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LOT Winter School 2019 University of Amsterdam LOT Winter School 2019 University of Amsterdam Week 1: 7-11 January The Neurolinguistics of Discourse-Oriented Corpus Scripting for PRAAT Syntax: Investigations of Studies sentence processing in healthy and aphasic speakers David Weenink Costas Gabrieletos Dirk-Bart den Ouden Speech Perception in First Working with Production Reproducibility in and Second Language Data: Comprehension- production (a)symmetries in Bilingualism and SLA Acquisition language acquisition Sharon Peperkamp Elena Tribushinina Sible Andringa Effect Sizes and Meta- Multimodal Language Analyses: Tools for cumulative, Statistics for Linguistics in R Learning and Social Robots robust experimental science Christina Bergmann Susanne Brouwer Paul Vogt Week 2: 14-18 January Methods in Historical Cognitive Linguistics Linguistics (quantitative Beyond the Individual: The Negative Coordination historical linguistics and shared workspace framework mapping techniques) Arjen Versloot Simon Garrod Hamida Demirdache Competing Motivations and Methods in Data The Grammar of Explanations in the Typology of Collection for Measurement and Constituent Order and Sociolinguistics: Focus on Comparison Grammatical Relations elicitiation Eva Schultze-Berndt Marina Terkourafi Roumyana Pancheva Methods in Multimodal A Deeper Understanding of LaTeX for Linguists Language Distributional Semantics Sebastian Nordhoff & Asli Özyürek Antske Fokkens Antonio Priemer LOT Summer School 2018 University of Groningen Week 1 (18-22 June) Language and Thought: How Typology / Dialectology Methodology are they related? Frantisek Kratochvil, Olomouc Gary Lupyan, Wisconsin Jacolien van Rij, Groningen When SLA goes 'Neuro': The Mechanisms and Methods in Sociolinguistics: Language & cognition and electrophysiology of Historical Linguistics Identity multilingual learning and processing Freek van de Velde, Leuven Janet Fuller, Groningen Kristin Lemhöfer Language and Cognition in Language, Computation & Person, Number and the Bilingualism: A neuroscientific Technology Architechture of Grammar perspective Yves Scherrer, Helsinki Omer Preminger, Maryland Thomas Bak, Edinburg Week 2 (25-29 June) State of the Art: Language Language & Event Linguistic stylistics Attrition Representation Merel Keijzer, Groningen Anna Papafragou, Delaware Ninke Stukker, Groningen Multilingualism at Home and Formal Semantics and the in School. Heritage language Language & Aging Cognitive Modeling of speakers and minority family Interpretation language transmission Eva Juaros Daussa, Groningen Michael Ramscar Jakub Dotlacil, ILLC UvA Perspectives on Modern Literacy: Grammars for Phonetic Correlates of Word Acquisition theory Writing and Sentence Tom Roeper, Amherst Debra Myhill, Exeter Vincent van Heuven, Leiden LOT Winter School 2018 Free University Amsterdam Week 1 (8-12 January) Eye-Tracking in Corpus Analysis: Comparing Psycholinguistic Research: Neurobiology of Languages word sequences across Why, how, and what for languages Monique Lamers, Amsterdam Giosuè Baggio, Trondheim Signe Ebeling, Oslo Applying Mixed Methods in Statistical Models of Second Language Acquisition Historical Syntax Language Variation with R (on fluency) Nivja de Jong, Leiden Natalia Levshina, Leipzig Marion Elenbaas, Leiden From Lab to the World: Nominal Semantics and Statistics for Linguists Linking empirical typology to Grammatical Number language evolution Martijn Wieling, Groningen Michael Dunn, Uppsala Scott Grimm, Rochester NY Week 2 (15-19 January) Language Impairments along the life span: Linguistics Phonetics in Phonology, Discourse Analysis framed in evidence based Phonology in Phonetics practice Ruben van de Vijver, Antje Orgassa, Nijmegen Veronika Koller, Lancaster Dusseldorf The Role of Input and Robot Writers: Interaction in Language Computational models of text Cartography and Explanation Development Across the generation Lifespan Emiel Krahmer, Malta Luigi Rizzi, Geneva Heike Behrens, Freiburg Visible Variation: Sign languages in typological Spoken Language and Gesture Aspects of Multilingualism perspective Roland Pfau, Amsterdam Alan Cienki, Amsterdam Jacomine Nortier, Utrecht LOT Summer School 2017 Leiden University Week 1 (26-30 June) Language Contact in th Speech Community: A Language, Music and Topics in Minimalist Syntax variationist perspective on Cognition and the Interfaces borrowing, code-switching and convergence Paula Roncaglia-Denissen, Shana Poplack, Ottawa Jason Merchant, Chicago Amsterdam Truth and Veridicality in Parsing Incremental Linguistic Conversational Structure nad Grammar: Modal expressions Input Typology and propositional attitudes Anastasia Giannakidou, Nina Kazanina, Bristol Mark Dingemanse, MPI Chicago The Typology of Language Revisiting the Gricean Turn Typology of Intonation Contact and Bilingualism Caroline Féry, Frankfurt am Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv Jeanette Sakel, Bristol Main Week 2 (3-7 July) Introduction to Natural Construction Grammar Language Processing and Text Language Acquisition Mining with Python Miriam Fried, Prague Paul Vierthaler, Leiden Claartje Levelt, Leiden Anthropological Linguistics: Root-Based Word Building at From relativism to The New Statistics the Morphology-Syntax- universalism and back Lexicon Interface Isabel Oltra-Massuet, Lourens de Vries, Amsterdam Gerben Mulder, Amsterdam Tarragona Embodied Interaction and Neurolinguistics - from Basics Historical Sociolinguistics: Intersubjectivity to Applied Research Theory and Practice Mike Huiskes, Groningen Christian Dobel, Jena Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden LOT Winter School 2017 Radboud University Week 1 (9-13 January) A Fresh Look at Categories Dialogic Syntax: The structure Text mining of engagement in language, and Extended Projections cognition and interaction Iris Hendrickx & Suzan Peter Svenonius, Tromsø John Dubois, Santa Barbara Verberne, Nijmegen On some Challenges in Creole Psycholinguistic Approachers Cross-Linguistic Influences in Studies - In theory, history, to Linguistic Relativity Second Language Acquisition typology, computation, education… Geertje van Bergen, Nijmegen Leah Roberts, York Michel DeGraff, MIT & Monique Flecken, MPI Typology & Dialectology: How Usage Shapes Grammar: Topics in Diachronic Syntax Entrenchment and Field Methods conventionalization Marian Klamer, Leiden Bettelou Los, Edinburgh Hans-Jörg Schmid, München Week 2 (16-20 January) Methods of Discourse Language and Procedural Analysis: The case of Language and Multimodality Memory narratives José Sanders, Nijmegen Frank Wijnen, Utrecht Leelo Keevallik, Linköping Speech Perception in Adverse Language Across Borders: Stuations and Events and the Listening Conditions Perception and production English Auxiliary System Charlotte Gooskens & Nanna Odette Scharenborg, Nijmegen Gillian Ramchand, Tromsø Hilton, Groningen How to Analyse 0/1 Outcomes? An exploratory passage across relevant Neurobiology of Language Writing statistical options and techniques Roeland van Hout, Nijmegen Jubin Abutalebi, Milan Huub van Bergh, Utrecht LOT Summer School 2016 Utrecht University Week 1 (4-8 July) Focus Semantics: Alternatives Language Acquisition Prosody in Discourse and Unalternatives Tania Ionin, Urbana Daniel Büring, Vienna Aoju Chen, Utrecht Cognitive Neuroscience of Child Bilingualism Language and the Law Language Sharon Unsworth, Nijmegen Roel Willems, Nijmegen Tina Cambier, Rijswijk Statistical Learning in Syntax: The ups-and-downs Power, Language Variation Language and Beyond of Agree and Change Alex Cristia, Paris Susi Wurmbrand, Conneticut Margot van den Berg, Utrecht Week 2 (11-15 July) Information Structure and Three Factors and Modern Reference Resolution: Clinical Linguistics Experimental and corpus- Generatve Diachronic Syntax based approach Elsi Kaiser, Los Angeles Therese Biberauer, Cambridge Djaina Satoer, Rotterdam Methodology and Statistics Argument Structure: Bioliguistics for Experimental Linguistics Typology and Syntactic Theory Kirsten Schutter, Utrecht Anna Kibort, Oxford Cedric Boecks, Barcelona Narrative Persuasion Eye-Tracking Morphology Ad Neelemen, London & Hans Hoeken, Utrecht Pim Mak, Utrecht Ackema, Edinburgh LOT Winter School 2016 Tilburg University Week 1 (11-15 January) Intro/State of the Art in Semantics Language and Emotion Computational Modelling Afra Alishashi Valentine Hacquard Jean-Marc Dewaele Eye-Tracking and Language A Combinatory Categorial Language Acquisition Processing Grammar for Linguists Rein Cozijn Ianthi Tsimpli Mark Steedman Sociolinguistics Cognitive Linguistics Bilingualism Sjaak Kroon Ewa Dabrowska Suzanne Aslberse Week 2 (18-22 January) Structure Building and the The Replication Crisis in Social Syntax of Filler-Gap Social Signal Processing Science and the Humanities Dependencies Martijn Goudbeek Marcel van Dikken Marie Postma & Eric Postma From Text to Matrix (and Mismatches between Back Again). Fundamentals of 'Phonetic' and 'Phonological' Psycholinguistics computational Text Analysis in Syllables Python Mike Kestemont Ben Hermans Christina Gagne Typology/Dialectology: Field Speech Recognition Language nd Anthropology Methods Marian Klamer James McQueen Jack Sidnell LOT Summer School 2015 KU Leuven Week 1 (15-19 June) Language Documentation and Head Movement and Clause- Description with Limited Current Topics in Bilingualism Building: The view from a Resources: Focus on verb-initial language endangered and extinct languages of South America Jeanine Treffers-Daller Jim McCloskey Swintha Danielsen New Directions in Usage- A Cognitive Perspective on Sign-Based Construction Based Linguistics: Language as Question
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