Conference Program

Keynotes

Prof. Dr. Harald Baayen (Tübingen, Germany) The stuff words are made of?  Not morphemes!

Prof. Dr. Gary Libben (Brock University, Canada) Compound Processing in Hebrew and English: Bilingual perspectives

Monday

Session 1
9:00 - 11:00 Welcome address by the Rector
Stefan Thim. Vienna, Austria The Evolution of Prefix Verbs in English
Sylvia Springorum. Stuttgart, Germany(Re-)constructing German verb particle meanings for familiar and novel verbs
Anat Shvietski-Glücker, Amalia Bar-On, et al. Tel Aviv, IsraelRoot perception in verbs context among Hebrew-speaking adults: A psycholinguistic study
11:00 - 11:30 **BREAK**Coffee & Discussion
11:30 - 12:30
**KEYNOTE** 
Harald Baayen. Tübingen, Germany The stuff words are made of? Not morphemes!
12:30 - 14:00  **BREAK**Lunch
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00 Dorit Ravid. Tel Aviv, Israel Early roots in linguistic input to Hebrew-speaking children
Eva Smolka. Konstanz, GermanyGerman verb derivation in children and adults
Ronit Levie. Tel Aviv, IsraelMorpho-lexical acquisition of verbs in low SES and LI Hebrew-speaking children
16:00 - 16:30  **BREAK**Coffee & Discussion
Session 3    
16:30 - 17:50Michael Ramscar. Tübingen, Germany Expectation and negative evidence in morphological learning: The curious absence of “mouses” in adult speech
Eleanor Coghill. Konstanz, GermanyBorrowed verbal derivations and their implications for root-and-pattern morphology in Neo-Aramaic

 19:30 - 21:30 Boat Trip

 Departure 19:30 Constance Harbour

 Departure 19:40 Constance Seestrassse (close to Yachtharbour)

Tuesday

Session 1 
9:00 - 11:00  Zohar Eviatar. Haifa, IsraelDifferential hemispheric involvement in reading in English, Hebrew, and Arabic
    Rachel Schiff. Bar Ilan, Israel   Different levels of morphological explicitness in dyslexic readers
Yasmin Awwad. Haifa, Israel Morphological structures in visual word recognition: Evidence from Arabic
11:00 - 11:30 **BREAK**Coffee & Discussion
11:30 - 12:30Theo Vennemann. München, Germany

Semitic influences in Proto-Germanic

12:30 - 14:00 **BREAK**Lunch  
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00  Frans Plank. Konstanz, GermanyGermanic roots
Carsten  Eulitz. Konstanz, GermanyOn the mental representation and processing of stem variants in morphologically complex words
Janina Fickel. Konstanz, GermanyThe processing of German stems in zero derivation, Umlaut, and Ablaut
16:00 - 16:30 **BREAK**Coffee & Discussion
Session 3

 

16:30 - 17.50 Netta Abugov. Antwerp, BelgiumHasidic Yiddish noun plurals in Antwerp: Structure and acquisition
Alfred Lameli. Marburg, GermanyStem alternations in German throughout time and dialects

 Wednesday

Session 1
9:00 - 11:00       Avital Deutsch. Jerusalem, Israel  The role of roots and word-pattern morphemes in single-word production in Hebrew 
Antje Lorenz. Münster, GermanyProduction of German compound nouns in aphasia
Ariel Gutman. Konstanz, GermanyConstruct State Constructions in Neo-Aramaic: Are These Compounds?
11:00 - 11:30  **BREAK**Coffee & Discussion 
11:30 - 12:30
**KEYNOTE** 
Gary Libben. Brock, Canada Compound Processing in Hebrew and English: Bilingual perspectives
12:30 - 14:00 **BREAK**Lunch & Final Discussion