AG 3: Attractors in language variation, processing and change

Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (U South Australia) & Petra B. Schumacher (U
Köln)

13:45 – 14:15	Intro Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Petra B. Schumacher (University of South Australia, University of Cologne)
14:15 – 15:15	Ilja A. Seržant (University of Potsdam) Asymmetries in the attractor state of verbal person-number indexes
15:15 – 15:45	Julia Edeleva (University of Braunschweig) The Complex Dynamic Systems Perspective on Literacy Development: The Case of Adult Emergent L2 Literates
15:45 – 16:30	Kaffeepause
16:30 – 17:30	Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney) Predicting constructional reanalysis: processing an attractor in language change
17:30 – 18:00	Maria Lialiou, Jesse Harris, Martine Grice, Petra Schumacher (University of Cologne) Domain-final rises as anchors for attention orienting: Evidence from pupillometry

09:00 – 10:00	Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne) Attractor categories and word order variation in Australian Indigenous languages
10:00 – 10:30	Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Petra B. Schumacher (University of South Australia, University of Cologne) Cardinal Categories as neurobiologically plausible attractors
10:30 – 11:15	Kaffeepause
11:15 – 11:45	Holger Mitterer (University of Malta) An Auditory Account of Rhotic Allophony: Evidence from Maltese
11:45 – 12:45	Richard Wiese (University of Marburg) The trochee as a prosodic attractor
12:45 – 13:45	Mittagspause
13:45 – 14:45	Simon Roessig, Khalil Iskarous (York, USC) The role of stochasticity in dynamical models of linguistic cognition: Noise as exploration

11:45 – 12:45

Doris Mücke, Lena Pagel & Justine Mertz (University of Cologne)

Alien vs. Predator? The notion of attractors in a linguistic setting of categories

12:45 – 13:45

Whitney Tabor & Hyosun Lee (University of Connecticut)

A computational model of the usage-form interaction in grammar change

13:45 – 14:15

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