16.06.2026

PhD Day – 19th June 2026 in building C7.4

We are looking forward to our last SFB PhD day, followed by a BBQ and pub quiz. The PhD day will take place this Friday, June 19th, in building C7.4. Please find the programme attached below:

13:15 Opening/ Oral talks Session I (chair: Uliana Sentsova)
Miriam Schulz – Is Prediction-by-Production Winner-Takes-All? Evidence from Reading
Times and Brain Potentials (30 min)
Sergei Bagdasarov – Formulaicity Across Time and Register: A Diachronic Comparison of
Multi-word Expressions in English Scientific vs General Language Texts (30 min)

14:15 Coffee break

14:30 Poster Session
Isabell Landwehr + Carmen Schacht – CoBra: A Compound Branching Resource for
Nominal Triconstituent Compounds in English and German
Christina Pollkläsener – Are duration and type of filler particles connected to the surprisal
of following words?
Andy Dyer – Representing information management across languages
Xinyue Jia – The influence of dependency length on expectancy: Evidence from reading
times and ERPs
Uliana Sentsova – Exploring idiom processing in autoregressive transformers across
languages

15:30 Oral talk Session II (chair: Andrew Dyer)
Celina Rolgeiser – Downstream Consequences of Disconfirmed Predictions across the
Lifespan revealed by an Implicit Memory Test (30 min)
Sofía Aguilar Valdez – Modeling the spread and competition of concepts in scientific
discourse (30 min)

16:30 Closing and BBQ

17:30 Pub Quiz

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