3. CRC-Networking Workshop

Topic: “Relation of Prominence, Surprisal and Information Structure”

CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam) from 15 – 16 July 2021 at Saarland University [Flyer]

Participants

• SFB 1102 “Information Density and Linguistic Encoding”,
• SFB 1252 “Prominence in Language”,
• SFB 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language”

Lectures

• Ellison (SFB 1252): “A Bayesian Model Prominence in Reference Interpretation”
• van Os, Demberg & Kray (SFB 1102): “Recognition of minimal pairs in (un)predictive sentence contexts in noise”
• Scheffler, Richter & van Hout: “Tracing and classifying German intensifiers through information theory”
• Lemke, Schäfer, Drenhaus & Reich (SFB 1102): “Ellipsis: Above and beyond information structure”
• Huttenlauch, Schneider, de Beer, Wartenburger & Hanne (SFB 1287): “Limits of variability in the prosodic realization of locally ambiguous OVS and SVO sentences”
• Seeliger (SFB 1252): “Speech act meets information structure: On the interaction of different requirements for prosodic prominence in exclamatives and polar questions”
• Wagner (McGill University): “Why predictability is not predictive without a linguistic theory”
• Trouvain: “Virtual guided tour through the exhibition “Writing systems”
• Turnbull (Newcastle University): “Prominence in Lexical Networks”
• Pregla, Lissón, Vasishth, Burchert & Stadie (SFB 1287): “Sentence comprehension difficulty in language impaired and unimpaired adults in German: Implications for surprisal and adaptation accounts”
• Höhle & Gafos (SFB 1287): “Reflections of entropy and surprisal in infants‘ looking times”
• Yuen, Ibrahim, Andreeva & Möbius (SFB 1102): “Effects of Surprisal and Boundary Strength”