On February 24th, 2022, Annemarie Verkerk, Tania Avgustinova, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Katrin Menzel, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb and Luigi Talamo will give a talk on „Information status investigated using surprisal: differences across syntactic roles and referential expressions in European languages“ in the workshop „Discourse obligates“ organized by Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus and Ingo Reich (Project B3) at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS).

Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb from Project B1 on Information Density in English Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective will give a keynote talk at the Digital Humanities Benelux Conference this June on Modeling and investigating variation in language use from a communicative perspective: methods, challenges, and types of evidence.

More information can be found here.

The members of project B3 „Information Theory and Ellipsis Redundancy“ Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer, Heiner Drenhaus and Ingo Reich host a workshop at this year’s 44th Annual Conference of the German Lingustic Society (DGfS) in Tübingen. Under the title „Discourse obligates“ they bring together scholars working on information structure, information theory and the interface of the two, and are delighted to welcome Hannah Rohde from the University of Edinburgh as a guest speaker.

More information on the workshop can be found here.

The 44th Annual Conference of the German Lingustic Society (DGfS) will be held online, the programme and more information can be found here.

We are pleased to welcome our guest researcher from Turkey! Dr İpek Pınar Uzun, assistant professor and director of the phonetics lab in the Department of Linguistics at Ankara University is visiting the Department of Language Science and Technology and the SFB (project C1).

Her research visit is funded by an international postdoctoral research fellowship of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.

Pınar will be a visiting postdoc researcher in the LST Phonetics group. Her research interests are in speech science, prosody, and morphological productivity (especially novel compounds). She is looking forward to fruitful exchange with C1 and other projects of the SFB. Stop by and say hello to Pınar in C7.2/5.01.

You can have a look at her publications here.

In our next LangSci talk, Martin Cooke from the Language and Speech Laboratory, University of the Basque Country will talk about „Perception of distorted speech“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom meeting.

Within the framework of our Distinguished Speakers in Language Science Colloquium (LangSci), we are very happy to announce a Special Online Talk Series on Rational Approaches in Language Science.

The talks in this series feature high-profile speakers speaking on topics which are of relevance to the broader community.

The first talk will be held by Edward Gibson (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and he will talk about „Language processing over a noisy channel“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom meeting.

In our next LangSci talk, Bernd Meyer from the The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg will talk about „Predicting human speech perception using deep phoneme classifiers“.

Please contact us if you are interested in joining the Zoom meeting.

A new journal article by members of project A1 entitled „Situational expectancy or association? The influence of event knowledge on the N400“ has been published in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience.

You can access the full article here.

A new journal article by the members of project A6 entitled „The more you know: Schema-congruency supports associative encoding of novel compound words. Evidence from event-related potentials“ has been published in Brain and Cognition.

Access the publication here.

The dissertation of project B3 postdoc Robin Lemke „Experimental investigations on the syntax and usage of fragments“, which was awarded the 2021 DGfS‘ Wilhelm von Humboldt Award for Young Scientists, has now been published at Language Science Press.

It is the first volume of the new series Open Germanic Linguistics and can be found here (open access).

Congratulations, Robin!