SSoL 2016
The 10th Summer School of Linguistics will take place from 21 to 27 August 2016 in Litomyšl, Czech Republic. It was financially supported by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.
Su 21/08
10:00–11:10 ARRIVAL
11:20–12:30 ARRIVAL
14:00–15:10 Allen: The effect of discourse-pragmatics on referential choice in children I
15:20–16:30 Allen: The effect of discourse-pragmatics on referential choice in children II
17:00–18:10 Vihman: Ways with words: Cross-linguistic acquisition of morphology I
18:20–19:30 Fulka: Deafness and Sign Language in Western Tradition
Mo 22/08
10:00–11:10 Skarabela: Is 'choochoo' better than 'train'?: The role of baby-talk words in early language development I
11:20–12:30 Vihman: Ways with words: Cross-linguistic acquisition of morphology II
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists I
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese I
15:20–16:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists II
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese II
17:00–18:10 Lukács: Natural language acquisition and statistical learning I
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME
Tu 23/08
10:00–11:10 POSTER SESSION
11:20–12:30 POSTER SESSION
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists III
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese III
15:20–16:30 Skarabela: Is 'choochoo' better than 'train'?: The role of baby-talk words in early language development II
17:00–18:10 Allen: Cross-linguistic priming in adult bilinguals
18:20–19:30 Lukács: Natural language acquisition and statistical learning II
We 24/08
10:00–11:10 Smolík: Early reference to 1st and 2nd person: does it depend on language or social cognition [alternate talk]
11:20–12:30 Allen: Developing tools for language assessment in Inuktitut (CDI, LARSP, calculating MLU)
14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists IV
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese IV
15:20–16:30 Duběda: Intonation: from contours to tones
17:00–18:10 Majid: Semantic typology: General introduction
18:20–19:30 Bakker: Contact languages. An overview
Th 25/08
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME
14:00–15:10 Dediu: Introduction to genetics for language scientists I
15:20–16:30 Majid: The language of perception
17:00–18:10 Bakker: Typology of creole languages
18:20–19:30 Haspelmath: Explaining universals of syntactic argument coding I
Fr 26/08
10:00–11:10 Haspelmath: Explaining universals of syntactic argument coding II
11:20–12:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists V
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese V
14:00–15:10 Dediu: Introduction to genetics for language scientists II
15:20–16:30 Dediu: Introduction to genetics for language scientists III
17:00–18:10 Majid: Event semantics
18:20–19:30 Bakker: Mixed languages and other new languages
Sa 27/08
10:00–11:10 Dediu: Language does not evolve in void: anatomical and physiological biases in language change and evolution
11:20–12:30 WORKSHOPS:
A) Lukeš: The Python programming language: An introductory phrasebook for linguists VI
B) Zádrapa: Structural Pecularities of Old and Modern Chinese VI
Lecturers
Shanley Allen (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
Peter Bakker (Aarhus University)
Dan Dediu (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Tomáš Duběda (Charles University, Prague)
Josef Fulka (Charles University, Prague)
Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
Ágnes Lukács (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
David Lukeš (Charles University, Prague)
Asifa Majid (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Barbora Skarabela (University of Edinburgh)
Filip Smolík (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Virve-Anneli Vihman (University of Tartu)
Lukáš Zádrapa (Charles University, Prague)