Presentation by Gudrun Reijnierse at NAP-dag

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The NAP-dag is a day on which junior researchers predominately from the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) present their work.

Gudrun Reijnierse will present her work at 11.45.

See the ACLC website for more information.

 

Programme

• 11:00 Room open, coffee.
• 11:10 Opening of the NAP-dag 2015 by Paul Boersma, introduction of the jury.

Session 1 (Chair Jeroen Breteler)

• 11:15 – 11:45: Brechje van Osch – Variable subject verb word order in heritage speakers of Spanish in the Netherlands.
• 11:45 – 12:15: Gudrun Reijnierse – How viruses and beasts affect our opinions (or not): The role of extendedness in metaphorical framing.

Lunch Break: 12:15 – 13:30

Session 2 (chair: Matthias Passer)

• 13:30 – 14:00: Maja Ćurčić – Exceptions Disturb Linguistic Pattern Learning in Adults: An Individual Differences Approach.
• 14:00 – 14:30: Hernán Labbé Grunberg – Probing the time course of Dutch morphological processing with the syntactic mismatch negativity.

Coffee Break: 14:30 – 14:45

Session 3 (chair: Jeroen Breteler)

• 14:45 – 15:15 Jelke Bloem – Verbal cluster word order and processing complexity.
• 15:15 – 15:45 Caroline Roset – Colour terms in Darfur Arabic.

Coffee Break: 15:45 – 16:00

Session 4 (chair: Matthias Passer)
Meet the new PhD students

Merel van Witteloostuijn and Immer Lammertink:  Examining the contribution of procedural learning to grammar and literacy acquisition in children with developmental dyslexia

Sune Gregersen Rygård:  De-auxiliarization in the Dutch and English modals: A comparative diachronic corpus investigation

Vanja de Lint:  Argument structure in Sign Language of the Netherlands

Manon van der Laaken:  The Lastmeter in out-patient cancer consultations: Help or hindrance to physician-patient communication

Marjolein Poortvliet, guest PhD researcher from Oxford:   The syntax and semantics of descriptive perception verbs in Dutch

Closing of the NAP dag by Paul Boersma: 16:30 – 16:45

Drinks and the jury report: 17:00 – 18:00