21.5052, Confs: Morphology, Psycholinguistics/Netherlands

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Date: 13-Dec-2010
From: Matthew Baerman [m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics

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Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:46:25
From: Matthew Baerman [m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk]
Subject: Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics

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Morphological Complexity & Psycholinguistics 

Date: 28-Jan-2011 - 28-Jan-2011 
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Contact: Matthew Baerman 
Contact Email: m.baerman at surrey.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.morphology.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Psycholinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Surrey Morphology Group and the Max Planck Institute for 
Psycholinguistics will host a one-day workshop entitled 'Morphological 
Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics', as part of a European 
Research Council project (grant number: ERC-2008-AdG-230268 
MORPHOLOGY). The workshop will be held on 28 Jan (Friday), 2011, at 
the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with guest speakers Mirjam Ernestus 
(MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University) and Alice Harris (University of 
Massachussetts, Amherst). The workshop organizers are Matthew 
Baerman, Greville Corbett & Dunstan Brown.

By the term 'morphological complexity', we understand the extra layer of 
structure that morphological systems may introduce in between meaning 
and its expression, such as inflection classes or stem alternations. This 
layer may operate at cross-purposes to functional distinctions, attaining in 
some languages an astonishing degree of complexity. Such phenomena are 
a key resource for understanding mental processes as they represent an 
unconscious and yet highly structured autonomous system. This is the 
second in a series of workshops exploring the implications that 
morphological complexity has for various branches of linguistics. The first, 
held in January 2010 at Harvard, addressed questions of general linguistic 
theory. The present workshop focuses on psycholinguistics: how does the 
mind cope with apparently gratuitous morphological elaboration? 

Morphological Complexity: Implications for Psycholinguistics

9:30-10:00. Introduction 
Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen) and the Surrey Morphology Group 

10:00-11:00. How morphological complexity resulting from phonology 
affects speech processing 
Mirjam Ernestus (MPI Nijmegen and Radboud University) 

11:00-11:30. Break

11:30-12:10. The processing of morphological features. ERP Evidence for 
underspecification 
Andreas Opitz (University of Leipzig), Stefanie Regel (MPI Leipzig), Gereon 
Müller (University of Leipzig), Angela Friederici (MPI Leipzig)

12-10-12:50. Modelling paradigm spaces
Basilio Calderone (Modyco, CNRS & Université de Paris Ouest la Défense), 
Fabio Montermini (CLLE-ERSS, CNRS & Université de Toulouse)

12:50-2:00. Lunch 

2:00-3:00. Multiple exponence in Batsbi: psycholinguistic fieldwork on an 
endangered language 
Alice Harris (University of Massachussetts, Amherst)

3:00-3:40. Generalisation of inflectional classes in Portuguese 
João Veríssimo (University of Lisbon), Harald Clahsen (University of Essex) 

3:40-4:10. Break

4:10-4:50. Children's early knowledge of Polish noun inflections 
Grzegorz Krajewski (University of Manchester)

4:50-5:30. Acquiring the complexity of German Noun Plural Formation 
Sabine Laaha, Wolfgang Dressler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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