Conference Program
1 June – Wednesday
19:00 | Warm-Up: Restaurant Oasis |
2 June – Thursday
08:00 - 09:00 | Registration |
09:05 - 09:30 | Welcome |
| Prof. Dr. Bettina Rockenbach Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, University of Cologne |
| Prof. Dr. Stefan Grohé Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne |
| Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher Speaker of the CRC 1252 ‘Prominence in Language’, University of Cologne |
SESSION I Chair: Francesco Cangemi 09:30 - 10:00 | Katrina Kechun Li, Francis Nolan, and Brechtje Post University of Cambridge |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Pingping Jia and Judith Meinschaefer Free University of Berlin The interaction of tonal and metrical prominence in the Pingding dialect of Chinese |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
SESSION II Chair: Francesco Cangemi 11:00 - 11:30 | Maria Lialiou1, Aviad Albert1, Alexandra Vella2, and Martine Grice1 University of Cologne1, University of Malta2 Prominence at edges? Some evidence from Maltese wh-words using periodic energy |
| 11:30 - 14:00 | Lunch (find possible lunch options here) |
SESSION III Chair: Timo Buchholz 14:00 - 14:30 | Lena Borise1, Andreas Schmidt2, and Balazs Suranyi1 Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics1, University of Potsdam2 Preverbal foci are syntactically disparate but prosodically uniform |
14:30 - 15:00 | Volker Struckmeier Ruhr University Bochum Discourse prominence relations as an explanation for semantic reconstruction under ellipsis |
15:00 - 15:30 | Anna Pia Jordan-Bertinelli1, Christopher Saure2, and Stefan Hinterwimmer2 University of Witwatersrand1, University of Wuppertal2 |
SESSION IV + COFFEE 15:30 - 17:00 | Poster Session I |
SESSION V Chair: Birgit Hellwig 17:00 - 18:00 | Invited Speaker: Dejan Matić University of Münster |
19:00 | Restaurant: Zum Alten Brauhaus |
3 June – Friday
SESSION VI Chair: Janne Lorenzen 09:00 – 09:30 | Lena Pagel, Simon Roessig, and Doris Mücke University of Cologne Articulatory encoding of prominence in habitual and loud speech |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Christine Prechtel University of California Testing the inverse relationship between lexical stress strength and macro-rhythm strength |
SESSION VII + COFFEE 10:00 – 11:30 | Poster session II |
SESSION VIII Chair: Sarah Dolscheid 11:30 – 12:00 | Sebastian Sauppe1, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi1, Caroline Andrews1, Åshild Næss2, Moritz M. Daum1, Monique Flecken3, Itziar Laka4, Martin Meyer1, and Balthasar Bickel1 University of Zurich1, University of Oslo2, University of Amsterdam3, University of Basque Country4 |
12:00 – 12:30 | Christopher Hammerly1, Adrian Staub2, and Brian Dillon2 University of British Columbia1, University of Massachusetts2 Prominence guides incremental interpretation: Lessons from obviation in Ojibwe |
12:30 – 14:00 | |
SESSION IX Chair: Tiago Augusto Duarte 14:00 – 14:30 | Paul Compensis and Petra B. Schumacher University of Cologne |
14:30 – 15:00 | Nehir Aygül, Yvonne Portele, and Markus Bader Goethe University |
15:00 – 15:30 | Duygu Özge1, Ebru Evcen2, and Joshua Hartshorne3 Middle East Technical University1, University of California San Diego2, Boston College3 Implicit causality biases in Turkish psychological state events |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
SESSION X Chair: Mark Ellison 16:00 – 16:30 | Umesh Patil1, Stefan Hinterwimmer2, and Petra B. Schumacher1 University of Cologne1, University of Wuppertal2 Evaluative expressions influence prominence: effects on die and diese pronouns |
16:30 – 17:30 | Invited Speaker: Dale Barr University of Glasgow |
17:30 – 17:45 | Closing remarks |
Poster Sessions
Poster Session I: (Thursday, 2 June, 15:30 - 17:00)
- Aviad Albert, Maria Lialiou, Simona Sbranna and Francesco Cangemi (University of Cologne): Improved acoustic characterization of prosodic prominence using periodic energy mass
- Simon Roessig, Janne Lorenzen and Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne): Evidence for a prosodic prominence budget in German utterances
- Enkeleida Kapia1, Felicitas Kleber1, and Alejna Brugos2 (Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2): Discrete and continuous-valued prosodic cues to prominence perception in Albanian
- Christine T. Röhr1, Michelina Savino2, T. Mark Ellison1, and Martine Grice1 (University of Cologne1, University of Bari2): The role of intonation in attention allocation in serial recall
- Ricardo Napoleão de Souza1 and Maria Cantoni2 (University of Helsinki1, Federal University of Minas Gerais2): An evaluation of secondary prominence in spontaneous Brazilian Portuguese
- Sarah Dolscheid1, Judith Schlenter2, Barbara Zeyer1, and Martina Penke1 (University of Cologne1, Arctic University of Norway2): How animacy and literacy affect picture naming
- Maria Bardají i Farré, Semra Kizilkaya, Sonja Riesberg and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (University of Cologne): Some natural forces are animate agents
- Lidia Federica Mazzitelli (University of Cologne): Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau
- Åshild Næss (University of Oslo): Prominence levels and the symmetrical voice-to-transitivity shift
- Yvonne Portele (Goethe University): Patient prominence in German: Effects of accessibility and structural priming
- Thiago Bruno de Souza Santos, Stella von Randow-Jopen, Antonia Dietrich and Perniss Pamela (University of Cologne): Marking prominence in German Sign Language (DGS): A corpus analysis of object marking with the sign AUF
- Jakob Egetenmeyer (University of Cologne): The varying prominence status of indirect speech in adversative contexts
Poster Session II (Friday, 3 June, 10:00 - 11:30)
- Kirsten Culhane (University of Freiburg): Examining acoustic evidence for word-level prosodic prominence in Waima'a
- Isabelle Franz1, Christine Knoop1, Gerrit Kentner2, Sascha Rothbart1, Vanessa Kegel1, Julia Vasilieva1, Sanja Methner1, Mathias Scharinger1, and Winfried Menninghaus1(Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics1, Goethe University2): Prosodic phrasing and syllable prominence in spoken prose – prediction from text and validation
- Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle, and Simona Sbranna (University of Cologne): Making conversation work: Prominence in the intonation of feedback signals
- Heiko Seeliger and Sophie Repp (University of Cologne): Don’t make me more prominent! Or do? Prosodic reflexes of contrast, newness and givenness in wh-exclamatives and wh-questions
- Christina Domene Moreno, Baris Kabak and Haykanush Sazhumyan (University of Würzburg): Crosslinguistic differences in the mapping of prominence between music and language
- Yibing Shi (University of Cambridge): Corrective focus and tone sandhi in Xiangshan Wu Chinese
- Sandra Debreslioska1 and Pamela Perniss2 (Lund University1, University of Cologne2): Gestures accompany new and focused referents in discourse
- Magdalena Repp, Petra B. Schumacher and Clare Patterson (University of Cologne): Prominent protagonists influence discourse topicality
- Baris Kabak1 and Janne Lorenzen2 (University of Würzburg1, University of Cologne2): Grammar-external and structural factors predict the rate of forestressing in African American English: A corpus study
- Timo Buchholz1, Jet Hoek2, and Klaus von Heusinger1(University of Cologne1, Radboud University2): Syntactic and prosodic cues for prominent clauses
- Tiago Augusto Duarte, Marco García García, and Klaus von Heusinger (University of Cologne): Differential Object Marking and discourse prominence in Spanish
- Albert Wall1, Senta Zeugin2, and Philipp Obrist2 (University of Vienna1, University of Zurich2): Experimental evidence from Ibero-Romance for fine-grained distinctions on prominence scales
- T. Mark Ellison (University of Cologne): Prominence facilitates communication between predictive agents