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?