SSoL 2019

The 13th Summer School of Linguistics took place from 9 to 18 August 2019 in Kroměříž, Czech Republic and it was financially supported by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Program

Saturday 10 August
10:00–11:10 Monique Flecken: Seeing and speaking about events
11:20–12:30 Monique Flecken: Cross-linguistic influences in event cognition
14:00–15:10 Christina Kim: Ellipsis, focus, and discourse structure I
15:20–16:30 Mits Ota: The relationship between early phonological and lexical development I
17:00–18:10 Mits Ota: The relationship between early phonological and lexical development II
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME

Sunday 11 August
10:00–11:10 Christina Kim: Ellipsis, focus, and discourse structure II
11:20–12:30 Mits Ota: The relationship between early phonological and lexical development III
14:00–15:10 Viktor Elšík: Linguistic Atlas of Central Romani
15:20–16:30 & 17:00–18:10 WORKSHOPS:
A) Filip Smolík, Anna Chromá: Practical introduction in creating and analyzing child language transcripts and using the CHILDES databases
B) Ondřej Tichý: Analysis & visualisation of linguistic networks in Gephi
19:00 RECEPTION

Monday 12 August
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 Nick Lester: Taking up spaCy: A beginner’s guide to Natural Language Processing with Python I
14:00–15:10 Mits Ota: The relationship between early phonological and lexical development IV
15:20–16:30 Chris Montgomery: Perceptual Dialectology: History and development
17:00–18:10 Emma Moore: Language variation and social meaning I
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME

Tuesday 13 August
10:00–11:10 POSTER SETUP
11:20–12:30 Emma Moore: Language variation and social meaning II
14:00–15:10 Chris Montgomery: Perceptual Dialectology: Methods and data processing
15:20–16:30 Nick Lester: Taking up spaCy: A beginner’s guide to Natural Language Processing with Python II
17:00–18:10 POSTER SESSION
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME

Wednesday 14 August
10:00–11:10 Ondřej Dufek: Corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis together: A case study of language ideologies in public discourse
11:20–12:30 Nick Lester: Quantitative analysis of language acquisition in under-resourced languages
14:00–15:10 Nick Lester: Linguistic distributions in lexical processing and acquisition
15:20–16:30 & 17:00–18:10 WORKSHOPS:
C) Václav Cvrček, Zuzana Komrsková: Register variation in Czech: A multi-dimensional approach
D) Radek Skarnitzl: The true matched guise: Creating reliable stimuli for perception experiments
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME

Thursday 15 August
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME
14:00–15:10 Filip Smolík: Early comprehension of grammar in a morphologically complex language: examples from Czech
15:20–16:30 Pieter Muysken: An integrative perspective on code-switching
17:00–18:10 Pieter Muysken: Contextualizing creoles: the case of Surinam
18:20–19:30 Kateřina Chládková: Phonetic learning in adults

Friday 16 August
10:00–11:10 Jan Chromý: Erroneous processing of locally ambiguous sentences
11:20–12:30 Pieter Muysken: Deep time language contact: the case of South America
14:00–15:10 Academic publishing in linguistics: a practical intro
15:20–16:30 Kateřina Chládková: Speech sound acquisition in infants
17:00–18:10 Kateřina Chládková: Phonetic learning before birth
18:20–19:30 FREE TIME

Saturday 17 August
11:30 – ca 19:00 ORGANIZED TRIP TO ZLÍN

Lecture abstracts

See here.

Speakers of 2019

Kateřina Chládková (Charles University, Prague; Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Jan Chromý (Charles University, Prague)
Václav Cvrček, Zuzana Komrsková (Charles University, Prague)
Ondřej Dufek (Institute of the Czech language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Viktor Elšík (Charles University, Prague)
Monique Flecken (MPI for Psycholinguistics)
Christina Kim (University of Kent)
Nick Lester (Universität Zürich)
Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield)
Emma Moore (University of Sheffield)
Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh)
Radek Skarnitzl (Charles University, Prague)
Filip Smolík (Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Ondřej Tichý (Charles University, Prague)