SSoL 2022

The Summer School of Linguistics will take place from 12 to 21 August 2022 in České Budějovice, Czech Republic and it was financially supported by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University.

Program

Friday 12 August
ARRIVAL, EVENING PUB

Saturday 13 August
10:00–11:10 Patrick Sturt: Integration of information in reading
11:20–12:30 Eva Maria Luef: Phonological networks in first and second languages (lecture)
14:00–15:10 Silke Brandt: Introduction to Theory of Mind
15:30–16:40 Paul Kerswill: Demography and social structure in language change
17:00–18:10 Gavin Brookes: Language, Health and Illness

Sunday 14 August
10:00–11:10 Patrick Sturt: Semantic and syntactic agreement
11:20–12:30 Eva Maria Luef: Phonological networks in first and second languages (workshop) [please, download Gephi and bring your own laptop]
14:00–15:10 Silke Brandt: False belief understanding and language
15:30–16:40 Paul Kerswill: 300 Years of migration and language: Colonialism and its aftermath
17:00–18:10 Gavin Brookes: Language in the news: Critical and corpus perspectives

Monday 15 August
10:00–11:10 FREE TIME
11:20–12:30 FREE TIME / POSTER SETUP
14:00–15:10 Silke Brandt: Cross-linguistic perspectives on Theory of Mind and language development
15:30–16:40 Paul Kerswill: The rise of urban contact dialects: Europe and Africa
17:00–19:00 POSTER SESSION

Tuesday 16 August
10:00–11:10 WORKSHOPS: Andres Karjus: Basics of R and data visualization for linguists I | Dario Paape: Collecting and analyzing data from the bidirectional self-paced reading paradigm I
11:20–12:30 Silke Brandt: Differences between mono- and bilingual children’s understanding of Theory of Mind
14:00–15:10 Johannes Gerwien: What are events? Four perspectives
15:30–16:40 James Brand: The social lives of words
17:00–18:10 Julia Krebs: Introduction to sign languages

Wednesday 17 August
10:00–11:10 WORKSHOPS: Andres Karjus: Basics of R and data visualization for linguists II | Dario Paape: Collecting and analyzing data from the bidirectional self-paced reading paradigm II
11:20–12:30 Johannes Gerwien: Motion event encoding across different languages
14:00–15:10 Sharon Peperkamp: Native and non-native speech perception I
15:30–16:40 Sharon Peperkamp: Native and non-native speech perception II
17:00–18:10 Julia Krebs: Neural processing of sign languages

Thursday 18 August
10:00–11:10 WORKSHOPS: Andres Karjus: Basics of R and data visualization for linguists III | Dario Paape: Collecting and analyzing data from the bidirectional self-paced reading paradigm III
11:20–12:30 Katja Haeuser: Odd! How predictability violations impact learning and memory I
14:00–15:10 Sharon Peperkamp: Native and non-native speech perception III
15:30–16:40 Sharon Peperkamp: Native and non-native speech perception IV
17:00–18:10 Fabian Tomaschek: Variability in speech production in the light of language usage and an emergent lexicon I

Friday 19 August
10:00–11:10 WORKSHOPS: Andres Karjus: Basics of R and data visualization for linguists IV | Dario Paape: Collecting and analyzing data from the bidirectional self-paced reading paradigm IV
11:20–12:30 Katja Haeuser: Odd! How predictability violations impact learning and memory II
14:00–15:10 Pavel Linhart: Look who’s calling: Individual identity in animal vocalizations
15:30–16:40 Fabian Tomaschek: Variability in speech production in the light of language usage and an emergent lexicon II

Saturday 20 August
ORGANIZED TRIP

Lecture abstracts

See here.

Speakers of 2022

James Brand (Charles University)
Silke Brandt (Lancaster University)
Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University)
Johannes Gerwien (Heidelberg University)
Katja Haeuser (Saarland University)
Andres Karjus (Tallinn University)
Paul Kerswill (University of York)
Pavel Linhart (University of South Bohemia)
Eva Maria Luef (Charles University)
Dario Paape (University of Potsdam)
Sharon Peperkamp (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris)
Patrick Sturt (University of Edinburgh)
Fabian Tomaschek (Universität Tübingen)