Program

International Conference "Prominence in Language"

	MONDAY 15.06: Tagungsraum 004
9.00-9.45	Registration
9.45-10.00	Welcome. Gudrun Gersmann (Vice Rector, University of Cologne).
10.00-11.00	Invited Speaker: Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh). Towards a Bayesian account of reference. CHAIR: Christiane Bongartz.
11.00-11.30	COFFEE BREAK
	SESSION ON DISCOURSE. CHAIR: Petra Schumacher.
11.30-12.00	Markus Bader and Yvonne Portele. Prominence and anti-prominence in pronoun resolution.
12.00-12.30	Daniel Altshuler and Una Stojnic. The attention-coherence model of prominence. A look at "now".
12.30-13.00	Peter Bosch, Stefan Hinterwimmer and Umesh Patil. Perspective as a parameter of prominence. The case of German demonstrative pronouns.
13.00-14.30	LUNCH
	SESSION ON PROSODY I. CHAIR: Stefan Baumann.
14.30-15.00	Anna Sara H. Romøren and Aoju Chen. Prosodic compression in a pitch accent language: Post-focal creaky voice in Stockholm Swedish.
15.00-15.30	Lucie Vercruyssen, Anne Lacheret and Marion Fossard. Prosodic prominence: A cue to distinguish young and old speakers?
15.30-17.00	POSTER SESSION I (+COFFEE BREAK)
17.00-17.30	Beste Kamali. On modeling the interaction between prominence and clitic placement in Turkish yes/no questions.
17.30-18.00	BREAK
18.00-19.00	Interdisciplinary Lounge. Clarence Barlow (UC Santa Barbara). On music derived from language. CHAIR: Aria Adli.

	TUESDAY 16.06 (Room: S21)
9.30-10.30	Invited speaker: Sónia Frota (University of Lisbon). Exploration on word prominence in a language with contrastive stress: adult and infant data. CHAIR: Martine Grice.
	SESSION ON PROSODY II. CHAIRS: Martine Grice and Doris Mücke.
10.30-11.00	Frank Kügler, Bernadett Smolibocki and Manfred Stede. Prominence relations between discourse referents as a factor for the analysis of the prosodic marking of information status – a corpus study of spoken German.
11.00-11.30	COFFEE BREAK
11.30-12.00	Oliver Niebuhr, Bastian Schroeter and Stefan Baumann. Cues to perceptual prominence of prenuclear pitch accents – evidence from German spontaneous speech.
12.00-12.30	Núria Esteve-Gibert, Joan Borràs-Comes, Eli Asor, Marc Swerts and Pilar Prieto. Multimodal prominence in head gestures (or how accent and phrasing influence the gesture timing).
12.30-13.00	Valentina Schettino and Petra Wagner. Prosodic prominence and contextual patterns: Evidence from German.
13.00-14.30	LUNCH
15.45-16.45	Rhine cruise
17.00-18.00	Guided tour
19.00	SOCIAL DINNER

	WEDNESDAY 17.06 (Room: S11)
	SESSION ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. CHAIR: Martina Penke.
9.30-10.00	Cinzia Avesani, Giuliano Bocci, Mario Vayra and Alessandra Zappoli. Prominence patterns in L2 acquisition. The differential learning of the prosody-information structure interface in L2-German and L2-Italian.
10.00-10.30	Vincenzo Moscati. Acquisition and parsing of focus movement in Italian: The role of prominence and agreement.
10.30-11.00	Katharina Zahner, Muna Pohl and Bettina Braun. Only high-pitched stressed syllables are good (prominent?) word onsets for German 9-month-olds: Intonation modulates the extraction of embedded words.
11.00-11.30	COFFEE BREAK
	SESSION ON SCALES. CHAIRS: Martin Becker, Marco García García.
11.30-12.00	Elisabeth Verhoeven. Prominence scales and subject choice: A crosslinguistic corpus study.
12.00-12.30	Jimena Terraza and Adriana Machado Estevam. A discourse-based analysis of obviation in Moose Cree: Factors determining the ranking of entities.
12.30-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-14.30	Katharina Haude. Animacy, discourse prominence, and construction choice in Movima.
14.30-15.00	Markus Bader, Emilia Ellsiepen, Yvonne Portele and Vasiliki Koukoulioti. Prominence hierarchies and word order: From grammar to usage.
15.00-16.30	POSTER SESSION II (+COFFEE BREAK)
16.30-17.30	Invited speaker. Manfred Krifka (ZAS/Humboldt University of Berlin). Prominence in Polarity Questions and their Answers. CHAIR: Nikolaus Himmelmann

•  Juliane Burmester, Katharina Spalek and Isabell Wartenburger. Salience – a modality independent cue of topicality?
•  Sophie Egger and Bettina Braun. The role of pitch accents in the identification of metrical prominence. 
•  Jonathan Howell. On Invariant Prominence. 
• Klaus von Heusinger and Aria Adli. Topic chains and perspective: Demonstrative pronouns between indexical and anaphoric referential chains. 
• Alfonso Igualada, Núria Esteve-Gibert and Pilar Prieto. Prosodic prominence marked with beat gestures favors word recall in pre-schoolers.
• Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri and Viviana Masia. Did informational prominence evolve to ensure economy of processing?
• Christopher Sappok. Prominence rating procedures and assessment of reading skills - a perception experiment dialogue read by fluent german children. 

POSTER SESSION II - WEDNESDAY 17 (15:00-16:30)  

• Giuliano Bocci and Cinzia Avesani. Metrical structure and sentence comprehension: Heads and boundaries in Italian.
• Julia Edeleva. Russian children and their relatives: Does contrastive focus accentuation bootstrap the acquisition of relative clause constructions?
• Manisha Gandhi, Anna Currey and Jürgen Trouvain. Marking focus in L2 French and German.
• Katja Jasinskaja and Jacopo Torregrossa. Towards a scale of contrastive topics: A view from topicalization and predicate clefts in Italian. 
• Inyoung Kim. Prominence in Seoul Korean intonation: Topic and focus marking example.
• Olga Kushch, Alfonso Igualada and Pilar Prieto. The role of audio-visual prominence on the acquisition of novel words in a second language.
• Petra Wagner, Antonio Origlia, Cinzia Avesani, George Christodoulides, Francesco Cutugno, Mariapaola D'Imperio, David Escudero Mancebo, Barbara Gili Fivela, Anne Lacheret, Bogdan Ludusan, Helena Moniz, Ailbhe Ni Chasaide, Oliver Niebuhr, Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen, Anne-Catherine Simon, Juraj Simko, Fabio Tesser and Martti Vainio. Disentangling and connecting different perspectives on prosodic prominence.
• Roberto Zamparelli. Similarity, prominence and distributions.