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| Conference on COMPETING MOTIVATIONS (November 23-25, 2010) |
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Conference Program
TUESDAY| WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY
MONDAY, 22 November
| 19:30 |
Warming up at the restaurant "Alte Nikolaischule" (Nikolaikirchhof 2) |
TUESDAY, 23 November
CHAIR: BERNARD COMRIE
| 8:00-9:00 |
Registration (entrance hall) |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Andrej MALCHUKOV (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith MORAVCSIK (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee):
Competing motivations: what, how, and why? |
| 9:45-10:30 |
INVITED TALK
Wolfgang U. DRESSLER (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Gary LIBBEN
(University of Calgary), Katharina KORECKY-KRÖLL (Austrian Academy of Sciences):
Conflicting vs. convergent vs. interdependent motivations in morphology |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Geoffrey S. NATHAN (Wayne State University):
How are sounds stored? |
| 11:00-11:30 |
COFFEE |
CHAIR: MARTIN HASPELMATH
| 11:30-12:00 |
Mira ARIEL (Tel Aviv University):
Or constructions: monosemy versus polysemy, coding versus inferencing |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Ruben van de VIJVER and Dinah BAER-HENNEY (Universität Potsdam):
The role of containment and rules in the acquisition of underlying forms |
| 12:30-13:00 |
Wataru NAKAMURA (Tohoku University):
Morphological syncretism in declension paradigms: a harmonic grammar account |
| 13:00-13:45 |
INVITED TALK
Helen DE HOOP, Helen (Radboud University, Nijmegen):
Conflicting constraints from grammar and beyond |
| 13:45-15:00 |
LUNCH |
CHAIR: FRITZ NEWMEYER
| 15:00-15:45 |
INVITED TALK
John HAWKINS (Cambridge University and University of California, Davis):
Competing motivations in grammar, performance and learning: common principles and patterns in three areas of language |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Holger DIESSEL, Karsten SCHMIDTKE-BODE, and Katja HETTERLE (Friedrich Schiller University):
Competing motivations for the linear structuring of complex sentences |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Jan STRUNK (Ruhr University at Bochum):
A statistical model of competing motivations affecting relative clause extraposition in German |
| 16:45-17:15 |
COFFEE |
CHAIR: WOLFGANG DRESSLER
| 17:15-17:45 |
Ljudmila GEIST, Dolgor GUNTSETSEG, and Klaus von HEUSINGER (University of Stuttgart):
Differential object marking competes with dative alternation |
| 17:45-18:15 |
Martin C. PFEIFFER (University of Freiburg):
Formal vs. functional motivations for the structure of self-repair in German |
| 18:15-19:00 |
INVITED TALK
Martin HASPELMATH (Max Planck Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie):
On system pressure competing with economic motivation |
WEDNESDAY, 24 November
CHAIR: KLAUS VON HEUSINGER
| 9:00-9:45 |
INVITED TALK
Frederick NEWMEYER (University of Washington, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University):
Where do motivations compete? |
| 9:45-10:15 |
Britta MONDORF (University of Mainz):
(Apparently) competing motivations in morphosyntactic variation |
| 10:15-10:30 |
COFFEE |
| 10.30-11:30 |
POSTER SESSION
Markus BADER (University of Konstanz):
Deriving the weight of syntactic constraints from experience
Gwendoline FOX (University of Paris III), Juliette THUILIER, and
Benoît CRABBÉ (both from the University of Paris VII):
Alternating the position of adjectives in French; an item-based phenomenon
Rachel HENDERY (Australian National University) and Antoinette SCHAPPER (University of Leiden):
Competing motivations in diachronic perspective: the case of doubly-marked relative clauses
Vsevolod (Volja) KAPATSINSKI (University of Oregon):
Regularity is overrated: stochastic competition in grammar and the primacy of the lexicon
Ignacio MORENO-TORRES, Maria del MAR CID, Santiago TORRES (University of Málaga), and Rafael Santana (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria):
Constraints on prosodic word development in typically-developing children and in early cochlear implant users
Ilana MUSHIN (University of Queensland):
Jockeying for position: competing motivation in Garrwa word order
Tatiana Yu. SAZONOVA (Northern Illinois University and Kursk State University):
The winner gets it all: strategies for object naming in Russian
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CHAIR: MARGARET WINTERS
| 11:30-12:00 |
Sonia CRISTOFARO (University of Pavia):
Competing motivation models and diachrony: what evidence for what motivations? |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Bhuvana NARASIMHAN (University of Colorado at Boulder), Christine DIMROTH (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics), Cecily Jill DUFFIELD, and Albert KIM (both from the University of Colorado at Boulder):
Competing motivations in ordering ‘new’ and ‘old’ information: a psycholinguistic investigation |
| 12:30-13:15 |
INVITED TALK
Bernd, HEINE (Universität Köln):
Two Competing Systems: Sentence Grammar vs Discourse Grammar |
| 13:15-14:30 |
LUNCH |
CHAIR: ELENA LIEVEN
| 14:30-15:15 |
INVITED TALK
Brian MACWHINNEY (Carnegie Mellon University):
How competition works across time |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Silke BRANDT (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology):
Children’s interpretation of relative clauses with multiple cues: what does case add? |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Monique LAMERS (University of Amsterdam) and Kees DE SCHEPPER (Radboud University Nijmegen):
Argument linearization in Dutch and German: a multifactorial analysis |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Ben AMBRIDGE (University of Liverpool):
The formation and restriction of linguistic generalizations: a competition-based account |
| 16:45-17:00 |
COFFEE |
CHAIR: JACK HAWKINS
| 17:00-17:30 |
Thomas GRÜNLOH (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of Cologne), Elena LIEVEN, and
Michael TOMASELLO (both from Max the Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology):
German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences |
| 17:30-18:00 |
Grzegorz KRAJEWSKI (University of Manchester), Elena LIEVEN and
Michael TOMASELLO (both from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology):
The role of word order and case marking in Polish children’s comprehension of transitives |
| 18:00-18:45 |
INVITED TALK
Michael TOMASELLO (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology):
Competing cues to transitivity in child language acquisition |
| 19:30 |
CONFERENCE DINNER (Stelzenhaus) |
THURSDAY, 25 November
CHAIR: BERND HEINE
| 9:00-9:45 |
INVITED TALK
John DU BOIS (University of California, Santa Barbara):
Competing to Cooperate: Motivating the Grammaticization of Complexity |
| 9:45-10:15 |
Johannes HELMBRECHT (University of Regensburg):
Politeness distinctions in personal pronouns – a case study in competing motivations |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Jacolien VAN RIJ, Hedderik VAN RIJN, Petra HENDRIKS (University of Groningen):
Linguistic and cognitive constraints on the use of referring expressions |
| 10:45-11:00 |
COFFEE |
| 11:00-11:30 |
POSTER SESSION
See Wednesday 11:00-11:30 |
CHAIR: BRIAN MACWHINNEY
| 11:30-12:00 |
Mary HUGHES (Boston University) and Shanley E. M. ALLEN (University of Kaiserlautern):
Competing constraints in the acquisition of referential choice |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Caroline ROWLAND (University of Liverpool), Claire NOBLE (University of Manchester):
Competing cues in the acquisition of semantic roles: new evidence from the dative in English and Welsh |
| 12:30-13:15 |
INVITED TALK
Gereon MÜLLER (Universität Leipzig):
Local domains for competition resolution |
| 13:15-14:30 |
LUNCH |
CHAIR: EDITH MORAVCSIK
| 14:30-15:15 |
INVITED TALK
Ina BORNKESSEL-SCHLESEWSKY (University of Marburg):
Cognitive attractors in language processing? Evidence from neurotypology |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Eileen GRAF (University of Manchester and Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology):
SVO and OVS - really a case of competing motivations? Evidence from German child language |
| 15:45-16:15 |
Elaine J. FRANCIS (Purdue University) and Laura A. MICHAELIS (University of Colorado at Boulder):
Combining weight and discourse factors to predict relative clauses extraposition in English |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Caroline IMBERT (University of Grenoble):
Competing motivations in path-coding systems: a case study from an ancient language |
| 16:45-17:00 |
COFFEE |
CHAIR: ANDREJ MALCHUKOV
| 17:00-17:30 |
Yasuhiro SHIRAI (University of Pittsburgh) and Yoko SUZUKI (University of Tokyo):
The acquisition of the Japanese imperfective aspect marker: what do children do when universals and input frequency compete? |
| 17:30-18:15 |
Concluding discussion |
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