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Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

Issue CXLIV: June 2020

This is the 144th issue of the Newsletter published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. It covers informations about the plans of the members of the department in June 2020 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in May 2020.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in June

  • Anna Czypionka will be giving an invited talk at the Grammar and Cognition group at the University of Amsterdam on June 5th.
     
  • Theo Marinis will give a keynote talk on Language and executive function abilities in bilingual children with Autism in Saudi Arabia: differences between ALN and ALI on the 17th June at the conference: Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment (Developmental Language Disorder). The talk will be given online and can be watched through the conference web-site upon registration to the conference.
     
  • Between 23rd-25th June 2020 Theo Marinis and members of his team will present the following talks and posters at the Conference on Multilingualism (COM2020) at the Centre for Literacy & Multilingualism, University of Reading, UK.

    -Talk:
    Konstantina Olioumtsevits, Despina Papadopoulou and Theodoros Marinis. Vocabulary learning in migrant and refugee children: teaching and assessment approaches.
    -Posters:
    Mariam Komeili Theodoros Marinis and Parvaneh Tavakoli. Effects of internal and external factors on the language skills of Farsi English bilingual children.
    Anamaria Bentea and Theodoros Marinis. Processing and production of multiple wh-questions in Romanian heritage children
    Theodora Papastefanou Theodoros Marinis and Daisy Powell. Language and word-level reading development in Greek-English bilingual children at primary school: a cross-sequential study.
    George Pontikas Ian Cunnings and Theodoros Marinis. Language processing in bilingual children: evidence from garden-path sentences.

    The talks and posters will be presented online and can be watched through the conference web-site upon registration to the conference.
     
  • Tina Bögel and Lea Raach will give a talk on Swabian 'ed' and 'edda': Negation at the interfaces at the “LFG conference” on June 24th.

in May

  • Ryan Bochnak gave a virtual talk in the Linguistics Forschungskolloquium at the University of Stuttgart on May 12th. The title of the talk was Towards a semantics of graded futures in Washo.
     
  • Christin Beck (Schätzle) and Hannah Booth had their first taste of the digital conference world in May, presenting at ICAME41, a conference on English corpus linguistics. The title of the talk was Investigating Interactional Syntactic Change in Middle English: Insights from Visual Analytics and a video presentation is available online.
     
  • Speech Prosody took place from 24th-28th May 2020 (Tokyo, Japan, virtual conference). Bettina Braun, Marieke Einfeldt, Gloria Esposito & Nicole Dehé gave a talk (presented by Marieke Einfeldt) on The prosodic realization of rhetorical and information-seeking questions in German spontaneous speech. Katharina Zahner, Manluolan Xu, Yiya Chen, Nicole Dehé & Bettina Braun gave a talk (presented by Katharina Zahner) on The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese.

More News

  • The Babyspeech lab has released a new App to conduct remote infant experiments. Via the BSL App, infants and their participants can take part in experiments from their home. In the present experiment, we study whether infants recognize German words when they are spoken in a regional dialect or with a foreign accent.
    The app can be downloaded here.
    You can find more information here.
     
  • Theo Marinis gave the invited talk Do bilingual children show effects of Relatived Minimality in the processing of wh-questions? Evidence from the visual-world paradigm at the Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique, Université de Genève on 21st April 2020.
     
  • Georg A. Kaiser gave an invited talk on Variation syntaxique dans les interrogatives partielles des langues romanes at the Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique at the Université de Genève on April 28th.
     
  • In March 2020 Jessica Zipf started working on the project 'edu 4.0 - Lehrerbildung für eine Kultur der digitalen Transformation an Gymnasien und Beruflichen Schulen' (Teacher education for a culture of digital transformation in secondary schools), a project funded by the BMBF Programm Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung.

Publications by Members of the Department

  • Ehsan, Toqeer and Miriam Butt. 2020. Dependency Parsing for Urdu: Resources, Conversions and Learning. “Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference” (LREC), 5204-5209. European Language Resources Association. (online access)
     
  • Worku Kelemework Birhanie and Miriam Butt. 2020. Automatic Amharic Part of Speech Tagging (AAPOST): A Comparative Approach Using Bidirectional LSTM and Conditional Random Fields (CRF) Methods. In Habtu et al.(eds.), “Advances of Science and Techology, Proceedings of the 7th EAI International Conference" (ICAST 2019) Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, August 2nd–4th, 512--521. Berlin: Springer.
     
  • Georg A. Kaiser & Michael Zimmermann. (2020) Zum Status der Subjektpronomina im Altfranzösischen. Eine Untersuchung anhand von Paralleltexten. In: C. Patzelt & E. Prifti (Hgg.), „Historische Varietätenlinguistik: Theorien, Methoden, Perspektiven.“ Berlin: Lang, 131-155.
     
  • Bayer, J. (2020) Whatʼs unique in Bavarian syntax? - Thoughts on the occasion of a performance of Bachʼs St Matthew Passion. In: Masatoshi Tanaka, Tomoya Tsutsui & Masashi Hashimoto (eds.) “Linguistic Research as an Interdisciplinary Science.” Hituzi Kenkyuu Soosho, Gengohen [Hituzi Research Series, Linguistics] 170. Tokyo: Hituzi Publishers.
     
  • Aveledo, F., Higueras, Y. Marinis, T., Bose, A., Pliatsikas, C., Meldaña-Rivera, A., Martínez-Ginés, M. L., Manuel García-Domínguez, J., Lozano-Ros, A. Cuello, J. P., & Goicochea-Briceño, H. (2020). Multiple sclerosis and bilingualism: some initial findings. “Linguistic Approaches”. (online access)
     
  • Hofweber, J., Marinis, T. & Treffers-Daller, J. (2020). How different code-switching types modulate bilinguals’ executive functions - a dual control mode perspective. “Bilingualism: Language & Cognition”. (online access)
     
  • Komeili, M., Marinis, T., Tavakoli, P., & Kazemi, Y. (2020). Sentence Repetition in Farsi-English Bilingual Children. “Journal of the European Second Language Association”, 4(1), 1–12.
     
  • Paspali, A. & Marinis, T. (2020). Gender agreement attraction in Greek comprehension. “Frontiers in Psychology “11:717.
     
  • Patra, A., Bose, A., & Marinis, T. (2020). Performance difference in verbal fluency in bilingual and monolingual speakers. “Bilingualism: Language and Cognition”, 23 (1), 204-218
     
  • Patra, A., Bose, A. and Marinis, T. (2020). Semantic context effects in Bengali-English bilingual and English monolingual speakers. University of Reading. Dataset. (online access)
     
  • Tsimpli, I., Vogelzang, M., Balasubramanian, A., Marinis, T., Alladi, S., Reddy, A., & Panda, M. (2020). Linguistic diversity, multilingualism and cognitive skills: A study of disadvantaged children in India. “Languages”, 5 (10).
     
  • Braun, Bettina, Marieke Einfeldt, Gloria Esposito & Nicole Dehé. The prosodic realization of rhetorical and information-seeking questions in German spontaneous speech. "Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 10th International Conference (2020)", 24th-28th May 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
     
  • Zahner, Katharina, Manluolan Xu, Yiya Chen, Nicole Dehé, & Bettina Braun. The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese. "Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 10th International Conference (2020)", 24th-28th May 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
     
  • Bayer, Josef & Constantin Freitag. 2020. How much verb moves to second position? In: Horst Lohnstein & Antonios Tsiknakis (eds.), “Verb Second – Grammar internal and grammar external interfaces”. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter [series: Interface Explorations]. 77-122.

Acquisitions of the Library

  • Wünch, Hans-Georg: Einführung ins Bibelhebräische: ein Lehrbuch
  • Bergmann, Rolf: Alt- und Mittelhochdeutsch: Arbeitsbuch zur Grammatik der älteren deutschen Sprachstufen und zur deutschen Sprachgeschichte
  • Coseriu, Eugenio: Coseriu, Eugenio: Geschichte der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft ; 2 . Von Nebrija (1492) bis Celso Cittadini (1601) die Epoche des Humanismus
  • Weinberger, Helmut: Kroatisch/Serbisch-Deutsches phraseologisches Wörterbuch: angeordnet nach semantischen Gruppen
  • Saade, Benjamin: Advances in Maltese linguistics

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