Programme

Day 1: Tuesday 20 August

09:00–10:00 Registration

10:00–11:00 Keynote 1

• Richard A. Blythe
  Competition between linguistic variants at the individual and population scale (abstract)

11:00–11:30 Coffee

11:30–13:00 Session 1: Evolutionary Dynamics

• James Burridge, Tam Blaxter & Bert Vaux
  Testing the evolutionary paths of grammar (abstract)
• Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith
  Changing communicative need predicts lexical competition and contributes to language change (abstract)
• Ilja Seržant
  Evolutionary typology of bound verbal person-number indexes (abstract)

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Session 2: Representations and Social Embedding

• Daniel Duncan
  Competing representations in sociophonetic variation? (abstract)
• Li Lei, Limor Raviv & Phillip Alday
  Language change in online social networks (abstract)
• Marcelo Melo & Christina Gomes
  Frequency and social effects in the lenition of coda fricative in Brazilian Portuguese (abstract)

15:30–16:00 Coffee

16:00–17:00 Keynote 2

• Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
  The initiation and incrementation of sound change: momentum vs social meaning (abstract)

18:30– Dinner

Day 2: Wednesday 21 August

10:00–11:30 Session 3: Morphosyntax

• Lauren Fonteyn & Andrea Nini
  Individuality in syntactic variation: an investigation of the 17th-century gerund alternation (abstract)
• Henri Kauhanen & George Walkden
  When is a constant rate truly constant? A Monte Carlo power analysis of the logistic operationalization of constant rate effects (abstract)
• Thais Cristofaro Silva, Christina Gomes & Daniela Guimaraes
  Frequency effects in -ão plural formation in Brazilian Portuguese (abstract)

11:30–12:00 Coffee

12:00–13:30 Session 4: Approaches to Sound Change

• Andrea Ceolin
  A null model of sound change (abstract)
• Cesko Voeten
  On-going developments in the analysis of on-going sound change: answering new questions using new methods (abstract)
• Frederik Hartmann
  Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks (abstract)

13:30–14:30 Lunch

14:30–15:30 Keynote 3

• Janet B. Pierrehumbert
  Word frequency effects in regular sound change (abstract)

15:30–16:00 Coffee

16:00–17:00 Discussion and Farewell: Representations, Usage and Social Embedding in Language Change – What Are the Next Steps?