| PROGRAM (UPDATED VERSION --
AUGUST 23, 2005) |
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
| 09.00-10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.00-10.15 |
Opening - Fred Karlsson |
| 10.15-11.15 |
Plenum (room 104): John McWhorter:
Revisiting the Creole Prototype: Signs of Age in Analytic Grammars |
|
room 104 |
room 505 |
| 11.20-11.50 |
Patrick Juola: Compression-based analysis
of language complexity |
Jung-Tae Kim: Second Language Text Processing
and Induced Schema |
| 11.55-12.25 |
Ramon Ferrer i Cancho: Recent advances in
information and network theory about the complexity of human
language |
Hung Ha: Applying Concept Map to develop a
new Technical Writing technique for enhancing Reading comprehension
performance |
| 12.25-14.00 |
LUNCH |
| 14.00-14.30 |
Relja Vulanovic: On Measuring Language Complexity
as Relative to the Conveyed Linguistic Information |
Tarik Hadzibeganovic: Modeling the Effects
of Sublexical Features and Letter Order in Transposition Priming
Experiments |
| 14.35-15.05 |
August Fenk, Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon, and Lisa
Fenk: The balance between word complexity and syllable complexity |
Aleth Bolt: The complexity of grammatical
metaphors |
| 15.05-15.30 |
COFFEE |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Rigina Turunen: Nominal predicate constructions
in Erzya
|
Joke de Lange: Optional Determiners in Child
Language and Headlines |
| 16.05-16.35 |
Christophe Coupé, Egidio Marsico, and François
Pellegrino: Complex patterns in phonological systems |
Françoise Ratzlaff, and Gordon Ratzlaff: Language
Complexity and Multilingual Learning |
| 16.40-17.40 |
Plenum (room 104): Wouter Kusters:
Making Complexity Simpler: A Theoretical Evaluation of Some
Unfounded Ideas and Unnecessary confusions |
| 18.30 |
Reception |
Thursday, August 25, 2005 |
|
room 104 |
|
| 08.30-09.00 |
Matti Miestamo: Approaching grammatical complexity
from a crosslinguistic point of view |
|
| 09.00-09.30 |
Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon, and August Fenk: Linguistic
complexity from a systemic perspective
|
|
| 09.35-10.05 |
Kaius Sinnemäki: Complex combinations
of case marking, agreement and word order |
|
| 10.05-10.25 |
BREAK |
| 10.25-10.55 |
Eva Lindström: Interlinguistic difficulty:
one cup complexity and two cups linguistic baggage? |
|
| 11.00-11.30 |
Elizabeth M. Riddle: Complexity in Isolating
Languages: Lexical Elaboration vs. Grammatical Economy |
|
| 11.35-12.35 |
Plenum (room 104): Ritva Laury:
Complexity of Spoken Language |
| 12.35-14.00 |
LUNCH |
| 14.00-14.30 |
David Gil: How Complex Are Isolating Languages? |
|
| 14.35-15.05 |
Parth Bhatt, and Emmanuel Nikiema: Segmental
and Syllabic Complexity: The case of R in Haitian Creole |
|
| 15.05-15.30 |
COFFEE |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Mikael Parkvall: The simplicity of creoles
in a typological perspective |
|
| 16.05-16.35 |
Angela Bartens, and Niclas Sandström: “Redundant”
marking more or less complex? |
|
| 16.40-17.40 |
Plenum (room 104): John McWhorter:
Grammatical Reduction and Language Contact Typology |
| 19.00 |
Conference dinner at Restaurant
Walhalla |
Friday, August 26, 2005 |
|
room 104 |
room 505 |
| 09.00-09.30 |
Carmen Scherer: Complexity and productivity
in word formation |
Frédérique Gayraud, and Bruno Martinie: Are
"complex sentences" really difficult to process? |
| 09.35-10.05 |
Harald Hammarström: Creoles and Complexity
in Numeral Systems |
Claire Delle Luche, Frédérique Gayraud, Bruno
Martinie, and Fanny Meunier-Hoen: To what extent does the difficulty
of processing relative clauses parallel typological complexity? |
| 10.05-10.30 |
COFFEE |
| 10.30-11.00 |
Päivi Juvonen: Complexity and simplicity in
minimal lexica: on multifunctional lexical items and compositionality
in pidgin lexica |
Kurt Feyaerts, and Geert Brône: The effect
of inferential complexity on the processing and appreciation
of humorous utterances |
| 11.05-11.35 |
Casper de Groot: Morphological complexity
and language typology. The case of language change in Hungarian
by language contact
|
Antje Dammel, and Sebastian Kürschner: Complexity
in nominal plural allomorphy – a contrastive survey of ten Germanic
languages |
| 11.40-12.10 |
Östen Dahl: Changes in structural complexity
as a diachronic phenomenon |
Anssi Yli-Jyrä: A Measure for Syntactic
Complexity of Non-Projective Dependency Tree |
| 12.10-13.30 |
LUNCH |
| 13.30-14.30 |
Plenum (room 104): Wouter Kusters:
Making Complexity Complexer: A Discussion of the Complexities
of Simplification in four Quechua Varieties |
| 14.30-15.00 |
Final discussion and closing |
