XPrag.de at the Annual Meeting of DGfS 2015 in Leipzig

At the Annual Meeting of the DGfS in Leipzig, there will be two XPrag.de workshops: the workshop “AG10 – Perspective-taking” organized by XPrag.de project “InfoPer” (Köln) together with XPrag.de associate Stefan Hinterwimmer and the workshop “AG 13 – Proportions and quantities” organized by project “SSI” (ZAS Berlin) together with XPrag.de associate Stephanie Solt. Furthermore, Bettina Braun from project “BiasQ” (Konstanz) co-organized the workshop “AG 6 – The prosody and meaning of (non-)canonical questions across languages”. Beside this, there will be several talks of XPrag.de members in other workshops as well.

Talks of XPrag.de members on March 4th

Hanna Weiland and Petra Schumacher from project “InfoPer” and XPrag.de associate Stefan Hinterwimmer (Köln) will give the introductory talk of their workshop “AG 10 – Perspective taking” at 2 pm.

Uli Sauerland from project “SSI” (ZAS Berlin) will give a talk together with Dorothy Ahn on “Reversal of proportional quantifiers” in AG 13 – Proportions and quantities” at 2 pm.

Thomas Weskott and Anke Holler from project “ProProCon” (Göttingen) will give a talk together with Susanna Salem, titled “Does narrative perspective influence the spatial point of view in readers’ mental representation of a text? A psycholinguistic study on free indirect discourse” in “AG 10 – Perspective taking” at 3:30 pm.

Stavros Skopeteas from project “FoTeRo” (Bielefeld) will talk on “Adjunct order in languages with V-final and V-initial VPs” in “AG 4 – VO-OV: Correlations of head-complement order in grammar and lexicon” at 4:30 pm.

Andreea Nicolae from project “SSI” (ZAS Berlin) will talk on “The positive polarity aspect of weak disjunction in “AG 9: Varieties of positive polarity items” at 5:30 pm.

Talks of XPrag.de members on March 5th

Sigrid Beck from project “ObTrEx”(Tübingen) will give a talk on the “Interpretation of echo-questions” in “AG 6 – The prosody and meaning of (non-)canonical questions across languages” at 12:00.

XPrag.de associate Jack Tomlinson (ZAS Berlin) will talk together with Camilo Rodríguez Ronderos on “Perspective-taking and inference: do speakers alter partial answers as a function of their epistemic states? in “AG 10 – Perspective taking” at 12:00.

Talks of XPrag.de members on March 6th

Barbara Höhle and Isabell Wartenburger from project “CoGCI” (Potsdam) will give a talk together with Lu Zhang and Jan Ries on “Perspective taking and common ground effects on reference resolution in “AG 10 – Perspective taking” at 11:30 am

Barbara Höhle from project “CoGCI” (Potsdam) will give a talk together with Jeannine Schwytay on “The consonant-vowel-asymmetry in early word learning of German” in “AG 7: Universal biases on phonological acquisition and processing” at 1 pm