Newsletter

This is the 145th 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 July 2020 as well as short reports about events, presentations, etc. in June 2020.

Events at/by the Department

Department and Research Colloquium in Juli

Conferences, Workshops and Presentations

in July

• Marieke Einfeldt, Rita Sevastjanova, Katharina Zahner, Nicole Dehé, and Bettina Braun are giving a talk entitled Active learning systems as a solution for stimulus selection and data modelling in complex behavioural study designs? at the LabPhon 17 Satellite Worshop "Cue weighting: thinking outside the box" on July 5th.
   
• Tamara Rathcke is giving a talk entitled Is language rhythm in the ear of the beholder? A sensorimotor synchronisation approach to the cross-linguistic study of rhythm (co-authored with Chia-Yuan Lin/Kent, Simone Falk/ Montreal and Simone Dalla Bella/ Montreal) at the LabPhon 17 conference, in the session "Phonological Contrasts on the Margins". The discussion of the session is taking place July 6th, 16-17:30. It is free for all LabPhon members to attend.
   
• Katharina Zahner, Marieke Einfeldt, Bettina Braun, and Nicole Dehé are giving a presentation on Imitating alignment differences in German nuclear accents – is (L+H)* a category? at the LabPhon 17 Satellite workshop "Situating phonological contrast within the production-perception loop" on July 9th.
   
• Sandy Ciroux will be presenting a paper entitled How to Say Things with Hand Gestures, that will be published in the proceedings of SemDial 2020.

in June

• Hannah Booth presented a paper in digital format at the recent 25th International Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference. The title of the talk was Argument configurationality and discourse configurationality in Old Icelandic and the video presentation can be accessed here.
   
• Anna Czypionka gave an invited talk at the Grammar and Cognition group at the University of Amsterdam on June 5th.
   
• Theo Marinis gave 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 was given online.
   
• Between 23rd-25th June 2020 Theo Marinis and members of his team presented 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 were presented online.

• Tina Bögel and Lea Raach gave a talk on Swabian 'ed' and 'edda': Negation at the interfaces at the “LFG conference” on June 24th.

More News

• Natasha Korotkova is teaching an invited class The notional category of evidentiality at WeSSLLI, virtually hosted by Brandeis University from July 11th to 17th, 2020.
   
• The 4th MultiMind training school is taking place online from June until September. This training school is part of the EU project “The Multilingual Mind” that is coordinated by the Dept of Linguistics in Konstanz. The following courses are open to all interested:
  
  Katja Lubina (Leiden University)
  How to write a good grant-proposal, 10th July 2020
  Mental health during PhD and after, 16th July 2020
  
  Judith Kroll (University of California, Irvine)
  How bilinguals juggle languages? , 14th July 2020
  How to succeed in science & survive? , 15th July 2020
  
  Christos Pliatsikas (University of Reading)
  Impact of bilingualism on brain and cognition, 24th, 27th and 28th July 2020
  
  For more information and registration for the training school, visit: https://www.multilingualmind.eu/training-school-4
  For more information about the project and its activities, visit: https://www.multilingualmind.eu/
   
• 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

• Kaiser, Georg A. & Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar. 2020. Zwischen Aussprache und Auslassen. Zur Verwendung der Subjektpronomina im brasilianischen Portugiesisch. In: B. Meisnitzer & E. Pustka (Hgg.), Zwischen Sprechen und Sprache / Entre fala e língua. Berlin: Lang, 209-236.
   
• 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).

Acquisitions of the Library

• Ricart Brede, Julia: Deutsch als Zweitsprache und Mehrsprachigkeit: Beiträge aus dem "Workshop Deutsch als Zweitsprache, Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit" 2016
• Chilla, Solveig: Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sheehan, Michelle: The Final-over-Final condition: a syntactic universal
• Slobodchikoff, Tatyana G.: The evolution of the Slavic dual: a biolinguistic perspective
• L'Italia dialettale; Volume 80 = Serie 3, 16 (2019)
• Revista española de lingu͏̈ística; 48 (2018), 49 (2019)
• Internationale Arbeitstagung zum Romanisch-Deutschen und Innerromanischen Sprachvergleich <8., 2016, Innsbruck> Comparatio delectat ; 3, 1. und 2. Band. Akten der VIII. Internationalen Arbeitstagung zum Romanisch-Deutschen und Innerromanischen Sprachvergleich, Innsbruck, 29.8.-1.9. 2016
• Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie; Band 66

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