The conference “The Limits of Experimentation – Current Challenges in Experimental Linguistic Practice” is cancelled due to the current global situation in connection with COVID-19. We deeply regret the cancellation and apologize for any inconvenience. We would like to thank all contributors for their interest, their support, and all their work.

The Limits of Experimentation

Programme

Current Challenges in Experimental Linguistic Practice

This conference brings together experimental researchers working in different strands and differentlinguistic sub-disciplines or related areas in order to gather and critically discuss open issues

A big thanks to our supporters of the conference

Friday May 22, 2020

9:15 – 10:45 SHRAVAN VASISHTH | INVITED SPEAKER
(University of Potsdam | Germany)
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10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 EVA KLINGVAL1 and FREDRIK HEINAT2
(Lund University1; Linnaeus University2 | Sweden)
Acceptability, processing and reference
11:45 – 12:30 STEVEN VERHEVEN1 and TOM HEYMAN2
(Katholieke Universiteit Leuven1;Leiden University2 | The Netherlands)
Assessing the robustness of experimental linguistic evidence through a multiverse analysis
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45 JUTTA PIEPER, A. KATHARINA BÖRNER and TIBOR KISS
(Ruhr University Bochum | Germany)
Approaching controllability in web-based elicitation - item-based strategies
14:45 – 15:30 STEFAN BLOHM, ISABELLE FRANZ and GERRIT KENTNER
(Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics | Germany)
Cross-domain effects in intuitive sentence judgments
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 MARKUS WERNING1, MATTHIAS UNTERHUBER and GREGOR WIEDEMANN3
(Ruhr University Bochum1,2, University of Hamburg3 | Germany)
Bayesian Pragmatics Provides the Best Quantitative Model of Context Effects on Word Meaning in EEG and Cloze Data
16:30 – 17:15 CARINA PINTO1 and ALINA VILLALVA2
(Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPLeiria), Linguistic Center of Lisbon University (CLUL)1; Faculty of Letters of Lisbon University
(FLUL), CLUL2 | Portugal)
Optimizing experimental lexica. Word frequency, word length and beyond
18:00 – open ended Conference Dinner



Saturday May 23, 2020

9:15 – 10:45 BARBARA HEMFORTH | INVITED SPEAKER
(Paris Diderot University | France)
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10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45 JINGCHENG NIU and GERALD PENN
(University of Toronto | Canada)
Grammaticality and Language Modelling
11:45 – 12:30 TOM S. JUZEK1, ELAINE FRANCIS2 and JANA HÄUSSLER3
(Saarland University1 | Germany; Purdue University2 | United States; Bielefeld University3 | Germany)
Syntax-semantics interferences: making a case for expert reasoning and multi-method approaches
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45 ASTRID GÖßWEIN and MARKUS BADER
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt | Germany)
Perceptual salience effects on acceptability: A comparison of paper and pencil and internetbased experiments
14:45 – 15:30 KSENIIA STUDENIKINA
(Moscow State University | Russia)
Disentangling processing and grammatical constraints: experimental evidence from multiple wh-questions in Russian
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 HAIMENG REN
(University of Southampton | United Kingdom)
The investigation on the cognitive efforts of Chinese novice translators in both directions of translation: The eye-tracking research design
16:30 - Closing remarks and send-off

May, 22-23 2020

Convention Centre, Hall 1, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum

Organizing Committee Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina Börner,
Jutta Pieper, and Sarah Broll