Night Whites 2015
The Third St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (58–60 Galernaya Street)
We are very pleased to welcome you to The Third St.Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (Night Whites 2015) dedicated to studying the mysteries of human language function.
The talks focus on topics broadly defined as experimental studies of human language including (but not limited to) psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, computational modelling of linguistic processes, neuropsychology, experimental phonetics, etc. In addition to the series of talks, we host a selection of poster presentations. This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on language for an event that will transcend disciplinary boundaries to give a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art in the field and encourage new contacts, ideas and collaborations.
Program
December 18
- 9:15am Registration
- 9:45am Opening remarks by Tatiana Chernigovskaya
- 10:00am Keynote Lecture 1. Harald Clahsen "Controlling Competition in Speaking: Brain Potentials to Morphological Encoding During Language Production"
11:00-11:25am Coffee break
- 11:25am Talat Bulut, Emine Yarar "Relative Clause Processing in Turkish"
- 11:50am Katharina Wendler, Michele Burigo, and Pia Knoeferle "Picture-Sentence Mismatches in the Blank Screen Paradigm"
- 12:15pm Evgenia Volkovyskaya, Ilhan Raman, Bahman Baluch "The Role of Second Language Proficiency (L2) on Semantic Priming: Evidence from Bilingual Adult Russian (L1)—English (L2) Speakers"
- 12:40pm Katja Suckow "How Number Attraction Affects the Comprehension of Grammatical Sentences"
1:05-2:00pm Lunch break
- 2:00pm Filip Smolík "Imageability and Past Tense: Imageability Effects are not Limited to Irregular Verbs"
- 2:25pm Natalia Slioussar "The Role of Syncretism in Number Agreement: New Evidence from Russian"
- 2:50pm Yury Shtyrov "Online Neurophysiological Measures of Lexicon Acquisition"
- 3:15pm Nina Jeanette Sauer "Extended Syllable Cues in tip-of-the-Tongue Resolution"
3:40-4:05pm Coffee break
- 4:05pm Anastasia Roshchupkina, Jelena Mirkovic and Gareth Gaskell "Sleep-Related Consolidation of New Form Meaning Mappings in Adult Language Learning"
- 4:30pm Bojana Ristić, Nicola Molinaro and Simona Mancini "Number Attraction in Serbian: What is More Attractive?"
- 4:55pm Olga Raeva, and Elena Riekhakaynen "The Role of Intonation for Spoken Word Recognition: Experimental Evidence"
- 5:20pm Iya Khelm Price, Jeffrey Witzel "Sources of Processing Difficulty in Relative Clauses: Evidence from Russian"
5:45-6:00pm Short break
- 6:00pm Keynote Lecture 2. Hanne Gram Simonsen "Assessing Lexical Development in Bilingual Children"
- 7:00pm Posters with reception
December 19
- 10:00am Keynote Lecture 3. Simon Garrod "Dialogue Mechanisms for Mutual Understanding"
11:00-11:25am Coffee break
- 11:25am Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Seema Prasad "Voluntary Naming in Bilinguals: Effects of Subliminal Priming on Language Selection"
- 11:50am Andriy Myachykov "Overlap and Interface Between Simulated Knowledge Representations"
- 12:15pm Alex Miklashevsky "Spatial Semantics of 506 Russian Nouns"
- 12:40pm Daniil Kocharov, Tatiana Kachkovskaia, Pavel Skrelin "Prosodic Factors Influencing Vowel Reduction in Russian"
1:05-2:00pm Lunch break
- 2:00pm Andrej Kibrik, Olga Fedorova "Language as Is: a Multimodal Initiative"
- 2:25pm Ludmila Isurin, and Christy Seidel "'Lost and found:' Applying the Savings Paradigm in Case of Pervasive Language Loss"
- 2:50pm Lindy Comstock "Individual Differences in Suprasegmental Prosody: L2 Acquisition versus L1 Attrition"
- 3:15pm Eva Belke, Tanja Anstatt, and Christina Clasmeier "Schalter, Šapka, Šaška—an Eye Tracking Study of Coactivation in the Mental Lexicon of Russian-German Bilinguals"
3:40-4:05pm Coffee break
- 4:05pm Enrico Cipriani "The Role of Visual Representations in Optic Aphasia"
- 4:30pm Anna Chrabaszcz, Svetlana Buklina, Valeria Tolkacheva, Anna Poddubskaya, Olga Dragoy "Developing a Russian Test for Speech Mapping During Awake Craniotomy"
- 4:55pm Ainhoa Bastarrika Iriarte, Cesar Caballero, Douglas Davidson "MEG Correlates of Short-Term Grammatical Plasticity: Grammatical Number Processing in Spanish Learners of Basque"
- 5:20pm Eneko Antón, Guillaume Thierry, Alexander Goborov, and Jon Andoni Duñabeitia «Mixing Languages in Formal Schooling: Where are the Negative Consequences?"
5:45-6:00pm Short break
- 6:00pm Keynote Lecture 4. Kira Gor "Half Empty or Half Full? Nonnative Lexical Access"
- 7:00pm Conference closure