SSoL 2017

The 11th Summer School of Linguistics took place from 20 to 26 August 2017 in Litomyšl, Czech Republic. It was financially supported by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague.


Su 20/08

10:00–11:10 ARRIVAL

11:20–12:30 ARRIVAL

14:00–15:10 Matthews: How children learn to communicate: infancy

15:20–16:30 Bannard: The place of multi word sequences in a productive language system

17:00–18:10 Bordag: Theories of second language acquisition: An overview I

18:20–19:30 Bordag: Theories of second language acquisition: An overview II


Mo 21/08

10:00–11:10 Bordag: Theories of second language acquisition: An overview III

11:20–12:30 Clahsen: Grammatical constraints in language learners’ spoken language comprehension

14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B1) Děchtěrenko: Psychopy

15:20–16:30

WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B1) Děchtěrenko: Psychopy

17:00–18:10 Matthews: How children learn to communicate: preschool I

18:20–19:30 Matthews: How children learn to communicate: preschool II


Tu 22/08

10:00–11:10 Bordag: Theories of second language acquisition: An overview IV

11:20–12:30 Clahsen: How the brain plans complex words: Silent production of inflected words during EEG

14:00–15:10 Vasishth: Introduction to Sentence Comprehension I

15:20–16:30 Vasishth: Introduction to Sentence Comprehension II

17:00–18:10 Ramscar: The discriminative nature of human communication I

18:20–19:30 WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B2) Milin: Pimping-up linguistics


We 23/08

10:00–11:10 FREE TIME

11:20–12:30 FREE TIME

14:00–15:10 Zlatev: Actual motion semantics: semantic categories, mappings, and types of motion situations

15:20–16:30 Smith: Speech rhythm I

17:00–18:10 Ramscar: The discriminative nature of human communication II

18:20–19:30 WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B2) Milin: Pimping-up linguistics


Th 24/08

10:00–11:10 Smith: Speech rhythm II

11:20–12:30 Zlatev: Non-actual motion semantics: phenomenological motivations and linguistic conventions

14:00–15:10 WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B2) Milin: Pimping-up linguistics

15:20–16:30 WORKSHOPS:

A) Levshina: How to see the meaning

B2) Milin: Pimping-up linguistics

17:00–18:10 Vasishth: Introduction to Sentence Comprehension III

18:20–19:30 Ramscar: The discriminative nature of human communication III


Fr 25/08

10:00–11:10 POSTER SESSION SET UP

11:20–12:30 Zlatev: Motion-emotion metaphors: universal motivations, language-specific conventions, and contextual negotiations

14:00–15:10 POSTER SESSION

15:20–16:30 Myachykov: The role of attention in sentence production

17:00–18:10 Łuniewska: How to measure vocabulary size cross-linguistically?

18:20–19:30 Ramscar: The discriminative nature of human communication IV


Sa 26/08

10:00–11:10 Myachykov: Interplay between knowledge representations

11:20–12:30 Łuniewska: Mental lexicon of Polish SLI children


Workshops

A) Natalia Levshina: How to see the meaning: Exploration and visualization of semantics with R

B1) Filip Děchtěrenko: Psychopy: How to build psycholinguistic experiments?

B2) Petar Milin: Pimping-up linguistics: Approaching language with behavioural experimentation and computational modelling


Lecturers

Colin Bannard (University of Liverpool, UK)

Denisa Bordag (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Harald Clahsen (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Filip Děchtěrenko (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Natalia Levshina (University of Leipzig, Germany)

Magdalena Łuniewska (University of Warsaw, Poland)

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield, UK)

Petar Milin (University of Sheffield, UK)

Andriy Myachykov (Northumbria University, UK)

Michael Ramscar (University Tübingen, Germany)

Rachel Smith (University of Glasgow, UK)

Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam, Germany)

Jordan Zlatev (Lund University, Sweden)


Lecture abstracts

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