The Night Whites Language Workshop

The Second St. Petersburg Winter Workshop on Experimental Studies of Speech and Language (58–60 Galernaya Street).

This workshop is 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. The keynote lectures at the workshop are given by Professor William Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge) and Professor Martin Fischer (University of Potsdam).

In addition to the series of talks, we host a selection of poster presentations. The 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

February 28

9:30am Registration, welcome coffee and poster set-up

10:20am Opening remarks

10:30am Session 1

• Paul Engelhardt "Cognitive Control in (Fluent) Language Production: Evidence from Individual Differences and Neurodevelopmental disorders"
• Maria Falikman, Maria Vasilieva, Olga Fyodorova, Ekaterina Pechenkova "Psychophysical Methods in Experimental Morphology"
• Thomas Farmer "The Development of Linguistic Expectations over the Course of L2 Learning"
• Kira Gor "Inflectional Paradigm and Decomposition in a Second Language"
• Andrey Kibrik, Maria Khudyakova, Grigory Dobrov, Anastasia Linnik "Referential Choice: Factors and Modeling"

1:00pm Lunch break

2:00pm Session 2

• Maksim Kireev, Natalia Slioussar,Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Aleksander Korotkov, Svyatoslav Medvedev "Changes in Functional Connectivity Within the Fronto-Temporal Brain Network Induced by Regular and Irregular Russian Verb Production"
• Anastasia Klimovich-Smith, Mirjana Bozic, William Marslen-Wilson "Relational and Morphophonological Processing Within the Left Fronto-Temporal Language Network"
• Pia Knoeferle "Action and Speaker Gaze Effects on Language Comprehension"
• Daniil Kocharov, Olga Glotova "Collecting Electromagnetic Articulatory Data for a Corpus of Russian Speech"
• Teija Kujala "Language Learning in the Infant Brain"

4:30pm Coffee break

5:00pm Keynote Lecture 1. Martin Fischer "Embodied Representation of Number Knowledge"

6:30pm Posters and drinks reception

March 1

10:30am Session 3

• Alina Leminen, Sini Jakonen, Miika Leminen, Jyrki Mäkelä, Minna Lehtonen "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Sentence Processing: Are Distinct Neural Populations Responsible for Morphological and Morphosyntactic Parsing?"
• Andrey Myachykov, Paul Engelhardt, Thomas Farmer "Phonologically Typicality and Dyslexia: An Eye Movement Study"
• Aleksander Nikolaev, Minna Lehtonen "Behavioral Effects of Number of Stem Allomorphs on Word Recognition"
• Vera Podlesskaya "Self-Repairs in the Prosodically Annotated Corpus of Spoken Russian"
• Elena Riekhakaynen "The Functional Model of Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence from Russian"

1:00pm Lunch break

2:00pm Keynote Lecture 2. William Marslen-Wilson "Morphological Systems and Their Neurobiological Substrates"

3:15pm Coffee break

3:45pm Session 4

• Natalia Slioussar, Natalia Cherepovskaya "Morphologic Ambiguity in Sentence Processing: Evidence from Russian"
• Yury Shtyrov "Automatic Neural Discrimination of Lexical Information in Visually Presented Words: EEG and MEG Data"
• Anastasia Nikolaeva, Anna Butorina, Tatiana Stroganova "Building the Word Memory Traces: Two Hemispheres Diverge in the Speed of Their Response to Word Repetition"
• Seppo Vainio, Anneli Pajunen, Jukka Hyönä "Processing Modifier—Head Agreement in L1 and L2 Finnish: An Eye-Tracking Study"

5:45pm Conference closure