International Conference on Linguistic Evidence. Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives (Tübingen, 29-31 gennaio 2004)

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International Conference
on

Linguistic Evidence.
Empirical, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives

Per informazioni:
Sonderforschungsbereich 441
Universität Tübingen
Nauklerstr. 35
72074 Tübingen
Germany

Phone: +49 7071 2972732
Fax: +49 7071 295830
E-mail: ling.evidence@uni-tuebingen.de

The conference will take place in the main building of the Faculty of Modern Languages.
Neuphilologicum
Wilhelmstr. 50
72074 Tübingen

Agenda

Wednesday, 28th January 2004

18:00 - 22:00 Reception at the linguistics department, Room 002
Wilhelmstr. 19 (across the street from Neuphilologicum)
There will be a registration desk at the department from 16:00.

Thursday, 29th January 2004
Neuphilologicum, Room 037

Psycholinguistics
9:00 - 9:15 Opening
9:15 - 10:15 Invited Talk: Harald Baayen:
Questioning the unquestionable: Semantics and (ir)regularity
10:15 - 10:45 Heiner Drenhaus, Douglas Saddy, Stefan Frisch:
Intrusion effects in the processing of negative polarity items
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12:45 Sacha DeVelle:
Linguistic Theory and On-line Processing: The Case of Aspectual Coercion
Ilona Steiner:
The Syntax of DP-Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading Time Studies and Agrammatic
Comprehension:
Annette Hohenberger, Eva Waleschkowski:
Speech errors as evidence for language production processes. A historical journey from Meringer to Leuninger

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch break

Psycholinguistics
14:15 - 15:15 Invited Talk: Carson Schütze:
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Thinking about what we're asking subjects to do
15:15 - 16:15 Aria Adli:
Gradedness and Constituency in Grammaticality Judgments
Sam Featherston:
The relationship between judgement data and frequency data in syntactic well-formedness: The Decathlon Model
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 18:15 Veronika Ehrich:
Linguistic constraints on the acquisition of epistemic modals
Serge Doitchinov:
Naturalistic and Experimental Data in Language

Acquisition: The Case of Epistemic Terms

Jeffrey Runner, Rachel Sussman, Michael Tanenhaus:
Reflexives and pronouns in picture noun phrases: Using eye movements as a source of linguistic evidence

20:00 Conference Dinner at the castle

Friday, 30th January 2004
Neuphilologicum, Room 036

Semantics
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Manfred Krifka:
Semantics and pragmatics of the Dative Alternation
10:00 - 10:30 Uli Sauerland, Jan Anderssen, Kazuko Yatsushiro:
The Plural Involves Comparison
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Massimo Poesio:
An Empirical Investigation Of Definiteness
Greg Carlson, Rachel Sussman:
Seemingly Indefinite Definites
Derrick Higgins:
Which statistics reflect semantics? Rethinking synonymy and word similarity

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00 Invited Talk: Christiane Fellbaum
Harvesting Linguistic Evidence from the Web with the LSE: The Case of the Benefactive Alternation
15:00 - 16:00 Postersession, room 027

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00 Computational Linguistics
Erhard Hinrichs, Julia Trushkina:
Treebank Transformations for Performance Optimizations of a PCFG-based Tagger
Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Ara Kim, Stephan Oepen:
Beauty and the Beast: What running a broad-coverage precision grammar over the BNC taught us about the grammar - and the corpus
Anke Lüdeling, Stefan Evert:
The emergence of productive non-medical -itis: corpus evidence and qualitative analysis

Saturday, 31st January 2004
Neuphilologicum, Room 036

Diachrony
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Anthony Kroch:
Revisiting 'do'
10:00 - 10:30 Augustin Speyer:
A phonological factor for the decline in Topicalization in English
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Katrin Axel:
Null subjects and verb placement in Old High German
Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino, Ruth Elizabeth Vasconcellos Lopes:
Animacy as a driving cue in change and acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese
Wiltrud Mihatsch:
Experimental data vs. diachronic typological data: Two types of evidence for linguistic relativity

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - 16:00 Mary Kato, Carlos Mioto:
European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-questions
Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch:
How flexible is constituent order in the midfield of German subordinate clauses? A corpus study revealing unexpected rigidity
Kris Heylen:
A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation
Tanja Schmid, Markus Bader, Josef Bayer:
Coherent Infinitives in German: An Experiment