Newsletter of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz
Issue CLXV: March 2022
This is the 165th 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 March 2022 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in February 2022.
New to Konstanz
We welcome Hye Won Jang who has joined the department as a doctoral researcher to work with Diego Frassinelli on the topic of Computational Modelling of Multimodal Language Processing.
Sarah Warchhold will be joining the department as a doctoral researcher in the DFG-funded research project Regional variability in the input and the development of word recognition in toddlers on March 1st. Welcome Sarah!
Events at/by the Department
Department and Research Colloquium in February
| 03.02 | PhD Candidates Talk Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares: Neurolinguistic and Neurocognitive Correlates of Heritage Bilingualism |
| 10.02 | PhD Candidates Talk Giuseppe Magistro: Prosodic change and syntactic reanalysis: the case of focus in Jespersen's cycle Maryam Mohammadi: Bias conditions in polar questions and answers - A study of bias effects in Farsi |
Conferences, Workshops and Presentations
In March
- On March 18th, Regine Eckardt will present at the Final Conference of the Graduiertenkolleg 1808 “Ambiguity” at Tübingen. The title of the talk is Ambiguity at the Speech Act Level? and the talk discusses linguistic modelling between bare sentence and the utterance level.
In February
- Andreas Trotzke gave an invited talk on How to do things with German particles at the University of Tübingen on February 9th.
- Qi Yu and Regine Eckardt gave a talk entitled Enigmatic Compounds as Triggers of Attitudinal Meaning at the workshop „Literal and figurative meanings of compounds“ co-located with the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), February 23rd-25th, Tübingen/Online.
- Antje Strauß and Lars Meyer organised a workshop at DGfS 2022 entitled "(Why) is Language (Not) Rhythmic?" (AG 14). On February 23rd, Antje Strauß gave a talk on Testing prerequisites of neural entrainment and its functional limitations for speech processing within the workshop.
More News
- The third edition of the ERUA language café took place on Saturday 12th February, as part of the First ERUA winter school "European Identities", open for the whole ERUA community. After a joint kick-off at the “coffee table” - “space” in the wonder.me language launch, with a presentation by Ramona Baumgartner (UKON) on the interplay of identity and languages, the participants wondered off to other "spaces" to practice different levels of German and French, moderated by Ynès Dovonou and Amber Mun (Paris 8) and Malika Tarhri (UKON). The winter school participants had further opportunities to discover Greek (moderated by Spyros Bofylatos, UAegean), Bulgarian (moderated by Petia Popova, UKON and Maria Stambolieva, Milka Hadjikoteva & Emanuela Svilarova, NBU) and Danish (moderated by Frida Valles, RUC) during their study week. The next edition of the language café will be organized during the summer semester. If you are interested to engage in language practice or as a moderator, or if you wish to keep informed about this or other ERUA events, write an email to erua@uni-konstanz.de.
- The book A history of English, by Míša Hejná and George Walkden, has been accepted for open-access publication by Language Science Press. (https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/346). It takes a reverse-chronological approach, focusing on the variation and change present throughout the history of English.
- Qi Yu will teach a 2-day PhD seminar entitled Python for Linguists for the doctoral program in applied linguistics "Managing Languages, Arguments and Narratives in the Datafied Society“ at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), March 3rd-4th, 2022.
- Andreas Trotzke has been reelected as Advisory Board Member for the DGfS.
- Andreas Trotzke's talk in the SPAGAD lecture series is now published on YouTube and can be viewed here.
- Congratulations to Bettina Braun who was appointed associate editor for the Journal of Laboratory Phonology.
Publications by Members of the Department
- Dehé, Nicole & Daniela Wochner. 2022. Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions. “Nordic Journal of Linguistics”. Online first view.
- Dehé, Nicole, Bettina Braun, Marieke Einfeldt, Daniela Wochner & Katharina Zahner. 2022. The prosody of rhetorical questions: A cross-linguistic view. “Linguistische Berichte” 269: 3-42.
- Dehé, Nicole. Prosodic evidence for the iconicity hypothesis in grammaticalization. 2021. In Wu, Fuxiang, Yang, Yonglong & Long, Haiping. “Grammaticalization and Grammatical Studies, X” (《语法化和语法研究 （十）》), pp. 429-459. Beijing: Commercial Press.
- Sabine Schulte im Walde, Diego Frassinelli. 2022. Distributional measures of semantic abstraction. Front. Artif. Intell. 4:796756. (online access)
- Antje Strauß, Tongyu Wu, James M. McQueen, Odette Scharenborg, & Florian Hintz (in press). The differential roles of lexical and sublexical processing during spoken-word recognition in clear and in noise. Cortex. (online access)
- Trotzke, Andreas & Anna Czypionka. 2022. Non-canonical questions from a comparative perspective: Introduction to the special collection. Linguistics Vanguard 8, 205-207.
- Trotzke, Andreas & Anna Czypionka. 2022. The pragmatics of surprise-disapproval questions: An empirical study. Linguistics Vanguard 8, 239-249.
- Braun, B., Czeke, N., Rimpler, J., Zinn, C., Probst, J., Goldlücke, B., Kretschmer, J., & Zahner-Ritter, K.. 2021. Remote testing of the familiar word effect with non-dialectal and dialectal German-learning 1-2-year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology.
Acquisitions of the Library
- Lutzker, Peter: The art of foreign language teaching: improvisation and drama in teacher development and language learning
- Uhlbäck, Camilla: Can visual meaning representations improve the automatic prediction of affective ratings? a multimodal distributional semantic approach
- Vezzoli, Charline: Étudiants en mobilité: apprentissage du français en Allemagne et de l'allemand en France
- Baidosheva, Sandugash: Multilingual education in Kazakhstan: exploring the perceptions and readiness of teacher educators and pre-service teachers
- Linguistic variation; volume 21 (2021)
- Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik; Jahrgang 53, Heft 2
- Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area; Volume 43 (2020)
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