| 09:00-09:30 | Registration + coffee |
| 09:30-09.45 | Welcome [presentation] |
| 09.45-10.45 | Invited talk: Jennifer Hay |
University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Skewed word distributions affect speech production and perception
[abstract] |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee |
| 11.15-11.55 | Martijn Wieling, Jelke Bloem, John Nerbonne & R. Harald Baayen |
University of Tübingen / University of Amsterdam / University of Groningen / University of Alberta |
A cognitively grounded measure of pronunciation distance
[abstract] |
| 11.55-12.35 | Jack Grieve |
Aston University |
Ordinary Kriging in Dialectology
[abstract] |
| 12.35-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-14.40 | Melanie J. Bell |
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge |
Informativity is a predictor of semantic transparency in English compound nouns
[abstract] |
| 14.40-15.20 | Sylvia Springorum, Sabine Schulte im Walde Sabine & Antje Rossdeutscher |
Universität Stuttgart |
Sentence Generation and Compositionality of Systematic Neologisms of German Particle Verbs
[abstract] |
| 15.20-15.50 | Coffee |
| 15.50-16.30 | Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Amy Smolek & Matthew Stave |
University of Oregon |
Judgment and production data in morphophonology: Converging sources of evidence
[abstract] |
| 16.30-17.10 | Maria Mos & Véronique Verhagen |
Tilburg University |
How valuable are our judgments? Towards a better understanding of metalinguistic judgment data
[abstract] |
| 17.10-17.30 | Introducing the posters [presentation] |
| 17.30-19.00 | Reception + poster session |
| | Marta Abrusan & Tim Van de Cruys |
IRIT & CNRS |
A quantitative investigation of semantic properties of determiners using factorization techniques
[abstract] |
| | Costanza Asnaghi |
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / KU Leuven |
Global Autocorrelation and Dialect Studies: The Role of Significance
[abstract] |
| | Markus Bader & Sasha Dümig |
Goethe University Frankfurt |
Dissociating grammaticality from word-order choice: A case study on object pronouns in German
[abstract] |
| | Jocelyne Daems, Kris Heylen & Dirk Geeraerts |
KU Leuven |
'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall': Lexical convergence between Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch
[abstract] |
| | Yanan Hu, Dirk Geeraerts & Dirk Speelman |
KU Leuven |
(In)direct Causation Hypothesis Again: A Case Study of Chinese Analytic Causatives
[abstract] |
| | Vsevolod Kapatsinski |
University of Oregon |
Sound change and hierarchical inference: Clarifying predictions of usage-based theory
[abstract] |
| | Mildred Lau & Antti Arppe |
University of Eastern Finland / University of Alberta |
We don't all 'think' exactly alike: empirical evidence for cross-linguistic lexical contrast
[abstract] |
| | Xia Lu |
University at Buffalo, SUNY |
Exploring Word Order Universals: a Probabilistic Graphical Model Approach
[abstract] |
| | Heliana Mello, Flávio Coelho, Crysttian Paixão, Renato Souza & Tommaso Raso |
UFMG, FGV, Brasil |
Lexical Category Distribution in a Spontaneous Speech Corpus of Brazilian Portuguese
[abstract] |
| | Heliana Mello, Crysttian Paixão, Flávio Coelho & Renato Souza |
UFMG, FGV, Brasil |
Distribution of modality markers in Brazilian Portuguese spontaneous speech
[abstract] |
| | Juliette Thuilier |
Université Paris-Sorbonne & Alpage (INRIA - Paris Diderot) |
Quantitative contribution to the study of the syntax of spoken vs. written language
[abstract] |
(On Thursday the morning session will be chaired by Dirk Speelman and the afternoon session will be chaired by Freek Van de Velde)
| 09:00-09:30 | Coffee |
| 09.30-10.30 | Invited talk: Laura Janda |
University of Tromsø, Norway |
The Big Questions Need Multipurpose Portable Solutions
[abstract] |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00-11.40 | Annelore Willems & Gert De Sutter |
Ghent University / University College Ghent |
Distance-to-V, length and verb disposition effects on PP placement in Belgian Dutch. A corpus-based multifactorial investigation.
[abstract] |
| 11.40-12.20 | Jeruen E. Dery & Dagmar Bittner |
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin |
Temporal information affects implicit causality biases in pronoun resolution
[abstract] |
| 12.20-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-14.40 | Lore Vandevoorde, Gert De Sutter & Koen Plevoets |
Ghent University / University College Ghent |
Translation-driven mapping of semantic fields: the case of Dutch and French inceptive verbs
[abstract] |
| 14.40-15.20 | Karolina Krawczak |
Université de Neuchâtel / Poznan A. M. University |
Developing methods for the study of social emotions: SHAME in British and American English
[abstract] |
| 15.20-15.50 | Coffee |
| 15.50-16.30 | José Tummers, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts |
Leuven University College / KU Leuven |
Lectal conditioning of lexical collocations
[abstract] |
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| 17.30-19.00 | Guided tour through the centre of Leuven | (no registration needed;
departure in front of conference venue) |
| 19.00 | Conference dinner |
(On Friday the morning session will be chaired by Dirk Speelman & Kris Heylen and the afternoon session will be chaired by Gert De Sutter)
| 09:00-09:30 | Coffee |
| 09.30-10.30 | Invited talk: Søren Wichmann |
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
The automated classification of the world's languages: can it go deeper?
[abstract] |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00-11.40 | Yoon Mi Oh, François Pellegrino, Egidio Marsico & Christophe Coupé |
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon and CNRS |
A Quantitative and Typological Approach to Correlating Linguistic Complexity
[abstract] |
| 11.40-12.20 | Taraka Rama, Prashant Kolachina and Sudheer Kolachina |
University of Göteborg, IIIT-Hyderabad and Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Two methods for Automatic Identification of Cognates
[abstract] |
| 12.20-14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00-14.40 | Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen & Kristina Geeraert |
University of Turku / University of Alberta |
The Relationship between Form and Meaning: Modelling Semantic Densities of English Monomorphemic Verbs
[abstract] |
| 14.40-15.20 | Gabriella Lapesa & Stefan Evert |
University of Osnabrueck / FAU Erlangen Nürnberg |
Thematic Roles and Semantic Space: Insights from Distributional Semantic Models
[abstract] |
| 15.20-15.50 | Coffee |
| 15.50-16.30 | Thomas Wielfaert, Kris Heylen, Jakub Kozakoszczak, Leonid Soshinskiy & Dirk Speelman |
KU Leuven |
Evaluating Semantic Structure in Distributional Modelling
[abstract] |
| 16.30-17.00 | Final discussion and closing |
(On Saturday the morning session will be chaired by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and the afternoon session will be chaired by Kris Heylen)
