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.
9:15 – 10:45 | SHRAVAN VASISHTH | INVITED SPEAKER (University of Potsdam | Germany) tba |
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 |
9:15 – 10:45 | BARBARA HEMFORTH | INVITED SPEAKER (Paris Diderot University | France) tba |
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 |
Convention Centre, Hall 1, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum
Organizing Committee Tibor Kiss, Alicia Katharina Börner,
Jutta Pieper, and Sarah Broll