AG 8: Variation and Change: A challenge for Linguistic Representations?

Mittwoch | Wednesday, 05.03.2025

13:45-14:45

Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)

Variation, change, and pertinacity in phonology

14:45-15:15

Felicitas Kleber (LMU München)

Linguistic representation in times of variation and phonemic change

15:15-15:45

Felix Clayton McClure & Hilary Wynne (Oxford)

Perceptual asymmetries of the /eː/–/ɛː/ contrast in Tübingen

15:45-16:30

PAUSE | BREAK

16:30-17:00

Judith Meinschaefer (FU Berlin)

Vowel length in an Occitan dialect: conceptual and methodological challenges in comparing grammatical description with production data

17:00-17:30

Nadja Spina & Alfred Lameli (Marburg)

Perceiving structure in noise: the effect of regional variation in pre-boundary lengthening on the perception of prosodic boundaries

17:30-18:00

Jasmin Nuscheler, Ulrike Domahs & Brigitte Ganswindt (Marburg)

Using the visual-world paradigm for investigating the bilectal processing of phonetic s-variations in the Alemannic area

Donnerstag | Thursday, 06.03.2025

09:00-9:30

Sarah Warchhold, Hendrik Behrens-Zemek & Bettina Braun (Konstanz)

Bivarietal toddlers’ mental word form representations: evidence from eye-tracking

9:30-10:00

Elena Riekhakaynen (Saint Petersburg)

How do Russian-speaking children acquire words with variable pronunciation?

10:00-10:30

Marc Hullebus, Barbara Höhle, Tom Fritzsche, Alan Langus & Adamantios Gafos (Potsdam)

Perceptual confusability of place in German postvocalic final stops: the role of formant transition similarity

10:30-11:15

PAUSE | BREAK

11:15-12:15

Penelope Eckert (Stanford)

The place of representations

12:15-12:45

Florian Hintz (Marburg/MPI for Psycholinguistics)

Origins of variability in linguistic experience and its effects on language processing

12:45-13:45

MITTAGSPAUSE | LUNCH BREAK

13:45-14:15

Milena Gropp (Marburg) & Toke Hoffmeister (Marburg/Kiel)

Speakers’ representations of regiolect boundaries

14:15-14:45

Marc Pierce (University of Texas at Austin College of liberal arts)

Dorsal Fricatives in Texas German, 1954-1964 

Freitag | Friday, 07.03.2025

11:45-12:15

Anna Czypionka (Konstanz/Fribourg)

More than “just noise”: systematic interindividual variation in number attraction, NPI illusions, and interface licensing preferences reflects underlying cognitive differences between speakers

12:15-12:45

Julia Bacskai-Atkari (Universiteit van Amsterdam/Potsdam)

Identification and change: patterns in English comparative degree formation

12:45-13:15

Iñaki Cano (Potsdam)

To agree or not: disentangling the limits of relativiser variability in Spanish subject clefts

13:15-13:45

Ann-Marie Moser (Zürich)

Variation and the limits of language change: a challenge for linguistic representations?

13:45-14:15

Sophie Rother & Alexandra Rehn (Konstanz)

The possessor doubling construction: variation in acceptability