News

2023

Date	News or Event
11. – 15. September	7. Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics (SMLP)
21. – 25. August	UMLV Summer School 2023
06. May	Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften – This year the following projects will represent our SFB at this event: B01, B02, B04, C06, C08, and T01. When: 1:00 pm -7:00 pm Where: Campus Griebnitzsee.
30. – 31. March	SFB-Retreat
13. March	MGK-Workshop on migrating from Linguistics into Data Science and Tech Speakers: – Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss (PhD from Uni Potsdam, project and community manager at the Free & Open Source Software non-profit KDE), – Valerie Hekkel (PhD from Uni Potsdam, a Data Scientist at Meetap), – Vera Scholvin (PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, co-founder of the app sylby).
25. January – 13. March	openHPI-Course about “Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis” – Speaker: Prof. Dr. Shravan Vasishth, Dr. Anna Laurinavichyute – Language: English – Context: Advanced, Beginner, Big Data and AI – Link: https://open.hpi.de/courses/bayesian-statistics2023
19. January	SFB Guest Talk with Jiro Inaba (Tokyo University) gives a lecture on “Verbal ellipsis and directionality”.

2022

Date	News or Event
13. December	SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Michael Walsh Dickey (University of Pittsburgh) on the topic “Event knowledge and adaptive languageprocessing in aphasia”.
07. December	SFB Guest Talk with Chundra Cathcart (University of Zurichy, Switzerland) on the topic “The evolution of similar place avoidance: phylogenetic approaches to phonotactic change”. [Abstract]
09. November	SFB Guest Talk with J.R. Hayashishita (Otago University, New Zealand) on the topic “Plans for experimental investigations into the interpretation of quantifiers”.
08. November	SFB Guest Talk with J.R. Hayashishita (Otago University, New Zealand) on the topic “Discourse anaphora and the computational system”. [Abstract]
01. – 10 November	The BabyLab is participating in the Berlin Science Week, in collaboration with the Humboldt University and the Leibniz-ZAS. Alan Langus (C03) and Mireia Marimon (UP) will be representing our department. More infomation [here].
12. – 16. September	6. Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP)
September	Three- to four-month Short-Term Fellowships at the SFB 1287 to PhD candidates from non-German universities. More information [here]
23. – 24. August	Workshop: Basics of Artificial Neural Networks / Deep Learning
19. July	SFB Guest Talk with Dr. Sergey Say (SFB 1287 Fellow) on “Cross-linguuisic variability of valency class systems”.
04. – 05. July	4th SFB-Networking Workshop – Berlin | ZAS Berlin – Workshop of the linguistic CRCs (Ling SFB Meetup 2022)
30. June	SFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Megha Sundara (UCLA) on “The acquisition of phonotactics” [Abstract]
29. June	SFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dubi Nanda Dhakal (Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu) on “Complexities of verb agreement in Majhi” [Abstract]
24. June	SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Elaine Francis (Purdue University) on “Understanding variation in acceptability judgments from different theoretical perspectives”. [Abstract]
22. June	SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Ad Neeleman (University College London) on “What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising” (Authors: Zoë Belk, Ad Neeleman, and Joy Philip (UCL)). [Abstract]
17. June	SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Amir Zeldes (Georgetown U) on “So ignore my hair right now” – why genre variation in discourse structure, relations and signals matters”. [Abstract] SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Ad Neeleman (University College London) on “Compactness is Linear”. [Abstract]
25. May	Defense: Paula Lissón. The topic of the dissertation is: „Computational Models of Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia“.
23. May	SFB Guest Talk with Prof. Dr. Joana Cholin (Bielefeld University). She gave a talk on “The mental syllabary theory — evidence and open questions”.
23. May	Additional guest lecture by Prof. Niels O. Schiller. Title: “Crosstalk of codes: phonological and orthographic contributions to speech production”.
18. – 20. May	This year’s MGK project week will take place from May 18th to 20th on the Golm campus. Among other things, there will be three workshops (on “reproducible workflow”, “data visualization” and “science communication”), as well as a panel on career planning with various SFB 1287’s PIs.
07. May	Several SFB”s projects will also present their research at this year’s Potsdam Science Day (PTDW) on May 7th from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (https://www.atb-potsdam.de/de/). Admission is free. Many presentations are also very suitable for children. [Flyer]
06. May	The Potsdam chapter of the ReproducibiliTea Journal Clubs will have its first 2022 meeting and will be discussing the following paper: Grimes, D. R., Bauch, C. T., & Ioannidis, J. P. (2018). Modelling science trustworthiness under publish or perish pressure. Royal Society Open Science, 5(1), 171511. The Potsdam ReproducibiliTea Journal Club is supported by the MGK project of the CRC 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language”.
05. May	Daniela Mertzen (Project B03) successfully defended her dissertation on “A cross-linguistic investigation of similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension”. Congratulations!
03. May	SFB-Associated Dr. Nicole Gotzner receives Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis [Article]
29. April	SFB Colloquium with Prof. Ira Noveck (CNRS). Title: “The various ways in which conventional meanings recruit pragmatic information”. [Abstract]
26. April	SFB Colloquium with Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller (Leiden University). Title: “The processing of morphosyntactic features during language production”.
26. April	Workshop: Introduction to ERP This introductory workshop to ERP will be conducted by Yana Arkhipova (SFB1287’s B04 Project). The workshop will cover a range of topics, from what ERPs are, to ERP components, data preprocessing, and different analysis apporaches.
20. April	Workshop by Emily P. Ahn (University of Washington). Title: “Phonetic Forced Alignment with the Montreal Forced Aligner”.
08. March	SFB Guest Lecture with Maria Varkanitsa (Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University). She gave a talk on “Syntactic predictions and asyntactic comprehension in aphasia”. [Abstract]
17. February	SFB Guest Talk with M. Florencia Assaneo (Head of the Lab de Percepción y Producción de Habla at the UNAM Campus Juriquilla in México). She gave a talk on “Neural and cognitive correlates of the speech auditory-motor synchronization”. [Abstract]
11. February	SFB Colloquium with Dr. Evan Kidd. Title “The development of online parsing in crosslinguistic context”. [Abstract]
01. February	SFB Guest Talk with Dr. Evan Kidd. Title “Individual differences in infants’ lexical processing”.
17. January	SFB Guest Lecture with Sophia Voigtmann (SFB 1102, Universität des Saarlandes). She gave a talk on “Information Density and the Extraposition of Relative Clauses”.

2021

Date	News or Event
6. – 10. September	5. “Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology” (SMLP)
30 – 31 August	2. “South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language” (SAFAL)
15. – 16. July	SFB-Networking-Workshop Saarbrücken
25. May	We are pleased to announce that the DFG’s Grants Committee evaluated our CRC positively and would like to thank all reviewers, the rapporteurs, and the DFG. We look forward to continuing our successful research on “The Limits of Variability in Language” in the next four years. Press Releases: [DFG] [UP]
13. – 15. April	Shravan Vasishth will give a tutorial about “Bayesian Statistics” at the EMLAR2021 (Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research) (website) in Utrecht. The workshop will be live streamed, because of the actual Covid-19 situation. (program)
23. – 26. February	Schubö, F., Zerbian, A., Hanne, S., Wartenburger, I. – Organization of the Workshop “Prosodic boundary phenomena” at the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) “Modell und Evidenz / Model and Evidence”, University of Freiburg, Germany (online). (program here)

2020

Date	News or Event
27. November	Joint Colloquium SFB 1287 and SFB 1294 by Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University New York) [Abstract] [Slides]
27. November	An introductory seminar for all PhD’s and Postdoc’s will be held online by Alma Lindborg from 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM.Zoom-Meeting
22. September	All AMLaP 2020 Talks are now online at mediaUP! Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
07. – 11. September	The fourth “Potsdam Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology” (SMLP).
03. – 05. September	“Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing” (AMLaP).
31. August – 02. September	The first “South Asian Forum on the Acquisition and Processing of Language” (SAFAL).
24. February	Dr. David Peeters (Tilburg University & MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) gave a talk on “Virtual Reality: A Promising Tool for the Study of Language Production”. [Abstract]
January	Contribution to climate protectionIn line with other research networks, the SFB1287 decided that from January 2020, SFB funds will not be used to finance flights to destinations that are less than 1000 km away (air miles) and that can be reached by other means of transport within 12 hours. Exceptions on compassionate or health grounds can be requested.

2019

Date	News or Event
17. December	Daniela Sammler (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) gave a talk on “Setting the tone: Neural bases for prosody”
14. – 15. November	2nd SFB-Networking (Cologne – Potsdam – Saarbrücken) – The topic of the meeting will be “Discourse”, including but not limited to such issues as:discourse structure (rhetorical relations, QUDs, and the like)discourse connectives, discourse particlesclause combining (subordination, coordination, etc.)influence of discourse context on the interpretation of linguistic expressions (e.g. pronouns, definites, ellipsis, etc.)
25. – 26. October	SFB Workshop on “Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation”.
20. September	16th SFB Colloquium – Dr. Heike Pichler (Newcastle University, UK) talk about “The conspiracy of internal and external factors in a discourse-pragmatic change: innit in Multicultural London English”. [Flyer]
19. September	PreTalk for 16th SFB Colloquium – A discussion around the topic “What is variability at the discourse level and how can we study it?”
09. –  13. September	The third “Potsdam Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology” (SMLP).
26. August	Talk by Ben Goodrich (Columbia University in the City of New York) about “Gaussian Processes with Stan”. [Abstract]
09. August	Talk by Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) about “Uyghur Speakers’ Knowledge of Vowel and Vowel-Consonant Harmony” [Abstract]
14. June	15th SFB Colloquium: Talk by Whitney Tabor about “Modeling Ungrammaticality: A Self-Organizing Model of Islands” [Paper]
28. May	SFB-Shortterm-Fellow Talk – Astrid van Alem (SynSem-Colloquium) talked about “Anti-agreement on complementizers in non-standard West-Germanic”
24. May	Workshop – Creating a data management plan (for SFB members) with Niklas Hartmann (from the university library)
17. May	14th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Wolfram Hinzen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra; FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalaries Research Foundation, Benito Menni Hospital) talked about “Beyond the limits of neurotypical linguistic variation: uncharted territory” [Flyer]
10. May	13th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts Amherst) talked about “The real-time computation of agreement dependencies: The view from acceptability judgments” [Flyer]
29. April	Dr. Göz Kaufmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) talked about: “Das MEND-Korpus (Mennonitenplautdietsch in Nord- und Südamerika): Workshop zur Erhebung, Verwaltung und Analyse” [Flyer]
10. – 11. April	SFB-Mercator Fellow – Prof. Evelina Fedorenko (Harvard University) talked about: “The human language system (as a part of SFB-Colloquium)” “Language processing in the brains of bilinguals and polyglots (as a part of PRIM-Colloquium)” “Can neuroimaging help aphasia researchers? (as a part of Neurolinguistics-Colloquium)” [Flyer]
22. March	12th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) talked about “Using token-based semantic vector spaces for corpus-linguistic analyses”.
21. March	Hands-on Workshop – Prof. Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) talked about “Variability-based neighbour clustering (VNC), a bottom-up method to periodization in historical linguistics”.
19. March	Short-term fellow talk – Luca Bevacqua (The University of Edinburgh) talked about “WHO TO TALK ABOUT, AND HOW: Effects of information structure and sentence boundary on antecedent remention and referring expressions in Italian”.
25. February	SFB – Guest Lectures: Kenan Hochuli (Universität Zürich) gave a talk on “Interaktive Konfigurationen der Marktstandkommunikation in Istanbul und Zürich” [Flyer] and Louise Eley (King’s College London) gave a talk on “A linguistic ethnography of Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel”. [Flyer]
14. – 15. February	SFB-Networking (Cologne – Potsdam – Saarbrücken) – This series of network meetings brings together researchers from the CRCs in Cologne, Potsdam and Saarbrücken. The aim is to discuss shared themes and methodological approaches of the CRC 1252 „Prominence in Language“,CRC 1102 „Information Density and Linguistic Encoding“,CRC 1287 „Limits of Variability in Language“. [Flyer]
07. February	11th SFB Colloquium – Guest speaker Prof. Dr. Stephen Lindsay (University of Victoria) gave a talk on “Psychology’s Renaissance: Progress toward Transparency and Replicability”. [Flyer]
23. January	Carola de Beer (Project B01) is awarded the 2018 Dissertation Prize of the University of Bielefeld (Faculty of Linguistics and Literature) for her thesis on „Das kommunikative Zusammenwirken von Sprache und Gestik bei Personen mit Aphasie“.
08. January	Susanne Fuchs (ZAS – Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) gave a talk about “Changes and challenges in explaining speech variation: A brief review”.

2018

Date	News or Event
12. December	Garrett Smith (Connecticut) has recently won one of the open topic postdoc positions at Potsdam University. His work is of direct relevance to the SFB (e.g., B2, B3 projects). He gave a talk about his work.
11. December	Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute) gave a talk on “Native and non-native stress perception in German listeners”. [Abstract]
30. November	10th SFB Colloquium – Dr. Melanie Weirich (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) gave a talk on “Speaker identity, phonetic variability and social meaning”. [Announcement]
14. – 16. November	Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California) gave a 2.5 day workshop on Dynamical Systems at the University of Potsdam. [Overview]
14. November	Simon Ritter & Doris Mücke (Köln) gave a talk about “Prosody in a dynamic systems account”. [Abstract]
01. August – 31. October	A new short-term fellow stayed at the SFB:Nantke Pecht (Maastricht University) worked and studied in project A01 – “Integration of linguistic resources in highly diverse urban settings: Stretching the limits of variability”
18. October	9th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Ben Rampton (King’s College London) gave a talk about “Linguistic Ethnography”. [Announcement]
17. October	8th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University/MIT) gave a talk about “Extending the Parallel Architecture”. [Announcement]
10. – 14. September	The second “Potsdam Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology” (SMLP).
15. May – 14. August	The first two short-term fellows stayed at the SFB:Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) worked and studied in Project B04 “Variability in bilingual language processing”Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) worked and studied in Project C03 “Effects of variable input on word learning and word recognition in infants”.
23. – 24. July	PyGaze workshop: Creating experiments with OpenSesame and Python – A programming and eye tracking workshop hosted by the Vasishth lab and the SFB 1287
13. July	Lara Schwarz (SFB 1287 short-term fellow) gave a talk on “Uniting the theoretical and the empirical through modeling with Gradient Symbolic Computation”. [Abstract]
11. July	7th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Matthew Goldrick (Northwestern University) gave a talk on “Gradient Symbolic Computation: Dynamics of Distributed Symbol Systems”. [Abstract]
15. June	6th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Catherine Best (University of West Sydney) gave a talk on “The Australian English accent and its effects on Australians’ perception of vowels and words in other English accents”. [Abstract]
25. May	5th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania) gave a talk on “Phonetic variability and the poverty of the stimulus in constraining developmental hypotheses about language learning” [Abstract]
23. April	Prof. Daniel L. Everett (Trustee Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Bentley University, Waltham, Mass) gave a talk “On the Role of Culture in Language and Cognition”. [Abstract] [Lecture]
22. February	4th SFB Colloquium – Prof. Cécile Fougeron (Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris) gave a talk on “Variation in the production of vowels: multi-factorial approaches, from contextual to aging effects”. [Abstract]
14. February	3rd SFB Colloquium – Prof. Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain) gave a talk on “A multi-dimensional, multi-functional and multilingual annotation model for discourse markers in spoken language”. [Abstract]
25. January	Prof. Sjef Barbiers gave a talk on “Adverbs in strange places”.
23. – 25. January	The Mercator Fellow – Prof. Sjef Barbiers visited the SFB.
24. January	2nd SFB Colloquium – Prof. Holger Hopp (TU Braunschweig) gave a talk on “L1 effects in L2 sentence processing – Yeti or iceberg?”. [Abstract]
In 2018	The SFB will host 4 Short- term Fellows (3 months each):Nantke Pecht (Maastricht University) worked and studied in Project A01 “Integration of linguistic resources in highly diverse urban settings: Stretching the limits of variability”.Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University) worked and studied in Project B01 “Prosodic cue variability: Effects on spoken language comprehension and production in different populations”.Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) worked and studied in Project B04 “Variability in bilingual language processing”.Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) worked and studied in Project C03 “Effects of variable input on word learning and word recognition in infants”.

2017

Date	News or Event
18. December	MGK-Workshop “Project management in academia: Tools of the trade for challenges”.
27. November	MGK-Workshop “Academic writing: how to create good texts”.
24. November	1st Internal SFB Colloquium.
17. November	1st SFB Colloquium. Dr. Filip Smolík (Czech Academy of Sciences) gave a talk on “Experiments on gender, number, word order, and case marking in Czech toddlers”. [Abstract]
04. October	Launch event of the SFB 1287. [Press release of the University of Potsdam]
01. October	The SFB 1287 invited applications for short-term fellowship.
28. August – 01. September	The first “Potsdam Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology” (SMLP).
26. July	Paul Mätzig (B02) won the Allen Newell Best Student-Led Paper Award. [Download]
16. May	Press release DFG.