QITL-4 Program

Below you will find links to the locations for the warming up and conference dinner. The locations will also be marked on the conference map available at registration

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Mon 28 March 2011 - Pre-Conference Workshop

0900-0930

Registration

0930-0945

Welcome

Reinhold Kliegl & Alexander Geyken

0945-1045

Plenary Talk: Resource requirements for neo-generative modeling in (psycho)linguistics

R. Harald Baayen

1045-1115

Coffee break

1115-1150

Towards exploring the specific influences of wordform frequency, lemma frequency and OLD20 on visual word recognition and reading aloud

Lara Kresse, Stefan Kirschner, Stefanie Dipper, Eva Belke

1150-1225

An evaluation of the Google Books ngrams for psycholinguistic research

Emmanuel Keuleers, Marc Brysbaert, Boris New

1225-1400

Lunch

1400-1445

dlexDB in Depth

Julian Heister, Edmund Pohl, Kay-Michael Würzner

1445-1515

Coffee break

1515-1550

Corpus-based evidence for approximating semantic transparency of complex verbs

Heike Zinsmeister, Eva Smolka

1550-1625

Psycholinguistic databases in research on emotional processing

Benny Briesemeister

1625-1630

Closing Remarks



From 1900

Warming up (Aufsturz, Oranienburgerstr. 67)

Tue 29 March 2011

0900-0930

Registration

0930-0945

Welcome

Anke Lüdeling & Amir Zeldes

0945-1045

Plenary Talk: Corpus-Based Generation of Linguistic Hypotheses using Quantitative Methods

Hermann Moisl

1045-1115

Coffee break

1115-1155

Discourse-linking and long-distance syntactic dependency formation

Oliver Boxell

1155-1235

Multiple Fronting vs. VP Fronting in German

Felix Bildhauer, Philippa Cook

1235-1400

Lunch

1400-1440

Modeling reduction of is, am and are in grammaticalized constructions

Danielle Barth

1440-1520

Color naming universals: a statistical approach

Gerhard Jäger

1520-1550

Coffee break

1550-1630

Semantic factors in the choice between ethnic adjectives and PP counterparts: Quantitative evidence

Daniel Berndt, Gemma Boleda, Berit Gehrke, Louise McNally

1630-1710

Meaning-shifting plurality and the Count/Mass Distinction

E. Graham Katz, Roberto Zamparelli

Wed 30 March 2011

0930-1030

Plenary Talk: Compound Stress Assignment Emerges from the Lexicon

Ingo Plag

1030-1100

Coffee break

1100-1140

Statistical classification and principles of human learning

R. Harald Baayen, Antti Arppe

1140-1220

From graded ratings to binary decisions: A case study on argument alternations in German

Markus Bader, Jana Häussler

1220-1400

Lunch

1400-1440

Definite reference is not always based on salience

Peter Bosch, Sascha Alexeyenko, Kirsten Brukamp, Maria Cieschinger, Xiaoye Deng, Peter König

1440-1520

Reference resolution in Chinese: New insights from psycholinguistics

Xiao He, Elsi Kaiser

From 1520

Poster session with coffee (poster presentations)

From 1900

Conference dinner (Ampelmann Restaurant, Stadtbahnbogen 159)

 

Thu 31 March 2011

0930-1030

Plenary Talk: What Counts? the Graded Nature of Rule Abstraction in Child Language

Heike Behrens

1030-1100

Coffee break

1100-1140

Stylometry and the interplay of topic and L1 in the different annotation layers in the FALKO corpus

Felix Golcher, Marc Reznicek

1140-1220

The Acquisition of English Particle Placement: A case study in developing productivity

Benjamin J. Molineaux

1220-1400

Lunch

1400-1440

A Quantitative Approach to the Contrast and Stability of Sounds

Thomas Mayer, Christian Rohrdantz, Frans Plank, Miriam Butt, Daniel A. Keim

1440-1520

Reconstructing meaning change from parallel corpora

Michael Cysouw, Jelena Prokic

1520-1550

Coffee break

1550-1630  

The use of spatial autocorrelation statistics for the analysis of regional linguistic variation

Jack Grieve

1630-1700

Final Discussion & Closing

Anke Lüdeling & Amir Zeldes