Applied Linguistics
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Computational Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics
Diverse
Historical Linguistics
Neuro- and Psycholinguistics
Phonetics and Phonology
Sociolinguistics
Theoretical Linguistics
Typology and Variational Linguistics
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Neuro- and Psycholinguistics 6
Accent stereotypes and their impact on language processing
People tend to categorize others based on their ethnic background, regional membership, and/or social class. We do not even have to see the other person for...
Does contrast affect the use of the personal pronoun er and the pronominal demonstratives der and dieser in German?
Evidence in Support of a Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Harmony between the Verb Phrase and the Adpositional Phrase in the Absence of Surface-Level Patterns
The vast majority of languages for which we have the data display syntactic harmony between the verb phrase and the adpositional phrase. Previous work...
Language and attachment in mother-child interactions: Relations between related talk and attachment
In my master’s thesis, which combines psychological and linguistic theories, I analyse the relationship between maternal attachment style and the mothers'...
Sound symbolism im cross-linguistischen Vergleich
The role of communication in the development of sign language lexicons
The most learnable language would be one with an identical form for every word. But the interactive nature of languages means they are under constant...
Sociolinguistics 6
An analysis of strategies and tactics used in courtroom dialogues
Language used in courtrooms has long been an issue of interest, due to its strict formality and the power imbalance that exists between attorneys and...
Die Auswirkungen des Krieges auf die Sprache: Lehnwörter im Englischen
#GermanisTikTok
„wer benutzt ÜBERHAUPT komma“ – Diese Frage einer TikTok-Nutzerin in der Kommentarsektion unter einem Video, das sich inhaltlich mit dem Thema Kommasetzung...
Go small or go big, there is no in-between
Morpheme expansion and linguistic mistakes of the Russian government
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has significantly affected Russian language and its use in public space — certain actions by the Russian government have...
Multilingualism in Crisis Communication
This on-going project investigates the availability, accessibility, and acceptability of multilingual and simple COVID-19 information for individuals in the...
Theoretical Linguistics 7
An experimental approach to principle C in German
Effects of Impoverishment and Obliteration in Morphology
In my talk I will lay out the different effects of the morphological operation Impoverishment and Obliteration. I will share insights from theoretical...
Existential Generics and Information Structure
Generic sentences are used to convey exception-tolerant generalizations over a kind or, roughly, relevant members thereof (Carlson & Pelletier 1995;...
Internet Memes as Argument Prompts
Investigating the semantics of tense-aspect markers in Jula
Our talk aims at presenting a research project that we did on the tenses and aspects markers of Jula (an understudied Mande language). We will show how to...
Metapragmatische Marker als Konfiguratoren mentaler Räume
Slides available on request. Please get in touch: oliver.spiess@unibas.ch
The binding of German anaphors in a Minimalist Framework
Computational Linguistics 7
ARAY: Create your own speaking clock
In this workshop we will briefly introduce speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), and focus on one particular type: concatenative speech...
Fine-Tuned Sentence Transformer Model for Question Answering Task
I would like to introduce the structure and a practical application of sentence transformer models which are used for sentence- and document-level NLP tasks,...
Hate Speech Detection on Code-Switched Data
The following presentation will focus on adapting a pre-trained BERT model to a code-switched dataset to be able to create a hate speech detection model...
Implementing a Chatbot - Rule Based vs. Machine Learning
Tools for implementing chatbots can generally be divided into two categories - rule based and machine learning systems. This presentation is about a bachelor...
Information structure in speech synthesis
The term ‘information structure’ refers to a way of forming a message in a way that makes it most easily understandable for the hearer against the background...
Spraakherkenning, wa is da? - Bias in Flemish Speech Recognition
The rest is syntax
I present preliminary research on compositional phrase embeddings using a novel tree LSTM autoencoder. I will outline the necessary theoretical background...
Applied Linguistics 6
Argumentative Muster von jungen CoVid-Skeptiker*innen und -Leugner*innen in Österreich.
Seit über zwei Jahren prägt die CoVid-19-Pandemie weltweit gesellschaftliche, politische und mediale Diskurse und nimmt damit auch Einfluss auf unseren...
Intercultural Communicative Competence in foreign language teaching and learning: A comparison of the situation of Morocco and Germany in tertiary education
My participation aims at giving insightful criteria in choosing the research methodology, data collection tools and procedures; and identifying data analysis...
Pragmatic Markers in Direct Messaging
A comparative study of pragmatic markers used in direct messaging and oral conversation.
"Warte, warst du jetzt im Krankenhaus?!"
Aus Imperativen entstandene Diskurspartikeln sind bisher vorwiegend in medial mündlicher Interaktion untersucht worden. Die Arbeiten zu komm (vgl. Proske...
"We were able to communicate after all.”
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and mobility increases, more and more encounters take place in which people interact despite the absence of...
Wie Menschen in laufende Gespräche einsteigen
Wie gelingt es Menschen, erfolgreich in bereits laufende Interaktionen einzusteigen? Diese Frage wurde zuvor kaum linguistisch untersucht, auch wenn die...
Break 7
Historical Linguistics 2
Crash Course Historical Comparative Method, The Tree Model & Genetic Relationship
We all know language families and language trees which are supposed to show how languages are related. But the method that underlies such trees, the...
Innovation or Retention? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects
Dialect variation offers us huge insights in the history of a language. Through looking at the geographical distribution of dialect variants and comparing...
Typology and Variational Linguistics 6
Creating Dialect Maps (with QGIS)
In this workshop, we will go through: What are… & how do I make…: - Symbol maps - Frequency maps - Isogloss maps - Area maps (we won’t go through this...
Genesis and Typology of Mixed Languages
German loanwords in Cameroonian Fàŋ-Bətí languages
Basically, this study is geared towards the phonological description of the nouns the Fàŋ-Bətí languages borrowed from the German language. During the...
"Kachten aus dem Kaatenspiel"
Eine laufende Untersuchung über die Verwendung des stimmlosen uvularen Frikativs als /r/-Variante.
Von Sprachkontakt und Zweckentfremdung: die Entwicklung des baskischen definiten Artikels
When iconicity diverges
Sign languages, the manual-visual languages of deaf communities, exhibit a high degree of iconicity in their vocabularies due to the affordances of the...
Diverse 3
“Don’t speak Latin in front of the books!”: An exploration into the linguistic influences on the creation of magic systems in fiction
Not gonna lie - An investigation into constructional change
Semantic Differentiation of Old Irish Terms for Bodies of Water
This study investigates the semantics of Old Irish terms in the lexical field 'body of water' based on a corpus of electronically available texts. The...
Workshop 1
Corpus Linguistics 1
Phonetics and Phonology 3
On Forced-Alignment and its Utility in Corpora for Phonetic Research
Phonetic Convergence in German non-native speech
The analysis is based on the project entitled "Automated analysis of phonetic convergence in speech technology systems". The project of the Faculty of Modern...
R-Sandhi: Do learners of EFL shadow native speakers?
As part of a sociophonetics seminar by Prof. Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Uni Trier) an experiment was designed to find out, whether learners of English as a Foreign...