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Date: 08-Sep-2011
From: Ruprecht von Waldenfels [waldenfels at issl.unibe.ch]
Subject: Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation
 

	
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From: Ruprecht von Waldenfels [waldenfels at issl.unibe.ch]
Subject: Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation

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Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation 

Date: 16-Sep-2011 - 17-Sep-2011 
Location: Berne, Switzerland 
Contact: Ruprecht von Waldenfels 
Contact Email: waldenfels at issl.unibe.ch 
Meeting URL: http://www.csls.unibe.ch/content/workshop2011/index_ger.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Cognitive Processes and Social Factors in Language Variation and Change 
(Bern University, September 16-17, 2011)

The aim of the workshop is to bring together two traditionally distinct lines of research related to the study of variation in language use, one being concerned with social factors and the other one dealing with individual cognitive mechanisms. In this context, theoretical approaches and empirical results on the interplay of both sets of factors are of particular interest, e.g., the social modulation of cognitive processing in linguistic interaction, or the individual mediation of societal influences on language use.

The workshop is jointly organized by linguists from the Romance, Slavic, German and General Linguistics departments. It is intended as a small-scale 2-day meeting that brings together experienced and novice colleagues from different countries.

Confirmed guest speakers:

Holly Branigan (University of Edinburgh)
Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell University)
Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven)

For further information and contact details please visit the workshop website:

http://www.csls.unibe.ch/content/workshop2011/index_ger.html 

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Holly Branigan (Edinburgh)
Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell)
Sue Fox (London)
Dirk Geeraerts (Leuven)
David Hornsby (Kent)
Lesley Milroy (Michigan/Oxford)
Martin Pickering (Edinburgh)

Friday, Sept. 16.

9.30-10.30
'The whites have become black'? The linguistic consequences of post-war migration in London
Sue Fox (London)

10.30-11.00
Cognitive and social factors in the acquisition of variation in adult second language learners 
Andrea Ender (Freiburg i. Br.)

11.30-12.30
The interactive-alignment theory of dialogue and its implications 
Martin Pickering (Edinburgh)

12.30-13.00
The acquisition of subject use in Russian: individual variation in children and caretakers 
Sabine Stoll (Zürich)
Roland Meyer (Regensburg)

Friday 14.30-15.00
The emergence of na as a copula in Nigerian Pidgin 
Maria Mazzoli (Padova)

15.00-15.30
Concretization in grammatical change 
Marius Zemp (Bern)

15.30-16.00
When person becomes volitionality: Evidence for a diachronic transition from pronominalizing to epistemic verbal systems 
Manuel Widmer (Bern)

16.30-17.30
Language evolution as language change 
Morten H. Christiansen (Cornell)

Saturday, Sept. 17

9.15-10.15
The nature of syntactic alignment in interactive language use: Theoretical explanations and experimental evidence 
Holly Branigan (Edinburgh)

10.15-10.45
Factors of intra-speaker variation in subjunctive-form choice in Swiss German dialects 
Constanze Vorwerg (Bern) 
Michael Schümann (Bern)

11.15-11.45
Intragenetic typology of Slavic aspect using a parallel corpus 
Ruprecht von Waldenfels (Bern)

11.45-12.45
Cognitive semantics and lexical dialectometry 
Dirk Geeraerts (Leuven)

14.00-15.00
Swimming against the tide? Dialect divergence in Northern France 
David Hornsby (Kent)

15.00-15.30
Construction of spatial structures through verbal variation and manipulation of agentivity 
Ekaterina Golovko (Bologna)

15.30-16.00
PP vs. NP remnants in English ellipsis 
Joanna Nykiel (Sosnowiec)

16.30-17.30
Why are some sound changes more accessible than others? Different social
dynamics of sound change and some cognitive implications 
Lesley Milroy (Michigan/Oxford)

Cognitive processes and social factors in language variation and change
International workshop
September 16/17, 2011
Bern University
Unitobler (Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern)
Room: F-123








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