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Department of Comparative Language Science

Program

Day 1 – November 6th, 2023

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome
9:30-10:00

Cross-linguistic differences in mental-state language and Theory of Mind development: Comparing English, Chinese, and Turkish
Silke Brandt, Birsu Kandemirci, Ditte Boeg Thomsen, and Anna Theakston

10:00-10:30 Grammatical and non-grammatical constraints in cataphora resolution in English and Chinese
Jun Lyu
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Processing clause chains in Nungon
Pelle Söderström and Hannah Sarvasy
11:30-12:00 Correlates of infant pointing frequency in the first year
Ebru Ger, Aylin Küntay, Sura Ertaş, Sümeyye Koşkulu, and Ulf Liszkowski
12:00-12:30 Beyond dichotomies in language and memory: The case of Icelandic
Iris Nowenstein, Sigríður Sigurjónsdóttir
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30

Keynote
Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
The cross-linguistic neuroscience of language: How far have we come?

14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
14:45-15:15 How to create large databases for codeswitched speech from public data
Logan Walls, Natasha Vernooij, Natalie Robbins, and Eric Martell
15:15-15:45 Agrammatic aphasia in a polysynthetic language: The case of West Greenlandic
Johanne Nedergaard, Mads Nielsen, and Kasper Boye
15:45-16:15 Syntactic and semantic restrictions on word formation in isiXhosa: An auditory lexical decision study
Robyn Berghoff, Linnaea Stockall, and Khanyiso Jona
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:15 HuMaze – Testing Hungarian relative clause processing in the Maze-task
Eszter Ronai and Wesley Orth
17:15-17:45 Similarity-based interferences in Chinese classifier-noun dependencies
Hailin Hao, Zuzanna Fuchs, and Shravan Vasishth

Day 2 – November 7th, 2023

9:00-9:30

Perceptual chunking in Vietnamese - compounds vs. phrases
Sandrien van Ommen, Silvia Marchesotti, Dong Lam, Catalina Torres, Anne-Lise Giraud and Balthasar Bickel

9:30-10:00 Neural evidence of subject preference in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)
Julia Krebs, Evie Malaia, Ronnie Wilbur, and Dietmar Roehm
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:50 Two types of definites – cross-linguistic experimental study
Florian Schwarz, Agata Renans, Hasiyatu Abubakari, Dorothy Ahn, Fenna Bergsma, Nattanu Chanchaochai, Reginald Duah, Imke Driemel, Ljudmila Geist, Mira Grubic, Sampson Korsah, Suet-Ying Lam, Cecile Meier, Yağmur Sağ, Ankana Saha, Radek Šimík, and Alexandra Simonenko
10:50-11:20

Grammatical gender is reflected in languages' distributed semantic representations
Luca Onnis and Alfred Lim

11:20-11:40 Coffee Break
11:40-12:10 Processing reflexive pronouns in Sinhala
Malkini Chandrasiri and Shayne Sloggett
12:10-12:40

MultiplEYE: A multi-lab effort to establish new standards for the collection and pre-processing of multi-lingual eyetracking-while-reading data
Deborah N. Jakobi, Maroš Filip, Ramunė Kasperė, Nora Hollenstein, Lena A. Jäger &  The MultiplEYE Team

12:40-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Keynote
Susan Goldin-Meadow
The mind hidden in our hands
15:00-16:45 Coffee and Poster Session
16:45-17:15 Are syntactic dependencies optimized for periodic neurobiological sampling? Large-scale analysis on the Universal Dependencies corpus
Chia-Wen Lo, Mark Anderson, Lorenzo Titone, and Lars Meyer
17:15-17:45 Intonation units in spontaneous speech evoke a neural response beyond speech acoustics
Maya Inbar, Shir Genzer, Anat Perry, Eitan Grossman, and Ayelet Landau
19:00- Conference Dinner at Moudi's Lecker Garten (Venue)

Day 3 – November 8th, 2023

9:30-10:30 Keynote
Aylin Küntay
Interactive sources of early communication and language learning: Evidence from Turkish
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Getting creative: A Language Modeling approach to predicting child utterances in 12 typologically diverse languages
Olivier Rüst, Marco Baroni, and Sabine Stoll
11:30-12:00 Producing case in Shipibo-Konibo: Ergativity and uncertainty
Caroline Andrews, Roberto Zariquiey, Sebastian Sauppe, Albert Maroto, Erlich Mori, Margarita Rodríguez Flores, Glendy Rosario Sanchez Diaz, and Balthasar Bickel
12:00-12:30 The effect of morphosyntactic ergative construction on pronoun processing in Georgian
Dato Abashidze and Natalia Gagarina
12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Tutorial: An Introduction to Online Experiments with PCIbex

Florian Schwarz

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00

Lightning talk: Data collection – ethical and legal issues
Dagmar Jung (UZH,) followed by a roundtable discussion on ethics for psycholinguistics outside the lab

18:00- Drinks at Cabaret Voltaire (Venue)

 

List of Poster Presentations

A processing-based explanation for left-right agreement asymmetries
Omri Amiraz

How prosody shapes meaning: The role of prosodic cues in deciphering negative utterances
Sakine Çabuk Ballı, Volker Dellwo, Paul Widmer, Sabine Stoll

Eye-tracking action encoding in spoken production with dynamic stimuli
Caterina Cacioli, Agnieszka Konopka, and Alessandro Panunzi

The interplay of functional and semantic aspects in shaping inflectional morphology: a case study on Romance languages
Emily Cheng, and Francesca Franzon

Neurotypological considerations of temporal concord processing
Aymeric Collart

Understanding and producing case after local two-case prepositions in German-speaking preschoolers
Tanja Diederich and Flavia Adani

The MultiplEYE Reading Corpus
Maroš Filip, Deborah N. Jakobi, Ramunė Kasperė, Nora Hollenstein, Lena A. Jäger &  The MultiplEYE Team

Child-directed speech facilitates semantic role identification
Eva Huber, Sabine Stoll, Balthasar Bickel

Semantic role processing in 6-year-old Basque children
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, Martin Meyer, and Balthasar Bickel

Multilevel phylogenetic inference of harmony in Indo-European
Yingqi Jing, Joakim Nivre, and Michael Dunn

The processing of inherent vowel in Assamese readers
Chandni Khaund

Acquisition of gender agreement in Sursilvan-Tuatschin depends on context-specific frequency distributions
Jekaterina Mažara, Claudia Cathomas, Michele Loporcaro, Sabine Stoll

Universals and differences in young children's combinations of pointing and language in two contrasting cultures: Russian and Chintang
Jekaterina Mažara, Elena Lieven, Sabine Stoll

Project marker use for joint action coordination in Vietnamese, Swiss French, and Shipibo-Konibo
Natalia Morozova, Sabine Stoll, Adrian Bangerter

VO vs. OV basic order triggers different utterance structuring processes and case marking principles
Pavel Ozerov

Processing semantic affix attachment rule violations in South Slavic and Colombian Spanish
Bojana Ristić, Karin Kavčič, Martha Juliana Aponte Niño, Rok Žaucer, Linnaea Stockall, and Christina Manouilidou

Cross-culturally children attend more to surrounding child speech than to surrounding adult speech
Johanna Schick, Sabine Stoll

Low-frequency neural activity tracks semantic properties of Mandarin words
Yuan Xie, Peng Zhou, Likan Zhan, and Yanan Xu

Differential object marking in Romanian-Spanish bilinguals. Using production tasks to explore bidirectional crosslinguistic influence
Senta Zeugin