abstract_MicroL_2014_jm Proficiency and brain structure during intense language learning Johan Mårtensson1, Johan Eriksson3, Timothy Brick2, Nils Bodammer2, Magnus Lindgren1, Mikael Johansson1, Lars Nyberg3, Martin Lövdén4 1Lund university, 2Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 3Umeå university, 4Aging Research Center (ARC) Foreign language acquisition can lead to changes in brain structure

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Shtyrov Electrophysiological and haemodynamic biomarkers of rapid acquisition of novel wordforms Yury Shtyrov Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Humans are unique in developing large lexicons; to achieve this, they are able to learn new words rapidly. However, neural bases of this rapid learning, which may be an expression of a more general mechanism rooted in plast

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Topgaard_abstract Multidimensional diffusion MRI: From colloid science to learning studies Daniel Topgaard Physical Chemistry, Lund University The structure of the brain is changing during learning processes such as language acquisition. The structural changes take place on a range of length scales: from the formation of new connections between individual neurons to the growth of entire brain regi

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Microsoft Word - Bianchi_SALC6_abstract.docx Ivana Bianchi The perception and cognition of opposites Since time immemorial, it has been recognized in various scientific domains that opposition/contrariety (here used as interchangeable terms) represent a primal relationship in the human cognitive architecture. Early philosophers discussed its fundamental role for many concepts (e.g. pre-socratic ph

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Microsoft Word - Geeraerts_SALC6_abstract.docx Dirk Geeraerts What's your philosophy? The phenomenological tradition and Cognitive Linguistics Picking up the thread of Geeraerts 1985: 309-370, and Geeraerts 1993, which were the first publications in the history of Cognitive Linguistics to analyze the specific relevance of phenomenology, this talk will offer a couple of footnotes to the current Cog

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In this talk, we give a short overview some of the work carried out within the project MovEs II. This project is devoted to the study of motion and space from a semantic typological perspective and across several languages. After a general introduction about the project (goals, methodology, etc.), we focus on two main areas of our research. Firstly, we discuss the importance of variation and less

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Duanmu Prosody and word length in Chinese San Duanmu, University of Michigan The eminent Swedish sinologist Bernhard Karlgren (1918) made an insightful observation of an unusual property of Chinese: Many Chinese words have two synonymous forms, one short (monosyllabic) and one long (disyllabic), such as jian ‘see’ and kan-jian ‘look-see’. The long form is made by adding another morpheme to the sho

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Féry.doc The disambiguating role of prosody in relative clauses Caroline Féry, Goethe University Frankfurt I will address the following puzzle: In the syntactic literature on relative clauses, it is tacitly or explicitly admitted that users of a language share some implicit knowledge about the relationship between prosody and syntax. As a result, overt prosodic phrasing should help speakers to mak

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Karlsson-House Prosodic boundaries and spontaneous narratives Anastasia Karlsson1 and David House2, 1Lund University, 2Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm The study presented here is a part of a larger project in which we investigate how word order, intonation and morphology collaborate in conveying information structure in a set of typologically different languages. Languages are group

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Riad abstract NGmc accent A phonological typology of North Germanic accent Tomas Riad, Stockholm University North Germanic tone accent has been typologized on the basis of phonetic notions like ‘number of peaks in accent 2’ (Gårding & Lindblad 1973, Bruce & Gårding 1978), and ‘value of first tone in accent 1’ (Fintoft et al. 1978). The description of tone accent has also often been based on functi

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Romoeren-Chen Prosodic focus marking in Swedish children Anna Sara H. Romøren and Aoju Chen, Utrecht University According to the Lund model of Swedish intonation [1], focus is marked by adding a floating high tone to the lexical accent of a focal word, and by downstepping post- focal accents1. Research on prosodic development in Swedish children has primarily been concerned with word prosody [2,3,

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Soederstroem Testing predictions – studying word accents and morphology in Swedish Pelle Söderström, Lund University Preliminary results will be reported from a study which investigated how Central Swedish word accents are used in on-line speech processing to predict upcoming information. Participants listened to sentences and judged whether the target noun was singular (suffix associated with Acc

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Svensson Lundmark Constant tonal alignment in Swedish word accent II Malin Svensson Lundmark, Lund University Studies on accentual tonal alignment of intonation languages suggest that L in rising (LH) pre-nuclear accents anchors with a specific point in the segmental string, while the timing of H varies. This study investigates if lexical accents, too, exhibit a constant alignment by testing the S

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Tronnier-Zetterholm Intelligibility of Swedish word accents produced by L2-speakers with tonal and non-tonal L1s – a case study Mechtild Tronnier1 and Elisabeth Zetterholm2 1Lund University and 2Linnaeus University This contribution presents a case study on how well speakers of languages of a different tonal typology manage to produce the two tonal word accents in L2- Swedish. Some previous studie

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Uneson Parallel words for cross-Germanic comparison of lexical stress Marcus Uneson, Lund University Given two languages, some translation equivalents may intuitively be recognized as ‘parallel’ by a naïve speaker of both, that is, as representatives of the ‘same’ word. Parallel words in languages A and B are typically due to either historial cognateship or to loan: direct loan between them; or, i

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van de Weijer Consonant repetition within words Joost van de Weijer, Lund University A well-­‐known phonological principle is the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) which prohibits adjacent identical elements. Originally the OCP was applied at the prosodic level, that is the absence of adjacent identical tones, but thereafter it has been applied to other language features as well, including other

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A-traces and semantic interpretation Adolfo Ausn, University of Connecticut Linguistics Department, 341 Mansfield Rd., U-1145, Storrs CT 06269-1145, USA, ada96002@sp.uconn.edu Lasnik (1999) makes the controversial proposal that A-movement does not leave a trace. His proposal is based on the assumption that there are no A-movement reconstruction effects (Chomsky (1995)). This assumption has been ch

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1 The Grammar of the Possession Link: Modern Hebrew yeS Constructions: Nora Boneh, Universit de Paris III Possessive constructions across languages make use either of HAVE or BE as the possession link. With the first, the possessor surfaces with Nominative case while the possessum bears Accusative case, with the second the possessor receives Dative case from the preposition accompanying BE, and th

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Relatives and There-Insertion Alastair Butler (ajb125@york.ac.uk) Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, U.K. 1 Introduction This paper offers a solution to why certain relative clauses place restrictions on their determiners. The solution is purely semantic and crucially depends on operations of control. While an ordinary relative like (1) places

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A Unified Account of A- and A'-Reconstruction: Evidence from German Introduction: It has often been argued that there seems to be an A- vs. A'-distinction with regard to reconstruction (cf. Chomsky (1995), Kim (1996), Epstein et al. (1998), Lasnik (1998), and Fox (1999, 2000)). This claim was usually based on contrasts like the one between (1-a) and (1-b), and led some linguists to conclude that t

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