Program
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Invited talks and their abstracts
Final timetable – with links to abstracts and slides
Sunday, 1 June 2008
| 18.00-21.00 | Pre-workshop warm-up get-together in Juttutupa restaurant (Säästöpankinranta 6 in Siltasaari/Hakaniemi, see MAP from city center, ask for QITL in the "Tupa" room), with possibility for smaller or bigger dinner and/or a pint or two. | |
Monday, 2 June 2008
| 9.00-10.00 | Registration | |||||
| 10.00-10.30 | Welcome: Prof. Fred Karlsson | Department of General Linguistics University of Helsinki | ||||
| Introduction (SLIDES): Antti Arppe | QITL3 Organizing Committee Linguistic Association of Finland | |||||
| 10.30-11.30 | Invited Talk I: Richard Sproat | University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign | Experiments in morphological evolution (SLIDES) | |||
| 11.30-13.00 | Lunch | |||||
| 13.00-13.40 | Felici, Annarita & Paul Pal | University of London | A probabilistic approach to language structure (SLIDES) | |||
| 13.40-14.20 | Blevins, James P.; Farrell Ackerman; and Robert Malouf | University of Cambridge, UCSD | An entropy-based measure of morphological information | |||
| 14.20-14.50 | Coffee | |||||
| 14.50-15.30 | Kuperman, Viktor; Mirjam Ernestus; and R. Harald Baayen | Radboud University Nijmegen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta | Frequency distributions of uniphones, diphones and triphones in spontaneous speech (SLIDES) | |||
| 15.30-16.10 | Vandekerckhove, Bram; Emmanuel Keuleers; and Dominiek Sandra | University of Antwerp | The role of phonological distance and relative support in the productivity of the Dutch simple past tense (SLIDES) | |||
| 16.10-16.40 | Coffee | |||||
| 16.40-17.20 | Schnoebelen, Tyler | Stanford University | Measuring compositionality in phrasal verbs (SLIDES) | |||
| 17.20-17.40 | Poster introductions | |||||
| 17.40-19.00 | Poster session Reception | |||||
| 19– | Casual/Informal Evening Program | |||||
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
| 9.00-9.05 | Announcements | |||||
| 9.05-9.45 | Omaki, Akira; Anastasia Marie Conroy; and Jeffrey Lidz | University of Maryland | An experimental investigation of referential/nonreferential asymmetries in syntactic reconstruction (SLIDES) | |||
| 9.45-10.25 | Duffield, Nigel; Ayumi Matsuo; and Leah Roberts | University of Sheffield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | Seeing what's missing: What (eye-tracking) data from native speakers and second language learners can tell us about the theoretical distinction between VP-ellipsis and VP-anaphora | |||
| 10.25-10.50 | Coffee | |||||
| 10.50-11.30 | Theijssen, Daphne; Nelleke Oostdijk; Hans van Halteren; and Lou Boves | Radboud University Nijmegen | Modeling the English dative constuction in varied written and spoken text (SLIDES) | |||
| 11.30-12.30 | Invited Talk II: Gary Marcus | New York University | Language as kluge | |||
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |||||
| 14.00-14.40 | Zeldes, Amir; Anke Lüdeling; and Hagen Hirschmann | Humboldt-University in Berlin | What's hard? Quantitative evidence for difficult constructions in German learner data (SLIDES) | |||
| 14.40-15.20 | Keuleers, Emmanuel | University of Antwerp | Predicting exceptions is harmful (SLIDES) | |||
| 15.20-15.50 | Coffee | |||||
| 15.50-16.30 | Divjak, Dagmar | University of Sheffield | Modeling aspectual choice in Polish modal constructions. A corpus-based quest for the holy grail? (SLIDES) | |||
| 16.30-17.10 | Speelman, Dirk & Dirk Geeraerts | University of Leuven | Putting the (in)direct causation hypothesis to the test: a quantitative study of Dutch doen 'make' and laten 'let' | |||
| 18.15– | Ferry from Kauppatori (Market Square, with JT-line) to the Suomenlinna sea fortress isles, with a small walking tour at this UNESCO World Heritage site See here JT-Line's Pier of Departure. N.B. do not confuse JT-Line's ferries with the public ferry (M/S Suomenlinna) at the South-East corner of the Market Square) | |||||
| 19.30– | Workshop Buffet Dinner at Café Chapman on the Suomenlinna Isles | |||||
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
| 9.00-9.05 | Announcements | |||||
| 9.05-10.05 | Invited Talk III: Michael Cysouw | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig | Comparing the incomparable – Quantitative approaches for language comparison (SLIDES) | |||
| 10.05-10.30 | Coffee | |||||
| 10.30-11.10 | Hammarström, Harald | Chalmers University of Technology | Basic Word order frequencies and transition probabilities in the languages of the world (SLIDES) | |||
| 11.10-11.50 | Holman, Eric W.; Søren Wichmann; Cecil H. Brown; Viveka Velupillai; André Müller; and Dik Bakker | ASJP Consortium, University of Antwerp/Lancaster, UCLA, Northern Illinois University, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Leipzig University | Advances in automated language classification (SLIDES) | |||
| 11.50-13.30 | Lunch | |||||
| 13.30-14.10 | Kaiser, Elsi and Jeffrey Runner | University of Southern California, University of Rochester | Pronouns, reflexives and something in-between: A cross-linguistic investigation of reference resolution in Finnish, German and Dutch | |||
| 14.10-14.50 | Glynn, Dylan | University of Leuven | Clusters and Correspondences. A comparison of two exploratory statistical techniques for semantic description (SLIDES) | |||
| 14.50-15.15 | Closing remarks | |||||
Poster session
Monday, 17.40-19.00
| Author(s) | Affiliation(s) | Title | ||
| Enghels, Renata | University of Ghent | How word order frequencies reveal cognitive schemes: a Romance case study | ||
| Grondelaers, Stefan; Dirk Speelman and Roeland van Hout | Radboud University Nijmegen, University of Leuven | Constructional near-synonymy, individual variation, grammaticality judgments – Can careful design and participant ignorance overcome the ill reputation of questionnaires? | ||
| Jakić, Milena; Aleksandar Kostić; and Duŝica Filipović Đurđević | University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad | The influence of the word connection type of the facilitation effect in the lexical decision task | ||
| Kaiser, Elsi | University of Southern California | Looking past the pronoun | ||
| Martínez, Liliana | Norwegian University for Science and Technology | Some thoughts on the semantics of non-straight paths | ||
| Sellgren, Elina | University of Tampere | Exploring competing patterns of verb complementation: Prevent in the British National Corpus | ||
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