Wednesday June 10
11.30 Registration
13.00 SALC-2009 Conference Opening
Gunnar Svensson, Dean of Humanities, Stockholm University
13.30 Plenary Speaker: Niclas Abrahamsson
Age, aptitude, and nativelikeness in second language acquisition Room E10
  F11 E319 D389 C307
  Vision L2 & cognition General General
14.30 Helene Kreysa, Martin Pickering, Sarah Haywood, & John Henderson: Projecting speaker's gaze: effects on listeners' comprehension of object descriptions Anna Vogel & Elzbieta Strzelecka: Second language teaching from a cognitive perspective Marie Nordlund: The importance of frames in meaning extension Henrik Bergqvist: Inter-subjectivity in time reference: a case study of Lakandon Maya
15.00 Richard Andersson: The visual world paradigm in settings of high information load Britt Erman: A proposed continuum reflecting cognitive load in L2 production of (formulaic) language Jan Svanlund: Frequency, familiarity, and conventionalization Andrew Caines: Reflections of language use in cognition: experimental evidence and corpus data aligned
15.30 Frida MŒrtensson, Merle Horne, Mikael Roll & Pia Apt: Implications of aphasia on abstract and concrete noun processing Michal B. Paradowski: Attention, awareness, acquistion Ali Akbar Ansarin, Mahnaz Seyyed Bat-ha-ie: Constructing and revealing gender in research articles Nino Daraselia: A cognitive perspective on interjections
16.00 Coffee
16.30 Yuki Kamide & Gerry Altmann: Keeping track of spatial information of objects in mapping language on visual information Annika Andersson, Jessica Fanning, Helen Neville: An ERP study of nonword rhyming Piotr Konderak: Some meaning of '(linguistic) meaning': semantic networks as Peircean signs Lisa Rudebeck: Constructional continuity and change, and the reflexive particle sig
17.00 Per Durst-Andersen: Naming strategies and perception strategies. Evidence from Danish, English and Russian Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Liliana Martinez, Rik Eshuis: L1 path encoding strategies in the L2? Aivars Glaznieks: Children's variation of idioms. What children's idiomatic creativity reveals about entrenchment of metaphors Marta Andersson: Adverbial connectors as constructions
17.30 Pirita Pyykkšnen, Roger van Gompel, & Jukka Hyšna: Use of visual environment to facilitate language comprehension Romualdo Ib‡–ez: L2 Reading in disciplinary domains Thomas Buysens & Dylan Glynn: Discourse, joint attention and usage-based methodology. A cognitive semantic study of the Italian discourse marker boh Johan Pedersen: On cross-linguistic variation in syntax. Parameter setting or diverging constractional specificity in clausal organization
18.00   Maidy Giber: Prior language acquisition and learning experiences of teachers of English as a second language in Australia and French as a foreign language teachers in France Arlette Huguenin Dumittan: Hyperjournalism for the hyperreader? Shawn Duff: A taxonomy of scalarity constructions
19.00 Reception outside E10
Thursday June 11
  Plenary Speaker: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Typology, universals and lexicon Room E10
  F11 E319 D389 C307
  Vision General General Language, Conciousness & Semiotics
10.00 Christoph Scheepers, Sibylle Mohr & Emma Brechin: Overt and covert anticipation of verb complements in the visual-world paradigm Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc: Affective Categories in Scandinavian and Romance Languages--some methodological concerns Cl‡udia Silva: From 'pr' to 'p' - the graphic representation of the complex onset in chats and its relation to acquistition Gšran Sonesson: On some precursors to language. A view from phenomenolgoical semiotics
10.30 Andriy Myachykov: Attention, Conceptualization, and syntax in sentence production Ingrid Nilsson: The Competition Model: lexical cue stength and that of grammatical function Yukio Takahashi: Language and culture from a Game-theoretic perspective Inga-Lill Grahn: What is bad about a bad conscience and what is clear about a clear one? On evaluation as a special kind of consciousness
11.00 Coffee
11.30 J—hanna Barðdal: The rise of dative substitution in the history of Icelandic Karsten Hvidtfelt Nielsen: On the grammaticalization of possessive pronoun resolution in German Federica Da Milano: Linguistic subjectivity from a typological point of view Richard Hirsch: Phenomenology of perception, dialog, and Cognitive Linguistics
12.00 Anton Granvik: Expression of 'theme' in Scandinavian languages Kasper Boye & Peter Harder: Grammaticalization: a functional-cognitive theory Wen-Hui Sah: Narrative coherence in Mandarin-speaking children: Evidence from the Frog story Elena Faur: Beyond Cognitive Unconscious. Language and Consciousness
   
13.00 SALC meeting
  General General General Language, Conciousness & Semiotics
14.00 Aliyah Morgenstern, Marie Leroy, & StŽphanie Caet: Children's internalization of social and grammatical rules: self-repairs and reformulations Pilar Alonso: A cognitive approach to textual collocation: A case study of lexical and conceptual networks Michael Richter: Why some verbs can form a resultative construction while others cannot: decomposing Semantic Binding Todd Oakley: Semiosis in Theoretic Culture: Institutional Reality and the Rhetorical Question
14.30 Martine Sekali & Aliyah Morgenstern: First functions of clause combiners in child language: a case study of Madeleine's uses of the French subordinator parce que Dagmar Divjak: Aspect and modality in Slavic. An exceptional interaction Linda Thornburg & Klaus Panther: From lexical to construction meaning: the role of metonymic reasoning in the nice and Adj construction Ana Margarida Abrantes: The self and the subject in cognition and language
15.00 Mikael Roll & Merle Horne: The neurocognitive reality of a left-edge boundary tone in on-line sentence processing Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen: Backgrounding in simultaneous constructions: motion descriptions in sign languages Ole Nedergaard Thomsen: Discourse, intentionality and cogntion i the so-called Sugar Texts Maxim I. Stamenov: Negation, absence of representational content and the structrue of phenomenal consciousness
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Svetlana Sokolova, Olga Lyashevskaya & Anastasia Makarova: On perfectivizing mechanisms in Russian: A case study of S- and PO- variation Dylan Glynn: Lexical choice, grammatical profiling, and need for usage-based methods in Cognitie Linguisitics Mette Skovgaard Andersen: Signs of culture in national weather forecasts Sšren Brier: The cyber(bio)semiotics of semiotic and cognition, awareness and linguistic communication
16.30 Christina Hedman: Dyslexia profiles in two languages--a multiple case study of Spanish-Swedish speaking adolescents with reading and writing difficulties Egor Tsedryk & Alexandra Tsedryk: The role of morphological case in the acquisition of locative verbs Erling Wande: A cognitive revisit into the semilingualism debate Kristian TylŽn: Written in bodies, action and objects
17.00 Alexander Onysko:On the semantic structure of English and German compounds: Head-frame internal specifier selection as a principle of compound formation Staffan Larsson & Robin Cooper: Corrective feedback and semantic coordination Simone Lšhndorf: A usage-based modelling of the meaning structures of the English antonyms thick and thin and good and bad Jordan Zlatev: The precedence of consciousness with respect to signs (and language)
17.30 sa Abelin: Sound symbolism and its possible role in language change Helena Hong Gao: Cognitive barriers to learning Chinese noun classifiers by native Swedish speakers Marta Degani: Looking at creativity in word-formation: a conceptual analysis of hybrid compounds in New Zealand English  
18.30 Conference Dinner at Stora Skuggan
           
Friday June 12
9.00 Plenary Speaker: Elizabeth Traugott
Seeking evidence for interaction as a motivation for language change Room E10
  F11 E319 D389 C307
  Negation General General General
10.00 Carita Paradis & Caroline Willners: Negation and approximation as configuration construals in SPACE Nian Liu: Linguistic coding of temporal terms affects children's acquistion of temporal concepts Henrik Hovmark: The cognitive dynamics of place naming: reciprocation as an example Liliana Martinez: Describing non-straight motion: the geometry behind Bulgarian verbs of turning
10.30 Ivana Bianchi & Ugo Savardi: Can the phenomenological psychophysics of opposites contribute to the understanding of negation? Victor Smith: Freezing the waves: From ad hoc categorization to lexicalization Doris Gerland & Christian Horn: Concept type transition and determination Natalia Czechowska & Anna Ewert: The perception of motion verbs by Polish-English bilinguals. The case of multicompetence
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Simon Harrison: Evidence for node and scope of negation in coverbal gesture Elma Kerz: Conceptualization of events in English academic texts: A Cognitive Grammar approach Bryan Weston Wyly: The raw and the conceptualized  
12.00 Rachel Giora, Ofer Fein, Nili Metuki, & Pnina Stern: I am not your maid. Negation as a metaphor-inducing operator Anne-Kristin Siebenborn: (How) Does semantic similarity facilitate analogy formation processes in the acquisition of constructions (L1)? Ene Vainik, Toomas Kirt, & Heili Orav: The visualized measures of conceptual co-presence of motion and emotion in the Estonian terms of personality  
12.30 Plenary Speaker: Daniel Casasanto
How Handedness Shapes Language and Thought: First tests of the body-specificity hypothesis. Room E10
13.30 Conference closing