abolished (in order to “keep the virus out”) and borders were closed. Thus, everybody was and continues to be confronted with national biopolitics and body politics (Wodak 2021) which have been legitimised in distinct ways. Thus, it seems as though everybody will have (to learn) to live with ever more uncertainty and fear for the near future.Ruth WodakPowerPoint Ruth Wodak2021-11-18T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00🧉stuts70-696-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/696falseLunch Break2021-11-18T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30🧉stuts70-628-measure_phrases_as_modifiers_of_negative_adjectiveshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/628falseMeasure phrases as modifiers of negative adjectivesRevising various approaches on the (in)compatibility of, e.g., 5 years young in English and GermanlectureenMultiple semantic models identify measure phrase constructions containing negative adjectives as ungrammatical. But corpus data on English and German provide evidence of the frequency of such collocations, necessitating more detailed discussion. Gradable adjectives divide into pairs of positive and negative antonyms (e.g., old – young), referring to the same scale but differing in terms of their polarity. According to seminal work (Kennedy, 2001; Schwarzschild, 2005; Winter, 2005) on the semantic analysis of measure phrase constructions such as 5 years old, measure phrases are incompatible with negative adjectives and do not combine (e.g., 5 years young) syntactically well-formed. However, Doetjes (2012) and Hofstetter (2013) indicate that measure phrases can modify negative adjectives in evaluative contexts, contradicting the incompatibility assumption. This talk aims at verifying the observations of Doetjes and Hofstetter based on corpus data on English and German in a first step. Fully aware of this corpus analysis, this talk evaluates the existing approaches to measure phrase constructions in a second step. Lastly, it tends to contribute to the premises of a revised semantic model.
References:
Doetjes, J. (2012). On the (in)compatibility of non neutral adjectives and measure phrases. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 16(2), 197-210.
Hofstetter, S. (2013). Selected issues in the theory of comparison: Phrasal comparison in Turkish and a cross-linguistic perspective of intensifiers, negative island effects and the distribution of measure phrases [Doctoral dissertation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen].
Kennedy, C. (2001). Polar opposition and the ontology of ‘degrees’. Linguistics and Philosophy, 24, 33-70.
Schwarzschild, R. (2005). Measure phrases as modifiers of adjectives. Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 34, 207-228.
Winter, Y. (2005). Cross-categorial restrictions on measure phrase modification. Linguistics and Philosophy, 28, 233-267.Henrik DischerSlides2021-11-18T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🧉stuts70-625-on_cognate_objects_in_norwegian_an_empirical_approachhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/625falseOn Cognate Objects in Norwegian: An Empirical ApproachenIn this talk, I provide a corpus-based analysis of cognate objects in Norwegian. Cognate objects (COs) are noun phrases whose head noun is semantically and often morphologically related (i.e., ‘cognate’) to the verb (Faarlund et al. 1997:665), as illustrated in (1).
(1) Hun sov [en urolig søvn].
she slept a restless sleep
‘She slept a restless sleep.’
I address the following research questions, all of which form an important part of the previous research on COs (e.g., see Kuno & Takami 2004): In Norwegian, [i] which verbs can appear in cognate object constructions, [ii] are COs arguments or adjuncts, and [iii] do COs require modification? By collecting authentic language data from NoWaC, Norwegian Web as Corpus (Guevara 2010), I get to observe how COs and modifiers are used and to what extent (i.e., frequencies).
I claim that cognate objects in Norwegian [a] largely comply with the Unergative Restriction on the Cognate Object Construction, the main exception being "dø en død" ‘die a death’; [b] behave like direct objects, with which they share more syntactic properties compared to adverbials; and [c] that the modification requirement depends upon the verbs' valency.Solveig Sofie Øvrewall BerntzenAbstract.docxPresentation.pptxfile2021-11-18T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30🧉stuts70-622-a_puzzle_about_the_extension_of_slurshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/622falseA Puzzle about the Extension of SlursDefending a Conventional Implicature ApproachlectureenThis talk is a report of my BA thesis about the meaning dimensions of slurs.
I dealt with novel data that suggest that possible targets of a slur are not always equivalent to the set of the derogated group, thereby contrasting with current theories.I will discuss three examples where the extension of a slur is:
(i) the set of the derogated group
(ii) people that have at least one stereotypical property of the derogated group (according to the speaker)
(iii) a combination of both
The purpose of this talk is to investigate the mechanisms involved in the predication of a slur and to introduce a theory that allows for their varying extensions.
Additionally, the theory should also explain how slurs behave under negation, as a common problem in the study of slurs is to account for their hyper-projection; there is rarely a context where a slur is not offensive.
To achieve this, I compare existing theories by analysing where they place the derogative content (in the literal content or via a non-truth-conditional mechanism) and if they can account for the projection behaviour (why and how do slurs remain derogative under negation?).
Referring to Potts (2015) for the analysis of implicatures and Simons et al. (2010) for insight on projection, I found that an account that combines a modified conventional implicature approach (Camp 2018) with a prototype-based characterisation (Croom 2015, Foster 2020) of the implicated content represents slurs the most accurately.
Literature:
Camp, Elisabeth. 2018. A dual act analysis of slurs. 𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴: 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘴 1.
Cepollaro, Bianca. 2015. In defence of a presuppositional account of slurs. 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 52. 36-45.
Croom, Adam M. 2015. The semantics of slurs: a refutation of coreferentialism. 𝘈𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 (2). 30-38.
Foster, Jennifer. 2020. Beyond "neutral counterparts": towards an overlap theory of derogatory terms.
Hom, Christopher. 2012. A puzzle about pejoratives. 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 159(3). 383-405.
Neufeld, Eleonore. 2019. An essentialist theory of the meaning of slurs. 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴' 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵 19 (35).
Nunberg, Geoffrey. 2018. The social life of slurs. 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴. 237-293.
Potts, Christopher. 2015. Presupposition and implicature. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 2. 168-202.
Simons, Mandy, Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver & Craige Roberts. 2010. What projects and why. In 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺, vol. 20, 309-327.Carlotta SchneebergerA Puzzle about the Extension of Slurs2021-11-18T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:30🧉stuts70-621-the_result_of_incoordination_the_cases_of_sentence-initial_but_in_english_and_sentence-final_-nde_in_koreanhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/621falseThe result of incoordination? The cases of sentence-initial 'but' in English and sentence-final '-nde' in KoreanlectureenThis talk is based on the contents of my BA thesis and concerned with Discourse Grammar, cooptation (following Heine et al. 2013, 2021) and phenomena of clause-loss. I analysed spoken English and Korean for cases of incoordination, which is a process by which a coordinated sentence loses at least one of its clauses and creates a new, more discourse-relevant meaning. The specific forms that were analysed are English sentence-initial 'but' and Korean sentence-final '-nde,' which both exhibit a strong potential for incoordination that is visible in comparison with their sentence-medial origins. The analysis is qualitative, based on a small number of dialogues, and goes along a list of criteria, among which are clause retrievability (Is there a candidate for the lost clause from the surrounding discourse?), semantic-pragmatic scope (Does the meaning of the connective unit expand itself to the discourse situation at hand?), and the relatedness to sentence-medial connective meaning (Is there merely contrast or does the expression evolve to convey, for instance, surprise?). I found that the two forms intersect in their functions but due to their semantic and typological differences do not overlap entirely. Further, the meaning relations along which this this type of incoordination moves, especially expressions of mirativity, also seem to apply to related phenomena like insubordination (i.e. loss of main clauses), headless to-infinitives, and some nominalizations.
Selected references:
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long. 2021. The Rise of Discourse Markers. Cambridge University Press.
Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long. 2013. An Outline of Discourse Grammar. In Reflections on Functionalism in Linguistics, 155–206. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.Mogens MastracchioThe_result_of_incoordination_(Mastracchio).pdf2021-11-18T16:00:00+01:0016:0001:00🧉stuts70-693-comparative_cognitionhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/693falseComparative CognitionworkshopenJeroen van der AaRaffaela LeschMarisa Höschele2021-11-18T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00🥝stuts70-697-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/697falseLunch Break2021-11-18T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30🥝stuts70-646-orthographie_in_erst-_und_fremdsprachehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/646falseOrthographie in Erst- und FremdspracheFehler und Revisionen in Texten von DaF-Studierenden aus den USAlecturedeIn diesem Vortrag werde ich das Thema meiner Masterarbeit präsentieren. Darin untersuche ich Schreibprodukt- und Schreibprozessdaten Studierender aus den USA, die mit Englisch literarisiert sind und Deutsch als Fremdsprache studieren. Bei den Sprachproduktdaten handelt es sich um ein Korpus aus jeweils vier Texten jeder:s Studierenden, ein einfacher und ein akademischer Text in englischer Sprache sowie ein einfacher und ein akademischer Text in deutscher Sprache. Die Sprachprozessdaten sind mithilfe von Video Screen Capture und Keystroke-Logging aufgezeichnete Aufnahmen der Studierenden, die eine erste Version ihrer Texte überarbeiten.
Im Fokus meiner Untersuchung liegen Orthographiefehler und orthographiebasierte Revisionen in den jeweiligen Texten. Mithilfe quantitativer und qualitativer Methoden verfolge ich das Ziel herauszufinden, ob und wie sich Art und Anzahl der Orthographiefehler und Revisionen möglicherweise je nach Sprache und Textgenre voneinander unterscheiden.Lisa Barz2021-11-18T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🥝stuts70-638-inharente_sprachehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/638falseInhärente SpracheInhärente Sprache als antirassistische, inklusive und integrative StrategielecturedeVor allem als Konsequenz grenzüberschreitender Prozesse wie Migration und Globalisierung wachsen immer mehr Menschen in einem mehrsprachigen Umfeld auf. Das Aneignen dieser Sprachen stellt einen bedeutenden Teil von (Dis-)Integrationsprozessen dar. Oftmals werden diese Sprachen von klein auf erlernt und haben die Qualität einer Mutter- oder Erstsprache, aufgrund der Art und Weise, wie sie erworben wurden, entsprechen sie jedoch keiner dieser Definitionen, was ein Problem darstellt, wenn man versucht, die Rolle zu definieren, die diese Sprachen bei der Bildung der Identität eines Individuums spielen oder wie sie vom Individuum und den Menschen in seinem sozialen Umfeld wahrgenommen werden. Der Vortrag sich bezieht sich auf das Konzept der „inhärenten Sprache“: Es umfasst die oder all jene Sprachen, die einem Individuum als Teil seines Selbst kontextabhängig und je nach GesprächspartnerIn reflexartig als erstes ins Bewusstsein kommt bzw. kommen.
Im Rahmen des Vortrages werden die Resultate einer Studie präsentiert, die das Konzept der inhärenten Sprache mit solchen wie Muttersprache, Erst-, Zweit- und Fremdsprache vergleicht. Diese theoretische Auseinandersetzung wird durch empirische Beispiele aus Interviews mit mehrsprachigen Personen illustriert. Da es sich um eine Studie mit biografischem Schwerpunkt handelt, die narrative und interpretative Prozesse erfordert, wurde das biografische Interview als Erhebungsmethode gewählt, konzentriert auf biografisch relevante Episoden in Bezug auf das sprachliche Repertoire der Befragten, wie sie jede ihrer Sprachen in Bezug auf den Zeitpunkt und die Art des Erwerbs sowie deren pragmatische Funktion wahrnehmen./system/events/logos/000/000/638/large/Inherent_Language_Logo_4c_ClaimNORMAL.jpg?1635284229Dr. Carola KoblitzInhärente Sprache2021-11-18T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30🥝stuts70-660-tackling_the_replication_crisis_student_theses_should_be_collaborative_replication_studieshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/660falseTackling the replication crisis: Student theses should be collaborative replication studiesEchoing Quintana (2021)A brief input about the replication crisis in linguistics and an attempt to overcome it with student-led replication studies.We are in state of crisis. Currently, society is facing crises in three domains of the general public, (i) the environment and climate, (ii) health, and (iii) finance. In science, we are up against the replication crisis (Ioannidis, 2005; Open ScienceCollaboration, 2015). Most studies in linguistics and psychology cannot be replicated for a multitude of reasons (see Sönning & Werner, 2021 for an overview). This questions a cornerstone of science: reproducibility. Without replication, we can't know if general claims that are based on studies are any longer true.
Besides the fact that replications are often not possible due to a lack of open data, code or underpowered studies, there is a related issue. Replications are not done simply because they are seen to lack novelty which disqualifies them for publication. This must change.
Inspired by Quintana (2021), we propose that one way to foster fruitful and large-scale replication is by having students conduct cumulative replication studies for their bachelor's and master's theses. This would pose a new win-win situation for our field, linguistics, as well as students who are often overstrung by their final theses for reasons such as lack of financial resources, small sample sizes, and the `need' for unrealistically unique research proposals.
We want to echo Quintana (2021)'s idea in the forum of young linguists at StuTS because we consider it to be the most appropriate venue for at least three reasons. First, young researchers are the promising generation that can bring change in how our discipline works and moves forward because they are not constrained by the existing structures as much as senior researchers (Sönning and Werner, 2021). Second, students are the ones who will have to write their final theses with replications so it's crucial to hear them out and involve them in building the new system. Third, StuTS gathers a network of students from several dozen institutions which could act as multipliers for other institutions.
In line with these three reasons, our talk follows a threefold structure. First, we outline the current replication crisis and show ways to overcome the crisis. Second, we focus on replications in student theses and discuss existing models as well as new ideas for achieving student-led replication studies. Third, we open the stage for StuTS participants and start a network of committed young researchers who are willing to tackle the replication crisis through collaboration.
In sum, our goal is to achieve better and more reliable scientific advances and generalizations, by thinking about solutions to the urging replication crisis. By means of educating fellow young researchers, we aim to form a collaborative network that tackles issues that are related to the replication crisis.Onur Özsoy
Background reading: Quintana (2021). Replication studies for undergraduate theses to improve science and education. Nature
Sign up to the Student Theses Replication Network Linguistics (STReNeL)
AbstractSlides2021-11-18T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:30🥝stuts70-653-how_can_we_measure_sonorityhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/653falseHow can we measure sonority?Potential acoustic correlates of sonoritylectureenSonority is a concept used to describe the structure of syllables and its rules. In English, for example, /bluː/ is a syllable, whereas /lbuː/ is not. This is because of the sonority (‘sound fulness’) of the phonemes: /l/ has a higher sonority than /b/ – and within a syllable’s onset, the segments’ sonority is not allowed to decrease.
However, there is still a problem about sonority: Most sonority hierarchies were established by cross-linguistic observations of syllable structure – and then, in turn, they are used to describe syllable structure. To break this circular reasoning, an independent measurement is needed. In this talk, I am focusing on possible acoustic correlates of sonority. I will present a small study where I analysed acoustic recordings for intensity and periodic energy, and compared the measurements with different sonority hierarchies. The results give a promising outlook on future research.Tobias Schröer
Investigating potential acoustic correlates of sonority: Intensity vs. periodic energy (BA thesis)
2021-11-18T16:00:00+01:0016:0001:00🥝stuts70-694-burgenlandkroatisch_workshophttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/694falseBurgenlandkroatisch WorkshopworkshopdeTheresa Grandits2021-11-18T09:00:00+01:0009:0001:00👾stuts70-677-vienna_meets_the_balkanshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/677falseVienna meets the BalkansCommunicative practices and commodification of culture in the city’s migrant economylectureenVienna as a city is strongly shaped inter alia, by migrants from Slavic- speaking countries, including primarily migrants from the Balkans along with the former Soviet Union citizens. Its urban space is characterized by various hot spots, mainly located in the Balkan community. Accumulations of small businesses such as cafes, restaurants, nightclubs, etc., run by Slavs migrants are typical examples of these hot spots. Cases in point can be found in the following streets in Vienna, namely in the Märzstraße, the Ottakringer Straße, and the Mariahilfer Straße, as well as widely spread across the 15th and 16th district. Similarly, small businesses, for example mostly grocery shops and services such as locksmith or shoemaker and fewer restaurants, managed by the former Soviet Union residents are currently scattered all over Vienna, ranging from the first to the 20th district, the majority of them being in the 3rd district.
These predominantly small-scale businesses represent typical forms of ethnic entrepreneurship because they started and are predominantly run by first generation migrants due to a specific set of reasons and motives: problematic access to the first labour market, unapproval of the educational achievement of the migrants gained in their countries of origin, insufficient knowledge of the host country’s language, etc. Self-employment, for instance starting a business is a chance for social advancement, including social and financial well-being. In this context, the language of the country of origin may often be turned from a barrier into a chance, which becomes commodified in business context.
These small businesses create local socio-economic spaces at several hot spots in Vienna which are distinct in cultural and linguistic terms, and which produce specific multicultural social urban spaces of their own, i.e. points at which members of the Austrian majority society and migrants meet.
The present project is to investigate local multicultural, though ethnically coined or sometimes even locally branded economic spaces in Vienna, created by the Slavs migrants, including representatives of the Balkans and the former Soviet Union. This research project adopts an ethnographic perspective as the focus is on communicative practices (e.g. script-based and oral) which shape and essentially characterize these local economic spaces and the ways in which ethnic businesses operate. This perspective, however, will further be complemented by narrative interviews with the involved stakeholders (ethnic entrepreneurs, customers, etc.) which provides insights into how they position themselves and understand the self-positioning of other interactants in a communicative process.
There are basically two research strands relying on a different set of methods and slightly differing in scope, which are relevant for this project. The first one deals with the construction of urban space based on the use of several languages. The linguistic landscaping and soundscaping analyses of several hot spots of the Balkan community in Vienna allows to reveal the specific linguistic and multilingual profile of these. Another strand focuses on face-to-face and/or virtual communication and service encounters in ethnic shops, cafes or restaurants in order to learn more about the role of various languages in and for these businesses. This includes communicative strategies by which interlocutors either implicitly or explicitly negotiate language choices and also possibly identity issues.
Both strands enable us to learn more about the use and functions of diverse languages (e.g. their native language(s) or the language(s) of their country of origin, German and possibly further languages) in these local economic spaces and thus also to assess whether and how ethnic entrepreneurs take advantage of their cultural and linguistic heritage in doing business in Vienna.
Nadine ThielemannLejla AtaganAbstract-SlaVienna.pdfPresentation Nadine Thielemann & Lejla Atagan2021-11-18T10:00:00+01:0010:0000:30👾stuts70-686-breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/686falseBreak 2021-11-18T10:30:00+01:0010:3001:00👾stuts70-673-evolving_human_languagehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/673falseEvolving Human Language.Cognition Plus CommunicationlectureenHuman language rests upon an evolved biological foundation, some components of which are unique to our species. Although language, as a whole, is unique to humans, many components of language are nonetheless shared with other animals. The precise nature of the mechanisms underlying language remains debated, as does the degree to which they are or are not shared with other animals.I outline a thoroughly comparative approach to this current research problem. I first illustrate the value of a comparative approach with case studies on speech and syntax. In speech, recent data indicate that a long-standing focus on vocal anatomy, and particularly the descended human larynx, has deflected attention away from more fundamental changes in the neural pathways involved in speech control. Regarding syntax, recent data examining pattern perception in both auditory and visual domains suggest that some aspects of linguistic syntax rest on a cognitive basis that also applies to other human cognitive domains including music and visual pattern perception. Specifically, the strong human propensity to attribute complex, hierarchically-embedded structures to visual or auditory inputs appears to be biologically unusual or perhaps unique to our species. I then turn to the “cognition vs. communication” debate, arguing that many of the key neural and computational precursors of human language are more likely to be found in cognitive operations (e.g. social cognition or technology) than in the communication systems of our pre-linguistic ancestors.
References:
Fitch, W. Tecumseh (2010). The Evolution of Language (Cambridge University Press)
Fitch (2020) Animal cognition and the evolution of human language: why we cannot focus solely on communication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375:1-9.Tecumseh FitchPresentation Fitch2021-11-18T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00👾stuts70-698-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/698falseLunch Break2021-11-18T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30👾stuts70-657-family_language_policy_in_multicultural_environment_circassian_families_resident_in_moscowhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/657falseFamily language policy in multicultural environment. Circassian families resident in Moscow.lightning_talkenA 15 - 20 minutes description of the research and its results.Then 10-15 minutes discussion. One of the best ways of language acquisition is the natural one (from parent to child). This is particularly important for minority languages in context of globalization.
How do modern parents implement language policy in multicultural environment? What factors affect their decisions? How do they see future of their ethnic language?
All this questions (and of course any other questions concerning family language policy in multicultural environment) can be and will be discussed during the eventMadina Kade2021-11-18T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:15👾stuts70-654-ethnolinguistic_shift_of_the_frontier_territory_of_sakhalin_islandhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/654falseEthnolinguistic shift of the frontier territory of Sakhalin IslandThe story of the Sakhalin Koreans lectureenMy lecture considers the history and ethnolinguistic shift of the Sakhalin Koreans.My research is dedicated to the language shift on the Sakhalin Island. It considers the language situation of the Korean diaspora that has been living on the island since the beginning of the twentieth century. Korean people were sent to Sakhalin for forced labour during Japanese rule called “Karafuto”. After The Second World War, Korea was divided into South and North one and Sakhalin came under the jurisdiction of the USSR. North Korea was under the protection of the USSR, while South Korea was under the protection of the USA. In this regard, Sakhalin Koreans could not repatriate to their homeland in South Korea and continued to live on the Island. As a result of the assimilation and integration of Koreans into the Soviet and post-Soviet society, linguistic shift took place that affected not only language but also culture and identity. ArinaAndrievskaya2021-11-18T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30👾stuts70-652-russian_mixed_north_language_and_cultural_contacts_on_the_kola_peninsulahttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/652falseRussian Mixed North: Language and cultural contacts on the Kola PeninsulalectureenThe Murmansk Region, located on the territory of the Kola Peninsula, is a relatively young region of the Russian Federation. The rapid growth of industry commenced there only in the first half of the XX century, which provoked population increment from different parts of the USSR. However, long before that, the territory was inhabited by indigenous peoples. Though the number of those peoples decreased significantly, the region still can be described as ethnically diverse. Moreover, the Murmansk region borders Norway and Finland. Therefore, the area is full of linguistic and socio-cultural contacts. In this study, we pursued the goal to characterize the nature of these contacts and their results. We conducted 64 interviews in the Murmansk region and captured evidence of the language landscape of the region. Our aim with the research was to gather data related to the following points: the origin of the residents, their ethnic and regional identity, the languages in use in the region, the foreign languages considered prestigious and important to learn, the border contact with the residents of Norway and Finland. Narrative analysis was conducted based on the gathered interview. The found trends will be presented in the talk.Helena MironovaAnastasia Reshetnikova2021-11-18T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:30👾stuts70-669-durel_annotation_tool_measuring_patterns_of_contextual_word_meaning_over_timehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/669falseDURel Annotation Tool Measuring Patterns of Contextual Word Meaning over TimelectureenDURel 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. In this way, lexical properties such as polysemy, vagueness or change of meaning of a word can be examined. The functionality of the tool is described in [this blog article](https://blog.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de/2021/08/01/Schlechtweg-DURel-Annotation-Tool.html).
We present an online annotation interface for sentence pairs of a word. Annotators are asked to judge the degree of semantic relatedness of pairs of word uses, such as the two uses of arm in (1) and (2) on a scale of 1 (unrelated) to 4 (identical).
(1) and taking a knife from her pocket, she opened a vein in her little arm, and dipping a feather in the blood, wrote something on a piece of white cloth, which was spread before her.
(2) It stood behind a high brick wall, its back windows overlooking an arm of the sea which, at low tide, was a black and stinking mud-flat
The annotated data of a word is then represented in a Word Usage Graph (WUG), where nodes represent word uses and weights on edges represent the (median) semantic relatedness judgment of a pair of uses as e.g. (1) and (2). The final WUGs are clustered with a variation of correlation clustering and split into subgraphs representing nodes and edges from different time periods. Clusters are then interpreted as word senses and changes in clusters over time as lexical semantic change.
The interface allows users to upload a project, i.e., use samples for several target words which will be combined into use pairs per word and presented to annotators in random order. Users can manage their projects assigning them to registered annotators. The annotation can be stopped at any point and the annotatDominik Schlechtweg2021-11-18T15:00:00+01:0015:0000:30👾stuts70-645-prosody_and_grammaticalization_the_case_of_sort_of_kind_of_type_ofhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/645falseProsody and grammaticalization: The case of 'sort of/kind of/type of'lectureenThis talk will present the results of my MA thesis, which dealt with the interrelationship between the grammaticalization and the prosodic realization of 'sort of/kind of/type of' (SKT-construction) from a Construction Grammar perspective.
The data for this study was taken from the original London-Lund Corpus (LLC1), with material from the 1960s-80s, and the London-Lund Corpus 2 (LLC2), with material from the 2010s. Using the prosodic annotation of the LLC1 and both acoustic and auditory analysis for the LLC2, a relationship between the stress patterns of the SKT-construction and its different stages of grammaticalization could be established both synchronically for both corpora separately and diachronically in a comparison of both data sets.Nicole Marie BenkerProsody_and_grammaticalization.pdf2021-11-18T16:30:00+01:0016:3001:00👾stuts70-684-es_gibt_keine_norm_fur_diesen_bereichhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/684false„Es gibt keine Norm für diesen Bereich“Ein sprachübergreifender Blick auf die Möglichkeiten der gendersensiblen SpracheworkshopdeIn unserem Workshop wollen wir zunächst einmal eine Definition für die geschlechtersensible Sprache (GS) geben und verschiedene Unterbereiche abgrenzen. Wir wollen gemeinsam mit euch erarbeiten, welchen Zweck die geschlechtersensible Sprache hat und welche Argumente dafür sprechen, ohne die in der öffentlichen Diskussion vermehrt angeführten Gegenargumente sowie deren mögliche Entkräftungen auszulassen. Darüber hinaus wollen wir gemeinsam mit euch einen sprachübergreifenden Überblick über die verschiedenen Möglichkeiten geschlechtersensibler Alternativen zum generischen Maskulinum (GM) erstellen: Wir können dabei Einsichten zu Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch und Spanisch geben und würden uns freuen, wenn ihr noch weitere Sprachen mitbringt.
In unserem Workshop sind alle Menschen (und alle Geschlechter) willkommen!
Hanna BrunsLina Rebecca ArnoldSlides2021-11-18T16:00:00+01:0016:0001:00🌟stuts70-695-mari_workshop_hybridhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/695falseMari Workshop [hybrid]workshopenJeremy Bradley2021-11-18T17:00:00+01:0017:0001:00🌟stuts70-705-gargle_sessionhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/705falseGargle Session2021-11-19T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00🧉stuts70-699-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/699falseLunch Break2021-11-19T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30🧉stuts70-624-reconstructing_proto-baininghttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/624falseReconstructing Proto-BaininglectureenIn my talk, I will give an overview of my MA thesis, where I try to reconstruct Proto-Baining, the hypothesized ancestor of a small language family of Papua New Guinea.Baining is a small language family spoken in the Gazelle Peninsula on the island of New Britain, part of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea. The family includes five languages, four of which are adequately documented, each having no more than a couple houndred to a couple thousand speakers. They are clearly related, since they are strikingly similar to each other. However, no comparative work has been done yet. This is what I attempt to do in my MA thesis: establish regular sound correspondences and arrive at a first reconstruction of Proto-Baining. In this presentation, I plan to give a typological overview of this language family that probably nobody has ever heard of, elaborate on the methods used in my research, and give some intermediate results.Marc Hausdorf2021-11-19T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🧉stuts70-650-die_sprachliche_kodierung_von_ereignissen_mit_drei_partizipanten_im_beria_ost-saharanisch_sudanhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/650falseDie sprachliche Kodierung von Ereignissen mit drei Partizipanten im Beria (Ost-Saharanisch, Sudan)lecturede(English below.)Die Kodierung von Ereignissen mit drei Partizipanten (‚geben‘, ‚zeigen‘) scheint Sprachen weltweit vor eine Herausforderung zu stellen. Wie Margetts & Austin (2007) zeigen, sind die Strategien im übereinzelsprachlichen Vergleich zahlreich und nicht auf ditransitive Ver-ben beschränkt. Der Vortrag beleuchtet die dem Wagi – einer noch unzureichend beschrie-benen dialektalen Varietät des Beria (auch Zaghawa genannt; Ost-Saharanisch, Sudan) – zur Verfügung stehenden Strategien, Ereignisse mit drei Partizipanten zu kodieren. Das Wagi verfügt zum derzeitigen Forschungsstand über fünf Strategien: (1) dritter Partizipant als direktes Argument des Verbs, (2) Kausativstrategie, (3) dritter Partizipant als Adjunkt oder obliques Argument, (4) Direktionalstrategie, (5) Konverbstrategie. Der Fall des Wagi zeigt, dass Margetts & Austins Typologie um die Konverbstrategie erweitert, oder ihr Begriff der serial verb strategy im Sinne einer „Multiverbstrategie“ für abhängige, nicht-finite Verb-formen geöffnet werden muss. Außerdem wirft die Konverbstrategie interessante Fragen zur Diachronie zwischen Strategien auf.
The encoding of three-participant events as denoted by transfer verbs such as ‘give’ and ‘send’, or communicative verbs like ‘tell’ pose a coding challenge for languages all around the globe. This study investigates how three-participant events are encoded in Wagi, a yet under-described dialectal variety of Beria (or Zaghawa; East-Saharan, Sudan). Based on the cross-linguistic study by Margetts & Austin (2007) and mainly drawing from elicited data, the following five strategies could be identified in Wagi: (1) the direct-argument strategy, (2) the causative strategy, (3) the oblique/adjunct strategy, (4) the directional strategy, and (5) the converb strategy. Though closely related to the serial verb strategy encountered in other languages, the converb strategy constitutes a previously crosslinguistically unattested possibility to encode three-participant events. Moreover, it raises interesting questions regarding the diachrony between strategies.
(The talk will be in German.)
Literaturauswahl / Selected literature
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2011. Multi-verb constructions: Setting the scene. In Alexandra Y. Ai-khenvald & Pieter Muysken (eds.), Multi-verb constructions: A view from the Americas (Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 3), 1–26. Leiden & Boston: Brill.
Dryer, Matthew S. 1986. Primary objects, secondary objects, and antidative. Language 62(4). 808–845. https://doi.org/10.2307/415173.
Jakobi, Angelika & Joachim Crass. 2004. Grammaire du beria (langue saharienne): Avec un glossaire français-beria (Nilo-Saharan 18). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
Malchukov, A. L., Martin Haspelmath & Bernard Comrie (eds.). 2010. Studies in ditransitive con-structions: a comparative handbook. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter Mouton.
Margetts, Anna & Peter K. Austin. 2007. Three-participant events in the languages of the world: towards a crosslinguistic typology. Linguistics 45(3). 393–451. https://doi.org/10.1515/LING.2007.014.
Lukas LaureckAbstract_German2021-11-19T14:00:00+01:0014:0001:00🧉stuts70-651-critical_open_symposium_reading_grouphttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/651falseCritical & Open Symposium (Reading Group)Reading Paul Hopper's 'Emergent Grammar' (1987)meetingenIn this reading group we will be discussing Paul Hopper's 1987 paper on Emergent Grammar. It would be great if you read the paper if you want to participate, but anyone is welcome and there will be a brief introduction. The reading group is hosted by the Leipzig Critical and Open Symposium, a group of Linguistics students from Leipzig.In this reading group we will be discussing Paul Hopper's 1987 paper on Emergent Grammar. This seminal paper in functional grammar positions grammar between speakers, constantly emerging in dialogic discourse, instead of treating it as a feature of some 'competence' in the back of one's mind. If you can, please read the paper ahead of the conference if you want to participate, but anyone is welcome and there will be a brief introduction. The reading group is hosted by the Leipzig Critical and Open Symposium, a group of Linguistics students from Leipzig.Victor ZimmermannHendrik Pigola
Reading Group Website
"Emergent Grammar", Hopper 19872021-11-19T15:00:00+01:0015:0000:30🧉stuts70-637-possessoren_als_bindegliedhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/637falsePossessoren als BindegliedGenitivsynkretismus in der KasushierarchielecturedeViele verschiedene Theorien wurden entwickelt um Kasussynkretismus abzuleiten. Alle mir bekannten haben insbesonders Probleme bestimmte Genitivsynkretismen abzuleiten. In meiner Bachelorarbeit habe ich (zufällig) einen Lösungsansatz gefunden.
Synkretismus von Possessoren mit mindestens einer anderen Art Argument (Patiens, Rezipient etc.) macht mehr als die Hälfte der Muster aus, die für postulierte Kasussequenzen nicht ableitbar sind (siehe z.B. Zompì 2017:§5.1 und seine Kasussequenz in 1).
Anstelle von binären Merkmalen (z.B. [±regiert], [±objekt]), die natürliche Klassen definieren, nutzen Kasussequenzen strukturelle Adjazenz, um Kasus in Abhängigkeiten zueinander zu setzen. Wenn dabei manche Kasus andere dominieren, spricht man von einer Kasushierarchie, wie z.B. bei Zompì:
(1) {NOM, ABS} < {AKK, ERG} < {DAT, LOK, INSTR}
Zompì entscheidet sich aufgrund der vielen, vermeintlich widersprüchlichen Muster dagegen, Genitiv überhaupt mit in seine Hierarchie in (1) aufzunehmen.
In meiner Bachelorarbeit habe ich untersucht, ob die von Zompì postulierte Hierarchie Synkretismus in sogenannten nominativmarkierenden Sprachen ableiten kann.
Um diese Synkretismen ableitbar zu machen, habe ich die Hierarchie von traditioneller Kasusterminologie getrennt und stattdessen die grammatischen Rollen, in denen die Kasusmorphe auftreten, in Klassen eingeteilt.
(2) S ≤ {A, P, PR} ≤ {R, TL, PC,…}
Mit Possessoren nun in einer 'Bindegliedposition' zwischen intransitiven und obliken Argumenten werden alle zuvor widersprüchlichen Genitivsynkretismen ableitbar.
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S = intransitives Argument, A = agensartiges, transitives Argument, P = patiensartiges, transitives Argument, PR = Possessor, R = Rezipient, TL = Werkzeug (tool), PC = Ort (place)
Zompì, Stanislao. 2017. Case decomposition meets dependent-case theories. Università di Pisa MA thesis./system/events/logos/000/000/637/large/printervene_kryz.png?1635259592Sinoël DohlenBachelorarbeit_(en)2021-11-19T16:00:00+01:0016:0001:00🧉stuts70-685-digital_ethnography_for_linguistshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/685falseDigital ethnography for linguistsAn introductory crash courseworkshopenThis workshop is designed for linguists with little or no experience with digital ethnography. It introduces the basics of (digital) ethnographic practice for the study of communication, discusses the challenges digital ethnographers face, and explores the value of digital ethnography for research in (applied) linguistics. Some time will also be devoted to discussing the participants' own research projects/ideas and the potential relevance of digital linguistic ethnography for them.In this crash course, we will deal with the basics of digital ethnographic research and its relevance for (applied) linguists. After briefly examining the foundations of ethnographic approaches and their historical ties to the study of communication, we will start asking questions about digital ethnography, the ethnographic study of digital spaces: What does it do? What challenges does it have to face? What is its relevance for linguists? Can it help you study your favorite memes, and if so, how?
As linguists' interest in exploring online communicative phenomena is only getting stronger, we will discuss how digital ethnography can help in such endeavors from a theoretical and a practical standpoint. How do digital ethnographers conceptualize linguistic practices? And what kind of methods are common in their approach?
Finally, by looking at examples of existing digital ethnographic studies in applied linguistics, we will examine what digital ethnography is good for when you're a linguist. You will also have the chance to ask questions about your own research and how it may benefit from going digital-ethnographic.Vinicio NtouvlisSlides2021-11-19T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00🥝stuts70-700-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/700falseLunch Break2021-11-19T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30🥝stuts70-665-interacting_without_shared_linguistic_resourceshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/665falseInteracting "without" shared linguistic resources? Communication strategies in the multilingual "language village"lectureenPlurilingual communication is linked to concepts such as translanguaging (e. g. Canagarajah 2011; Li 2010), Polylanguaging (Jørgensen, Karrebæk, Madsen, & Møller 2011) and encompasses concrete phenomena such as code-switching, mediation and intercomprehension (e. g. Lenz & Berthele 2010; Schlabach 2017). However, all of these concepts are based on the notion that interlocutors share at least parts of their linguistic repertoires. There are hardly any studies focusing on interactions in which interlocutors (at least at first glance) do not have common linguistic resources.
This presentation deals with the strategies interactants employ in situations without common linguistic resources in a pedagogical context. The analysis is based on data from the project “RepertoirePluS” by Eurac Research (Bolzano), which investigated the multilingual competences of South Tyrolean secondary school students (Engel et al. 2020). At its core was the implementation of a so-called “Sprachendorf” or “language village” in which students had to complete different multilingual tasks situated in simulated but authentic places of interaction. For example, for the task “café”, they were asked to order a meal in a Russian café while also interacting with an Arabic-speaking tourist. This presentation sets out to explore some of the strategies which the participants employed to communicate during this task. A focus is placed on repetitions of statements by interactants, which appear to be a central communicative strategy in this context.
Bibliography:
Canagarajah, S. (2011). Translanguaging in the classroom: Emerging issues for research and pedagogy. Applied Linguistics Review, 2, 1 – 28.
Engel, D., Barrett, J., Platzgummer, V., & Zanasi, L. (2020). Sprachenrepertoires und Mehrsprachigkeitskompetenzen im Sprachendorf aktivieren. Zeitschrift Für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 25(1), 1081 – 1106.
Jørgensen, J. N., Karrebæk, M. S., Madsen, L. M., & Møller, J. S. (2011). Polylanguaging in Superdiversity. Diversities, 13(2), 23 – 37.
Lenz, P. & Berthele, R. (2010). Assessment in Plurilingual and Intercultural Education. Satellite Study No 2, Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Li, W. (2010). Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain. In: Journal of Pragmatics, 43(59), 1222-1235.
Schlabach, J. (2017). Probleme in mehrsprachigen Situationen. Zur Grundlegung des Lernziels plurilinguale Kompetenz. Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht. Didaktik und Methodik im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache, 22(2), 66 – 79.Anna Cijevschi2021-11-19T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🥝stuts70-656-performativer_aktivismus_auf_instagramhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/656falsePerformativer Aktivismus auf InstagramEine Analyse antisemitischer Topoi im Israel-Palästina-KonfliktlecturedeDieser Vortrag illustriert die Ergebnisse meiner Studie über eine Infografik, die im letzten internationalen Aufflammen des Israel-Palästina-Konflikts auf Instagram äußert stark verbreitet wurde. Anhand einer Topos-Analyse sowie der Konzeptualisierung meines Verständnisses von performativem Aktivismus wurde die Infografik des Instagramaccounts @key48return auf antisemitische Topoi untersucht. Aufgrund der Aktualität der Ereignisse und des Fehlens, aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Perspektive Theorien um Performanz und digitalen Aktivismus zu verbinden, besteht hier Bedarf nach mehr Forschungsarbeit.Im Mai 2021 kam es im Israel-Palästina-Konflikt erneut zu Auseinandersetzungen, die viele Opfer bis hin zu Todesfällen zählen mussten. Während dieser Zeit wurde in den sozialen Medien auf beiden Seiten maßgeblich Stellung bezogen. Da es in den digitalen Gefechten immer wieder zu rassistischen und antisemitischen Vorfällen kam, habe ich eine der präsentesten und prominentesten Infografiken im anti-israelischen Diskurs analysiert. Dabei habe ich eine Topos-Analyse nach Martin Wengeler (2003; 2012) angewandt, um folgende Frage zu beantworten: Welche antisemitischen Topoi werden in der Infografik des Instagramaccounts @key48return reproduziert?
Eine solche Analyse ist aus meiner Sicht nicht zuletzt deshalb wichtig durchzuführen, weil sie dabei helfen kann, versteckte und möglicherweise eigene antisemitische Tendenzen zu reflektieren, den eigenen Sprachgebrauch anzupassen sowie gewisse Topoi und Argumentationsmuster in Zukunft zu vermeiden. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse machen kenntlich, dass nach genauerer Prüfung des Materials tatsächlich eine Fülle antisemitischer Vorurteile zu finden sind, die miteinander verflochten sind und so zu einem konspirationistisch-inspirierten Weltbild verleiten könnten.
Abgesehen von den empirischen Ergebnissen der Untersuchung, hat sich meine Konzeptualisierung von performativem Online-Aktivismus, den ich auf Basis von Austin (1975) und Vlavo (2018) theoretisieren konnte, für mich als äußert produktiv herausgestellt.
- Austin, John L. 1975 [1962]. How to do things with Words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Vlavo, Fidèle A. 2018. Performing Digital Activism: New Aesthetics and Discourses of Resistance (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture 37). New York & London: Routledge.
- Wengeler, Martin. 2003. Topos und Diskurs: Begründung einer argumentationsanalytischen Methode und ihre Anwendung auf den Migrationsdiskurs (1960-1985). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
- Wengeler, Martin. 2012. Topos und Diskurs – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der topologischen Analyse gesellschaftlicher Debatten. In Ingo Warnke (ed.): Diskurslinguistik nach Foucault, 165-186. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1515/9783110920390.165 (Abruf 24. Mai 2021). Laura Levstock2021-11-19T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30🥝stuts70-626-sources_of_foreign_language_listening_anxiety_in_learners_of_german_as_a_foreign_languagehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/626falseSources of foreign language listening anxiety in learners of German as a foreign languageenAnxiety in language learning is an important factor in the process of studying a foreign language. While much of the research up to date has focused on learners of English and specifically on anxiety in the skill of speaking, little is known about learners of German and their listening anxiety in relation to the foreign language. The present study explores the sources of foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) in learners of German from various proficiency levels.Yoana DanchevaAbstract - Sources of FLLA in learners of German2021-11-19T15:00:00+01:0015:0002:00🥝stuts70-692-wiener_dialekt_workshophttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/692falseWiener Dialekt WorkshopworkshopdeDIALOG - Der Sprachcampus2021-11-19T09:00:00+01:0009:0001:00👾stuts70-674-focus_marking_crosslinguisticallyhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/674falseFocus Marking CrosslinguisticallylectureenLanguages in which focus is marked by special morphemes or syntactic positions have long been known and also, more recently, well described.Assuming that the pragmatic (and possibly semantic) effects of focusing in such languages should be modelled using alternatives (as in the case of the European languages) the question arises: How can the toolbox of focus semantics developed for the latter be applied to the former? In this talk I present some results of our recent FWF project for West African languages, which lead us to a rather radical rethinking of the way we model focus realization, both of the morphological marking and the more familiar metrical variety.
Daniel BüringPresentation Büring2021-11-19T10:00:00+01:0010:0000:30👾stuts70-687-breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/687falseBreak 2021-11-19T10:30:00+01:0010:3001:00👾stuts70-676-sprachentwicklungsstorungen_bei_mehrsprachigem_aufwachsen_in_der_klinischen_praxishttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/676falseSprachentwicklungsstörungen bei mehrsprachigem Aufwachsen in der klinischen PraxislecturedeEinleitend wird das für die Klinik gängige Diagnosesystem ICD-10 der WHO mit dem Schwerpunkt F80: umschriebene Entwicklungsstörungen des Sprechens und der Sprache beschrieben (Dilling, Freyberger 2019, Amorosa 2008) sowie die in Überarbeitung befindliche Leitlinie Sprachentwicklungsstörungen unter Berücksichtigung umschriebener Sprachentwicklungsstörungen Reg.nur 049-006 im Hinblick auf den Zweit/Mehrsprachenerwerb (De Langen et al.2016).Es werden Konsequenzen für die Praxis erläutert: Dabei geht es zunächst um Ansätze zur Differenzierung typisch entwickelter Kinder von Kindern mit ICD-10 F 80 Sprachentwicklungsstörung (Tuller et al.2018 u.a.). In der Folge geht es um die Bedeutung der muttersprachlichen Diagnostik für alle mehrsprachig aufwachsenden Kinder und vor allem für jene die aufgrund des entwicklungspsychologischen Befundes Hinweise auf eine komorbide Sprachentwicklungsstörung zeigen. Anhand des Fehlens normierter Testverfahren für gesprochene Varietäten wird auf vier Szenarii (Thordadottier 2015) eingegangen und daraus abgeleitet das „Wiener Modell“ (Eisenwort et al.2021) skizziert. Eine Fallstudie eines Russisch und Deutsch erwerbenden Knabens illustriert das Vorgehen. Eine kurze Beschreibung unserer Sprechstunde wird mit ersten Daten von 270 Kindern vervollständigt (Schmid et al.: in Vorbereitung). Abschließend wird ein Ausblick zur Rolle der Linguistik gewagt und als Diskussionsgrundlage geboten.Brigitte EisenwortArtikel Eisenwort zum Thema2021-11-19T12:00:00+01:0012:0001:00👾stuts70-701-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/701falseLunch Break2021-11-19T13:00:00+01:0013:0000:30👾stuts70-661-does_case_trump_determiners_considering_blocking_effects_in_heritage_turkishes_in_germany_and_the_u_shttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/661falseDoes CASE trump determiners? Considering blocking effects in heritage Turkishes in Germany and the U.S.Definiteness in heritage TurkishesWe present a study on different patterns of expressing definite meanings in heritage Turkishes. A key finding is that heritage speakers use fewer determiners compared to their monolingual peers. We argue that this is linked to a blocking effect by accusative case which also expresses definiteness. Our hypotheses and findings call for a revisit of discussions around definiteness in Turkishes.Please find the full abstract as a pdf on the right-hand side of this page.
Short abstract:
We present a study on different patterns of expressing definite meanings in heritage Turkishes. A key finding is that heritage speakers use fewer determiners compared to their monolingual peers. We argue that this is linked to a blocking effect by accusative case which also expresses definiteness. Our hypotheses and findings call for a revisit of discussions around definiteness in Turkishes.Onur ÖzsoyAbstractSlides2021-11-19T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30👾stuts70-649-seeking_explanations_for_differences_in_language_learning_outcomeshttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/649falseSeeking explanations for differences in language learning outcomesWhat role might Working Memory play in Second Language Acquisition?lectureenIn this presentation, I want to talk about the role of Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition and give insights into the research conducted for my Bachelor's thesis. I will present how individual differences research based on the recent Phonological/Executive Model of Z. Wen might help to find answers to the question “Why are some people better at learning a language than others?”In second language acquisition, as in many other complex cognitive processes, the Working Memory - a system of short-term storage and online manipulation plays an important role. It seems reasonable to suppose that individual differences in learners Working Memory functions may help explain why some people are better at learning a language than others. Even though a large amount of research has already found that better Working Memory functions predict better vocabulary and grammar learning, individual differences research in this area and investigations of how single components relate to learning outcomes is still scarce.
This talks will give a short overview on theoretical foundations of Working Memory focusing on the very recent Phonological/Executive Model by Z. Wen and the connection with the concept of Language Aptitude. For purposes of illustration, I will present parts of research conducted for my Bachelor’s thesis where I investigated the relationship between individual differences in Working Memory and early-stage adult language learning, using data from the DAFNET study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. I would be happy to discuss open questions and issues for further research in cognitive Second Language Acquisition research with the audience.Luise Böttcher2021-11-19T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30👾stuts70-623-visualitat_raum_und_interaktion_in_der_katastrophen-medizinhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/623falseVisualität, Raum und Interaktion in der Katastrophen-MedizinMultimodale Hervorhebungspraktiken bei einem Massenanfall von Verletzten (MANV)lecturedeDieser Beitrag aus dem Bereich der Workplace Studies (vgl. Knoblauch 1999) betrachtet, wie Rettungskräfte ihre professionellen Strukturen für den Umgang mit Großschadenslagen und Situationen mit einer großen Anzahl an Verletzten interaktiv in konkreten Übungssituationen umsetzen. Am Beispiel der gemeinsamen Etablierung des Standorts einer Patient*innenablage, an der Verletzte zur medizinischen Versorgung während des Einsatzes gesammelt werden, sollen interaktive Methoden zur multimodalen Organisation von visueller Wahrnehmung und Positionen im Raum betrachtet werden. Die Grundlage für diese Betrachtung bietet C. Goodwins Beschreibung von Hervorhebungspraktiken als professionelle Organisation von Visualität (vgl. Goodwin 1996).
Dabei kann gezeigt werden, dass die Rettungskräfte neben ihrer Sprache auch verkörperte Ressourcen wie Blick, Gestik und Bewegung und Position im Raum interaktiv aktivieren, um gemeinsam professionelle Strukturen wie die Position der Patient*innenablage herzustellen. Hier wird auch deutlich, wie diese Strukturen in gemeinsam koordinierter Arbeit erst entstehen können. Für die Analyse wird eine Fallkollektion aus zwei Einzelfällen präsentiert, die aus einer audiovisuellen Aufnahme einer Einsatzübung ausgewählt wurden. Diese Aufnahmen wurden mit mehreren mobilen wie stationären HD-Kameras durchgeführt, unterstützt von mobilen Funkmikrofonen, 360°-Kameras und mobilen Eye-Tracking-Kameras (vgl. Pitsch et. al. 2020). Das analytische Framework des Beitrags ist die multimodalen Konversationsanalyse (vgl. Schmitt 2015), worüber die situierten, interaktiven Praktiken der Rettungskräfte auf mikroanalytischer Ebene erfasst werden können. Die verfügbaren Daten wurden für diese Analyse in anonymisierten Screenshots und multimodal annotierten Transkripten fixiert.
Wenn diese grundlegend qualitativen Untersuchungen in den Kontext quantitativ umfassender Fallkollektionen eingeordnet werden, können mit diesen Ergebnissen bestehende Lehrmethoden in der Aus- und Fortbildung neuer Rettungskräfte verbessert und neue Best-Practice-Beispiele entwickelt werden.Bibliographie:
Goodwin, Charles (1994): Professional Vision. In: American Anthropologist. 96 (3). S. 606 – 633.
Knoblauch, Hubert / Heath, Christian (1999): Technologie, Interaktion und Organisation. Die Workplace Studies. In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 25 (2). S. 163 – 181.
Pitsch, Karola / Bachmann, Peter / Dudda, Marcel (2020): ‚Triage‘ in Mass Casulty as Situated Interaction. Algorithm and Participation. In: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.
Schmitt, Reinhold (2015): Positionspapier. Multimodale Interaktionsanalyse. In: Dausendschön-Gay, Ulrich / Gülich, Elisabeth / Krafft, Ulrich (Hrsg.): Ko-Konstruktion in der Interaktion. Die gemeinsame Arbeit an Äußerungen und anderen sozialen Ereignissen. Bielefeld: transcript. S. 43 – 54.Felix BergmannComplete Transcripts (DE)Slides (DE)2021-11-19T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:45👾stuts70-630-items_structuring_on_a_meta-conversational_levelhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/630falseItems Structuring on a Meta-Conversational LevelHow backchannels fit in with what we know about the Organisation of ConversationlectureenHow are backchannels organized in conversation? How do they Interact with other Items? What are backchannels from a perspektive of discourse structure? I try to awnser those and more questions around this Topic at my Talk (Rest siehe Beschreibung!)The success of a conversation depends crucially on the backchannels given by the interlocutor in the role of the active listener, since only these contemporaneous provide information about mutual understanding. However, little is known about how the active listener synchronizes his backchannels with the turn of the speaker, so that they have no disturbing effect. This paper examines the role of two central structuring principles of conversation in it; 'turn' and 'sequentiality'. The main assumption/hypothesis here thereby is, that backchannels organize themselves sequentially as turns on a estimated meta-conversational level, with backchannel-inviting cues in a cluster, as the sequential counterpart and its very own repair-mechanisms in case of a occurring sequential errors, to built a basic theoretical structure for further research and provide a convenient model for analyzing Backchannels as a indispensable part of natural Conversation.Sebastian Dubberke 2021-11-19T16:30:00+01:0016:3001:00👾stuts70-690-latex_for_beginnershttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/690falseLaTeX for beginnersworkshopenTired of relabelling all of your 150 examples manually every time you open your thesis document? Want to do it the right way and create your very own beautiful tables and examples? Then hop on and join our workshop!
In this beginners' workshop, we will cover the basics of setting up your document to write a term paper or thesis in LaTeX. Obviously, this includes a proper title page and tables of contents, figures and all your beautiful tables. We will look at sectioning, type setting, creating different types of lists and including symbols in your text.
We will also introduce you to the perks of citing and creating automatic lists of references with LaTeX. To make this maximally useful, we will also show you how to automatically integrate references from Zotero or Mendeley, without the need for any manual editing.
Finally, we will make some time for topics specific to your research. Do you work with glossed examples from diverse languages or need to create syntax trees in your term papers? Then we will have a look at what LaTeX has to offer for your specific needs.
At the end of the workshop, we will provide you with a template for writing term papers and theses, which contains everything covered in the workshop and which you can adjust to your own needs and your teachers' requirements.Prepare yourself: Get yourself a (free) overleaf account, following the link on the right.
If you use this link, Nehir gets extra stuff on Overleaf. Just so you know ;-)
We are also adding a handout document for you to work in. Once you have created an account on Overleaf, you can access the document via the link on the right. To edit the document, create your own copy and edit away. If you can't figure out how to do this, you can contact us by email or at the start of the workshop.
Disclaimer: This workshop covers essentially the same things as those at the last few StuTS conferences.Annika SchiefnerNehir AygülSebastian Buchczyk
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2021-11-19T15:30:00+01:0015:3002:00🌟stuts70-689-f_n_t_k_traenskra_b_rz_n_pa_n_onlinehttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/689falsefənɛtɪk trænskraɪbərz ɪn paɪθɑn [online] from orthography to IPAworkshopenAn introduction into different strategies how to transcribe multilingual orthographical data phonetically in PythonThis workshop includes an overview over existing Python toolkits for phonetic transcription, like wiktionaryparser, py-espeak-ng, epitran or copius_api. It will be shown how new languages can be added to existing rule-based frameworks. The workshop also includes a short summary of the pitfalls of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and its alternatives such as UPA, XSAMPA, or ARPABET. The necessary workshop material is accessible under the link below.Viktor Martinović
Link to the folder with the ipython notebook
2021-11-20T09:00:00+01:0009:0001:00🧉stuts70-675-phonology_goes_syntaxhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/675falsePhonology goes syntaxlectureenTo what extent do the individual modules of grammar share a similar architecture? In this talk we will ask that question about syntax and phonology. While scholars like Bromberger & Halle (1989) claim that those two domains of grammar are very different from each other, other strands of research have argued that there are substantial parallels between the two. This hypothesis is commonly referred to as "Structural Analogy" and championed by people like J. Anderson (1992) and in frameworks like Dependency Phonology (Anderson & Ewen 1987) and Government Phonology (Kaye, Lowenstamm & Vergnaud 1985, 1990).Some parallels that have been pointed out are relatively obvious and potentially very superficial or misleading. (E.g., that short vowels in English are like transitive verbs in that both need a certain something following them: An object in the case of transitive verbs; a consonant or another syllable in the case of short vowels, thus <sit>, <city> but *<si>.) One of the central questions (if not *the* central question), however, is whether phonology has hierarchical structure that is comparable to what we see in syntax. (More precisely, whether we find recursive hierarchical structure.)
In this talk I will focus on the “lower” levels of phonological constituency to show what kind of evidence we find for (recursive) hierarchical structure. Neeleman & van de Koot (2006) point out (correctly, I believe) that any argument in favour of parallels between the two modules must not only show that phonology *can* be done with hierarchical structures, but why it *must* be. Syntax needs hierarchical structures to express asymmetries, and similar asymmetries in phonology can be found between elements, i.e. the successors of phonological features. Asymmetries between the elements I and U (Pöchtrager 2009, 2015) seem to be particularly wide-spread, and we will see how a syntax-inspired phonological model can make sense of them in various phenomena across different languages such as Mandarin, Japanese, English, Finnish, Turkish etc.
Anderson, John. 1992. Linguistic Representation: Structural Analogy and Stratification. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Anderson, John M. & Colin J. Ewen. 1987. Principles of Dependency Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bromberger, Sylvain & Morris Halle. 1989. Why Phonology is different. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 51—70.
Kaye, Jonathan, Jean Lowenstamm & Jean-Roger Vergnaud 1985. The internal structure of
phonological representations: a theory of Charm and Government. Phonology Yearbook 2. 305—328
Kaye, Jonathan, Jean Lowenstamm & Jean-Roger Vergnaud 1990. Constituent structure and
government in phonology. Phonology Yearbook 7. 193—231.
Neeleman, Ad & J. van de Koot. 2006. On syntactic and phonological representations. Lingua 116. 1524–1552.
Pöchtrager, Markus A. 2009. Diphthong, e know thyself. Binding in Phonology.
Paper presented at the 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of
Manchester, 28–30 May 2009.
Pöchtrager, Markus A. 2015. Binding in Phonology. In Henk van Riemsdijk & Marc
van Oostendorp (eds.), Representing Structure in Phonology and Syntax, 255–
275. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Markus PöchtragerPresentation Pöchtrager2021-11-20T10:00:00+01:0010:0000:30🧉stuts70-688-breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/688falseBreak 2021-11-20T10:30:00+01:0010:3001:00🧉stuts70-672-discourses_of_discrimination_in_austrian_criminal_lawhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/672falseDiscourses of discrimination in Austrian criminal law.The case of "same-sex fornication"lectureenLegal practice in past and present may reflect patterns of group-focused enmity, such as homophobia, racism, antisemitism and ethnicism (Reisigl & Wodak 2005) in organisational texts and discourses, which create and perpetuate inequality before and in the law. The enforcement of criminal law aims to realise preventive effects deterring both the public (general prevention) and the individual perpetrator (special prevention) (Seiler 2020: 28). In Austrian criminal law, as frequently encountered around the globe, the notion of prevention was misused to discriminate against individuals of the LGBTIQ+ community. Until 1971 sexual acts between individuals constructed as belonging to the same sex were classified as “same-sex fornication” (gleichgeschlechtliche Unzucht), with various legal categories and subcategories allowing for prosecution. 1974 saw the enactment of the Great Criminal Law Reform. The criminal code still included provisions against, inter alia, male same-sex activity with an individual below the age of 18, the act of advocating same-sex sexual acts and the forming of associations to facilitate same-sex sexual acts (§§ 209, 210, 220, 221 StGB). In 2002, section 209 was the last to be removed from the criminal code, leading to an equalisation of the age of consent at 14. However, the removal of explicitly homophobic criminal provisions has not led to equality (see Holzleithner 2020; Graupner 2014, 2004), which forms the basis of the research questions this presentation seeks to pursue:
(1) What are the underlying patterns of perceptions in legal discourse that justified the unequal treatment of the LGBTIQ+ community by the Austrian criminal justice system?
(2) How can applied legal linguistics, as informed by discourse linguistics, contribute to revealing implicit homophobic practices in the law and in legal organisations today?
References
Graupner, Helmut; Bullough, Vern L. (eds.). 2004. Adolescence, sexuality, and the criminal law: multidisciplinary perspectives. Abingdon: Routledge.
Graupner, Helmut. 2014. “Sexuality and human rights in Europe”. In: Tahmindjis, Phillip (ed.). Sexuality and human rights: a global overview. Abingdon: Routledge, 107-140.
Holzleithner, Elisabeth. 2020. “Lesbische Verhältnisse auf dem Hühnerhof: eine rechtliche Groteske als Brennpunkt des Ringens um sexuelle Menschenrechte in Österreich”. Zeitschrift für Menschenrechte 14(1), 7-22.
Reisigl, Martin; Wodak, Ruth. 2005. Discourse and discrimination: rhetorics of racism and antisemitism. London: Routledge.
Seiler, Stefan. 2020. Strafrecht Allgemeiner Teil I: Grundlagen und Lehre von der Straftat. Wien: Facultas.
Daniel Leisser2021-11-20T12:30:00+01:0012:3001:00🧉stuts70-702-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/702falseLunch Break2021-11-20T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🧉stuts70-648-sense_sonorityhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/648falseSense & SonorityThe Influence of Sonority on Language PerceptionlectureenSonority is per se a controversial topic, the definition of which poses methodological difficulties. However, there is a broad consensus in the scientific community that sonority is a non-binary phonological element that can be used to categorize all sounds into a hierarchical scale (Ladefoged, 2000: 227). Using an adapted form of Fought’s sonority scale (Fought et al. 2004), this study will analyse and compare the mean sonority values of European languages. Additionally, it will contrast the mean values of the sonority with the subjective perception of the languages (Kogan & Reiterer 2021), to investigate whether a correlation can be determined. This novel approach to studying language is arguably what sets my research apart, given that the inclusion of language perception is part of the rather young discipline of phonaesthetics. Language perception is influenced by a myriad of factors and consequently, identifying the phonaesthetic component, which could be described as the emotional perception of a language, is not an easy feat. The results of the analysis will also serve as a foundation to re-analyse older theories, such as the correlation between climate and the sonority of a language.
Phonaesthetics is a young and promising field which, in time, will change the way we study and conceptualise language. In everyday conversations, non-linguists often focus on their perception of languages, describing them as beautiful, sweet in sound, and harmonious. Among linguists, however, studying the subjective perception of languages has long been viewed as unscientific, which is why little research about it has been done. My thesis, by contrast, is part of an emerging academic current that strives to reverse this trend. Not only does my thesis address this lack of academic interest, but it emphasises that studying the beauty of language is, in fact, crucial to understanding language itself.
/system/events/logos/000/000/648/large/Phonaesthetic_RGV_01.png?1635519913Lukas Nemestothy2021-11-20T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30🧉stuts70-631-look_what_i_m_sayinghttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/631falseLook what I'm saying!Neural correlates of lipread vs. text-based phonetic recalibration in dyslexic adultslectureenEveryday life is full of ambiguous speech sounds, and contextual information is known to facilitate speech perception and disambiguation. However, the integration of letters and speech sounds seems to be impaired in individuals with developmental dyslexia. In the research for my master's thesis, dyslexic adults were presented with ambiguous speech sounds combined with disambiguating text or video recordings of lip movements in a phonetic recalibration paradigm. We compared the strength of the recalibration effect between the two conditions, hypothesizing that lip movements would serve as a better disambiguating stimulus than text for this specific sample. Besides the behavioural effect, we looked at neural activation during the two conditions, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to see whether exosure to lip movements and to text elicits activation in different or similar brain areas. In this talk, I will give a short introduction to developmental dyslexia and the audiovisual integration of speech, followed by a description of the research paradigm used in the study. Then, I will present obtained results and discuss them - ideally in dialogue with the audience. Anna Palmann2021-11-20T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:30🧉stuts70-632-what_s_in_a_punhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/632falseWhat's in a pun?Assessing the relationship between phonological and semantic distance and perceived funniness of punning jokeslectureenPunning jokes are a form of humorous wordplay based on semantic ambiguity between two phonologically similar words, in a sentence context where both meanings are more or less acceptable. In this study, we aimed to quantify and compare phonological and semantic distance between the words in a punning joke and assess their influence on its perceived funniness. This was done in an explorative manner using different methods from computational linguistics on a set of punning jokes rated for funniness. In this talk, the results from this investigation will be presented, together with a slightly more critical view on the question whether it is worthwhile to focus on such a detailed aspect of such a complex phenomenom. In this context, different theories on linguistic humour will be revisited and the phenomenon of punning will be put in context.Anna Palmann2021-11-20T15:00:00+01:0015:0001:00🧉stuts70-640-language_in_the_brain_or_general_cognitionhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/640falseLanguage in the brain or general cognition?A reviewing talk and open discussion on what makes human language so special.podiumenIs language a unique cognitive capacity, or can it be explained in terms of more general computational mechanisms of the human brain?
The presentation aims to tackle this debate by giving a talk reviewing important literature, followed by a panel discussion in which a set of prepared questions as well as questions that emerge in the course of the event will be addressed. For decades the predominant paradigm in linguistic research was that language is a uniquely human phenomenon. The reasons for that assumption are obvious – no other species can manipulate signs and thereby communicate in a way as complex and sophisticated as humans do. In line with this observation was the dominating view that language is not only unique to humans, but unique in general. That is, it was proposed that language does not form part of general cognition, but is has to be seen as a separate mental capacity, a linguistic module of the mind, if you will (Fodor, 1983).
As science progressed, learning mechanisms were discovered that suggested that there might be, to some extent at least, more general processes at play when acquiring language (see, e.g., Marcus et al., 1999; Saffran et al., 1996). Also, in the fields of comparative cognition findings suggested potential parallels between animal learning mechanisms and human linguistic capacities (Fitch, 2018). Further, from an evolutionary point of view, humans stand out in that they show an disproportionally increased size of association cortex compared to primates (Krienen & Buckner, 2020; Mars et al., 2017), potentially suggesting that they have more capacities to process complex computations. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on whether language has to be considered a unique set of computational processes unique to the human species or whether our ability to process language arises from more general cognitive capacities (see, e.g., Behme & Deacon, 2008; Chomsky, 2011).
The aim of this talk and discussion is not to give finite answers to the debate – it would be foolish to even claim that such answers existed. Rather, my intention is to, by reviewing important literature, opening a discussion. The aim is to discuss viewpoints from different perspectives and linguistic disciplines, share knowledge and experiences and maybe to elaborate potential questions and approaches to tackle this thrilling and important topic in innovative ways.
Franz Schmid2021-11-20T12:30:00+01:0012:3001:00🥝stuts70-703-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/703falseLunch Break2021-11-20T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30🥝stuts70-662-des_wor_fei_schee_-_die_modalpartikel_fei_in_frankenhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/662falseDes wor fei schee - Die Modalpartikel fei in FrankenlecturedeIn diesem Vortrag soll es um die Modalpartikel "fei" in Franken gehen. Im Gegensatz zum bairischen "fei" gibt es zur Verwendung von "fei" in Franken bisher kaum Forschung. Diese Forschungslücke soll mittelfristig geschlossen werden. Die Verwendung der Modalpartikel fei in Franken wurde bereits in einer Projektarbeit auf syntaktischer, semantischer und pragmatischer Ebene mithilfe von Daten (122 Belegen), die vom an der Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen ansässigen Fränkischen Wörterbuch (WBF) durch Fragebögen zwischen 1960 und 2001 erhoben worden sind, untersucht. Die Erkenntnisse dieser Projektarbeit sollen auf der StuTS vorgestellt werden und es soll perspektivisch auf die Masterarbeit zu dem gleichen Thema, die nun begonnen wird, geblickt werden.Julia PawelsAbstract 70. StuTS Modalpartikel fei - Julia PAWELS2021-11-20T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30🥝stuts70-664-exploring_the_interactions_between_visual_input_agreement_attraction_and_numerical_cognition_an_online_study_in_dutchhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/664falseExploring the interactions between visual input, agreement attraction and numerical cognition: an (online) study in DutchlectureenExploring the interactions between visual input, agreement attraction and numerical cognition: an (online) study in Dutch
While humans are unique among species in their cognitive capacity for learned mathematical skill (counting, performing arithmetic operations), our innate ability for intuitively grasping and evaluating quantities and magnitude characterize most of our daily experience.
Our Approximate Number System (ANS) is thought to be involved in the estimation of ‘how much’ there is of a given element in ecological scenarios; for example, when visually assessing how much rice there is in a plate, based on approximated grain size and surface distribution. Research suggests that display properties of the visual stimuli influence magnitude and quantity estimation. When elements of an image array appear more spread-out, numerosity perception tends to increase at a certain magnitude threshold (Krueger, 1972).
How this latter subsystem interacts and interferes with other higher cognitive functions, like language, is not completely understood as of now. However, it is the case that such contact occurs routinely, as the information the ANS carries is vital for expressing numerosity linguistically.
In the context of psycholinguistics, the encoding and processing of numerical information tends to be reflected in linguistic comprehension and production performance. Language-specific number marking, lexical numerals and quantifier restrictions all serve to encode quantity and index numerical information within the clause.
Phenomena like number agreement attraction (e.g. erroneous number marking of VP for a given NP head subject, as in ‘The key to the cabinets are on the table’) is typically induced in English (and other languages) when a local noun (here, ‘the cabinets’) seizes agreement by error. This effect can be of particular interest, as such errors have been shown to be modulated by more than just grammatical number, including non-linguistic numerical information during the processing stage. Linguistic encoding of number and quantity has two main streams of information: grammatical number (language-specific rules for agreement and overt marking) and notional number (conceptual-semantic numerical properties of referents, based on typicality). These two types of information guide agreement (errors) and appear to interact with each other during processing (Eberhard, Cutting & Bock, 2005), while also revealing interactions with nonlinguistic information available at this stage (e.g. visual input). As such, the exact computational nature of these interactive processes during sentence production remains unclear.
How does the ANS interact with grammatical and notional number during language processing? Can the involvement of these factors be modeled to account for differences observed in error rates for number agreement? Finally, can these interactions inform a finer-grained picture of the processing steps and the relationship between numerical cognition and linguistic number, and beyond, between perceptual input and language production in general?
To address these questions, a study was conducted in English (Brehm, to appear) in which the effect of notional typicality, grammatical specification, and visual array was evaluated for number agreement attraction during a sentence completion task. This study replicated previous results (Eberhard, 1997), showing that when conceptual number aligned with a specified determiner or quantifier, protective effects on agreement were observed. Moreover, this study showed novel effects of visual array on agreement: the biggest contrast reported occurred when far-spread arrays elicited more plural completions with ‘each’ and ‘every’, which are notionally plural but grammatically singular, suggesting that perceptual input may have a more significant effect in cases of conflicting, or distributive number (following Humphreys & Bock, 2004 and Eberhard, 1999).
In order to replicate and further extend these results, we conducted a similar study for Dutch, as it is phylogenetically close enough to English to predict similar effects, but features certain lexical specificities which make it a good probe for more general linguistic properties. In the context of the pandemic, the study was fully carried online, using the Gorilla Experiment Builder platform.
Within a sentence completion task, subjects were presented with a set of NPs for which they had to provide a (number agreeing) VP head. They were sequentially presented with (1) a singular subject NP and its plural PP modifier (2) a cue target adjective serving as complement for the verb head they were asked to provide in each case. While subjects were listening to the subject NP, they were presented with a visual array stimuli, followed by the adjective target on screen. Importantly, subjects had to orally produce these completions while being recorded.
As in Brehm’s original study, we manipulated notional and grammatical number in linguistic stimuli, and set three array type conditions (far, close or mid/filler) in visual primes.
Quantifiers and determiners of the head noun varied in grammatical number (S/P) being specified or underspecified, as well as in notional number (typicality of referent number given a determiner or quantifier). Every subject was presented with every combination of each condition.
Specifically for this study, we exploited determiner gender/number contrasts of Dutch by using diminutive forms of the noun (as in Antón-Méndez & Hartsuiker, 2010), both as a control for the neutral ‘het’ (maximally specific singular determiner) compared to ‘de’ (underspecified in number), and as a test for a putative effect of the diminutive in singular agreement protection, which is a hypothesis that shall be further explained in the course of this talk.
The data are currently under transcription and analysis, but we will provide a general discussion for the implications of upcoming results.
On a more methodological note, and given the growing body of online research in linguistics since 2020, we will provide a more in-depth overview of Gorilla Experiment Builder as it applies to psycholinguistic experimental needs.
This study was conducted under the supervision of Laurel Ellen Brehm and Antje Meyer at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, and launched in July 2021 for data collection.María Eugenia Arthuis Blanco2021-11-20T12:30:00+01:0012:3001:00👾stuts70-704-lunch_breakhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/704falseLunch Break2021-11-20T13:30:00+01:0013:3000:30👾stuts70-659-minority_languages_in_international_and_local_education_policy_the_case_of_chukotkahttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/659falseMinority Languages in International and Local Education Policy: the Case of ChukotkalectureenThe research addresses the issue of language policy in education in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The majority of the people in this region identify themselves as Russians (All-Russian Census 2010), with Chukchi, Yupik, and Even ethnic groups recognized as indigenous minorities (Charter of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Art. 19). This means that their languages (Chukot, Yupik, and Even respectively) have to be developed and protected in every sphere, especially in education, which is one of the most common ways to preserve a language (Hinton 2018, 488). In addition, this has to be done in full accordance with the international language instruments ratified by Russia. This paper, therefore, focuses on 2 aspects: whether the legislation of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug fully corresponds to the international law and if the region’s language policy in education is what the authorities claim it to be.Firstly, 5 international conventions, declarations, and treaties linked to the language policy in education and ratified by the Russian Federation have been analyzed to see in what framework the Russian law exists. Russia seems to have ratified all the major instruments linked to language policy in education except 2, and the reasons for that are discussed, too.
Secondly, 20 laws, decrees, orders, acts, and regulations of federal and regional governments on language policy in education have been perused to outline the “official,” or expected by policy makers, language situation in the region. This analysis then is compared to the international legal framework to see if there are any inconsistencies between them.
Finally, 10 in-depth semi-structured interviews have been carried out with native speakers of minority languages of Chukotka to understand whether the claimed language policy in education corresponds to the real language situation in the region. The analysis of the interviews shows that even though some attempts to preserve the Chukot, Yupik, and Even languages through education are made, they are mostly unsuccessful. Consequently, these languages are gradually disappearing from the daily lives of indigenous peoples.
The results of this research explain the correlation between the international and local language policies in education in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, as well as between “the expected” and the real language policy there. The language situation in the region is assessed, and a strategy of its improvement is outlined. This work can be used as a reference point for the analysis of language policy in education in other regions, as well as provide prospects for further research on the topic.
/system/events/logos/000/000/659/large/HSE_logo.jpg?1635683198Aleksandr ArtamonovArina Kosareva2021-11-20T14:00:00+01:0014:0000:30👾stuts70-629-methods_to_detect_contact-induced_language_change_in_spanishhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/629falseMethods to detect contact-induced language change in SpanishChecking in with postnominal 'alguno' in Spanish and 'algum' in PortugueselectureenWhen working on language change, it is difficult to decide if a phenomenon of language change is the result of language contact or internal language change. This is true especially in the case of languages of the same language family in contact as it is the case for Romance languages as Aranese, Spanish and Portuguese.
In this talk, the underlying question is the following: How can we detect contact-induced language change in Spanish? In particular, how do we do that when Spanish is in contact with another Romance language such as Portuguese? I will show that sociolinguistic factors play a central role in this topic; also, that syntactic analyses can only help partly to detect external language change.Brinkmann (accepted; 2018) analyses data of contact-induced language change in Maya and combines Sorace (2011) and Heine & Kuteva (2009) to obtain a more complete theory. Maya and Spanish are languages from very different language families. Therefore, detecting Spanish influences in Maya seems to be a different task than finding influences from one Romance language in another, e.g., Spanish influences within Aranese.
Winkelmann (1989) compares the language use of people in the Val d’Aran (Spain) and neighboring regions in Spain and France. By comparing language tokens of different regions and of speakers of different ages, Winkelmann (1989) concludes which structures in Aranese are influenced by language contact with neighbor varieties (e.g., Spanish, Catalan, or Occitan varieties). Another conclusion refers to the question of which structures are solely the result of internal language change. However, this method has some problems concerning the differentiation between language contact and internal language change of Romance languages as they all derive from Latin and, therefore, can have similar developments even without language contact.
In this talk, I compare methods on contact-induced language change (see Brinkmann, accepted; 2018; Heine & Kuteva 2009; Sorace 2011; Winkelmann 1989). Furthermore, I check how these methods work on a phenomenon that exists in Portuguese and Spanish, i.e., combinations of nouns and postnominal algum (1a) and alguno (1b) using data that stems from the Corpus do Português (CdP) and Corpus del Español (CdE) and prior studies on this phenomenon (see Martins 2015a, 2015b).
(1) a. não é problema algum (Portuguese)
not is problem no
‚it’s no problem (at all)‘ (CdP 2018: NOW)
b. no tiene problema alguno (Spanish)
not has problem no
‚it is no problem (at all)’ (CdE 2018: NOW)
The focus of this talk lies on syntactic properties in language change and the interface to sociolinguistics.
References
Brinkmann, Lisa Marie. 2018. Sprachkontakt Maya und Spanisch: Zur Bedeutung der kontaktinduzierten Grammatikalisierung in Maya. Unveröffentlichte Masterarbeit. Hamburg: Universität Hamburg.
Brinkmann, Lisa Marie. accepted. „Sprachkontakt Spanisch und Maya: Eine Feldstudie in Yucatán zur kontaktinduzierten Grammatikalisierung in Maya“, promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik.
Heine, Bernd & Kuteva, Tania. 2009. “On contact-induced grammaticalization”, Studies in Language 27(3), 529–572.
Martins, Ana Maria. 2015a. “Negation and NPI composition inside DP”, in: Biberauer, Theresa & Walkden, George (eds), Syntax over Time: Lexical, Morphological and Information- Structural Interactions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 102–122.
Martins, Ana Maria. 2015b. “Ordem de palavras e polaridade: inversão nominal negativa com algum/alguno e nenhum“. Diacrítica 29: 401–428.
Sorace, Antonella. 2011. “Pinning down the concept of interface in bilingual development.”, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1(2), 1–33.
Winkelmann, Otto. 1989. Untersuchungen zur Sprachvariation des Gaskognischen im Val d’Aran (Zentralpyrenäen). Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Corpora
CdE: Corpus del Español. 2001-2018. Davies, Mark, https://www.corpusdelespanol.org (Last access: 10/17/21).
> Corpus del Español: NOW. 2018. https://www.corpusdelespanol.org/now/ (Last access: 10/17/21).
CdP: Corpus do Português. 2006-2018. Davies, Mark, https://www.corpusdoportugues.org (Last access: 10/17/21).
> Corpus do Português: NOW. 2018. https://www.corpusdoportugues.org/now/ (Last access: 10/17/21).
Martina Gerdts (she/her)2021-11-20T14:30:00+01:0014:3000:30👾stuts70-644-ironischer_sprachgebrauch_als_mittel_zur_positionierung_im_rahmen_soziopolitischer_problemstellungenhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/644falseIronischer Sprachgebrauch als Mittel zur Positionierung im Rahmen soziopolitischer ProblemstellungenEin ImpulsvortraglecturedeWir werden uns in diesem Vortrag, der dezidiert als diskussionseröffnend denn als "fertige" Ergebnisse präsentierend verstanden werden soll, mit ironischem Sprachgebrauch als Form des sog. uneigentlichen Sprechens beschäftigen.
Wenn die Ironie einer sprachlichen Äußerung erkannt wird, stellt der_die Rezipient_in (R) eine Inkongruenz zwischen der expliziten Äußerung (Satzbedeutung) und dem Wissen über den_die Sprecher_in fest, wobei das Wissen auch ein Vermuten über S' Einstellungen und Überzeugungen sein kann (Groeben 1984: 191). Die der wörtlichen Bedeutung des ironischen Sprechakts entgegenstehende Information kann häufig nicht unmittelbar (etwa im Satz vorher, wie in vielen Beispielen der sich mit Ironie befassenden Literatur) ausgemacht werden. Das Hintergrundwissen erlaubt es R, von S' Verstoß gegen die Gricesche Qualitätsmaxime „Sage nichts, was du für falsch hältst“ (Grice 1975) und einer von S intendierten Uminterpretation des wörtlichen Gesagten in das Gegenteil auszugehen: R sucht nach einer Interpretation, die die Verletzung der Regel ausschließt, und wendet im Zuge dessen mithilfe der durch den Kontext und das Weltwissen bereitgestellten Information eine konversationelle Implikatur an (Schwarz-Friesel 2009: 224). Nach Groeben 1984 lässt sich das von Hörmann (1976) aufgestellte Prinzip der Sinnkonstanz auf das Phänomen der Ironie übertragen: Dass die wörtliche Bedeutung des Gesagten in Inkongruenz zum Wissen von R über S und S' Kognition steht, führt nicht dazu, dass sich R „mit der Feststellung begnügt, daß er den Satz nicht versteht, sondern er versucht, ihm eine Bedeutung zuzuordnen, die den Satz im Rahmen seines Wissens über [S] sinnvoll macht“ (Groeben 1984: 192). Das Verstehen von Ironie besteht sodann in der Konstruktion von Bedeutung, und zwar solch einer Bedeutung, die die wörtliche Bedeutung negiert: dem „eigentlich Gemeinten“ (ebd.).
Durch 'uneigentliches Sprechen' in Form der Ironisierung bestimmter Sachverhalte kann S eine indirekte und implizite Selbstpositionierung (Lucius-Hoene & Deppermann 2004) vornehmen, wie am Beispiel eines argumentativen Textes im Rahmen der Sexismus-Debatte in der Punk-Szene in Deutschland gezeigt werden soll.Literatur:
Grice, Herbert-Paul (1975). Logic and conversation. In: P. Cole / J.L. Morgan (eds): Syntax and semantics. Vol. 3: Speech acts. New York, pp. 41-58.
Groeben, Norbert (1984). Rezeption als Konstruktion. Das Prinzip der Sinnkonstanz am Beispiel von Ironie. In: J. Engelkamp (Hg.): Lehr- und Forschungstexte Psychologie Band 10. Psychologische Aspekte des Verstehens. Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer, 185-201.
Hörmann, Hans (1976). Meinen und Verstehen. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp.
Lucius-Hoene, Gabriele & Arnulf Deppermann (2004). Narrative Identität und Positionierung. Gesprächsforschung 5 (Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion), 166-183.
Schwarz-Friesel, Monika (2009). Ironie als indirekter expressiver Sprechakt: Zur Funktion emotionsbasierter Implikaturen bei kognitiver Simulation. In: A. Bachmann-Stein / S. Merten / Ch. Roth (Hg.): Perspektiven auf Wort, Satz und Text. Semantisierungsprozesse auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen des Sprachsystems. Festschrift für Inge Pohl. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 223-232.
Phillip Alexander Neumair2021-11-20T14:00:00+01:0014:0001:30🌟stuts70-681-mitgliederversammlung_-_junge_sprachwissenschafthttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/681falseMitgliederversammlung - Junge SprachwissenschaftpodiumLaura LevstockRene FoidlViktor MartinovićVictor Zimmermann2021-11-20T16:00:00+01:0016:0001:00🌟stuts70-680-abschlussplenumhttps://talks.stuts.de/en/stuts70/public/events/680falseAbschlussplenum(& Tombola)podiumDina StankovicLaura LevstockViktor MartinovićChang JiangFranz SchmidRene Foidl