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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:13:41
From: Kris Heylen [kris.heylen at arts.kuleuven.be]
Subject: 5th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics

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5th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 
Short Title: QITL5 

Date: 12-Sep-2013 - 14-Sep-2013 
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact: Kris Heylen 
Contact Email: QITL5 at arts.kuleuven.be 
Meeting URL: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/QITL5/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The 5th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL5) offers a forum for theoretically aware and methodologically advanced researchers from any linguistic discipline or methodology. The QITL conferences are motivated by the conviction that advanced quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored. Quantitative analyses are not performed in isolation, but contribute to the regular scientific process of theoretical falsification. Since the first edition in 2002, QITL has brought together researchers that combine a theoretical interest with methodological rigour.

Since the turn of the millennium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored. Quantitative analyses are not performed in isolation, but contribute to the regular scientific process of theoretical falsification. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. 

The fifth conference (QITL5) is organised by the University of Leuven, Ghent University and University College Ghent, and will take place in Leuven (Belgium), September 12-14, 2013.

Keynote Speakers:

Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Laura Janda, University of Tromsø, Norway
Søren Wichmann, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Organising Committee:

Dirk Speelman, University of Leuven
Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven
Kris Heylen, University of Leuven
Gert De Sutter, University College Ghent Timothy Colleman, Ghent University
Timothy Colleman, Ghent University 

To maximize interaction and discussion, QITL-5 features a single track of oral and poster presentations on quantitative studies with a theoretical interest. The full programme can be found on: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/QITL5/programme.htm.

Registration: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/QITL5/registration.htm
Early bird registration (up to August 20, 2013): €80 
Late registration (after August 20, 2013): €100 

Full Programme:

Thursday September 12

09:00-09:30 
Registration + coffee 

09:30-09.45 
Welcome 

09.45-10.45 
Invited talk: Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury, New Zealand [title to be announced] 

10.45-11.15 
Coffee 

11.15-11.55 
Martijn Wieling, Jelke Bloem, John Nerbonne & R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen 
/ University of Amsterdam / University of Groningen / University of Alberta 
A cognitively grounded measure of pronunciation distance  

11.55-12.35 
Jack Grieve Aston University 
Ordinary kriging in dialectology  

12.35-14.00 
Lunch break 

14.00-14.40 
Melanie J. Bell & Martin Schaefer Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge / Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena 
Informativity is a predictor of semantic transparency in English compound nouns  

14.40-15.20 
Sylvia Springorum, Sabine Schulte im Walde Sabine & Antje Rossdeutscher Universität Stuttgart 
Sentence generation and compositionality of systematic neologisms of German particle verbs  

15.20-15.50 
Coffee 

15.50-16.30 
Vsevolod Kapatsinski, Amy Smolek & Matthew Stave University of Oregon 
Judgment and production data in morphophonology: Converging sources of evidence  

16.30-17.10 
Maria Mos & Véronique Verhagen Tilburg University 
How valuable are our judgments? Towards a better understanding of metalinguistic judgment data  

17.10-17.30 
Introducing the posters 

17.30-19.00 
Reception + poster session 

  Costanza Asnaghi Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / KU Leuven 
Global autocorrelation and dialect studies: The role of significance  
 
 Markus Bader & Sasha Dümig Goethe University Frankfurt 
Dissociating grammaticality from word-order choice: A case study on object pronouns in German  

  Jocelyne Daems, Kris Heylen & Dirk Geeraerts KU Leuven 
'Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall': Lexical convergence between Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch  

  Yanan Hu KU Leuven 
(In)direct causation hypothesis again: A case study of Chinese analytic causatives  

  Vsevolod Kapatsinski University of Oregon 
Sound change and hierarchical inference: Clarifying predictions of usage-based theory  

  Mildred Lau & Antti Arppe University of Eastern Finland / University of Alberta 
We don't all 'think' exactly alike: Empirical evidence for cross-linguistic lexical contrast  

  Xia Lu University at Buffalo, SUNY 
Exploring word order universals: A probabilistic graphical model approach  

  Marta Abrusan & Tim Van de Cruys IRIT & CNRS 
A quantitative investigation of semantic properties of determiners using factorization techniques  

  Nicolas Mazziotta & Fabienne Martin Universität Stuttgart 
An exploratory approach to transitivising morphemes in French  

  Thomas McFadden University of Tromsø 
Resultativity and the decline of preverbal ge- from Old to Middle English  

  Heliana Mello, Flávio Coelho, Crysttian Paixão, Renato Souza & Tommaso Raso UFMG, FGV, Brasil 
Lexical category distribution in a spontaneous speech corpus of Brazilian Portuguese  

  Heliana Mello, Crysttian Paixão, Flávio Coelho & Renato Souza UFMG, FGV, Brasil 
Distribution of modality markers in Brazilian Portuguese spontaneous speech  

  Razzia Rahmoun-Mrabet Preparatory school of sciences and techniques- Tlemcen 
A corpus-based approach and a sociolinguistic study of 'Tranche de vie', an article in an Algerian newspaper  

  Poppy Siahaan University of Cologne 
Diachronic analysis on metaphors of anger in pre-modern Malay and present-day Indonesian  

  Leszek Szymanski University of Zielona Góra 
The borrowing of the English plural suffix into Polish. A corpus study.  

  Juliette Thuilier Université Paris-Sorbonne & Alpage (INRIA - Paris Diderot) 
Quantitative contribution to the study of the syntax of spoken vs. written language  

  Lore Vandevoorde, Gert De Sutter & Koen Plevoets Ghent University / University College Ghent 
Translation-driven mapping of semantic fields: The case of Dutch and French inceptive verbs  

Friday September 13

09:00-09:30 
Coffee 

09.30-10.30 
Invited talk: Laura Janda University of Tromsø, Norway 
The big questions need multi-purpose portable solutions  

10.30-11.00 
Coffee 

11.00-11.40 
Annelore Willems & Gert De Sutter Ghent University / University College Ghent 
Distance-to-V, length and verb disposition effects on PP placement in Belgian Dutch. A corpus-based multifactorial investigation
  
11.40-12.20 
Jeruen E. Dery & Dagmar Bittner Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin 
Temporal information affects implicit causality biases in pronoun resolution  

12.20-14.00 
Lunch break 

14.00-14.40 
Jason Grafmiller Stanford University 
Transitivity and construal in English emotion verbs: A quantitative investigation  

14.40-15.20 
Karolina Krawczak Université de Neuchâtel / Poznan A. M. University 
Developing methods for the study of social emotions: SHAME in British and American English  

15.20-15.50 
Coffee 

15.50-16.30 
José Tummers, Dirk Speelman & Dirk Geeraerts Leuven University College / KU Leuven 
Lectal conditioning of lexical collocations  

16.30-17.10 
Svetoslava Antonova-Baumann Northumbria University 
Conference presentation vs. presentation at a conference: Evaluating the processing of complex structures in English and German  
  
19.00
Conference dinner 

Saturday September 14

09:00-09:30 
Coffee 

09.30-10.30 
Invited talk: Søren Wichmann Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany [title to be announced] 

10.30-11.00 
Coffee 

11.00-11.40 
Yoon Mi Oh, François Pellegrino, Egidio Marsico & Christophe Coupé Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Université de Lyon and CNRS 
A quantitative and typological approach to correlating linguistic complexity  

11.40-12.20 
Taraka Rama, Prashant Kolachina and Sudheer Kolachina University of Göteborg, IIIT-Hyderabad and Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Two methods for automatic identification of cognates  

12.20-14.00 
Lunch break 

14.00-14.40 
Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen & Kristina Geeraert University of Turku / University of Alberta 
The relationship between form and meaning: Modeling semantic densities of English monomorphemic verbs  

14.40-15.20 
Gabriella Lapesa & Stefan Evert University of Osnabrueck / University of Erlangen 
Thematic roles and semantic space: Insights from distributional semantic models  

15.20-15.50 
Coffee 

15.50-16.30 
Thomas Wielfaert, Kris Heylen, Jakub Kozakoszczak, Leonid Soshinskiy & Dirk Speelman KU Leuven 
Evaluating semantic structure in distributional modeling  

16.30-17.00 
Final discussion and closing








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