Events
Thursday
07:30
09:30
10:00
11:30
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Introduction to concatenative speech synthesis
In this workshop we will briefly introduce speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), and focus on one particular type: concatenative...
Crash Course Historical Comparative Method, The Tree Model & Genetic Relationship
We all know language families and language trees which are supposed to show how languages are related. But the method that underlies such trees,...
Creating Dialect Maps (with QGIS)
An Introduction to Dialect Mapping
In this workshop, we will go through: What are… & how do I make…: - Symbol maps - Frequency maps - Isogloss maps - Area maps (we won’t go...
Frisian Workshop
This workshop is an introduction to Frisian, the language spoken in the area where the conference is taking place this year. We will start with a...
14:00
The rest is syntax
(Non-)compositionality in semantic phrase embedding
I present preliminary research on compositional phrase embeddings using a novel tree LSTM autoencoder. I will outline the necessary theoretical...
Is text length determined by register or by elicitation order?
A study using the RUEG corpus
German loanwords in Cameroonian Fàŋ-Bətí languages
Basically, this study is geared towards the phonological description of the nouns the Fàŋ-Bətí languages borrowed from the German language. During...
14:30
Fine-Tuned Sentence Transformer Model for Question Answering Task
I would like to introduce the structure and a practical application of sentence transformer models which are used for sentence- and document-level...
On Forced-Alignment and its Utility in Corpora for Phonetic Research
"Kachten aus dem Kaatenspiel"
Die regionale /r/-Variante bei Schüler*innen verschiedenen Alters in der Voreifel.
Eine laufende Untersuchung über die Verwendung des stimmlosen uvularen Frikativs als /r/-Variante.
15:00
Wie Menschen in laufende Gespräche einsteigen
Eine konversationsanalytische Untersuchung natürlicher Interaktion
Wie gelingt es Menschen, erfolgreich in bereits laufende Interaktionen einzusteigen? Diese Frage wurde zuvor kaum linguistisch untersucht, auch...
R-Sandhi: Do learners of EFL shadow native speakers?
As part of a sociophonetics seminar by Prof. Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Uni Trier) an experiment was designed to find out, whether learners of English as...
An analysis of strategies and tactics used in courtroom dialogues
Language used in courtrooms has long been an issue of interest, due to its strict formality and the power imbalance that exists between attorneys...
Von Sprachkontakt und Zweckentfremdung: die Entwicklung des baskischen definiten Artikels
15:30
"Warte, warst du jetzt im Krankenhaus?!"
eine transmediale korpusbasierte Untersuchung der interaktionsorganisierenden Diskurspartikel warte
Aus Imperativen entstandene Diskurspartikeln sind bisher vorwiegend in medial mündlicher Interaktion untersucht worden. Die Arbeiten zu komm (vgl....
Effects of Impoverishment and Obliteration in Morphology
The aftermath of destruction
In my talk I will lay out the different effects of the morphological operation Impoverishment and Obliteration. I will share insights from...
16:45
21:00
Friday
07:30
09:30
11:00
Intercultural Communicative Competence in foreign language teaching and learning: A comparison of the situation of Morocco and Germany in tertiary education
My participation aims at giving insightful criteria in choosing the research methodology, data collection tools and procedures; and identifying...
Sound symbolism im cross-linguistischen Vergleich
Bamo und Potnik im Polnischen und Spanischen
Morpheme expansion and linguistic mistakes of the Russian government
Linguistics mistakes of the Russian government in interaction with protesters
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has significantly affected Russian language and its use in public space — certain actions by the Russian government...
11:30
Implementing a Chatbot - Rule Based vs. Machine Learning
Tools for implementing chatbots can generally be divided into two categories - rule based and machine learning systems. This presentation is about...
Innovation or Retention? On the [ɵ] > [ɐ] sound change in Yue dialects
Dialect variation offers us huge insights in the history of a language. Through looking at the geographical distribution of dialect variants and...
The role of communication in the development of sign language lexicons
The most learnable language would be one with an identical form for every word. But the interactive nature of languages means they are under...
An experimental approach to principle C in German
12:00
Hate Speech Detection on Code-Switched Data
The following presentation will focus on adapting a pre-trained BERT model to a code-switched dataset to be able to create a hate speech detection...
Go small or go big, there is no in-between
Mandarin-English Speakers’ Grammar Preferences in Code-switching
The binding of German anaphors in a Minimalist Framework
When iconicity diverges
Evidence from the lexicon of two sign languages
Sign languages, the manual-visual languages of deaf communities, exhibit a high degree of iconicity in their vocabularies due to the affordances of...
14:00
Open session
Networking with sponsors and participants + Poster session
The open session allows participants to meet some of the sponsors of the joint 71st StuTS + 31st TaCoS as well as interact with each other.
Meeting Junge Sprachwissenschaft e.V.
Internet Memes as Argument Prompts
Roses are red, violets are blue, internet memes are arguments too
14:30
15:00
LangSci Press
Meet our Supporters
Meeting ILLSA
International Language and Linguistics Students' Association
15:20
15:40
20:00
Saturday
07:30
09:30
Spraakherkenning, wa is da? - Bias in Flemish Speech Recognition
Not gonna lie - An investigation into constructional change
“Don’t speak Latin in front of the books!”: An exploration into the linguistic influences on the creation of magic systems in fiction
An exploration into the linguistic influences on the creation of incantations and magic systems in fiction
10:00
Information structure in speech synthesis
Improving the naturalness of German text-to-speech synthesis by means of a more context-appropriate prosody
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...
Semantic Differentiation of Old Irish Terms for Bodies of Water
This study investigates the semantics of Old Irish terms in the lexical field 'body of water' based on a corpus of electronically available texts....
#GermanisTikTok
Sprachwissenschaftsvermittlung über Social Media
„wer benutzt ÜBERHAUPT komma“ – Diese Frage einer TikTok-Nutzerin in der Kommentarsektion unter einem Video, das sich inhaltlich mit dem Thema...
11:00
14:00
"We were able to communicate after all.”
Strategies and resources in interactions without shared named languages
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and mobility increases, more and more encounters take place in which people interact despite the...
Language and attachment in mother-child interactions: Relations between related talk and attachment
In my master’s thesis, which combines psychological and linguistic theories, I analyse the relationship between maternal attachment style and the...
Existential Generics and Information Structure
Generic sentences are used to convey exception-tolerant generalizations over a kind or, roughly, relevant members thereof (Carlson & Pelletier...
14:30
Evidence in Support of a Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Harmony between the Verb Phrase and the Adpositional Phrase in the Absence of Surface-Level Patterns
The vast majority of languages for which we have the data display syntactic harmony between the verb phrase and the adpositional phrase. Previous...
Multilingualism in Crisis Communication
Use of Minority Languages in COVID-19 Awareness Campaigns in the Netherlands
This on-going project investigates the availability, accessibility, and acceptability of multilingual and simple COVID-19 information for...
Investigating the semantics of tense-aspect markers in Jula
Our talk aims at presenting a research project that we did on the tenses and aspects markers of Jula (an understudied Mande language). We will show...
15:00
Does contrast affect the use of the personal pronoun er and the pronominal demonstratives der and dieser in German?
Die Auswirkungen des Krieges auf die Sprache: Lehnwörter im Englischen
Metapragmatische Marker als Konfiguratoren mentaler Räume
Das Problem des aktuellen Diskurses und eine kognitionslinguistische Neuorientierung
Slides available on request. Please get in touch: oliver.spiess@unibas.ch
16:00
Argumentative Muster von jungen CoVid-Skeptiker*innen und -Leugner*innen in Österreich.
Eine kritische Diskursanalyse.
Seit über zwei Jahren prägt die CoVid-19-Pandemie weltweit gesellschaftliche, politische und mediale Diskurse und nimmt damit auch Einfluss auf...
Pragmatic Markers in Direct Messaging
A comparative study of pragmatic markers used in direct messaging and oral conversation.
Phonetic Convergence in German non-native speech
The analysis is based on the project entitled "Automated analysis of phonetic convergence in speech technology systems". The project of the Faculty...
16:30
20:00
Sunday
10:00