26.3212, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Israel

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Subject: 26.3212, Confs: General Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Psycholing, Text/Corpus Ling/Israel

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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 13:17:39
From: Gabi Danon [gabidanon at gmail.com]
Subject: 31st Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics

31st Annual Meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 
Short Title: IATL 31 

Date: 13-Oct-2015 - 14-Oct-2015 
Location: Ramat Gan, Israel 
Contact: Gabi Danon 
Contact Email: iatl at complexnp.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.iatl.org.il/?page_id=748 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

IATL 31, the 31st annual meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held at Bar Ilan University on October 13-14, 2015.

Invited Speakers:

- Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Malte Zimmerman, Potsdam University 

Program:

Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics
31st Annual Meeting
October 13-14, 2015
Bar Ilan University, Israel

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

9:00-9:30
Registration and coffee

9:30-9:50
Greetings

9:50-10:50
Invited speaker: Malte Zimmermann, Universität Potsdam
Scalar Particles and the analysis of Contrastive Topics: A cross-linguistic investigation of English and Vietnamese

10:50-11:30
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal and Nora Boneh
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Modern Hebrew discursive datives

11:30-11:50 Coffee

11:50-12:30
Ariel Cohen and Irit Meir
Ben Gurion University of the Negev and University of Haifa
Function variables in metaphoric interpretation: Evidence from iconicity in sign languages

12:30-13:10
Svetlana Dachkovsky, Jana Hosemann, Markus Steinbach and Wendy Sandler
University of Haifa and Universität Göttingen
Signers' perception of conditional intonation: A comparative study of Israeli Sign Language and German Sign Language

13:10-14:50 Lunch

14:50-15:30
Avivit Ben-David and Outi Bat-El
Tel Aviv University
Stressed and final syllables in language acquisition: Which is stronger?

15:30-16:10
Noam Faust
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Guttural ghosts

16:10-16:30 Coffee

16:30-17:10
Andreas Trotzke and Stefano Quaglia
Universität Konstanz
Topicalization patterns in expressive particle verbs: Comparative evidence from German and Italian

17:10-17:50
Hedde Zeijlstra
Universität Göttingen
Explaining FOFC without the LCA

TBA Conference dinner

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

9:30-10:30
Invited speaker: Donka Farkas, University of California, Santa Cruz
Assertions, polar questions, and the land in-between

10:30-10:50 Coffee

Thematic Session: Experimental and corpus-based research in theoretical linguistics

10:50-11:30
Maayan Keshev and Aya Meltzer-Asscher
Tel Aviv University
Implications of grammatical resumption for the online processing of Hebrew islands

11:30-12:10
Saskia Ottschofski
Universität Tübingen
The acquisition of pronouns in English: Evidence for a uniform semantics of pronouns, indexicals and the definite determiner

12:10-12:30
Business Meeting

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Thematic Session (cont.)

14:00-14:40
Daphna Heller and Boaz Ben David
University of Toronto and Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya 
Morphological activation during spoken word recognition: Beyond sound and meaning?

14:40-15:20
Noga Balaban, Petra Schulz and Naama Friedmann
Tel Aviv University and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
What triggers exhaustivitiy in wh-questions? Evidence from TOM impairment after right hemisphere damage

15:20-15:40 Coffee

15:40-16:20
Yael Greenberg
Bar Ilan University
The scale of (overt) even: Problems and solutions

16:20-17:00
Hadas Kotek
McGill University
On the semantics of wh-questions

17:00-17:20 Coffee

17:20-18:00
Stephanie Solt
ZAS Berlin
Granularity and weak disjunctions

Alternates:

Alexander Grosu and Ion Giurgea
Tel Aviv University and The Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy
The smoking gun: The Romanian connection

Vera Hohaus and Andreas Konietzko
Universität Tübingen
VP-proforms and Logical Form: The perspective from English and German

Lior Laks, Evan-Gary Cohen and Stav Azulay
Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University
Paradigm uniformity and the locus of derivation: The case of Hebrew vowel epenthesis

Danielle Moed and Daphna Heller
University of Toronto
What visual memory can tell us about the context: The case of modification

Lucia Tovena and Xiaoqian Zhang
Université Paris 7
A pragmatically enriched temporal relation

The conference is supported by: the office of the Vice-President of Research,
Bar-Ilan University; the Rector's office, Bar-Ilan University; the Lechter
Institute for Literary Research; the Lewis Family Foundation for International
Conferences in the Humanities; and the Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan
University.

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