CRC-Networking Workshop
1. Topic: "Language Processing"
CRC Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken - Cologne - Potsdam) from 14 - 15 February 2019 at the University of Potsdam [Flyer]
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding",
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language",
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
Lectures
- Introduction: Definitions, Outlines, Key Concepts
- Jessen & Uygun (CRC 1287): "Variability in subject-verb agreement in Turkish-German bilinguals"
- Bürki (CRC 1287): "Inter-speaker variability in word production"
- Röhr (CRC 1252): "Signal- and expectation-based processing of prosodic prominence"
- Fuchs (CRC 1252): "Demonstrative pronouns as attention orienting devices"
- Avgustinova (CRC 1102): "Mutual Intelligibility and Surprisal in Slavic Intercomprehension" (INCOMSLAV)
- Demberg (CRC 1102): "Language Comprehension under Noise in Younger vs. Older Adults"
- Staudte (CRC 1102): "The Role of Language Experience and Visual Context in Surprisal"
- Esaulova (CRC 1252): "Syntactic preferences and visual biases in scene descriptions"
- Vogeley (CRC 1252): "Prominence and salience – competing or overlapping concepts?"
- Crocker (CRC 1102): "The Neurocomputational Basis of Surprisal"
- Drenhaus (CRC 1102): "Rational Encoding and Decoding of Referring Expressions"
- de Beer & Pregla (CRC 1287): "(Non)variability in sentence production and comprehension"
- Vasishth (CRC 1287): "Computational models of retrieval processes in sentence comprehension: Understanding sources of variability in unimpaired and impaired populations"
2. Topic: "Discourse"
CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam) from 14 – 15 November 2019 at the University of Cologne [Flyer]
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding",
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language",
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
Lectures
- Introduction: Definitions, Outlines, Key Concepts
- von Heusinger, Weeber & Hoek (CRC 1252): "Psych Verbs and Discourse Prominence"
- Patterson & Schumacher (CRC 1252): "Multiple antecedents in context: influence on personal and demonstrative pronouns in German"
- Philipp (CRC 1287): "The Impact of Context on the Interpretation of Quantifier Scope Ambiguities"
- Roth (CRC 1102): "First steps towards modelling sources of misunderstanding in instructional texts"
- Meuser (CRC 1252): "Empirical evidence for the impact of discourse prominence on perspective taking"
- Aktas (CRC 1287): "Variation in referential strategies across production modalities"
- Clausen (CRC 1287): "Differentiating variations of German tag questions"
- Shi (CRC 1102): "Automatic discourse relation classification and domain adaptation"
- Demberg (CRC 1102): "Investigating individual differences in discourse comprehension through crowd-sourcing annotation"
- Yung (CRC 1102): "RSA account of coherence relation production and comprehension"
- Jasinskaja (CRC 1252): "Speech acts that support other speech acts"
- Hinterwimmer (CRC 1252): "Discourse topicality and perspective-taking"
3. Topic: "Alternatives, Contexts and Variation"
CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam – Berlin) from 04 – 05 July 2022 at the Leibniz-ZAS Berlin [Flyer]
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding",
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language",
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
- CRC 1412 "Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation"
Lectures
- Bader (CRC 1102): "Context-relevant schemas support unitized encoding and familiarity-based retrieval of schema-congruent novel compound words"
- Degaetano-Ortlieb & Teich (CRC 1102): "Towards a communicative explanation of diachronic language change: an information-theoretic approach"
- Jachmann (CRC 1102): "The immediate influence of speaker gaze on situated speech comprehension"
- Marklová, Buchmüller, Meyer, Szucsich, Demian & Zorkina (CRC 1412): "Register investigation on Czech: Designing an MDA-based experimental study"
- Rotter & Liu (CRC 1412): "Register Sensitivity of Negative Concord and NPIs in Varieties of English"
- Pescuma, Rodríguez-Ronderos, Ito, Maquate & Knoeferle (CRC 1412): "(How) Does Processing of Register and Morphosyntactic Congruence Affect Sentence Comprehension? Two Eye-Tracking Pilot Studies"
- Lukassek, Lüdeling, Shadrova & Wan (CRC 1412): "Complex nouns as markers of academic register in L1- and L2-authored essays"
- Adam, Hölzl & Schmidt (CRC 1287): "Aspects of the OV/VO alternation"
- Seeliger (CRC 1252): "Prosodic focus marking in German declarative questions"
- Kosciolek & Bunčić (CRC 1252): "Anaphoric reference to demoted agents: preliminary data"
- Saure & Hinterwimmer (CRC 1252): "The effect of perspectivally prominent narrators on the availability of protagonists as perspectival centers: An experimental investigation"
4. Topic: "Relation of Prominence, Surprisal and Information Structure"
CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam) from 15 – 16 July 2021 at Saarland University [Flyer]
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding",
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language",
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
Lectures
- Ellison (CRC 1252): "A Bayesian Model Prominence in Reference Interpretation"
- van Os, Demberg & Kray (CRC 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 (CRC 1102): "Ellipsis: Above and beyond information structure"
- Huttenlauch, Schneider, de Beer, Wartenburger & Hanne (CRC 1287): "Limits of variability in the prosodic realization of locally ambiguous OVS and SVO sentences"
- Seeliger (CRC 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 (CRC 1287): "Sentence comprehension difficulty in language impaired and unimpaired adults in German: Implications for surprisal and adaptation accounts"
- Höhle & Gafos (CRC 1287): "Reflections of entropy and surprisal in infants‘ looking times"
- Yuen, Ibrahim, Andreeva & Möbius (CRC 1102): "Effects of Surprisal and Boundary Strength"
5. Topic: "Understanding and Modelling Linguistic Variability"
CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam – Berlin) on August 25, 2023 at the University of Potsdam [Flyer]
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding",
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language",
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
- CRC 1412 "Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation"
Lectures
- Keynote Talk with Kriszta Szendröi (University of Vienna): Variability in syntactic focus marking
- Poster Session (Posters from the Collaborative Research Centers and UMLV participants)
- Discussion Groups
6. Topic: "Face to Face Interaction"
CRC-Networking Workshop (Saarbrücken – Cologne – Potsdam – Frankfurt am Main – Bielefeld) from 04 – 05 November 2024 at the University of Cologne
Participants
- CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding"
- CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language"
- CRC 1287 "Limits of Variability in Language"
- CRC 1629 "Negation in Language and Beyond"
- CRC 1646 "Linguistic creativity in communication"
Lectures
- Simon Wehrle, Malin Spaniol, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (Köln): "Gaze, intonation, and turn-taking in dyadic interactions across neurotypes and conversational contexts"
- Outi Tuomainen (Potsdam): "Clear Speech in Challenging Interactive Settings: The Impact of Visual Cues"
- Carolin Dudschig (Frankfurt): "Negation Across Modalities: Interactions with Memory, Attitudes, and Behavioral Responses"
- Thiago Santos & Pamela Perniss (Köln): tba
- Mariya Hristova, Anna Kutscher, Ralf Vogel & Milena Belosevic (Bielefeld): "Creative strategies in doctor-patient communication"
- Malte Belz, Melissa Ebert, Robert Lange, Anke Lüdeling, Tine Mooshammer & Marie-Theres Weisgerber (Berlin): "Register and schwa realization"
- Ilja Seržant & Sergey Say (Potsdam): "Communicative pressures on argument marking"
- Sina Zarrieß (Bielefeld): "Towards investigating linguistic creativity with large and small language models"
- Elisabeth Eichler, Irene Mognon & Jacopo Torregrossa (Frankfurt): "Negation in discourse: The role of discourse relations in the use of negation in German child language"
- Nico Lehmann (Berlin): "Communicative situations across cultures: classifying interactions beyond formality and mode"
