AG 3: Attractors in language variation, processing and change

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

Raum | Room P11

Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025

13:45-14:15

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

Welcome and introduction

14:15-15:15

Ilja A. Seržant (Potsdam)

Asymmetries in the attractor state of verbal person-number indexes

15:15-15:45

Richard Wiese (Marburg)

The trochee as a prosodic attractor

15:45-16:30

PAUSE | BREAK

16:30-17:30

Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney University)

Predicting constructional reanalysis: processing an attractor in language change

17:30-18:00

Maria Lialiou (Köln), Jesse Harris (UCLA), Martine Grice (Köln) & Petra Schumacher (Köln)

Domain-final rises as anchors for attention orienting: evidence from pupillometry

Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025

09:00-10:00

Rachel Nordlinger (Melbourne)

Attractor categories and word order variation in Australian languages

10:00-10:30

Julia Edeleva (Braunschweig)

The complex dynamic systems perspective on literacy development: the case of adult emergent L2 literates

10:30-11:15

PAUSE | BREAK

11:15-11:45

Holger Mitterer (Malta/Hanyang University), Rachel Cassar (Malta) & Eva Reinisch (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

An auditory account of rhotic allophony: evidence from Maltese

11:45-12:45

Matthias Schlesewsky, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (University of South Australia) & Petra Schumacher (Köln)

Cardinal Categories as neurobiologically plausible attractors

12:45-13:45

MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK

13:45-14:45

Simon Roessig (University of York) & Khalik Iskarous (University of Southern California)

The role of stochasticity in dynamical models of linguistic cognition: Noise as exploration

Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025

11:45-12:45

Doris Mücke, Lena Pagel & Justine Mertz (Köln)

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

Final discussion