{"conference_events":{"events":[{"id":844,"guid":"a8f1ea7e-b559-42d4-bb85-03f4318cf250","title":"Accent stereotypes and their impact on language processing","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro- and Psycholinguistics","abstract":"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 stereotypes to be activated: even a simple “hello” can be enough for a listener to socially and geographically categorize the speaker and infer implicit stereotypical associations concerning, for example, the speaker's competences (e.g., education level) and social skills (e.g., trustworthiness). As opposed to explicit associations, of which we are aware, implicit associations may lead to prejudiced behaviour without us even noticing it. Although we all unconsciously use accent stereotypes, little is still known about the influence of implicit stereotypical associations on the processing of language. \r\n\r\nIn this presentation, I want to focus on the question of how these implicit accent stereotypes can be assessed as well as how they affect the way we process language. Specifically, I will discuss how measures of brain activation can reveal the presence and impact of implicit stereotypes while listening to accented speech.","speakers":[{"guid":"805b7246-e90f-52e0-a46b-a2b3a0ef22da","id":779,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/779/original/H.Loerts-photo.png?1652114390","name":"Hanneke Loerts","public_name":"Hanneke Loerts","email":"h.loerts@rug.nl","abstract":"Hanneke Loerts is an assistant professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen, where she teaches courses on psycho- and neurolinguistics, research methodology, and statistics. Her research focuses on multilingual language comprehension and processing using both behavioural as well as online measures such as eye-tracking and event-related potentials.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T09:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T10:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Auditorium (1.12)","id":86}},{"id":836,"guid":"d30c0c20-3d8e-49db-bdb9-a8971ca9e1b4","title":"An analysis of strategies and tactics used in courtroom dialogues","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"References\r\nJefferson, G. (2004). Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction. In G. H. Lerner (Ed.), Conversation\r\nAnalysis (pp. 13–31). John Benjamins Publishing Company.\r\nMortensen, S. S. (2020). A question of control? Forms and functions of courtroom questioning in two different adversarial trial systems. Scandinavian Studies in Language, 11(1), 239-278.\r\nRaymond, G. (2003). Grammar and social organization: yes/no interrogatives and the structure of bonding. American Sociological Review, 68(6), 939-967.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"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 witnesses. Yes/No Interrogatives (shortened as YNIs) are used overwhelmingly when lawyers cross-examine witnesses (Raymond, 2003; Mortensen, 2020). Because the type-conforming responses for YNIs are only “Yes” and “No,” lawyers utilize such constraints to their benefits, forcing the witnesses to produce type-conforming responses only. In this study, I use the Conversation Analysis (CA) framework to transcribe a courtroom scene from Big Little Lies, and analyze how it illustrates the various strategies used by lawyers in courtroom interactions.\r\n\r\nThe Jefferson Transcription System (2004) was used for transcriptions, and I focused on the adjacency pairs of YNIs as suggested by Raymond (2003): First Pair Part (FPP), which is the question in this case, and Second Pair Part (SPP), which is the response. Whether they are type conforming or type non-conforming is an important issue in institutional settings where conforming responses are required, so type conformity and its effects will be analyzed in more detail. Drawing examples from the transcription, I show that although tactics used by lawyers and witnesses to discredit the opponent’s reasoning are present in the interaction, social and cultural factors such as the relationship between speakers or the fictious nature of the scene also influence the dynamics of the participants in a way that diverges from existing literature.","speakers":[{"guid":"53c6a224-6949-53ff-9c4e-78fe0ed785a7","id":765,"image":null,"name":"Suzy Park","public_name":"Suzy Park","email":"suzypark0904@gmail.com","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T15:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T15:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":819,"guid":"769126fd-3c37-4361-b387-908d9fbdecba","title":"An experimental approach to principle C in German","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Standard binding theory (Chomsky 1981) proposes that coreference and binding are regulated by binding principles A, B, and C. Additionally, it was generally accepted until a few years ago that coreference and binding are regulated by \u003ci\u003ec-command\u003c/i\u003e (Reinhart 1976, 1983), a syntactic principle. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nDefinition 1: Principle C: All R-expressions must be free. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nDefinition 2: C-command: Node A c(onstituent)-commands node B iff the branching node α\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e most immediately dominating A either dominates B or is immediately dominated by a node α\u003csub\u003e2\u003c/sub\u003e which dominates B, and α\u003csub\u003e2\u003c/sub\u003e is of the same category type as α\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nPrinciple C and c-command taken together predict why coreference between the pronoun preceding the R-expression \u003ci\u003eLucy\u003c/i\u003e is possible in (1a), but not in (1b). \u003cbr\u003e\r\n(1) a. Her\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e sister found Lucy\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n     b. *She\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e found Lucy\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nHowever, there are many counterexamples showing that non-syntactic factors can influence coreference judgments (Bolinger 1977) or even obviate principle C, such as etiquette requirements in (2). \u003cbr\u003e\r\n(2) (Schlenker 2005: 399, ex. 37) \u003cbr\u003e\r\n [The King of Transsylvania]\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e requests that [his Majesty’s]\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e ministers join [his Majesty]\u003csub\u003e1\u003c/sub\u003e in Room Rosa Luxemburg. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nThese counterexamples lead modern approaches to principle C (e.g. Bruening 2014, 2021; Schlenker 2005) to adopt pragmatic principles allowing for principle C violations. One of these principles is \u003ci\u003eMinimize Restrictors!\u003c/i\u003e (Schlenker 2005), which states that a definite description should be reduced (to a pronoun, for example) if this does not affect its denotation and if there is no pragmatic reason to not reduce it. In (2), politeness requires the usage of the full R-expression \u003ci\u003ehis Majesty\u003c/i\u003e instead of a pronoun. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn this talk, I present the results of a judgment task experiment focusing on semantic and pragmatic effects causing principle C violations in German. While testing the data of Frey (1993), one of the most influential works on coreference and binding in German, I discuss whether the principle C obviations found in my study can be accounted for through the incorporation of \u003ci\u003eMinimize Restrictors!\u003c/i\u003e and similar principles into principle C. The results show that a purely syntactic theory of principle C, even if it is granting exceptions for ‘pragmatic effects’, cannot account for the German coreference patterns, suggesting that other, non-syntactic effects regulating coreference could be uncovered in future research. \r\n\r\nReferences \u003cbr\u003e\r\nBolinger, Dwight. 1977. \u003ci\u003ePronouns and repeated nouns\u003c/i\u003e. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nBruening, Benjamin. 2014. Precede-and-command revisited. \u003ci\u003eLanguage\u003c/i\u003e 90(2). 342- 388. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nBruening, Benjamin. 2021. Generalizing the presuppositional approach to the binding conditions. \u003ci\u003eSyntax\u003c/i\u003e 24(4). 417-461. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nChomsky, Noam. 1984 [1981]. \u003ci\u003eLectures on government and binding. The pisa lectures\u003c/i\u003e. Third revised edition. Dordrecht: Foris Publications. \u003cbr\u003e \r\nFrey, Werner. 1993. \u003ci\u003eSyntaktische Bedingungen für die semantische Interpretation. Über Bindung, implizite Argumente und Skopus\u003c/i\u003e. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nReinhart, Tanya. 1976. \u003ci\u003eThe syntactic domain of anaphora\u003c/i\u003e. Cambride, MA: MIT dissertation. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nReinhart, Tanya. 1983. \u003ci\u003eAnaphora and semantic interpretation\u003c/i\u003e. London \u0026 Canberra: Croom Helm. \u003cbr\u003e\r\nSchlenker, Philippe. 2005. Minimize Restrictors! Notes on definite descriptions, condition C and epithets. \u003ci\u003eProceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung\u003c/i\u003e 9, 385-416. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"5ae5387c-4600-5a9d-a29b-ab3958ef66fd","id":749,"image":null,"name":"Carla Spellerberg","public_name":"Carla Spellerberg","email":"carla.spellerberg@stud.uni-frankfurt.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Decartes (2.36)","id":101}},{"id":857,"guid":"c8aa2fa6-e383-4481-9964-4093438f9b9b","title":"ARAY: Create your own speaking clock","language":"en","subtitle":"Introduction to concatenative speech synthesis","description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/857/original/ARAY.png?1652723197","type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"In this workshop we will briefly introduce speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), and focus on one particular type: concatenative speech synthesis. Then we will turn to code and show you an example: ARAY — world's first demotivational, bitchy, code-switching, voice-transforming, wannabe clock.\r\n\r\nThen you will get the chance to create your own speaking clock. We will make use of Google Colab so access to a Google account is necessary.","speakers":[{"guid":"4cedf427-d4a0-509b-85f8-fa9d20652772","id":534,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/534/original/DSCF9323_copy.jpg?1617356528","name":"Aaricia Herygers","public_name":"Aaricia Herygers","email":"aariciaherygers@gmail.com","abstract":"Linguist (MA) and Voice Technologist (MSc) with an interest in German and speech recognition.","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/aariciah/","title":"LinkedIn"}]},{"guid":"3a1f916f-8cd1-5168-91cf-d591020bbd7f","id":784,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/784/original/janay.jpeg?1653138907","name":"Janay Monen","public_name":"Janay Monen","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":821,"guid":"87b284ec-1949-4c0e-a0ff-23e5af7a29ad","title":"Argumentative Muster von jungen CoVid-Skeptiker*innen und -Leugner*innen in Österreich.","language":"de","subtitle":"Eine kritische Diskursanalyse.","description":"In der präsentierten Arbeit wurden daher die argumentativen Strukturen unter jungen CoVid-Skeptiker*innen und –Leugner*innen in Österreich untersucht. Als Stichprobe wurden dazu sämtlich öffentlich zugänglichen Telegramgruppen der Bewegung „Studenten stehen auf“ zugezogen, die sich durch eine eindeutige Gruppenbenennung jeweils einer von 8 österreichischen Städten zuordnen. Untersucht wurden Nachrichten aus dem Zeitraum des 4. gesamtösterreichischen Lockdowns zwischen 22. November und 12. Dezember 2021, die mindestens einen argumentativen Schluss aufweisen, der eindeutig durch eine Prämisse und eine Konklusion gekennzeichnet ist. Das nach diesen Kriterien erstellte Korpus wurde mithilfe der „Extensive Markup Language“ (XML) strukturiert und anhand der von Toulmin (1996) und Schröter (2021) konzipierten linguistischen Argumentationsanalyse annotiert. Die Ergebnisse beschreiben die argumentative Makro- und Mikrostruktur der analysierten Nachrichten, wobei die Mikrostruktur und damit die verwendeten Prämissen und argumentativen Topoi im Vordergrund der Untersuchung stehen. Konkret werden die Fragen beantwortet, welche Argumentationstypen verwendet, welche Topoi dabei etabliert bzw. reproduziert werden und welche Prämissen den Argumentationen zugrunde liegen. Zusätzlich bietet die Analyse Einblicke in Kommunikations- und Argumentationsweisen im Medium Telegram, das insbesondere seit Beginn der Pandemie laufend große Mengen an Nutzer*innen und damit gesellschaftliche Bedeutung gewinnt. Im Sinne einer konstruktivistisch-soziokulturellen Linguistik liefern diese Ergebnisse darüber hinaus Einblick in den Prozess der Konstruktion einer (alternativen) Realität durch Sprache – ein Phänomen, das unter dem Begriff der „Fake News“ bereits seit Jahren auf gesellschaftliches Interesse trifft. Durch diese diskurskritische Analyse kann somit ein Zugang zu einer gesellschaftlichen Randgruppe und einem kontroversen politischen Phänomen geschaffen und eine erste Abbildung der rhetorischen und ideologischen Muster der untersuchten Bewegung geliefert werden.  \r\n\r\nReferences: \r\n  Aronson, P./Jaffal, I. (2022). Zoom Memes for Self-Quaranteens: Generational Humor, Identity, and Conflict During the Pandemic. Emerging Adulthood (Thousand Oaks, CA), 10(2), S. 519-533.\r\nBehr, I./Liedtke, F. (2021). Krise im öffentlichen Raum. Formen und Funktionen kleiner Kommunikationsformate zu Covid 19. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 51, S. 365–398\r\nBetz, G. (2020). Argumentationsanalyse: Eine Einführung. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.\r\nBuarque, B. (2022). Is It Conspiracy or 'Truth'? Examining the Legitimation of the 5G Conspiracy Theory during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Social Epistemology, Online, 2022-03-20.\r\nBülow, L./Diehr, A./Pfurtscheller, D./Thome, S. (2021). Corona-Diskurse in und über Österreich. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 90. \r\nDaux-Combaudon, A./Habscheid, S./Herling, S./Thörle, B. (2021). Die Corona-Krise im Diskurs: Hervorbringung, Konzeptualisierung und Vermittlung im internationalen Vergleich. LiLi, Zeitschrift Für Literaturwissenschaft Und Linguistik, 51(3), S. 357-363.\r\nEisewicht, P./Steinmann, N./Kortmann, P. (2021). Die globale Corona-Pandemie im Spiegel persönlicher Postings – Plattformbezogene Kommunikationsmodi in Sozialen Medien. ÖZS. Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Soziologie, 46(4), S. 353-384.\r\n\r\nFong, A./Roozenbeek, J./Goldwert/D./Rathje, S./van der Linden, S. (2021). The language of conspiracy: A psychological analysis of speech used by conspiracy theorists and their followers on Twitter. Group Processes \u0026 Intergroup Relations, 24/4, S. 606–623. \r\n\r\nHennig, M./Gräf, D. (2020). Die Verengung der Welt. Zur medialen Konstruktion Deutschlands unter Covid-19 anhand der Formate ARD Extra -Die Coronalage und ZDF Spezial. Preprint. [Zugriff 22.11.2021 via Researchgate)\r\n\r\nLamberty, P./Imhoff, R. (2021). Verschwörungserzählungen im Kontext der Coronapandemie.  Psychotherapeut 66, S. 203–208.\r\nLeschzyk, D. (2021). Diskreditierung in der Krise. Rhetorische Angriffe auf die Vertrauenswürdigkeit der österreichischen Regierung. In: Bülow, L./Diehr, A./Pfurtscheller, D./Thome, S. (2021). Corona-Diskurse in und über Österreich. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 90, S. 113-153.\r\n\r\nLorber, C. (2021). Impfkritik im deutschsprachigen Raum um 1720, 1820, 1920 und 2020. Ein diskursanalytischer Vergleich anhand ausgewählter Quellen. Diplomarbeit. Universität Wien. \r\nMiani, A./Hills, T./Bangerter, A. (2021). LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus. Behavior Research Methods. \r\nMüller, M. (2021). Necessity, Norm and Missing Knowledge What Modals Tell Us About Crisis Response in German COVID-19 Reporting. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 51, S. 421–450. \r\nNorstrom, R./Sarna, P. (2021). Internet memes in Covid-19 lockdown times in Poland. Comunicar 29(67).\r\nO’Keeffe, A. (2006). Investigating Media Discourse. London: Routledge.\r\nPauliks, K. (2020). Memes of the virus: social criticism of the corona pandemic on the internet. In: TelevIZIon, 33/E, S. 46–49.\r\n\r\nReisigl, M. (2021). Vom Fahren bei schlechter Sicht, Beschleunigen, Abbremsen und Stillstehen auf dem Pannenstreifen. Beobachtungen zur Leitmetapher der Automobilität im österreichischen Mediendiskurs über die Covid-19-Krise. In: Bülow, L./Diehr, A./Pfurtscheller, D./Thome, S. (2021). Corona-Diskurse in und über Österreich. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 90, S. 5-38. \r\n\r\nScarpanti, E. (2021). Fake news: Linguistic aspects of a new textual genre. Forum Italicum, 55(3), 865-877.\r\nSchröter, J./Thome, S. (2020). SVP – FPÖ. Comparing argumentations of two right-wing populist parties. LiLi, Zeitschrift Für Literaturwissenschaft Und Linguistik, 50(2). \r\nSchröter, J. (2021a). Linguistische Argumentationsanalyse. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.\r\nSchröter, J. (2021b). Narratives Argumentieren in politischen Leserbriefen. LiLi, Zeitschrift Für Literaturwissenschaft Und Linguistik, 51(2), S. 229-253.\r\n\r\nSpieß, C. (2021). »Dieser Fehler ist einzig und allein mein Fehler« – Politische Kommunikation im Zeichen der Corona-Pandemie. LiLi, Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 51/3, S. 451–475. \r\nToulmin, S. (2003). The uses of argument. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. \r\nVogel, F. (2020). »Wenn Virologen alle paar Tage ihre Meinung ändern, müssen wir in der Politik dagegenhalten« – Thesen zur politischen Sprache und (strategischen) Kommunikation im Pandemie-Krisendiskurs. Sprachreport 36/3, S. 20–29. \r\nVollmer, A. (2020). 3000 neue Wörter im Duden. Jetzt auch mit Bartöl. In. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Online. URL: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/stil/trends-nischen/corona-und-mehr-der-duden-wurde-um-3000-woerter-erweitert-16898940.html, letzter Zugriff 22.11.2021.\r\nWaldhaus, C. (2021). Von Covidioten, Corona Leugnern und anderen rechten Verschwörungstheoretikern. Eine Analyse medialer Frames. Synergies Pays Germanophones, (14), S. 45-167.\r\nWahyudi, G./Akalili, A. (2020). Narrative of Covids as Conspiracy on Youtube. JCommsci - Journal Of Media and Communication Science, 1/26.\r\nWengeler, M. (2003). Topos und Diskurs: Begründung einer argumentationsanalytischen Methode und ihre Anwendung auf den Migrationsdiskurs (1960-1985). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag.\r\nWengeler, M./Ziem, A. (2014). Wie über Krisen geredet wird. Einige Ergebnisse eines diskursgeschichtlichen Forschungsprojekts. In: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 44/1, S. 52–74.\r\nWicke P./Bolognesi M. (2020). Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter. PLoS ONE 15/9, e0240010.\r\nWood, M./Douglas, K. (2013). \"What about building 7?\" A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories. Frontiers in Psychology 4, S. 409–409. \r\n\r\nWeb-Quellen: \r\nBayrischer Rundfunk: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/faktenfuchs-die-verschwoerungstheorie-the-great-reset,SY2OK1r, letzter Zugriff 1.4.2022.\r\nCoronavirus Tweets Dataset: https://data.gesis.org/tweetscov19/, letzter Zugriff 1.4.2022.\r\n\r\nDer Standard: https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000133302592/telegram-die-informationszentrale-der-impfgegner, letzter Zugriff 1.4.2022.\r\nTelegram: https://web.telegram.org, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022. \r\nTelegram-Limits: limits.tginfo.me, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nSocial Media Kanäle der Gruppe ‚Studenten stehen auf‘:\r\nhttps://links.studentenstehenauf.eu/, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nhttps://t.me/Studenten_Stehen_Auf, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVDiv0RwHzVXN55kQfrw87g, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nhttps://www.instagram.com/studentenstehenauf/, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nhttps://twitter.com/stustauf, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@studentenstehenauf, letzter Zugriff 24.4.2022.\r\n \r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics ","abstract":"Seit über zwei Jahren prägt die CoVid-19-Pandemie weltweit gesellschaftliche, politische und mediale Diskurse und nimmt damit auch Einfluss auf unseren Sprachgebrauch. Neben der Entstehung bzw. Neukonnotation konkreter Lexeme („CoVid-19“, „Quarantäne“, „Querdenken“), Nutzung gewisser metaphorischer Felder (Wasser/Welle, Krieg, Verkehr) und Sichtbarmachung zuvor kaum beachteter Akteur*innen (Virolog*innen, Risikogruppe(n)) ist auch die Nutzung spezifischer argumentativer Muster ein linguistisch relevantes Phänomen. 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At the same time, I am also writing up my PhD dissertation in the DFG-AHRC project \"From Icon to Abstraction\" at the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Birmingham. Here, I am studying how iconicity is used in silent gesture and sign by comparing gesture and sign data from Germany and the UK. I hold an M.A. in Language and Communication: Psycholinguistics from Radboud Univesity, Nijmegen, NL, and a B.A. in Language and Communication from the Philipps-Universität Marburg. I am also a board member of the Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.\r\n\r\nMy interests are in sign languages, psycholinguistic research methods and tools, statistics, and open science. 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This is especially relevant for linguists working in the field who want to detect influences from neighbouring languages or people involved in synchronic comparative work. In this crash course we will take a closer look at trees and how they come into existence and we will explore how your research can benefit from a historical perspective.","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Historical Linguistics","abstract":"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 theoretical background and its problems are not taught in my linguistic programms. 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Because of that, students don’t have a lot of exposure to the varieties of dialect maps out there, and more importantly, how to produce them on their own. In this workshop, I aim to fill the gap by firstly introducing several types of dialect maps, namely point maps, frequency maps, isogloss maps and area maps. The second part of the workshop will be on creating digital dialect maps using QGIS.\r\n\r\nThe mapping skills you learn in this workshop is not only for dialectology, they are also applicable for other areas and disciplines too, so be sure not to miss out!\r\n\r\n\r\n*******IMPORTANT*******\r\nPlease download QGIS before the start of the workshop here:\r\nhttps://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html\r\n\r\nIn order to follow the mapping tasks during the workshop, please also download the files here beforehand:\r\nhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f9cpYwyvaFMrj92VgT6M7_IhYXwz6Qqb?usp=sharing\r\n","duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"workshop","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"In this workshop, we will go through:\r\n\r\nWhat are… \u0026 how do I make…:\r\n-\tSymbol maps\r\n-\tFrequency maps\r\n-\tIsogloss maps\r\n-\tArea maps (we won’t go through this with QGIS due to time)\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"eb9eb1af-cc5f-5ebb-bf76-df308771c808","id":198,"image":null,"name":"Matthew Sung","public_name":"Matthew Sung","abstract":"I am a 2nd year PhD student at Leiden University. 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In diesem Aufsatz wird die Beziehung zwischen Kriegen und lexikalischen Entlehnungen im Englischen aus dem Französischen diskutiert. Insbesondere wird das Phänomen der lexikalischen Entlehnungen zwischen dem Französischen und dem Englischen im Hinblick auf die Kriegsgeschichte zwischen diesen beiden Ländern analysiert; darüber hinaus werden in diesem Aufsatz praktische Belege präsentiert. Die eingehende Analyse zeigt, dass das Phänomen der englischen Entlehnung französischer Wörter in fast allen Bereichen des täglichen Lebens auftritt und dass die meisten dieser Entlehnungen auf Kriege über Jahrhunderte hinweg zurückzuführen sind. Es zeigt sich auch, dass die lexikalischen Entlehnungen zwischen dem Französischen und dem Englischen zweiseitig sind, während das Französische auch durch Lehnwörter aus dem Lateinischen durch Konflikte und Eroberungen der Römer bereichert wird. Mit der Anerkennung der Existenz von Lehnwörtern im Englischen und Französischen werden auch Veränderungen in Wiederholung, Aussprache und Schreibweise während der lexikalischen Entlehnung diskutiert. Außerdem wird erörtert, warum das Auftreten von lexikalischen Entlehnungen mit Kriegen zusammenhängt. Abschließend wird festgestellt, dass Kriege und das Phänomen der lexikalischen Entlehnung eng miteinander verbunden sind, da eine Sprache, die in einem zivilisierteren sozialen System verwendet wird, normalerweise einen starken Einfluss auf eine Sprache in einem weniger zivilisierten sozialen System hat. Dieser Einfluss ist jedoch bilateral und kann sich auf die ursprüngliche Sprache auswirken oder sogar neue Sprachen mit einem reichhaltigeren Wortschatz und einem ausgereifteren grammatikalischen System schaffen.     \r\n\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/843/original/ppt.jpg?1653464785","type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"e04c8dde-b6ce-591d-b8e0-49747b4944b9","id":771,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/771/original/Profilbild.jpg?1653464848","name":"Lin Lu ","public_name":"Lin Lu ","email":"Lin.Lu@campus.lmu.de","abstract":"Lulin, she graduated from the University of Frankfurt with a Bachelor degree in linguistics and is currently a Master student in cultural cognitive linguistics at the University of Munich. 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In this presentation, I report the results of two forced-choice experiments in which I empirically investigated the question whether the linguistic factor contrast affects people's choice to use the German personal pronoun er or the pronominally used demonstratives der and dieser. Bisle-Müller (1991) and Ahrenholz (2007) assume that only dieser and not der is able to express a contrast between several referents and therefore should be preferred in those contexts. Contrary to that, Bosch \u0026 Hinterwimmer (2016) argue that der is able to express contrast, which might be a difference between der and the personal pronoun er. The statistical analysis of the results of the two experiments shows that der and dieser seem to be equally able to express a contrast between their referent and other referents, while they are used more often in such contrastive contexts than in contexts without contrast. In contrast to that, the personal pronoun er is used more often in contexts without contrast than in conditions with a contrast between its antecedent and other referents. Therefore, the results do not support the hypothesis of Bisle-Müller (1991) and Ahrenholz (2007). 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Spellcasting often involves incantations, which are verbal components that a spell or magical effect requires in order to be realised or cast (sometimes supplemented by somatic components). This project examines the influences on and and choices made for the linguistic representation of incantations, in a small corpus that aims to be somewhat representative of the fantasy genre. This is also achieved through choosing a range of media, such as films, books, and games. Furthermore, the corpus includes media that is specifically aimed at adults, among which are Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and media that is specifically aimed at children, among which are Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, and Ursula K Le Guin’s Tales from Earthsea. In addition to examining incantations with an English basis, I focus somewhat on the significance of constructed languages (conlangs) used in magic systems, and the factors that influence the choice to use a conlang to represent the verbal counterpart of a magic system.\r\n\r\nMy analysis of the corpus reveals strong influences from liturgical languages on the utterances chosen to represent incantations, especially Latin and ‘Shakespearean language’. These influences link to the idea of magic as a channel between humans and gods, and positions magic as directly tied to invocations towards gods. I consider conlangs in regards to their linguistic and socio-cultural backgrounds and influences from natural languages such as Greek, Sanskrit, Manx, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic. 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MIT.   \r\n=\u003e Often credited as the first proposal of Impoverishment\r\nHarley, Heidi (2008): When is a syncretism more than a syncretism? Impoverishment, Metasyncretism, and underspecification. Phi-theory: Phi-Features across modules and interfaces pp.251-294.\r\nArregi, Karlos and Andrew Nevins (2012): Morphotactics: Basque auxiliaries and the structure of spellout. Vol. 86, Springer Science \u0026 Business Media. \r\n=\u003e Extensive Application of Impoverishment and Obliteration in DM on Basque Auxiliaries.\r\nKeine, Stefan and Gereon Müller (2020): ‘Impoverishment’. From Lingbuzz: lingbuzz/005025. \r\n=\u003e Review of different proposals of Impoverishment and well written introductory paper for Impoverishment.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"In my talk I will lay out the different effects of the morphological operation Impoverishment and Obliteration. I will share insights from theoretical approaches to Impoverishment and Obliterations that have been introduced in the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM) Since approaches to Impoverishment \u0026 Obliteration have been made plentiful in DM, I will try to focus on just a few approaches. \r\nThe goal of this talk is to introduce the concept of these operations and how they are used to account for very different phenomena. ","speakers":[{"guid":"c2524c09-ada0-595e-b7ce-53f68a1c16f7","id":753,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/753/original/Frab_Pic.jpg?1745097415","name":"Robin Ortlepp","public_name":"Robin Ortlepp","email":"robin.ortlepp@studserv.uni-leipzig.de","abstract":"I am Robin Ortlepp, currently enrolled in the MA Linguistics at the University Leipzig, Germany.  I enjoy thinking about different theoretical approaches to syntactical and morphological phenomena! :)","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T16:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":823,"guid":"33102b70-d03f-435a-abe4-eae00202116d","title":"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","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"In this talk I describe three experiments designed to establish whether there is a cognitive bias for harmony between the adpositional phrase and the verb phrase, when the possibility of using surface-level patterns is removed. These used a combination of artificial language learning and silent gesture perception methods. Experiment 1 investigated the possibility of a baseline preference for adpositional phrase order in English-speaking participants, because it is the extent of their preference for particular adpositional orders which is manipulated in experiments 2 and 3. Results showed no evidence for a baseline preference for prepositions or postpositions. Experiment 2 showed that the experimental methods employed are sufficient to demonstrate a harmony effect when the elements in the priming and testing stimuli are the same. This replicates results of previous experiments which utilised different methods. Experiment 3 revealed a preference for harmonic patterns is also present when there are no repeated elements in the priming and testing stimuli, to a lesser extent than in experiment 2. This indicates that there is a bias for harmony between the verb phrase and the adpositional phrase which at least partially contributes to the typological patterns. It also highlights the importance of ensuring that stimuli for such studies are designed to remove the possibility of using surface-level patterns. ","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro- and Psycholinguistics","abstract":"The vast majority of languages for which we have the data display syntactic harmony between the verb phrase and the adpositional phrase. Previous work suggests this is due to the cross-linguistic tendency for adpositions to derive from verbs. Research using experimental methods, on the other hand, indicates there may be a cognitive bias for harmony which also contributes to its cross-linguistic prevalence. These studies, however, all use the same objects for both the priming and testing stimuli. This leaves open the possibility of participants noticing surface-level patterns such as ‘the saucepan is always gestured first’, and using these in their responses, giving the appearance of a preference for syntactically harmonic patterns. ","speakers":[{"guid":"d93636db-ef26-52e4-ab21-f22504e18cac","id":743,"image":null,"name":"Cliodhna Hughes","public_name":"Cliodhna Hughes","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"7c2bc65c-7fb8-5d91-820f-2886ed06b7ea","id":775,"image":null,"name":"Simon Kirby","public_name":"Simon Kirby","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"7c2bc65c-7fb8-5d91-820f-2886ed06b7ea","id":776,"image":null,"name":"Jennifer Culbertson","public_name":"Jennifer Culbertson","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T14:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T15:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":813,"guid":"5c21cb00-05d1-4f9e-9310-242d9b154876","title":"Existential Generics and Information Structure","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"Generic sentences are used to convey exception-tolerant generalizations over a kind or, roughly, relevant members thereof (Carlson \u0026 Pelletier 1995; Cohen 2016). In English they often take the form of a bare plural (BP). The conditions under which generic sentences are acceptable is controversial, but common to many theories is an assumption that they involve some lawlike, universal/majority quantification (Dahl 1973; Pelletier \u0026 Asher 1997). However, it was acknowledged that generics receive an existential interpretation in certain environments (von Fintel 1997, Cohen 2004, Sterken, 2015): (i) When embedded as a propositional prejacent of a focus-sensitive particles (ii) existential generics usually judged to be unacceptable when presented out of the blue are considerably more felicitous when served as answers to a current Question Under Discussion (QUD) (Roberts 2012). \r\nSuch data pose challenges to most existing accounts. I argue that by incorporating certain principles of Information Structure (Rooth 1992; Büring 2016; Vallduví 2016); and discourse pragmatics (Roberts 2012; Lewis 1979; Beaver and Clark 2008) the semantics of BP generics can be reduced to a simple existential component. However, this requires that we abandon the Quasi-Universal Hypothesis. In this proposal, BP generics have a default weak existential semantics. In most instances where a generic is judged to be degraded, they are strictly true. I replace semantic constraints with felicity conditions that make reference to information structure in discourse. Following Cohen \u0026 Erteschik-Shir 2002, I propose that within a BP generic (i) the ‘informationally marked’ element answers to the immediate QUD. In the case of the predicate, it will be focused; in the case of the subject, it will be marked as a contrastive topic; (ii) the ‘informationally unmarked’ element should not answer the immediate QUD; (iii) Focus marking can be rendered more obvious through phonetic prominence, focus-sensitive particles, or contextual set-up; and (iv) The apparent quasi-universal, law-like reading of generics is a result of the interaction between BP generics’ lexical presuppositions and pragmatic reasoning, and the interpretational variability of generics is partly explained by the open-ended nature of pragmatic implications in general.  ","speakers":[{"guid":"88185a2a-0a2d-5a30-b3ee-060ff96815ca","id":748,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/748/original/70239064_1717368701741337_7788132891543732224_n.jpg?1651782820","name":"Zack (Zhengjie) Situ","public_name":"Zack (Zhengjie) Situ","email":"z.situ@sms.ed.ac.uk","abstract":"PhD Linguistics and English Language @The University of Edinburgh","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhengjie-Situ","title":"Personal Website-ResearchGate"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":789,"guid":"b6068791-ba8e-4685-8b26-326a476394c4","title":"Fine-Tuned Sentence Transformer Model for Question Answering Task","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Nowadays, various pre-trained language models based on representation learning are constantly being developed and have achieved splendid performance in the application of various natural language processing (NLP) tasks by fine-tuning. Sentence Transformer models provide with the possibility to embed sentences and compare the semantic similarity between sentences by creating a siamese and triplet networks based on pre-trained Transformer models. The paper fine-tunes a Sentence Transformer model and applies it to the question answering (QA) task by answer selection. To be more specific, we use the finetuned sentence transformer model to select the proper answers to a given question from a given pool of candidate answers. The experiment results show that by fine-tuning, the accuracy can be improved significantly from 0.2664 to 0.4867. Further research should be done on fine-tuning more models and training on more domain data.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/789/original/bert.png?1652089838","type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"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, such as information retrieval, text classification and question answering. ","speakers":[{"guid":"9917d8f4-4e94-5f1a-9c73-606e173d26c9","id":726,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/726/original/微信图片_20191209191455.jpg?1645791847","name":"Ercong Nie","public_name":"Ercong Nie","email":"ecnie@foxmail.com","abstract":"I am currently a master student in computational linguistics at LMU Munich. I am from China.","description":"As a computational linguistics student, I have interest in combing languages with technologies. 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We will start with a short general introduction about Frisian: where it's spoken, its history and its status as a minority language. Then we'll look at a few outstanding features of the language and compare Frisian to other West-Germanic languages.","speakers":[{"guid":"cc7b25ac-4e52-576c-8e64-3282a955ab5e","id":781,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/781/original/frys.png?1652354793","name":"Fryske Akademy","public_name":"Fryske Akademy","email":"fa@fryske-akademy.nl","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.fryske-akademy.nl/en/","title":"Website"}]},{"guid":"549554c3-a967-5056-866a-d045317cc980","id":785,"image":null,"name":"Fenna Bergsma","public_name":"Fenna Bergsma","email":"fbergsma@fryske-akademy.nl","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://fennabergsma.nl/","title":"Personal website"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Auditorium (1.12)","id":86}},{"id":863,"guid":"52c120fb-06f9-4bee-af5d-cf7c7540d577","title":"Game Night @ Accommodation","language":"","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":6000,"time_slots":20,"logo":null,"type":"","do_not_record":false,"track":"Break","abstract":null,"speakers":[],"start_time":"2022-05-26T21:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T22:40:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Other","id":106}},{"id":845,"guid":"613cb906-0b27-486f-9161-65dd06240c50","title":"Genesis and Typology of Mixed Languages","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":null,"duration":3600,"time_slots":12,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"c5a95c38-06b8-58eb-b07f-f1e0259b8d84","id":778,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/778/original/DSC07742_22.02.jpg?1652114347","name":"Maria Mazzoli","public_name":"Maria Mazzoli","email":"m.mazzoli@rug.nl","abstract":"Maria Mazzoli is Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics, Diversity and Minorities at the University of Groningen. Her research areas of specialization are contact linguistics, postcolonial linguistics and Algonquian morphology. As a Marie Curie fellow she conducted a project on Michif, a mixed language Plains Cree/French, and one of the languages of the Metis Nation. 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Knapp zwei Monate später habe ich mit meinem Account @clebriclips über 50.000 Follower und mehrere hunderttausend Aufrufe erreicht. \r\nMein Name ist Clemens Brill, ich bin Student der Theaterwissenschaft und der Germanistik an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz und stehe kurz vor meinem Bachelorabschluss im 6. Fachsemester. Seit Januar 2022 bin ich auf GermanisTikTok aktiv und produziere kurze Videos mit maximal drei Minuten Länge, in denen ich sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Themen erkläre. Eindeutiger Publikumsliebling: das Thema Kommasetzung. \r\nWie genau funktioniert eigentlich Kommasetzung? Was ist eine Subordination? Steht vor jedem ‚dass‘ ein Komma? – Fragen, die scheinbar viele Nutzer*innen der App beschäftigen, die durch eine unzureichende Kommadidaktik in der Schule und weitestgehend der Universität Wissenslücken in diesem Bereich zu haben scheinen. Ich hatte das Glück, im vergangenen Wintersemester ein Seminar in der Deskriptiven Sprachwissenschaft zu besuchen, das sich diesem Thema ausführlicher gewidmet hat. Aber dieses Glück haben wohl die Wenigstens: In den Lehrplänen der Schulen kommt die Kommasetzung zu kurz, in den Vorlesungsverzeichnissen tauchen entsprechend zentrierte Lehrveranstaltungen selten auf. \r\nEs verwundert deshalb weniger, dass es hier Defizite in der Anwendung korrekter Kommatierung gibt, insbesondere in Social Media Kommentaren, in denen ohnehin wenig auf korrekte Rechtschreibung, Grammatik oder Zeichensetzung geachtet wird. Dass ein Video zur Erläuterung korrekter, syntaktisch begründeter Kommaregeln innerhalb kürzester Zeit Millionen von Menschen erreicht und daraufhin die Sparte #GermanisTikTok entsteht, kam trotzdem äußerst überraschend für mich. \r\nNach diesem Erfolg etabliert sich diese Sparte weiter, meine Videos zu weiteren sprachwissenschaftlichen Themen (beispielsweise der seit/seid-Unterscheidung) und darüber hinaus zu literaturwissenschaftlichen Themen (beispielsweise mittelhochdeutscher Versnovellen) erreichen Menschenmengen, die jeden Hörsaal sprengen würden.\r\nTikTok scheint eine neue Form der Sprachwissenschaftsvermittlung zu öffnen, die Konsument*innen durch die Einbettung in Social Media scheinbar intrinsisch motiviert, sich mit linguistischen Themen auseinanderzusetzen. Ein Diskurs über mögliches Potenzial der App und daraus resultierende Konsequenzen für die Sprachwissenschaft soll Thema meines Vortrags und eines gemeinsamen Ideenaustauschs sein. \r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/801/original/GermanisTikTok_Logo.jpeg?1648728123","type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":"„wer benutzt ÜBERHAUPT komma“ – Diese Frage einer TikTok-Nutzerin in der Kommentarsektion unter einem Video, das sich inhaltlich mit dem Thema Kommasetzung beschäftigt, hat mich Anfang des Jahres dazu bewogen, ein aufklärendes Video über korrekte Kommasetzung auf ebendieser beliebten Social Media Plattform hochzuladen. Knapp zwei Monate später habe ich mit meinem Account @clebriclips über 50.000 Follower und mehrere hunderttausend Aufrufe erreicht. \r\nTikTok scheint eine neue Form der Sprachwissenschaftsvermittlung zu öffnen, die Konsument*innen durch die Einbettung in Social Media scheinbar intrinsisch motiviert, sich mit linguistischen Themen auseinanderzusetzen. Ein Diskurs über mögliches Potenzial der App und daraus resultierende Konsequenzen für die Sprachwissenschaft soll Thema meines Vortrags und eines gemeinsamen Ideenaustauschs sein. ","speakers":[{"guid":"dc4d4c89-29d9-5d56-adc7-ccb854c06410","id":735,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/735/original/88A74DA4-5C0B-474F-8FEA-37BA901F966B_6402_.JPEG?1648714449","name":"Clemens Brill (CleBriClips)","public_name":"Clemens Brill (CleBriClips)","email":"clemensbrill@gmx.de","abstract":"Student der Theaterwissenschaft und Germanistik, \r\nContent Creator auf #GermanisTikTok","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@clebriclips","title":"Mein TikTok-Account"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T10:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T10:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Decartes (2.36)","id":101}},{"id":790,"guid":"78bf4637-e9fb-48d1-9096-2b9ebf4ce775","title":"German loanwords in Cameroonian Fàŋ-Bətí languages","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Basically, this study is geared towards the phonological description of the nouns the Fàŋ-Bətí languages borrowed from the German language. During the analysis, references would be made to other formal linguistic aspects of these loanword, e.g., the semantic, and morphological aspects, only where necessary. One of the methodologies will be separate the words that have been borrow from English from those which have been borrow from German.\r\n\r\nTraces of Germany’s colonial presence in Cameroon between 1884–1916, exist in the number and quality of words which Cameroonian indigenous languages, e.g. the Fàŋ-Bətí languages, borrowed from the German language. The German loanwords are one of the features found in various languages in the German formal colonial countries, eg Cameroon. The acquisition of these can be justified by variant degrees of language contact in the contexts of trading, schooling, missionary activities, and administration.  The result of this language contact includes the development of full-fledged new language varieties, e.g. Pidgin-English (Mühlhäusler 1977) and creole language (Rabaul Creole German/Unser deutsch und Volker 1991, Maitz \u0026 Volker 2017), as well the augmentation of pre-existing indigenous Cameroonian languages via lexical borrowings. A considerable number of Cameroon languages integrated German loanwords during this period (Engelberg 2006, 2008; Stolberg 2015). This was the case of Búlù and Èwòndò, two Fàŋ-Bətí languages. This thesis examines the contributions of German to the Èwòndò and Búlù lexicon, and the adaptation of the borrowed words to actual structures of these indigenous Cameroonian languages.\r\nExcept for Minkeu’s and Djomo’s (2019 and 2020) works on German loanwords in languages of West Cameroon (e.g., Ghɔ`málà, Mədʉmba, ʃʉpaməm hand Yemba), the systematic documentation of German loanwords in the languages of Cameroon has been neglected in lexical research and contact linguistics so far. This work strives not only to list the words borrowed from German into the Fàŋ-Bətí languages, but also to describe its integration processes into these languages. In other words, this study aims to describe the phonological, morphological and semantic adaptations that a loanword undergoes during its integration into the language of recording.\r\nThis work is based on the triangulation method. Triangulation refers to the use of multiple methods or data sources in qualitative research to develop a comprehensive understanding of phenomena (Patton, 1999). Triangulation also has been viewed as a qualitative research strategy to test validity through the convergence of information from different sources. This work is based on the structuralism of the Geneva linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and the methods of contact language. \r\nI collected most of the data for this thesis from natural discussions with native speakers and I also carried out surveys. Additional sources of loanword examples include articles, books, bible translations and dictionaries from the two languages. Other examples in the text or examples have been made up by me, based on my knowledge of these two languages. Because I am a native speaker.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"Basically, this study is geared towards the phonological description of the nouns the Fàŋ-Bətí languages borrowed from the German language. During the analysis, references would be made to other formal linguistic aspects of these loanword, e.g., the semantic, and morphological aspects, only where necessary. One of the methodologies will be separate the words that have been borrow from English from those which have been borrow from German.","speakers":[{"guid":"8ad734fd-2a14-5826-8dd8-35a342fbafe4","id":727,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/727/original/ETO_Photo.jpg?1654843966","name":"ETO Romain Roland","public_name":"ETO Romain Roland","email":"romain.roland.eto@studium.uni-hamburg.de","abstract":"\r\nETO Romain Roland ist im Jahre 1990 in Nkoumékeke (Kamerun) geboren. Von 2007 bis 2015 studierte er Germanistik, Philosophie, Didaktik, Pädagogik und Soziologie an der Universität Yaoundé I und erlangte die Licence d'Allemand (2010) sowie den Master II d'Allemand (2015) mit Spezialisierung auf Sprachwissenschaft. 2013 hat er an der pädagogischen Hochschule Yaoundé sein Lehrdiplom absolviert. Seit diesem Jahr hat er in Gymnasien als DaF-Lehrer bis 2017 gearbeitet. Von 2017 bis 2021 hat er als Leiter der Finanzabteilung der Universität Dschang-Kamerun gearbeitet. Seine Spezialgebiete sind Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, linguistische Pragmatik, interkulturelle Kommunikation, Pädagogie, deutsche Grammatik, Didaktik des Deutschen als Fremdsprache und afrikanische Sprachen und Kultur. Zurzeit promoviert er am Asien-Afrika-Institut der Universität Hamburg unter der wissenschaftlichen Betreuung von Prof. Dr. Roland Kießling. Das Thema seiner Dissertation lautet \"Deutsche Lehnwörter in den Fàŋ-Bətí-Sprachen Kameruns\". \r\n","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":834,"guid":"d49f6779-6588-4297-97c0-6033db016c8c","title":"Go small or go big, there is no in-between","language":"en","subtitle":"Mandarin-English Speakers’ Grammar Preferences in Code-switching","description":"Code-switching is a language phenomenon where multilingual speakers alternate their use of languages in one utterance. While extensive studies have been conducted on Spanish-English speaker communities (Anderson \u0026 Toribio, 2007; Badiola et al., 2018; Poplack, 1980), the Mandarin-English bilingual population, despite its large size, remains understudied. As some English grammatical elements do not have direct Mandarin equivalents, Mandarin and English make an interesting pair for code-switching grammar studies. This study investigates the grammar preferences of Mandarin-English speakers in code-switching. In the present study, two specific grammatical elements were selected for comparison: plural marker (-s, -es) and determiners (a, the, etc.). Twenty pairs of code-switched sentences contrasting in the inclusion or exclusion of these grammatical elements were created for a comparison task. 100 Mandarin-English bilingual speakers completed a survey in which they described their language background, provided judgments for the comparison task, and indicated their attitude toward code-switching behaviors. While evidence compiled from the result supports the Matrix Language-Frame model proposed by Myers-Scotton (1993), it also reveals possible connections between grammar preferences and language proficiency. \r\n\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nAnderson, T. K., \u0026 Toribio, A. J. (2007). Attitudes towards lexical borrowing and intra-sentential code-switching among Spanish-English bilinguals. Spanish in Context, 4(2), 217–240. https://doi.org/10.1075/sic.4.2.05and\r\n\r\nBadiola, L., Delgado, R., Sande, A., \u0026 Stefanich, S. (2018). Code-switching attitudes and their effects on acceptability judgment tasks. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 8(1), 5–24. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.16006.bad\r\n\r\nPoplack, S. (1980). Sometimes I’ll start a sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL: Toward a typology of code-switching 1. Linguistics, 18, 581–618. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1980.18.7-8.581\r\n\r\nMyers-Scotton, C. (1993). Duelling languages: Grammatical structure in codeswitching. Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Sociolinguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"44102240-c7d1-56ad-b775-e231930e7f8b","id":755,"image":null,"name":"Gaofei Shen","public_name":"Gaofei Shen","email":"gaofei.shen@techsword.me","abstract":"I am a current master's student at the University of Groningen Campus Fryslan. I completed my undergraduate studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, USA. There, I wrote my undergraduate thesis in Mandarin-English code-switching. I am in the process of writing my master's thesis in code-switching detection for Dutch-Frisian and Mandarin-English bilinguals.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":833,"guid":"9f208406-fb19-498e-81a2-28cc6d3fb65b","title":"Hate Speech Detection on Code-Switched Data","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"With half of the human population having a social media account, it has never been easier to express your thoughts and opinions in front of a wider audience. As a consequence, verbal aggressions such as hate speech have increased dramatically and are not only harming the mental health of individuals but also damaging the relationship between different ethnical groups due to offensive and abusive content. Therefore it became important to lawmakers and social media platforms to filter this kind of behaviour online. For instance, each social media platform has its own policies to remove hate speech based on their definition. While Facebook defines hate speech as violent or dehumanising speech or calls for exclusion or segregation of people based on protected characteristics such as race, gender, etc., Twitter sums up everything which promotes violence or threats against other people. In the past, this kind of content has been removed manually, but with 500 million tweets and 4.3 billion Facebook messages everyday, manual hate speech detection has become impractical and ineffective. Consequently, an automated approach for hate speech detection is required. Therefore several machine learning models have been developed for monolingual hate speech detection in the past, with models based on pre-trained language models, such as BERT, being the most successful ones.\r\n\r\nConversations where individuals switch between different languages are becoming more and more frequent in the context of globalisation and migration. This phenomenon is called code-switching. In the past, when working with code-switched data, it was not only difficult to find an appropriate data source but also most models in information extraction are not able to handle more than two languages. As it is common in multilingual societies like India to use code-switching to convey opinions online, models which were specifically trained on code-switched data are required to be able to prevent hate speech online.\r\n\r\nFor this reason, the following thesis will focus on hate speech detection on code-switched data by adapting a BERT based hate speech detection model to code-switched data. Due to its prominence in urban Hindi-speaking nations, the language combination of Hindi and English will be used as a dataset. \r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"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 handling code-switching.","speakers":[{"guid":"bfbf174b-1180-5171-8ca3-b75066664093","id":766,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/766/original/XP2-33.jpg?1693573233","name":"Barbara Kovačić","public_name":"Barbara Kovačić","email":"Barbara.Kovacic@campus.lmu.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://twitter.com/FrauKovacic","title":"Twitter"},{"url":"https://github.com/barbarakovacic","title":"Github"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":835,"guid":"b0aa4d3c-2a5c-4f96-b2f6-b681a5971e94","title":"Implementing a Chatbot - Rule Based vs. Machine Learning ","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Customer service chatbots can be implemented using either a rule-based system or one based on machine learning. My bachelor thesis compares the system developed by Kauz Linguistic Technologies (an example of a rule-based system) with Dialogflow by Google (an example of a machine learning-based system) from both a developer perspective and the perspective of the end user. Each system was used to implement a German-language chatbot for the use case of a consultation for a bank account. The platforms were then evaluated using a systematic framework. In a pilot user study, 20 participants (mean age of 23, 45% female and 55% male) evaluated the resulting chatbots in terms of usability, usefulness and satisfaction. With regard to the implementation process, the Kauz system was found to have more built-in functionality as well as data structures that make it easy to make changes to the finished chatbot while Dialogflow was easier to troubleshoot and made it simpler to extract and remember information from user queries. In the user study, while ratings were generally positive for both chatbots, participants showed a preference for the chatbot developed with the Kauz system.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"Tools for implementing chatbots can generally be divided into two categories - rule based and machine learning systems. This presentation is about a bachelor thesis project that compared the implementation process of a customer service chatbot using two competing tools and a user study in which the resulting were chatbots were evaluated. ","speakers":[{"guid":"ab808a05-c4da-5281-aedb-295b37b156b5","id":767,"image":null,"name":"Deborah Watty","public_name":"Deborah Watty","email":"deborah.watty@gmail.com","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":842,"guid":"748120cd-f09e-4095-aa34-7a86340949de","title":"Information structure in speech synthesis","language":"en","subtitle":"Improving the naturalness of German text-to-speech synthesis by means of a more context-appropriate prosody","description":"To test this assumption, I will investigate whether the naturalness of a German synthetic voice can profit from an intonation that matches the focus structure of the sentence. Based on Domínguez et al. (2018) who have shown that the mean opinion score (MOS) for a synthetic voice improves when the prosody is automatically or manually modified in accordance with thematicity, I hypothesize that the MOS for a German synthetic voice will also improve when the prosody is modified to match the focus structure.\r\n\r\nTo that aim, I am planning to synthesize two German voices - one with and one without a focus-matching prosody - and compare their MOS’s. To create these voices, I will either train an existing statistical-parametric-speech-synthesis (SPSS) based TTS system once with focus/non-focus labels and once without focus/non-focus labels or I will adopt the strategy of Domínguez et al. (2018) who used an open-source TTS software and enriched the default synthesized speech with prosodic information according to the thematicity of the corresponding sentence parts.\r\n\r\nA result that confirms my hypothesis would suggest that information-structural categories should be included in the creation of synthetic voices in order to make them sound more natural.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"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 of a certain context (Féry \u0026 Krifka 2008). Two examples for information-structural statuses are theme and focus. The theme of an utterance can be defined as what the utterance is about while the focus is often defined as the new information of the sentence (e.g., by Halliday 1967 or Vallduví \u0026 Engdahl 1996). Recent studies have shown for various languages that the naturalness of synthetic voices improves when their prosodic structure matches the thematicity of the sentence parts (see, e.g., Meurers et al. 2011, and Domínguez et al. 2018 for German, or Vanrell et al. 2013 for Catalan). Against the background of the well-established finding that information structure is reflected in prosody in many languages (Halliday 1967; Chafe 1976; Vallduví 1993), this is not surprising and there is reason to assume that the same holds for other information-structural categories.","speakers":[{"guid":"60bbf66b-a175-50a1-a335-e656184c2555","id":773,"image":null,"name":"Judith Baumann","public_name":"Judith Baumann","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T10:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T10:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":811,"guid":"d690fb90-7d32-4ecc-b8bd-88bfb6525f41","title":"Innovation or Retention? 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An interesting areal pattern emerged here is that /-ɵn/ and /-ɵt/ can only be found near Guangzhou, Zhongshan, as well as Hong Kong and Macau, but they are surrounded by dialects which do not show the contrast. In this paper, working with the assumption that the areal pattern we see is the result of a sound change, we would like to explore the following research questions:\r\n\r\n1)\tWhen did this change occur?\r\n2)\tWhere is the origin of this sound change?\r\n3)\tIs the present-day Guangzhou-type pattern an innovation or a retention?\r\n\r\nThe difference between the Yong-Xun dialect group from Guangxi and the Guangfu dialect group is the key for our findings, as they split rather late (around 150-350 years ago), which can offer us some insights in the phonological history of Yue. With the assumption that Yong-Xun dialects also had *ɵ, we believe that the change occurred after the formation of the Yong-Xun dialects. That implies the change occur in Guangxi first and it diffused to Guangdong, as the dialect map suggests. Lastly, we conclude that the outstanding pattern found in Guangzhou-type dialects is caused by the retention of *ɵ. A possible explanation for the retention in Guangdong might due to attitudinal reasons, but it awaits for further research.\r\n\r\nReference:\r\n中國語言資源保護研究中心 Zhongguo Yuyan Ziyuan Baohu Yanjiu Zhongxin [Language Resource Protection Research Centre of China] (2022). 中國語言資源保護工程採錄展示平台 Zhongguo Yuyan Ziyuan Baohu Zailu Zhanshi Pingtai [The Platform of the Language Resource Protection Program of China, also known as the Yubao Database informally]. Link: https://zhongguoyuyan.cn/\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Historical Linguistics","abstract":"Dialect variation offers us huge insights in the history of a language. Through looking at the geographical distribution of dialect variants and comparing inter-dialect group variation, we have gathered evidence to propose a previously unattested piece of phonology history for Yue, namely *ɵ \u003e [ɐ], which is found in the majority of Yue dialects. \r\n\r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"eb9eb1af-cc5f-5ebb-bf76-df308771c808","id":198,"image":null,"name":"Matthew Sung","public_name":"Matthew Sung","abstract":"I am a 2nd year PhD student at Leiden University. My research interests are general dialectology, phonological history, and sound change. My current project focuses on the classification of Yue and Pinghua dialects spoken in Southern China. ","description":"Previosuly, I explored the relationship between San Diu, a language spoken in Northern Vietnam, and a number of Southern Sinitic languages in my undergraduate dissertation. For my Master's thesis, I studied the geographical variation of a feature in Yue dialects and reconstructed an older dialect landscape of Guangdong. \r\n\r\nIf you are specialised in dialectology and/or other related areas too, do come and say hi! I would be thrilled to meet someone who works in the same field as me :)\r\n\r\nEmail:\r\nh.w.m.sung[at]hum.leidenuniv[dot]nl","links":[{"url":"https://sites.google.com/view/matthew-sung-dialectologist/home","title":"Personal website"}]},{"guid":"7c2bc65c-7fb8-5d91-820f-2886ed06b7ea","id":777,"image":null,"name":"Man Shan","public_name":"Man Shan","email":"noreply@stuts.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":829,"guid":"bcd93c78-4447-4549-87de-489a14b14ef6","title":"Intercultural Communicative Competence in foreign language teaching and learning: A comparison of the situation of Morocco and Germany in tertiary education","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"Modern communication increases interaction through the use of new technologies which, in turn, urges learners to communicate with people who are geographically distant, and linguistically and culturally different.  Priority is given to the educational system to prepare learners to the 21st century intercultural encounters and global interdependence. Linguistics, in general, and some of its ramifications, in particular, such as sociolinguistics and intercultural pragmatics have highlighted the intertwined relationship between language and culture (Risager, 2007). Foreign language education is itself, by definition, an intercultural enterprise (Secru, L et al, 2005). My empirical research aims to investigate how intercultural communication (IC) is taught in the English departments at Moulay Ismail University (Meknes, Morocco) and Bonn University (Bonn, Germany). It also identifies the EFL teaching strategies and their impact on students’ performance. More specifically, this research seeks (a) to test the level of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) of students enrolled in these two universities, (b) to compare the level of ICC among students who are affiliated in intercultural clubs and those who are not; and (c) to investigate the impact of abroad experience on ICC development. Moreover, this study will elicit ways to develop ICC in higher education from the respondents’ results. \r\nTo execute this project several procedures are being implemented in terms of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data. The selection of the research approach is based on the research problem and the issue in question, the researcher’s personal experiences and the audiences (Creswell, 2012). Since my study aims to explore and understand groups’ behaviors and attitudes towards a social phenomenon and attempts also to test theoretical models by examining the relationship among variables, mixed methods will be used.\r\nThe objective of my presentation is to share with fellow PhD researchers the process of conducting an empirical pilot study which holds an outlook into current / potential future results and applications. The main focus will be on the methodological process of collecting and analyzing data; and on current data results.\r\n","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/829/original/Bonn_uni___IAAK.png?1650253807","type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics ","abstract":"My participation aims at giving insightful criteria in choosing the research methodology, data collection tools and procedures; and identifying data analysis steps. The objective of my presentation is also to shed light on the importance of conducting a pilot study in testing the data collection instruments in addition to sharing with fellow PhD researchers challenges I have faced while conducting the research. ","speakers":[{"guid":"3b22a08c-50e6-5c0b-8c6d-385dd9c3e386","id":704,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/704/original/FSM_2069.JPG?1643283358","name":"Nadya Izzaamiouine","public_name":"Nadya Izzaamiouine","email":"s5naizza@uni-bonn.de","abstract":"I am a PhD researcher in ICC (Intercultural Communication Competence) and a lecturer at Bonn University since 2019. I am teaching \"Business Communication\" and \"Intercultural Communication \" courses with various international teaching experience at different universities.","description":"I am a CELTA holder from Oxford, UK in 2018 with over 5 years of teaching experience at Jazan university (College of Business Administration) in Saudi Arabia and Moulay Ismail University in Meknes. In my capacity as studies abroad manager, in 2015, my tasks extend to liaising with local and multinational NGOS and associations, host families, research centers, colleges and language centers. Moreover, I have served as a speaker on numerous panels and workshops at international conferences. \r\nMy passion to investigate intercultural interactions allowed me to conduct my PhD project on intercultural communicative competence.\r\n","links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T11:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T11:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":818,"guid":"272816f1-e39f-413c-b1fe-8b04ccbf1817","title":"Internet Memes as Argument Prompts","language":"en","subtitle":"Roses are red, violets are blue, internet memes are arguments too","description":"What is an argument? When exactly does someone argue? What is the role of the audience while the argument is formulated? In this paper, I have discussed two perspectives of argumentation: argument as a cognitive category and argument as a verbal practice. The distinction is an important one to make, because the former perspective implies that arguments invite a guided interpretation of a message whereas the latter perspective sees the argument as the message itself. As such, argumentation as a cognitive category enables multimodal media to be analyzed alongside traditional verbal propositions. I lend support to this cognitive stance, which I show via an argumentative analysis of two Internet Memes, using the framework proposed by van den Hoven \u0026 Schilperoord (2017) in their analysis of editorial cartoons. In doing so, this paper demonstrates that (1) Internet Memes can also be deliberately argumentative, and it is possible to analyze them systematically; (2) The model of van den Hoven \u0026 Schilperoord (2017) can have further applications in argumentation studies. \r\n\r\nBibliography\r\nvan den Hoven, P., \u0026 Schilperoord, J. (2017). Chapter 5. Perspective by incongruity: Visual argumentative meaning in editorial cartoons. In A. Tseronis \u0026 C. Forceville (Eds.), Argumentation in Context (Vol. 14, pp. 138–164). 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We will then discuss the main features of the tense-aspect system of Jula, which turns out to be mainly aspectual. This will include some marker combinations (which create more intricate tense-aspect meanings) and complex sentences.\r\n\r\nFor more information, contact us at lecavelierde@uni-potsdam.de","speakers":[{"guid":"912cbffd-ecbd-55bd-a8c5-0b668281750c","id":644,"image":null,"name":"Jeanne Lecavelier","public_name":"Jeanne Lecavelier","email":"lecavelierde@uni-potsdam.de","abstract":"Potsdam University.\r\nLinguistics Master student \u0026 research assistant in Semantics.\r\nInterested in semantics \u0026 morphosyntax of non-Indo-European languages.","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeanne_Lecavelier","title":"ResearchGate"}]},{"guid":"06bb8410-d947-5d65-a8e2-6162dfaf77e2","id":756,"image":null,"name":"Irina Stroescu","public_name":"Irina Stroescu","email":"stroescu.irina@yahoo.com","abstract":"Linguistics Master student at the Potsdam University with an interest in CL","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T14:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T15:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":812,"guid":"25d50f72-0199-4f11-b5d4-015d0240f16c","title":"Is text length determined by register or by elicitation order?","language":"en","subtitle":"A study using the RUEG corpus","description":"One easily noticeable feature of register variation is the use of ellipses, reduced forms and deletions. The aforementioned are more prominent in informal registers (Biber, 1995, p. 4, Biber and Conrad, 2009, p. 79, p. 194). If the same contents were to be produced\r\nin different registers, this should lead to shorter texts in informal registers in comparison to more formal ones. Since there seldom is the need to express the same contents in different registers, this topic is not easy to research.\r\nThe RUEG corpus (Wiese et al., 2021) contains four texts per participant in two different registers and two different modes: formal written, formal spoken, informal written, and informal spoken. The texts all contain descriptions of a minor car accident previously\r\nshown to participants in a short video clip. Therefore, the RUEG corpus provides the opportunity to investigate such topics. There was no minimum or maximum text length requirement to be met by the participants during elicitation. To counterbalance effects stemming from elicitation order of the four texts, the order was randomised. Without such measures, an effect could arise in the form of decreasing text lengths from the first text elicited to the last one. These considerations lead to the reasearch question whether\r\neffects of elicitation order or effects of register are stronger when it comes to text length. Do the texts produced by the same participant decrease in length with the order of elicitation possibly because of the repitition of the same contents? Or is the choice of register defining the text length regardless of the elicitation order?\r\nShould register appear to be the driving factor, repetitions of the same contents seem to have less effect on text length than the mere choice of register itself. If elicitation order seems to drive the choice of text length, randomising elicitation order appears as suitable measure to solve unwanted effects.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Corpus Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"67066c79-a4cc-5f00-ab68-d368acffe983","id":746,"image":null,"name":"Esra Uyanik","public_name":"Esra Uyanik","email":"esra.uyanik@hu-berlin.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"ebc0d880-332c-502f-97d2-af95605838e1","id":750,"image":null,"name":"Gajaneh Hartz","public_name":"Gajaneh Hartz","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Decartes (2.36)","id":101}},{"id":762,"guid":"9a73f3b5-21db-4e7a-a52b-28066c73d5d8","title":"\"Kachten aus dem Kaatenspiel\"","language":"de","subtitle":"Die regionale /r/-Variante bei Schüler*innen verschiedenen Alters in der Voreifel.","description":"Die Voreifel gilt als noch recht dialektstarke Gegend, der Dialektabbau ist hier im Vergleich zu anderen Regionen des Rheinlands am wenigsten fortgeschritten (vgl. 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Lameli 2011).\r\nDieses Spannungsverhältnis soll exemplarisch in einer altersdifferenzierten Untersuchung der Verwendung phonetisch-phonologischer Regionalismen ergründet werden. Bei den Gewährspersonen handelt es sich dabei um Schüler*innen der zweiten und dritten sowie der neunten und zehnten Klasse, um einen Vergleich zwischen Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe zu ermöglichen.\r\nZiel dieses Forschungsprojektes ist es, regionale Variablen im Sprachgebrauch von Schüler*innen herauszustellen und hinsichtlich ihrer Frequenz zu untersuchen. Durch zwei unterschiedliche Erhebungsformate (Bildergeschichte vs. Vorlesetext) kann überprüft werden, ob die Verwendung von Regionalsprache kontextabhängig ist und sich Unterschiede zwischen an konzeptioneller Mündlichkeit und an konzeptioneller Schriftlichkeit orientierten Äußerungen ergeben. Zusätzlich werden leitfadengestützte sprachbiographische Interviews durchgeführt, mithilfe derer die Daten eingebettet werden können. Im Vortrag sollen neben dem Untersuchungsaufbau erste Ergebnisse des vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"Eine laufende Untersuchung über die Verwendung des stimmlosen uvularen Frikativs als /r/-Variante.","speakers":[{"guid":"df4858eb-253e-5b06-a7a4-3c13d10dd76a","id":722,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/722/original/Lisa_Portraitfoto.jpg?1744557130","name":"Lisa Felden","public_name":"Lisa Felden","email":"lisa.felden@uni-muenster.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T14:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T15:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":862,"guid":"9997a46b-8a4d-4d5f-b3f6-bd4c1bdde8d3","title":"LangSci Press","language":"","subtitle":"Meet our Supporters","description":null,"duration":900,"time_slots":3,"logo":"/system/events/logos/000/000/862/original/langsci.png?1653479285","type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"a245f291-7118-5dfa-b7e1-7f8dcf9c24d6","id":788,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/788/original/langsci.png?1653479322","name":"LangSci Press","public_name":"LangSci Press","email":"contact@langsci-press.org","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":" http://langsci-press.org/","title":"Website"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T15:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T15:15:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":837,"guid":"02f3b846-4bde-4b25-a211-3fb8363be96a","title":"Language and attachment in mother-child interactions: Relations between related talk and attachment","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"In the 70ies of the last century, Mary Ainsworth and Mary Main described four different patterns in child-parent attachment. These four attachment styles have also been identified in adults. Broadly speaking, insecurely attached individuals have difficulties building and maintaining close relationships while securely attached adults have less problems. In my data, which consists of 40 mother-child dyads (age of child: 5 years) solving a task together, the attachment type of the mothers has been identified. My main research question is: To which degree do mothers with different attachment styles use their language to talk about the actions and speech of their children (vs. about other things)? For this purpose I have developed and applied a developmentally and situationally appropriate concept of contingent talk/verbal responsiveness which I have termed \"related talk\". This allows me to categorize all utterances by the mother as either related to the current action or speech of the child or not. Preliminary results show that securely attached mothers use referential talk more frequently than insecurely attached mothers.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro- and Psycholinguistics","abstract":"In my master’s thesis, which combines psychological and linguistic theories, I analyse the relationship between maternal attachment style and the mothers' use of language to talk about the actions and speech of their children (related talk). 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Trotzdem, oder gerade deshalb, wird von vielen Forscher:innen mittlerweile konstatiert, dass keine Einigkeit darüber besteht, als was Metadiskurs/Metapragmatik genau zu definieren wäre (Ädel 2006:3; Hyland 2017:16; Techtmeier 2001:1449; Martínez Guillem 2009:731). Zur Charakterisierung von Metadiskurs/Metapragmatik wird oft die definitorische Bedingung des Bezugs der entsprechenden Form auf den \"evolving discourse\", \"ongoing text\" (beide: Ädel 2006:2), \"current discourse\" (Ädel 2006:27; Hübler \u0026 Bublitz 2007:4), \"ongoing discourse\" (Ädel 2006:28; Hübler \u0026 Bublitz 2007:6; Caffi 2016:801; Zhang et al. 2017:106) oder auch die \"ongoing interaction\" (Liu \u0026 Ran 2016:285) genannt. Dabei scheint gar nicht per se klar, was zum aktuellen Diskurs gehören soll, denn \"die Kriterien, die dafür benannt werden – Einheit von Raum und Zeit, Konstanz der lnteraktionsbeteiligten, Funktion und Thema, institutionelle Begrenzung etc. sind alle nicht unproblematisch\" (Techtmeier 2001:1452).\r\n\r\nZum Zwecke der Schärfung des Metapragmatikbegriffs wird hier deshalb eine Abgrenzung vom Begriff des Metadiskurses vorgenommen sowie ein bisher im entsprechenden Forschungsfeld noch nicht zur Anwendung gekommenes Konzept der Kognitionslinguistik herbeigezogen – Langackers (2001:144) \"Current Discourse Space\"-Modell. Metapragmatische Marker (MPM) werden aus dieser Perspektive als Konfiguratoren verstanden, die nicht nur mentale Räume eröffnen und kopieren, sondern auch deren Rahmen modifizieren. In der Folge werden die kognitionslinguistischen Funktionsweisen der MPM anhand einer transkribierten Fernsehdiskussion extrapoliert, klassifiziert und veranschaulicht. Die durchgängige Annotation der Gesprächsdaten ermöglicht schließlich eine quantitative Exploration der Verwendungsweisen von MPM durch die Interagierenden und die Erstellung individueller Sprecher:innen-Profile zum Vergleich der angewandten MPM.\r\n\r\nReferences\r\n\r\nÄdel, Annelie. 2006. \u003cem\u003eMetadiscourse in L1 and L2 English\u003c/em\u003e. Amsterdam \u0026 Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (= Studies in Corpus Linguistics 24). Doi: 10.1075/scl.24.\r\n\r\nBublitz, Wolfram \u0026 Axel Hübler. 2007. Introducing metapragmatics in use. In Wolfram Bublitz und Axel Hübler (ed.), \u003cem\u003eMetapragmatics in Use\u003c/em\u003e, 1–26. Amsterdam \u0026 Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company (= Pragmatics \u0026 Beyond New Series 165). Doi: 10.1075/pbns.165.02hub.\r\n\r\nCaffi, Claudia. 2016. Revisiting metapragmatics: 'What are we talking about?'. In Keith Allan, Alessandro Capone und Istvan Kecskes (ed.), \u003cem\u003ePragmemes and Theories of Language Use\u003c/em\u003e, 799–821. Cham: Springer (= Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy \u0026 Psychology 9). Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_40. \r\n\r\nHyland, Ken. 2017. Metadiscourse: What is it and where is it going?. \u003cem\u003eJournal of Pragmatics\u003c/em\u003e 113, 16–29. Doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.03.007.\r\n\r\nLangacker, Ronald W. 2001. Discourse in cognitive grammar. \u003cem\u003eCognitive Linguistics\u003c/em\u003e 12(2), 143–188. Doi: 10.1515/cogl.12.2.143. \r\n\r\nLiu, Ping \u0026 Yongping Ran. 2016. Creating meso-contexts: The functions of metapragmatic expressions in argumentative TV talk shows. \u003cem\u003eIntercultural Pragmatics\u003c/em\u003e 13(2), 283–307. Doi: 10.1515/ip-2016-0011.\r\n\r\nMartínez Guillem, Susana. 2009. Argumentation, metadiscourse and social cognition: Organizing knowledge in political communication. \u003cem\u003eDiscourse \u0026 Society\u003c/em\u003e 20(6), 727–746. Doi: 10.1177/0957926509342368.\r\n\r\nZhang, Man; Weiwei Sun; Huan Peng; Qiong Gan; and Bo Yu. 2017. A multidimensional analysis of metadiscourse markers across spoken registers. \u003cem\u003eJournal of Pragmatics\u003c/em\u003e 117, 106–118. Doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.004.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Theoretical Linguistics","abstract":"Slides available on request. Please get in touch: oliver.spiess@unibas.ch","speakers":[{"guid":"611c8977-9db0-5f20-b4f9-a87125246c51","id":769,"image":null,"name":"Oliver Spiess","public_name":"Oliver Spiess","email":"oliver.spiess@unibas.ch","abstract":"Lives and studies in the master's program «language and communication» in Basel (University of Basel). 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This project taps into and is rooted within different linguistic traditions that it uniquely combines and integrates within the context of a timely and relevant topic: Crisis sociolinguistics, linguistic diversity, and linguistic landscape. Observational data will be used to provides an overview of the current multilingual information available concerning COVID-19. Furthermore, to have a comprehensive image of the role of multilingualism in the Netherlands during the pandemic, three groups of participants are recruited nationwide: non-Dutch speakers, low-literate L1 Dutch speakers, and a control group consisting of literate L1 Dutch speakers. Questionnaires and interviews are performed to compare the availability and immediacy of public information to people of different linguistic backgrounds. \r\nThis project’s findings will inform us whether and how the diverse inhabitants in the Netherlands were informed about the pandemic and the usefulness extends far beyond the current pandemic. 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At the same time, I am also writing up my PhD dissertation in the DFG-AHRC project \"From Icon to Abstraction\" at the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Birmingham. Here, I am studying how iconicity is used in silent gesture and sign by comparing gesture and sign data from Germany and the UK. I hold an M.A. in Language and Communication: Psycholinguistics from Radboud Univesity, Nijmegen, NL, and a B.A. in Language and Communication from the Philipps-Universität Marburg. I am also a board member of the Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.\r\n\r\nMy interests are in sign languages, psycholinguistic research methods and tools, statistics, and open science. 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The test subjects were ten native speakers of Polish. They were asked to first read and afterwards repeat four utterances after a test moderator who was a native speaker of German. There were five tasks included in the experiment. A reading task, where the speakers had to read out loud the sentences including the target utterances, which was done separately for each participant, and four speaking tasks in pairs. The correctness of the sounds was determined by audiovisual analysis. There is an overall improvement tendency. Improvement is visible in the sounds /e:/, /x/, and /œ/, while there is a decline in the longer sound /ø:/. Since the sound /e:/ is in different places in the sentence, there is a different  improvement ratio. The range of improvement in the sound /x/ was from 40-50% to 90-100%. In the case of “ö” pronounced as /ø:/ and /œ/ the variation of the sound might have caused problems. In this sound pair /ø:/ was pronounced as /œ/ by three participants. Overall, those two sounds have the largest variation of mispronunciation. They are pronounced as /ɪ/, /u/, /ɛ/, /ɛɪ/ and /y/. The length of the sound itself did not correlate with neither the round number nor the correctness of the pronounced sound, but there was a visible tendency, looking at the length of the vowels only. The sound length was determined by isolating and measuring the audible sound length in the linguistic program Praat. The key take-away from the experiment is that repetition of sounds after native speakers of a language can, at least in the case of German being the tested second language and Polish being their native language, improve the correctness of the pronunciation in a mentor-learner environment. \r\n\r\nMaterials available upon request under stefania.pikus@gmail.com","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Phonetics and Phonology","abstract":"The analysis is based on the project entitled \"Automated analysis of phonetic convergence in speech technology systems\". The project of the Faculty of Modern Languages of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań was supported by the grant Harmonia 6 awarded by the National Science Centre in Poland.","speakers":[{"guid":"62b44f8b-ac4e-526a-9bdb-47605c28900d","id":759,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/759/original/mypicture.jpg?1655123188","name":"Stefania Pikus","public_name":"Stefania Pikus","email":"stefania.pikus@gmail.com","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T16:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T16:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":839,"guid":"dad60889-d287-4619-b055-87df62461930","title":"Pragmatic Markers in Direct Messaging","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"In my bachelor’s thesis I analysed the use of pragmatic markers in direct messaging. While pragmatic markers are frequently used in oral, synchronous conversations, either face-to-face or on the phone, they appear less often in written, asynchronous language. Direct messaging in current times often happens quasi-synchronous and often contains oralized written language. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the use of pragmatic markers in this context. A corpus of text messages was compiled for this study. Both ‘classic’ pragmatic markers, such as ‘well’ or ‘just’ were analysed, as well as some net-speak acronyms such as ‘lol’ or ‘lm(f)ao’, to see whether these acronyms can be used as pragmatic markers. The findings in the text message corpus were compared to Kate Beeching’s (2016) findings. 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Semantic investigations, therefore, benefit from the analysis of entire lexical fields in order to identify and explain semantic differences. Historical semantic investigations often rely on corpus linguistic methods, as the surviving material constitutes a corpus. The limitations of the surviving Old Irish corpus require a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods (Lash, Qiu, Stifter 2020). The semantics of the Old Irish lexical field ‘water expanse’ have previously been investigated by Liam Mac Mathúna, who based his investigation on dictionary entries and citations (1987).\r\nCorpus linguistics and electronic availability of Old Irish material have improved since that study, so that a larger corpus can now be examined. This warrants a re-examination of the lexical field. The present study, therefore, investigates the semantics of terms in the lexical field ‘body of water’ in order to differentiate their semantics. This provides insight into the semantic categories structuring the Old Irish landscape vocabulary.\r\n\tRelevant lexical items are identified based on dictionary entries and investigated in a corpus of electronically available Old Irish texts that was compiled for this project. The semantic investigation is based on collocates and close readings of relevant passages from the corpus. The comparison of terms within the lexical field allows for their differentiation. For instance, muir, fairrge and ler are given in the dictionary as ‘sea’ or ‘ocean’. However, collocate analysis and close reading reveal subtle semantic differences: muir means ‘sea used by humans’, ‘sea as site of conflict’ and ‘sea as supernatural place’, fairrge means ‘sea used by humans’ and ler is an archaic, poetic term. Thus, Old Irish ‘sea’ terms show clear semantic differences.\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nKay, Christian and Kathryn Allan. English Historical Semantics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.\r\n\r\nLash, Elliott, Fangzhe Qiu, and David Stifter. 2020. “Celtic Studies and Corpus Linguistics.” In Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages, edited by Elliott Lash, Fangzhe Qiu, and David Stifter, 1-12. Berlin: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110680744-001.\r\n\r\nMac Mathúna, Liam. 1987. “Continuity and Innovation in Early Irish Words for ‘Water Expanse.’” In Studien Zum Indogermanischen Wortschatz, edited by Wolfgang Meid, 83–99. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Diverse","abstract":"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 semantic investigation combines corpus linguistic approaches with close readings of relevant text passages. This allows for the identification of subtle semantic differences between lexical items that are given as (near) synonyms in the dictionary and provides insight into the semantic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape vocabulary.","speakers":[{"guid":"2c8cf57a-d10d-50f6-baf9-da7d41e4778f","id":742,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/742/original/IMG_20210813_174835.jpg?1649435353","name":"Rebecca Madlener","public_name":"Rebecca Madlener","email":"rebeccavictoria.madlener.1293@student.uu.se","abstract":"I am a Masters student in General Linguistics at Uppsala University. I am particularly interest in medieval languages, Celtic languages, semantics and semantic changes. I am currently working on my Masters thesis which investigates the semantic categorization of Old Irish landscape vocabulary.","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T10:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T10:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":716,"guid":"9db72e08-11f6-4c2b-95e7-253f933134aa","title":"Sound symbolism im cross-linguistischen Vergleich","language":"de","subtitle":"Bamo und Potnik im Polnischen und Spanischen","description":"In meiner Bachelorarbeit habe ich  mich mit dem Thema sound symbolism in der Produktion beschäftigt. Die konkrete Frage, die ich mir gestellt habe, lautet: Verwenden Sprecher verschiedener Sprachen sound symbolism gleich oder gibt es Unterschiede, die von der Phonologie und / oder Phonotaktik ihrer Muttersprache abhängen? Um das zu untersuchen, führte ich ein Experiment mit (einer sehr kleinen Gruppe von) Muttersprachlern des Spanischen und des Polnischen durch, die gebeten wurden, neue Namen für Fabelwesen zu erfinden, die aus Köhlers (1933) „Maluma“- und „Takete“-Figuren entwickelt wurden. Ich habe mich für Polnisch und Spanisch entschieden, weil sich diese Sprachen in ihrer Phonologie stark voneinander unterscheiden: Während Polnisch über ein großes Konsonanteninventar verfügt, lange Konsonantencluster und komplexe Silben verwenden kann, hat Spanisch ein eher kleines Konsonanteninventar, kann verzweigende Nuklei verwenden und bevorzugt einfache Silben. Ich wollte herausfinden, ob und wie sich diese Unterschiede auf die Benennung der Fabelwesen auswirken. Hauptsächlich zeigte mein Experiment, dass polnischsprachige Teilnehmer weniger intensiv in ihren Phonemen differenzierten als spanischsprachige (oder deutschsprachige Versuchspersonen, die ich außerhalb der Bachelorarbeit als Pilotstudie getestet habe), um die Merkmale der Tiere auszudrücken. Dennoch wurden in beiden Sprachen manche Laute bevorzugt für das \"Maluma-Tier\" und manche Laute bevorzugt für das \"Takete-Tier\" verwendet. Außerdem ergaben sich einige interessante Ergebnisse zu der Verwendung der jeweiligen sprachspezifischen Phoneme. Trotz der interessanten Silbenstruktur ihrer Muttersprache bevorzugten die polnischsprachige Teilnehmer genau wie die spanischsprachigen eine einfache Silbenstruktur. Diese kleine Experiment zeigt somit sowohl Aspekte von universellem als auch von sprachspezifischem sound symbolism auf. 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However, as these systems are used around the globe, finding biases in different languages is of high importance. The current study seeks to find biases based on age, region, and sex in a Dutch state-of-the-art ASR model. The Dutch data from the Spoken Dutch Corpus will be used to train the hybrid DNN-HMM model and it will be evaluated using the Flemish data from the JASMIN-CGN corpus. In addition, I will provide an in-depth phoneme analysis. 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He extends this account to various Germanic languages and their split anaphoric systems, which consist of SE as well as SELF anaphors (e.g. Dutch 'zich' and 'zichzelf'). \r\nGerman, which is not addressed by Hicks, also has two anaphoric elements, 'sich' and 'sich selbst', which differ greatly in their behaviour from every anaphoric inventory analysed in the dissertation (see for example Hendriks et al. 2014). The given system cannot easily account for these data.\r\nI propose that by treating German 'sich' essentially not like a SE, but like a SELF anaphor with regards to syntax, the data can largely be reconciled with Hicks' framework, maintaining Hicks' analysis as a valid Minimalist alternative to previous approaches. \r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nHendriks, Petra, John C. J. Hoeks \u0026 Jennifer Spenader. 2014. Reflexive choice in Dutch and German. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 17. 229 - 252.\r\nHicks, Glyn. 2009. The derivation of anaphoric relations. 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Arthur Golding, for example, writes \"Instead of legs, to both her sides stick fingers long and fine: The rest is belly.” when describing the fate of Arachne in his translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1567), which is later invoked in the dying words of Hamlet (”The rest is silence.”). Shakespeare is referencing Ovid (through Golding) to get to give his tragedy a mythological, heroic vibe. To do this, he is performing a substitution from belly to silence to match his scene.\r\n\r\nTo put it in concrete terms, there is a transposition from the global intertextual dialogic context the phrase is retrieved from to the local context of the borrowing text. My hypothesis is that the resulting violation of the global context should be surprising.\r\n\r\nSurprisal here can be thought of in the information-theoretical sense of information content. If these borrowed phrases are lexically embedded “as is”, we expect with high probability to see the phrase unaltered. Any transformation therefore should have a lower probability. Traditionally these probabilities are calculated by way of word distributions and corpus analysis.\r\n\r\nIn psycholinguistic research surprisal is often measured through cloze tests. These closely resemble the masked learning methods used by state-of-the-art language models during training. I expect to be able to extract an approximation of surprise by measuring embedding distances between predicted and actual tokens from these models. Because of the inherent attention mechanism in these models I should also be able to trace the predictions to varying windows of context.\r\n\r\nThe amplitude of the N400 component of the event-related potential (ERP) in response to linguistic stimuli also has a high correlation with the kind of semantic surprisal I am interested in in this work. Recently there have been major advances in modelling the N400 component directly through sentence gestalt models.  \r\n\r\nI plan to use these different measures of surprisal on an annotated data set on text reuse in Early Modern English and a word mover’s distance based classifier trained on the task. \r\n\r\nIn this talk I will outline the necessary theoretical background for these three approaches and the overall task. Finally I will present my thoughts on the experimental set-up and share preliminary results.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Computational Linguistics","abstract":"I present preliminary research on compositional phrase embeddings using a novel tree LSTM autoencoder. I will outline the necessary theoretical background for grammar-theoretical, neurolinguistic and NLP notions of (non-)compositionality and introduce the tree LSTM architecture. Finally I will go over my experimental set-up and the work ahead.","speakers":[{"guid":"b2124bfc-981a-5499-a977-2e7b5567b5a5","id":193,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/193/original/IMG_3322.jpg?1571842325","name":"Victor Zimmermann","public_name":"Victor Zimmermann","email":"zimmermann@axtimhaus.eu","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"axtimhaus.eu","title":"Homepage"},{"url":"twitter.com/dieaxtimhaus","title":"Twitter"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Living Lab (1.34)","id":103}},{"id":830,"guid":"392afe3c-df8e-4dc3-b44a-0c31e41cec0c","title":"The role of communication in the development of sign language lexicons","language":"en","subtitle":null,"description":"To represent an object iconically with your hands, gesturers (people who do not have a sign language) overwhelmingly mime the *use* of the object, shaping their hands as though holding and manipulating it (‘handling’ strategy). In contrast, sign language users are much more likely to shape their hands as though their hand *is* the object (‘instrument’ strategy). I hypothesised that this difference is due to the handling strategy having a greater risk of homophony (one form for multiple meanings), leading signers to favour the instrument strategy in order to communicate effectively.\r\n\r\nTo test this, 491 participants were shown signs for a range of meanings, using one of the two strategies (handling or instrument), and asked what they thought the meaning was. This talk describes the results of this experiment, in particular comparing how semantically varied interpretations were, for handling and instrument signs. A narrow range of interpretations would suggest high communicative efficacy for that sign, and reduced risk of homophony in a sign language lexicon using that sign.\r\n\r\nWhile the primary finding was no overall difference between strategies, some words individually had a significant difference, with one strategy eliciting a wider range of meanings than another. I discuss the implications of these differences, and finally compare some other explanations for the differences between signers' and gesturers' productions.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Neuro- and Psycholinguistics","abstract":"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 pressure to use distinct forms for distinct meanings, so as to allow for successful communication. In this talk I apply this principle to sign language, exploring whether a notable feature of sign languages can be explained as a result of the need to keep signs for different meanings visually distinct.","speakers":[{"guid":"30a8232a-0f5f-5623-b393-a9296cc80ce8","id":758,"image":null,"name":"Andrew Tobin","public_name":"Andrew Tobin","email":"s1835502@ed.ac.uk","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T11:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":861,"guid":"7d5cb90b-f46d-4bbd-8078-723d98944c5f","title":"Underlined","language":"","subtitle":"Meet our Supporters","description":null,"duration":900,"time_slots":3,"logo":null,"type":"other","do_not_record":false,"track":null,"abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"c2de3c9f-e308-5f66-b34d-37f4e13e9aed","id":787,"image":null,"name":"Underlined","public_name":"Underlined","email":"info@underlined.nl","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://underlined.eu/","title":"Website"}]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T15:20:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T15:35:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":810,"guid":"0a2f7e2e-7ec7-4e05-aaf9-234c8d781ad0","title":"Von Sprachkontakt und Zweckentfremdung: die Entwicklung des baskischen definiten Artikels","language":"de","subtitle":null,"description":"Die morphologische Markierung von Definitheit mittels Artikeln ist häufig ein areales Merkmal, das auch von genetisch nicht verwandten Sprachen innerhalb eines Gebiets geteilt wird. Ein solches Areal stellen Westeuropa und der Mittelmeerraum dar, wo neben verschiedenen indogermanischen und semitischen Sprachen auch Baskisch als isolierte Sprache einen definiten, ebenso wie einen indefiniten, Artikel besitzt. Der definite Artikel ist stärker grammatikalisiert, er wird an das letzte Element der Nominalphrase suffigiert und hat mehrere kasusabhängige Allomorphe. Auffällig ist, dass er nur in wenigen Kontexten tatsächlich auf definite NPs beschränkt ist. In allen anderen Kontexten tritt er auch mit non-spezifischen (nicht aber mit spezifischen!) indefiniten NPs auf, ebenso findet man ihn an prädikativen Adjektiven. Diese Verwendung des baskischen definiten Artikels ist semantisch nur begrenzt erklärbar und weicht auch von dem üblichen Grammatikalisierungspfad für definite Artikel ab. Tatsächlich ist der Gebrauch eher morphosyntaktisch als semantisch motiviert und der Verlauf der Grammatikalisierung wurde sowohl von sprachinternen morphosyntaktischen Faktoren als auch von romanischer Interferenz beeinflusst.\r\nIm heutigen Baskisch sind \u003cI\u003ebare nouns\u003c/I\u003e, also Substantive oder NPs ohne Determinierer, sehr eingeschränkt und nicht einmal als Zitierform zulässig. Um zu vermeiden, dass eine NP \u003cI\u003ebare\u003c/I\u003e ist, erhalten alle NPs, die keinen anderen Determinierer haben, den sogenannten definiten Artikel. Der Beginn dieser Entwicklung ist bereits in Wortlisten aus dem 12. Jahrhundert bezeugt. Dabei scheint zumindest in den Anfängen die Tatsache eine Rolle gespielt zu haben, dass Baskisch anders als seine romanischen Kontaktsprachen Numerus nicht an Nomen, sondern nur an Determinierern markiert und die Suffigierung des Artikels eine Numerusmarkierung ermöglicht, die der der romanischen Sprachen sehr ähnlich ist.\r\nDer baskische definite Artikel ist also ein interessanter Fall einer nicht gradlinig verlaufenen Grammatikalisierung. Auch wenn seine Verwendung synchron ein überraschendes Muster aufweist, lässt sich dieses durch die Interaktion verschiedener Faktoren im Laufe seiner Entwicklung vollständig erklären.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":null,"speakers":[{"guid":"983377c9-ed05-5211-9242-7c57af730205","id":101,"image":null,"name":"Silvie Strauß","public_name":"Silvie Strauß","email":"silvie.strauss@web.de","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T15:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T15:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Schuurman (1.22)","id":104}},{"id":814,"guid":"019f7618-6420-40d3-92b7-7af1fb0ee990","title":"\"Warte, warst du jetzt im Krankenhaus?!\"","language":"de","subtitle":"eine transmediale korpusbasierte Untersuchung der interaktionsorganisierenden Diskurspartikel warte","description":"Diskurspartikeln waren bisher vorwiegend Untersuchungsgegenstand der Gesprochene-Sprache-Forschung und der Gesprächsanalyse (vgl. Proske 2014: 122), gelten sie doch als Charakteristika der konzeptionellen Mündlichkeit. Konzeptionell mündliche Elemente finden sich jedoch auch in interaktionaler computervermittelter Sprache. Insbesondere Diskurspartikeln, die aus Imperativen entstanden sind, wurden noch nicht umfassend in medial schriftlicher Inter-aktion untersucht. \r\nDie Diskurspartikel warte ist in der Chat-Interaktion von besonderem Interesse, da zwischen den Interagierenden eine räumliche Trennung besteht, die eine wörtliche Interpretation des Gesagten ausschließt (vgl. dazu Günthner 2017: 17). Wenn Person A Person B in einer Textnach-richt mitteilt, dass sie warten soll, ist (nicht immer) gemeint, dass Person B ihre aktuelle Tätigkeit unterbrechen oder keine Antwort verfassen soll, bis Person A sich erneut gemeldet hat. Ähnlich wie in Face-to-Face-Interaktion erfüllt die Diskurspartikel noch weitere Diskursfunktionen, wie das Anzeigen eines Missverständnisses. In welchen Kontexten die Diskurspartikel auftaucht und welche Funktion sie einnehmen kann, unterscheidet sich jedoch zwischen medial mündlicher und medial schriftlicher Interaktion und dieser transmediale Unterschied ist noch nicht untersucht worden.\r\nDiesem Forschungsdesiderat soll der Beitrag nachkommen und das Form- und Funktionsspektrum der Diskurspartikel warte in schriftlicher und mündlicher Kommunikation beleuchten. Der Vortrag basiert auf einer Untersuchung darüber, in welchen sequenziellen Kontexten und mit welchen Funktionen die Diskurspartikel warte in der Chat-Interaktion verwendet wird und ob sich diese Kontexte und Funktionen von denen in der Face-to-Face-Interaktion unterscheiden. \r\nZunächst wird der gegenwärtige Forschungsstand zur Diskurspartikeln warte im Deutschen skizziert. Anschließend werden das Korpus der Untersuchung vorgestellt und zentrale Analyseergebnisse genannt, wobei funktionale Merkmale der Partikel im Fokus stehen. Dabei werden die Ergebnisse anhand von Belegen aus der linguistischen Audio-Datenbank (lAuDa) des Centrums für Sprache und Interaktion in Münster sowie einem privaten Korpus aus WhatsApp-Nachrichten veranschaulicht.\r\n\r\nLiteraturhinweise:\r\nGünthner, Susanne (2017): Diskursmarker in der Interaktion – Formen und Funktionen univerbierter guck mal- und weißt du-Konstruktionen. In: Hardarik Blühdorn, Arnulf Deppermann, Henrike Helmer und Thomas Spranz-Fogasy (Hg.): Diskursmarker im Deutschen. Reflexionen und Analysen. Göttingen: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung, S. 103–130.\r\nProske, Nadine (2014): °h ach KOMM; hör AUF mit dem klEInkram. Die Partikel komm zwischen Interjektion und Diskursmarker. In: Gesprächsforschung. Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 15, S. 121–160.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics ","abstract":"Aus Imperativen entstandene Diskurspartikeln sind bisher vorwiegend in medial mündlicher Interaktion untersucht worden. Die Arbeiten zu komm (vgl. Proske 2014) und guck mal (vgl. Günthner 2017) sind zwei Beispiele für die Untersuchung dieser besonderen Gruppe der Diskurspartikeln. Diskurspartikeln werden aber auch in unserer medial vermittelten Kommunikation genutzt, z. B. in der Messenger-Interaktion. \r\nIm Vortrag wird das Form- und Funktionsspektrum der Diskurspartikel warte im transmedialen Vergleich vorgestellt. Anhand von authentischen Beispielen wird gezeigt, dass sich die Verwendung der Partikel hinsichtlich ihres Auftretens im sequenziellen Kontext sowie ihrer Funktion zwischen medial mündlicher und medial schriftlicher Interaktion unterscheidet.","speakers":[{"guid":"3838c326-ac0c-5475-bd8a-ec137b3b7909","id":740,"image":null,"name":"Sarah Sophie Nagel","public_name":"Sarah Sophie Nagel","abstract":"Studium der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft an der Universität Münster (M.A.)","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T15:30:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T16:00:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":841,"guid":"25619e64-f6cc-4e1b-8ab1-1f859966ac64","title":"\"We were able to communicate after all.” ","language":"en","subtitle":"Strategies and resources in interactions without shared named languages","description":"In this paper, I therefore present a close interactional analysis of an interaction without shared named languages, examining the communication strategies (Selinker, 1972; Dörnyei \u0026 Scott, 1997) and resources (Mondada 2019; Kidwell 2013) employed. The analysis is based on an audiovisual recording of a simulated restaurant visit in which four South Tyrolean secondary school students interacted with a Russian waitress and a tourist from Morocco seated at the same table. While all four students disposed of several named languages and varieties in their linguistic repertoires, none of them spoke Russian or (Moroccan) Arabic. In this paper, I investigate the communication strategies and semiotic resources which the interactants employed during this task, such as the use of deictic gestures and particles to establish a common focus and the use of objects and representational gestures in combination with speech to make verbal resources available to the co-interactants. In total, I show that interactants cooperatively establish common ground through the reflective, constantly adapting management of all available resources. \r\n\r\nReferences:\r\nDörnyei, Z., \u0026 Scott, M. L. (1997). Communication strategies in a second language: Definitions and taxonomies. In Language Learning (Vol. 47, Issue 1, pp. 173–210). Blackwell Publishing Inc. \r\n\r\nKidwell, M. (2013). Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space. In C. Müller, A. Cienki, E. Fricke, S. Ladewig, D. \r\nMcNeill, \u0026 S. Teßendorf (Eds.), Body–language–communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction (Vol. 1, pp. 100–113). De Gruyter.\r\n\r\nMondada, L. (2019). Contemporary issues in conversation analysis: Embodiment and materiality, multimodality and multisensoriality in social interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 145, 47–62.\r\n\r\nSelinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage. International Review of Applied Linguistics, 10(3), 209–231.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics ","abstract":"As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and mobility increases, more and more encounters take place in which people interact despite the absence of a shared named language in their linguistic repertoires. Such communicative encounters may occur, for example, in tourism or between refugees and local authorities, when those involved have no lingua franca at their disposal. The study of communicative practices in such situations has largely been neglected so far. Yet, a better understanding of such practices would have important implications for numerous fields, including crisis response, social work and labor more generally in migration societies as well as language learning and teaching. \r\n","speakers":[{"guid":"1375e88a-6fbd-5799-8a85-8f5c49c2f15e","id":247,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/247/original/cijevschianna_Profilfoto_Eurac.jpg?1650484730","name":"Anna Cijevschi","public_name":"Anna Cijevschi","email":"anna.cijevschi@stud.uni-regensburg.de","abstract":"Hi, I'm Anna. I have just finished my Master's thesis (which is the basis for my talk) at the University of Regensburg in the programme \"Mehrsprachigkeit und Regionalität\". I am currently teaching at a secondary school in Germany.","description":"Particularly interested in critical sociolinguistics, multilingualism, post-colonial Englishes. + If you know of any interesting heritage language programmes (anywhere in the world), I'd love to hear about them!","links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-28T14:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-28T14:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Decartes (2.36)","id":101}},{"id":785,"guid":"6b2eb6e7-a937-454c-9689-cb5b76e83a91","title":"When iconicity diverges","language":"en","subtitle":"Evidence from the lexicon of two sign languages","description":"Past studies have explored how iconicity influences the lexicon in the visual modality, typically paying limited attention to signs’ formational components and their cross-linguistic differences (4–9). Other studies have conducted lexical comparisons across sign languages to establish cross-linguistic similarity, typically discarding iconic signs from the analysis (10–14). Yet, a deeper understanding of the factors that shape a manual lexicon must include how these two forces interact in sign language lexica: iconicity driving cross-linguistic similarity and language-specific conventions driving differences. In the present study, we investigate this interaction, by analysing types of iconicity (i.e., strategies to realise form-meaning mappings) and degree of form overlap in BSL and DGS.\r\n\r\nWe selected up to 10 concepts (N = 234) (concrete and abstract) elicited from deaf signers in a semantic fluency task in DGS and BSL for analysis. We classified all signs by iconic strategy (enactment, acting on, representing, personification, entity, tracing, moulding), are collecting iconicity and concreteness ratings, and establishing edit-distance, based on the formational components, for each concept.\r\n\r\nWe find that proportions of different iconic strategies in DGS and BSL are substantially similar across the languages for concrete concepts, but that interesting differences emerge for abstract concepts. These results suggest that iconicity supports similar mappings in concrete referents across sign languages, supporting the view that it is grounded in sensory-motor experience (15). However, in abstract concepts, cultural and linguistic conventions may drive variation, leading to divergence across sign languages. Phonological analysis is predicted to reveal substantive overlap for iconic signs, though granular analysis is likely to reveal subtle differences.\r\nThis investigation sheds light on how iconicity shapes the lexicon of a sign language, given language-specific constraints. This furthers our understanding of the similarities and differences between sign language lexica, giving a systematic account of pressures driving similarity and differences.\r\n\r\nReferences:\r\n1.\tTaub, S. F. The Analogue-Building Model of Linguistic Iconicity. in Language from the body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language (ed. Taub, S. F.) (Cambridge University Press, 2001). doi:10.1017/CBO9780511509629.004.\r\n2.\tSu, S. \u0026 Tai, J. H.-Y. Lexical comparison of signs from Taiwan, Chinese, Japanese, and American Sign Languages: Taking iconicity into account. in Taiwan Sign Language and Beyond 149–176 (The Taiwan Institute for the Humanities, National Chung Cheng University, 2009).\r\n3.\tBrentari, D. Sign language phonology. (Cambridge University Press, 2019).\r\n4.\tHou, L. Iconic Patterns in San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language. Sign Lang. Stud. 18, 570–611 (2018).\r\n5.\tHwang, S.-O. et al. Of the body and the hands: patterned iconicity for semantic categories. Lang. Cogn. 9, 573–602 (2017).\r\n6.\tKimmelman, V., Klezovich, A. \u0026 Moroz, G. IPSL: A database of iconicity patterns in sign languages. Creation and use. in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (eds. Calzolari, N. et al.) 4230–4234 (ELRA, 2018).\r\n7.\tÖstling, R., Börstell, C. \u0026 Courtaux, S. Visual Iconicity Across Sign Languages: Large-Scale Automated Video Analysis of Iconic Articulators and Locations. Front. Psychol. 9, 725 (2018).\r\n8.\tPadden, C. et al. Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons. Gesture 13, 287–308 (2013).\r\n9.\tPadden, C., Hwang, S.-O., Lepic, R. \u0026 Seegers, S. Tools for Language: Patterned Iconicity in Sign Language Nouns and Verbs. Top. Cogn. Sci. 7, 81–94 (2015).\r\n10.\tChen, Y. \u0026 Gong, Q. Dialects or languages a corpus based quantitative approach to lexical variation in common signs in Chinese Sign Language (CSL). Lingua (2020) doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102944.\r\n11.\tClark, B. Sign language varieties in Lima Peru. Sign Lang. Stud. 17, 222–264 (2017).\r\n12.\tEbling, S., Konrad, R., Braem, P. B. \u0026 Langer, G. Factors to Consider When Making Lexical Comparisons of Sign Languages: Notes from an Ongoing Comparison of German Sign Language and Swiss German Sign Language. Sign Lang. Stud. 16, 30–56 (2015).\r\n13.\tMiyamoto, R. \u0026 Mori, S. Is Kenyan Sign Language a sister language of ASL?: An analysis of language nativity through comparison between KSL and ASL. Jpn. J. Sign Lang. Stud. 24, 17–30 (2015).\r\n14.\tParkhurst, S. J. \u0026 Parkhurst, D. D. Lexical Comparisons of Signed Languages and the Effects of Iconicity. in Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session (2018). doi:10.31356/silwp.vol47.02.\r\n15.\tPerniss, P. \u0026 Vigliocco, G. The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to the experience of language. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 369, (2014).\r\n\r\n**Email me for access to the slides**","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Typology and Variational Linguistics","abstract":"Sign languages, the manual-visual languages of deaf communities, exhibit a high degree of iconicity in their vocabularies due to the affordances of the modality for creating visually motivated form-meaning mappings (1). The potential for iconicity creates cross-linguistic similarity between sign languages based on shared associations and properties. For instance, many sign languages represent the concept EAT by bringing the hand to the mouth (2). At the same time, sign languages consist of formational components (hand configuration, movement, location) that combine to form conventionalised signs (3), and that are a source for language-specific differences in form, including in signs that share an iconic base. For instance, the German Sign Language (DGS) and British Sign Language (BSL) signs for EAT differ in their hand configuration.","speakers":[{"guid":"392a5660-eef2-50dd-b5eb-d04278fe899d","id":6,"image":"/system/people/avatars/000/000/006/original/IMG_5750.jpg?1605563099","name":"Annika Schiefner","public_name":"Annika Schiefner","email":"annika.schiefner@junge-sprachwissenschaft.de","abstract":"I am a researcher in sign language linguistics at the University of Amsterdam, studying which factors aid children in learning a sign language in a virtual learning environment. At the same time, I am also writing up my PhD dissertation in the DFG-AHRC project \"From Icon to Abstraction\" at the University of Cologne in cooperation with the University of Birmingham. Here, I am studying how iconicity is used in silent gesture and sign by comparing gesture and sign data from Germany and the UK. I hold an M.A. in Language and Communication: Psycholinguistics from Radboud Univesity, Nijmegen, NL, and a B.A. in Language and Communication from the Philipps-Universität Marburg. I am also a board member of the Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.\r\n\r\nMy interests are in sign languages, psycholinguistic research methods and tools, statistics, and open science. My pronouns are she/her.","description":null,"links":[{"url":"https://www.junge-sprachwissenschaft.de/","title":"Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V."},{"url":"https://twitter.com/AnniSchiefner","title":"Twitter"},{"url":"https://www.hf.uni-koeln.de/41194","title":"Uni Köln"}]},{"guid":"cdfa8cc6-9e72-5205-bbb5-02c38c1ac9ae","id":64,"image":null,"name":"Pamela Perniss","public_name":"Pamela Perniss","email":"pperniss@uni-koeln.de","abstract":"Professorin für Dolmetschen für Deutsche Gebärdensprache, Universität zu Köln","description":null,"links":[]},{"guid":"7c2bc65c-7fb8-5d91-820f-2886ed06b7ea","id":783,"image":null,"name":"Gerardo Ortega","public_name":"Gerardo Ortega","abstract":null,"description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-27T12:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-27T12:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}},{"id":815,"guid":"4d767896-8afa-4530-9c53-c68addcffd95","title":"Wie Menschen in laufende Gespräche einsteigen","language":"de","subtitle":"Eine konversationsanalytische Untersuchung natürlicher Interaktion","description":"Der Vortrag beschäftigt sich mit einem Thema, das vielen aus dem Alltag bekannt sein dürfte: Wie steigen Menschen, die zuvor nur passiv zugehört haben, in eine bereits laufende Interaktion ein? Solche Szenarien sind zwar in der Realität häufig anzutreffen, passen aber nicht recht in das traditionelle Schema aus ‚Sprecher‘ und ‚Hörer‘. Daher wurde für die vorgestellte Untersuchung das Participation framework von Erving Goffman (1979) zugrunde gelegt, das auch die sozialen Kontexte von Interaktionen in den Blick nimmt, in denen auch andere, nicht ratifizierte Anwesende als Overhearer zuhören und in Gespräche einsteigen können. Solche Gesprächseinstiege wurden allerdings noch nicht empirisch untersucht, im Gegensatz zu Turnübernahmen ratifizierter Interagierender (Ford 2008, Mondada 2012).\r\nDie vorgestellte Untersuchung hat daher zum Ziel, anhand authentischer Videodaten sprachliche Formen zu identifizieren, die bisherige Overhearer für die Funktion des Gesprächseinstiegs einsetzen. Die Daten stammen aus einem Friseursalon mit zwei nebeneinanderliegenden Schneideplätzen, sodass das Setting durchaus Voraussetzungen für Gesprächseinstiege bietet; es handelt sich aber um eine natürliche Interaktionssituation ohne künstlichen Eingriff. Die Daten wurden mit den Zugang der Ethnomethodologischen Konversationsanalyse und Interaktionalen Linguistik ausgewertet. Dabei wurden auch nichtsprachliche Ressourcen wie Blick und Gestik in die Analyse einbezogen. Detaillierte Sequenzanalysen ergaben verschiedene sprachliche Methoden für Gesprächseinstiege, die auch in anderen interaktionalen Situationen genutzt werden. Dabei unterscheidet sich jedoch der sequenzielle Ablauf von einer typischen Verwendung, sodass eine Anpassung der Praktiken an den Kontext des Gesprächseinstiegs erkennbar wird. Im Vortrag wird anhand der Daten eine dieser Methoden exemplarisch vorgestellt. Dass solche Methoden entscheidend für den Erfolg eines Gesprächseinstiegs sind, zeigt der Vergleich mit einem Fall, bei dem ein intendierter Interaktionseinstieg scheitert. Dieser wird ebenfalls im Vortrag präsentiert. Die Untersuchung erschließt so ein fruchtbares Forschungsfeld, dem in der Linguistik bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet wurde, das aber durchaus Einblicke in die Organisation von sozialer Partizipation und Interaktion bieten kann.","duration":1800,"time_slots":6,"logo":null,"type":"lecture","do_not_record":false,"track":"Applied Linguistics ","abstract":"Wie gelingt es Menschen, erfolgreich in bereits laufende Interaktionen einzusteigen? Diese Frage wurde zuvor kaum linguistisch untersucht, auch wenn die theoretische Grundlage seit 1979 in Goffmans Participation framework besteht. Dieses erfasst auch Anwesende, die keine ratifizierten Gesprächsteilnehmenden sind, aber dennoch als Overhearer der Interaktion zuhören. Anhand von Videodaten aus einem Friseursalon wurden Fälle, in denen solche Overhearer in laufende Interaktionen einsteigen, mit dem Zugang der Ethnomethodologischen Konversationsanalyse und Interaktionalen Linguistik untersucht. Anhand detaillierter Sequenzanalysen wurden sprachliche Methoden für einen Gesprächseinstieg herausgearbeitet. Der Vortrag kontrastiert einen gelungenen Gesprächseinstieg mit einem Fall, bei dem der Versuch scheitert und der zeigt, dass so ein Einstieg kein Selbstläufer ist, sondern tatsächlich funktionale Methoden dafür nötig sind.","speakers":[{"guid":"8b7ab79a-dcd8-512a-8c85-46524af5fdd3","id":744,"image":null,"name":"Patricia Linnemann","public_name":"Patricia Linnemann","email":"p_linn03@uni-muenster.de","abstract":"Masterstudentin an der WWU Münster\r\nAngewandte Sprachwissenschaft und Deutsch als Zweitsprache\r\nProjektmitarbeiterin am Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft im DFG-Projekt \"Interaktionales Informationsmanagement\"","description":null,"links":[]}],"start_time":"2022-05-26T15:00:00.000+02:00","end_time":"2022-05-26T15:30:00.000+02:00","room":{"name":"Eisenga (2.32)","id":102}}]}}