Newsletter September 2021

This is the 159th 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 September 2021 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in August 2021.

Events at/by the Department

in September

The first in-person Consortium Meeting of the DAAD+IKY (IKYDA) project ‘German-Greek toolkit for Theory of Mind and Language in Autism (MiLA) will be hosted at the University of Patras from 20-24 September 2021. The MiLA project is a collaborative project between the University of Konstanz, the University of Cologne, the University of Patras and the University of Thessaly that aims at strengthening academic relations between Universities, developing research protocols on the language abilities and Theory of Mind of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, conducting collaborative research, providing training to young researchers and knowledge transfer activities to academic and non-academic audiences.

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in September

• Two papers will be presented at the Interspeech taking place from August 30th to September 3rd in Brno (hybrid form):
  
  Bettina Braun, Nicole Dehé, Marieke Einfeldt, Daniela Wochner and Katharina Zahner-Ritter will present their paper Testing acoustic voice quality classification across languages and speech styles
  
  Marieke Einfeldt, Rita Sevastjanova, Katharina Zahner-Ritter, Ekaterina Kazak and Bettina Braun will present their paper Reliable estimates of interpretable cue effects with Active Learning in psycholinguistic research
   
• Svenja Schmid and Laura González López will present their paper On vocative positions in Spanish wh-interrogatives: new insights into the left periphery at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), taking place online from August 31st to September 3rd.
   
• On 2nd September, Maria F. Ferin, Miriam Geiß, Tanja Kupisch and Theo Marinis will give a talk on Rhetorical questions in German-dominant Heritage Speakers of Italian at the Workshop Italian heritage language communities at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Athens, 30th August – 3rd September 2021.
   
• Qi Yu and Anselm Fliethmann will present their paper entitled Frame detection in German political discourses: How far can we go without large-scale manual corpus annotation? at 1st Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis taking place on September 6th in Düsseldorf / online.
   
• Theo Marinis together with Konstantina Olioumtsevits and Despoina Papadopoulou will give the talk Language skills and educational perspectives of primary school children with a refugee background in Greek formal education on the 7th of September at the International Workshop on Cognitive and/or Linguistic Development of Underrepresented and Disadvantaged Populations organised by the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara.
   
• Theo Marinis will be a discussant at the launch of the Model Language Policy of the European Universities Consortium EPICUR that will take place at the University of Amsterdam on Thursday 9th September 2021. The EPICUR Model Language Policy aims at consolidating and promoting linguistic diversity in European higher education, while taking into account the importance of inclusiveness and accessibility of higher education.
   
• Todor Koev and Cory Bill will present their paper Really: Ambiguity and Question Bias at Sinn und Bedeutung 26, to be held online at the University of Cologne on September 8th-10th, 2021.
   

in August

• Rita Sevastjanova, Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Christin Beck, Hannah Schäfer and Mennatallah El-Assady presented 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), from August 2 to August 4.
   
• Miriam Geiss and Svenja Schmid presented 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.
   
• Angelika Golegos, Grazia Di Pisa and Kaja Gregorc gave a workshop entitled Introduction to Gorilla at the “3rd International Connect Malaysia (Connect'M) Conference 2021”, 17th-19th August.

More News

• George Walkden will be talking about his project Linguistic forecasting at the Volkswagen Foundation’s Forum Originalitätsverdacht at Schloss Herrenhausen, Hanover, 6th-7th September 2021.
   
• The September edition of "Our Europe today", a virtual event series, organized within ERUA, will offer language appetizers for German, French, Greek, Danish and Bulgarian on September 15th, 2021 at 1 pm (CET) during the lunchtime event: Multilingualism: Learn the national languages of ERUA.
  
  The link for the Webexmeeting will be published in the event calender on the Konstanz ERUA homepage.
   
• Diego Frassinelli (Linguistics) and Caterina Moruzzi (Philosophy) have been funded by the Zukunftskolleg (Transdepartmental Teaching Programme) to offer the advanced seminar titled The Present and Future of AI Research in the SoSe 2022.
   
• Natasha Korotkova taught the class entitled An opinionated class to the language of opinion (based on joint work with Pranav Anand) at ESSLLI 32, which was hosted virtually by Utrecht University from July 26t to August 13th.
   
• 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.

Publications by Members of the Department

• AL-Hassan, M. & Marinis, T. (2021). Sentence Repetition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Saudi Arabia: An investigation of morpho-syntactic abilities. In: Ntelitheos, Dimitrios and Tommi Tsz-Cheung Leung (Eds.). (2020). „Experimental Arabic Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins“. [Studies in Arabic Linguistics], 143-176.
   
• Lloyd-Smith, A. (2021). Perceived foreign accent in L3 English: The effects of heritage language use, “International Journal of Multilingualism”, DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2021.1957899.
   
• Zhang, Y., Ding, R., Frassinelli, D., Tuomainen, J., Klavinskis-whiting, S., & Vigliocco, G. (2021). Electrophysiological signatures of multimodal comprehension in second language. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43.
   
• Zhang, Y., Frassinelli, D., Tuomainen, J., Skipper, J. I., & Vigliocco, G. (2021). More than words: Word predictability, prosody, gesture and mouth movements in natural language comprehension. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955).
   
• Anand, P. and N. Korotkova. 2021. How to theorize about subjective language: A lesson from de re. Linguistics and Philosophy, online first.
   
• 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.

Acquisitions of the Library

• Hölzl, Katharina: Effects of music on word learning
• Satoh, Mizuki: Prosodic-rating study of Japanese sentence-final particle kana questions
• Cooren, François: Handbook of management communication
• Campbell, Lyle: Historical linguistics: an introduction
• Bryant, Doreen: Der Erwerb des Deutschen im Kontext von Mehrsprachigkeit
• Bieswanger, Markus: Introduction to English linguistics
• McElreath, Richard: Statistical rethinking: a Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan
• Angehrn, Emil: Zur Sprache kommen: von der Sprachlichkeit des Menschseins
• Morris, Miranda: Handbook of Oriental studies; Section 1, Volume 151, Volume 1, 2 und 3
• Storey, Charles A.: Handbook of Oriental studies; section 1, volume 149, volume 4 . Law; tradition; religion; sufism; bahāʾism; prayers; hinduism; translations from sanskrit, hindi, and other indian languages, ethics; ...
• Voßen, Rainer: The Oxford handbook of African languages
• Linguistic typology; Volume 24
• Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik; Jahrgang 50
• English language notes; 58
• International Conference on English Historical Linguistics <18., 2014, Löwen>: Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English
• Revue des études slaves; Tome 91 (2020)
• Konstanzer Slavistisches Arbeitstreffen <39., 2013, Hamburg>: Slavistische Linguistik 2013: Referate des XXXIX. Konstanzer Slavistischen Arbeitstreffens in Hamburg, 09. - 13. September 2013
• Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie; Band 76 (2020)
• Turkic languages; Volume 24 (2020)

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