Programme

Please note: The programme is provisional and subject to change; please check back for the finalized version.

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

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
• Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby & Kenny Smith
  Changing communicative need predicts lexical competition and contributes to language change
• Ilja Seržant
  Evolutionary typology of bound verbal person-number indexes

13:00–14:00 Lunch

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

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

15:30–16:00 Coffee

16:00–17:00 Keynote 2

• Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
  TBA

18:30– Dinner

Day 2: Wednesday 21 August

09:00–10:30 Session 3: Methods

• Cesko Voeten
  On-going developments in the analysis of on-going sound change: answering new questions using new methods
• Lauren Fonteyn & Andrea Nini
  Individuality in syntactic variation: an investigation of the 17th-century gerund alternation
• Henri Kauhanen & George Walkden
  When is a constant rate truly constant? A Monte Carlo power analysis of the logistic operationalization of constant rate effects

10:30–11:00 Coffee

11:00–13:00 Session 4: Acquisition, Usage and Change

• Jordan Kodner
  Laissez-faire analogical change
• Thais Cristofaro Silva, Christina Gomes & Daniela Guimaraes
  Frequency effects in -ão plural formation in Brazilian Portuguese
• Patrick Chi Wai Lee
  Frequency effect and poverty of stimulus: to what extent can Cantonese speakers of L2 English use “to iron” or “to iron clothes”?
• Alexandra Simonenko & Anne Carlier
  Simulating the role of pragmatic reasoning in word order changes

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Session 5: Approaches to Sound Change

• Andrea Ceolin
  A null model of sound change
• Frederik Hartmann
  Investigating the phonological predictability of sound change using deep neural networks
• Wellington Mendes & Nívia Oliveira
  Emerging sound patterns in Brazilian Portuguese

15:30–16:00 Coffee

16:00–17:00 Keynote 3

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