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Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz

Issue CLVIII: August 2021

This is the 158th 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 August 2021 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in July 2021.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in August

  • Rita Sevastjanova, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Christin Beck, Hannah Schäfer and Mennatallah El-Assady will present their paper Explaining Contextualization in Language Models using Visual Analytics at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2021), taking place online from August 2 to August 4. (online access)
     
  • Miriam Geiss and Svenja Schmid will present joint work with Sonja Gumbsheimer, Anika-Lloyd Smith and Tanja Kupisch at the World Congress of Applied Linguistics 15th- 20th August, in Groningen, on VOT patterns in the English of Heritage Speakers.

in July

  • Grazia Di Pisa presented a conference paper entitled Grammatical Gender Agreement in Italian as a Heritage Language: A Self-Paced Reading Study" within the open session "Multiple perspectives of heritage languages”.
     
  • A number of members of our department presented at the 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism, which took place online from 10th-14th July 2021, in Warsaw:

    Anika Lloyd-Smith gave a talk entitled The nature of phonological and syntactic transfer beyond the initial state within the thematic session "Going beyond the initial stages in L3/Ln acquisition research", chaired by Jennifer Cabrelli and Eloi Puig-Mayenco.

    Marieke Einfeldt, Luisa Dautner and Tanja Kupisch gave a talk entitled Cross-linguistic influence in trilingual first language acquisition of affricates and fricatives: The role of regional variation.
     
  • The Project P10 (Non-canonical questions in early and late bilingual language acquisition, PIs: Tanja Kupisch, Theo Marinis) was presented at the 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism, 10th -14th July 2021, in Warsaw. On behalf of the project, Maria Ferin gave a talk entitled Comprehension of rhetorical questions by Heritage Speakers of Italian and Miriam Geiss on Rhetorical questions in German second language acquisition.

  • Svenja Schmid, Anja Weingart, Carmen Widera and Georg A. Kaiser gave a talk at the V International Conference on Philology and Diachronic Linguistics (V CILH: Diachronic Constellations) at Unicamp in Brazil from July 19th-23th, 2021 on Word order and information structure in ‘why’ interrogatives in Romance languages.
     
  • Tanja Kupisch has discussed, together with Terje Lohndal, Heritage Languages in the Linguistics Flash-Mobs series (Epic Battles in History) hosted by the Universities of Padova and Firenze.
     
  •  Tamara Rathcke, Chia-Yuan Lin, Simone Falk, and Simone Dalla Bella gave a talk On the role of listener’s musicality in motor entrainment with speech at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition 28th-31st July 2021.

More News

  • Congratulations to Anna Czypionka who was awarded an Independent Research Grant by the Zukunftskolleg The role of timing and interindividual variation in NPI licensing illusions.
     
  • We also congratulate  Anamaria Bentea who received a YERUN Research Mobility Award. The award will fund an online collaboration with Monika S. Schmid (University of Essex) from September to December 2021 to work on a project entitled An Online Investigation into Real-time Language Processing in Adult Heritage Speakers.
     
  •  Congratulations to Julia Bacskai-Atkari who has been granted a DFG project on Asymmetries in relative clauses in West Germanic. The main objective of the project is to gain new insights into the syntactic and morphological factors underlying relativisation characteristic of European languages, with a focus on the distribution of relative markers in West Germanic in particular.
     
  • Benazir Mumtaz, Massimiliano Canzi, and Miriam Butt have been accepted for an oral presentation at Interspeech 2021 taking place in Brno, Czech Republic in August 2021. The title of their presentation is Prosody of Case Markers in Urdu. For more details visit: https://www.interspeech2021.org.
     
  • Benazir Mumtaz, Saba Urooj and Sarmad Hussain have also been accepted for an oral presentation on Acoustic and Prosodic Correlates of Emotions in Urdu Speech at Interspeech 2021 in Brno, Czech Republic, August 2021. This is part of an on-going cooperation between the University of Konstanz and the Center for Language Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), in Lahore, Pakistan.
     
  • Benazir Mumtaz and Miriam Butt will present a talk on Prosodic Phrasing in Interaction with Word Order and Case Marking in Urdu/Hindi at an SLE 2021 workshop on "Word Order and Prosody” in Athens, Greece in September. Further details can be found here.
     
  • Anna Czypionka taught a class at the LOT summer school on the topic Web-based psycholinguistic experiments from July 5th to 9th 2021.

Publications by Members of the Department

  • Walkden, George. 2021. Do the wealthy stay healthy? Rich agreement and verb movement in early English. "Journal of Historical Syntax" 5(30), 1-28. (online access)
     
  • Geiss, Miriam, Gumbsheimer, Sonja, Lloyd-Smith, Anika, Schmid, Svenja, & Kupisch, Tanja. (2021). Voice Onset Time in Multilingual Speakers: Italian Heritage Speakers in Germany with L3 English. "Studies in Second Language Acquisition", 1-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000280.
     
  • Barrientos, F. (2021): On segmental representations in second language phonology: A perceptual account. "Second Language Research", 1-27. (online access).
     
  • Imperfective aspect underspecified for number: Evidence from an eye-tracking during reading experiment. By Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Anna Czypionka and Joanna Blaszczak. has been accepted for publication in "Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics".
     
  • Andreas Trotzke & Xavier Villalba (eds.). 2021. Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
     
  • Oliviéri, Michèle, Georg A. Kaiser, Katerina Palasis, Michael Zimmermann & Richard Faure. 2020. Quand la dialectologie, l’acquisition et la dialectologie se parlent: étude comparative des pronoms sujets en français et en occitan. In: J. Sibille (éd.), “La microvariation syntaxique dans les langues romanes de France. Actes du colloque Symila”, Toulouse, 11-12 juin 2015. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 81–98.
     
  • Sophie Kutscheid, Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Adrian Leemann & Bettina Braun (2021): How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1946109.
     
  • Brehmer, Bernhard, Steinbach, Dominika & Vladimir Arifulin (2021): Heritage languages and the ʻmultilingual boostʼ: Intercomprehension skills of Russian and Polish heritage speakers in Germany. "Multilingua 2021", 1-20 (online first).
     
  • Rathcke, Tamara, Falk, Simone & Dalla Bella, Simone: Music to Your Ears: Sentence Sonority and Listener Background Modulate the “Speech-to-Song Illusion”, "Music Perception" (online access)

Acquisitions of the Library

  • Jakob, Moritz: I'm afraid you're angry? a prosodic study of cross-varietal emotion perception
  • Deumert, Ana: Colonial and decolonial linguistics: knowledges and epistemes
  • Peterson, Mark: Digital games and language learning: theory, development and implementation
  • Tang, Lok Heng: English as a Lingua Franca in German universities: the social impact of multilingualism
  • Brown, Alan V:. El léxico-gramática del español: una aproximación mediante la lingüística de corpus
  • Attardo, Salvatore: The linguistics of humor: an introduction
  • Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.: Phonological word and grammatical word: a cross-linguistic typology
  • Wayland, Ratree: Second language speech learning: theoretical and empirical progress
  • Clark, Urszula: Staging language: place and identity in the enactment, performance and representation of regional dialects
  • Mocombe, Paul C.: Theory of language and meaning in phenomenological structuralism
  • Reich, Ingo: Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft: eine Einführung
  • Krumm, Hans-Jürgen: Sprachenpolitik Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache: eine Einführung
  • Gelderen, Elly van: A History of the English Language
  • Geeslin, Kimberly L.: The acquisition of Spanish as a second language: foundations and new developments
  • Pescarini, Diego: Romance object clitics: microvariation and linguistic change
  • Pietrini, Daniela: Schwerpunkt: zwischen Canzone und Rap - Italopop heute
  • Núñez Méndez, Eva: Sociolinguistic approaches to sibilant variation in Spanish
  • International Conference on Construction Grammar (10., 2018, Paris): Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
  • Language; Volume 96 (2020)
  • Studies in second language acquisition; Vol. 42 (2020)
  • Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft; Band 39 (2020)
  • Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik: Volume 80 (2020)
  • English studies; Volume 101 (2020)
  • Etudes anglaises; 73 année (2020)
  • Revista internacional de lingu͏̈ística iberoamericana; volumen 19,1 = N°1 (37)
  • Revue des études italiennes; Tome N.S. 60

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