SSoL 2023

The Summer School of Linguistics will take place from 11 to 20 August 2023 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic.

Schedule

Friday 11 August

ARRIVAL, EVENING PUB

Saturday 12 August

10:00–11:10  Opening
11:20–12:30  Guillaume Thierry: Principles of event-related potentials for language research
14:00–15:10  Judit Gervain: Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG) to assess early speech perception and language development I
15:30–16:40  Elli Tourtouri: The use of adjectives in visually-situated communication I
17:00–18:10  Elli Tourtouri: The use of adjectives in visually-situated communication II

Sunday 13 August

10:00–11:10  Guillaume Thierry: Language co-activation in bilinguals, evidence from behavioural measures, eye-tracking and ERPs
11:20–12:30  Judit Gervain: Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG) to assess early speech perception and language development II
14:00–15:10  Elli Tourtouri: The use of adjectives in visually-situated communication III
15:30–16:40  Helen Zhao: Frequency and contingency in L2 construction learning
17:00–18:10  Norbert Vanek: Label advantage in multimodal integration: On Czech noses and smell categories

Monday 14 August

10:00–11:10  Guillaume Thierry: Your brain is in control, but who controls your brain?
11:20–12:30  Judit Gervain: Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG) to assess early speech perception and language development III
14:00–15:10  Norbert Vanek: Crosslinguistic influence in visual processing: the curious cases of blank-screen fixations and motion detection
15:30–16:40  Helen Zhao: Image schematic diagrams in second language processing of English prepositions
17:30–19:30  POSTER SESSION

Tuesday 15 August

ORGANIZED TRIP

Wednesday 16 August

10:00–11:10  PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: (i) Anna Čermáková: Corpus Stylistics I; (ii) James Brand: Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych I
11:20–12:30  Christoph Scheepers: Structural Priming and the Representation of Syntax
14:00–15:10  Jan Chromý: Sentence processing: on-line measures
15:30–16:40  Markéta Vaňková, Juraj Jonáš, Nella Nitrová: Humans and Digital Humans Interaction Research Lab & PromethistAI

Thursday 17 August

10:00–11:10  PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: (i) Anna Čermáková: Corpus Stylistics II; (ii) James Brand: Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych II
11:20–12:30  Matteo Fuoli: Critical Discourse Analysis: fundamental principles
14:00–15:10  Kateřina Chládková: Auditory language
15:30–16:40  Jan Chromý: Sentence processing: off-line measures
17:00–18:10  Christoph Scheepers: Syntactic Priming: Cognitive Mechanisms and Open Questions

Friday 18 August

10:00–11:10  PARALLEL WORKSHOPS: (i) Anna Čermáková: Corpus Stylistics III; (ii) James Brand: Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych III
11:20–12:30  Matteo Fuoli: Analysing metaphor in discourse
14:00–15:10  FREE TIME
15:30–16:40  Kateřina Chládková: Visual language
17:00–18:10  Barbara Mertins: Methods in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics

Saturday 19 August

10:00–11:10  WORKSHOP: James Brand: Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych IV
11:20–12:30  Matteo Fuoli: Using corpus methods to analyse discourse
14:00–15:10  Barbara Mertins: Multilingualism – a psycholinguistic perspective
15:30–16:40  Barbara Mertins: Code-Switching
17:00–18:10  Kateřina Chládková: Language in the brain and body

Sunday 20 August

DEPARTURE

Speakers of 2023

The already confirmed speakers of 2023 are:

  • James Brand (Charles University): Conducting linguistics research online: A practical introduction using JsPsych (hands-on workshop)
  • Anna Čermáková (Lancaster University): Corpus stylistics (hands-on workshop)
  • Kateřina Chládková (Charles University): (i) Auditory language; (ii) Visual language; (iii) Language in the brain and body
  • Jan Chromý (Charles University / University of Tübingen): Sentence processing: an introduction
  • Matteo Fuoli (University of Birmingham): (i) Critical Discourse Analysis: fundamental principles; (ii) Analysing metaphor in discourse; (iii) Using corpus methods to analyse discourse
  • Judit Gervain (University of Padua): Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and electroencephalography (EEG) to assess early speech perception and language development
  • Barbara Mertins (Technical University of Dortmund): (i) Methods in experimental linguistics and psycholinguistics; (ii) Multilingualism – a psycholinguistic perspective; (iii) Code-Switching 
  • Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow): (i) Structural Priming and the Representation of Syntax; (ii) Syntactic Priming: Cognitive Mechanisms and Open Questions
  • Guillame Thierry (Bangor University): (i) Principles of event-related potentials for language research; (ii) Language co-activation in bilinguals, evidence from behavioural measures, eye-tracking and ERPs; (iii) Your brain is in control, but who controls your brain?
  • Elli Tourtouri (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): The use of adjectives in visually-situated communication
  • Norbert Vanek (University of Auckland): (i) Label advantage in multimodal integration: On Czech noses and smell categories; (ii) Crosslinguistic influence in visual processing: the curious cases of blank-screen fixations and motion detection
  • Markéta Vaňková, Juraj Jonáš, Nella Nitrová (Promethist AI): Humans and Digital Humans Interaction Research Lab & PromethistAI
  • Helen Zhao (University of Melbourne): (i) Frequency and contingency in L2 construction learning, (ii) Image schematic diagrams in second language processing of English prepositions