Workshop: How much is too much? The one-new-idea constraint and related phenomena at the information-intonation interface
Led by Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl, the Emmy-Noether Research Group on Non-Hierarchical Syntax (NonGram) is pleased to announce this workshop, which also marks the final event of their research project.
“This workshop assembles researching the packaging of information relative to intonation units. Seminal studies including Chafe (1979, 1994), Givón (1983), and Pawley & Syder (1983) have suggested universal cognitive constraints on how much new information may be expressed in a prosodic chunk, e.g. Chafe’s “one new idea constraint”. Despite their wide-reaching implications, and their impact on fields including discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, and typology, these claims still largely await testing for more languages as well as discourse types.”
When and Where?
- Date: Friday, 12 July
- Time: Starts at 9:45 AM
- Venue: HS 1034, Kollegiengebäude 1, Platz der Universität 3
- Evening: Joint dinner (location and time to be announced)
You are invited to arrive early to attend the Hermann-Paul Lecture, titled “The Future of Experimental Pragmatics” by Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher, on Thursday, 11 July.
Additional program on 11 July:
- Guided tour of the exhibition on endangered languages at 16:30 at Uniseum, Bertoldstr. 17
- Reception following the Hermann-Paul Lecture at Haus zur Lieben Hand, Löwenstr. 16, starting at 18:00
For questions, contact:
- Naomi Peck (naomi.peck@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de)
- Uta Reinöhl (uta.reinoehl@linguistik.uni-freiburg.de)
Zoom Link: https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/j/5807754066?pwd=cEFDVkNYK2xCZk0yUGo2Y0JDN1dOQT09
Programme
| Date | Time | Location | Talk |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.07 | 16:30 | Uniseum Bertoldstr. 17 | Guided Tour of Zur Sprache Kommen: Forschung zu bedrohten Sprachen sichtbar gemacht |
| 11.07 | 18:00 | Haus zur Lieben Hand Löwenstr. 16 | HPCL Lecture: Schumacher The Future of Experimental Pragmatics Abstract |
| 12.07 | 9:45 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Introduction |
| 12.07 | 10:00 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Emmy-Noether-Gruppe (Reinöhl et al.) “One new idea” constraint holds cross-linguistically even in serial verb constructions and flat nominal expressions |
| 12.07 | 10:45 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Ozerov Beyond cognitive constraints: Interactional factors underlying the “one new idea” principle |
| 12.07 | 11:30 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | coffee break |
| 12.07 | 11:45 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Peck Multiple predicates, multiple events? Testing the One New Idea constraint beyond non-hierarchical constructions |
| 12.07 | 12:30 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Lunch |
| 12.07 | 14:00 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Schnell & Linders Chafe’s one new idea at a time and uniform information density: A cross-linguistic computational study into the distribution of referential information |
| 12.07 | 14:45 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Jacob How many ideas per sentence? Towards a “Grammar of Discrimination” |
| 12.07 | 15:30 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | coffee break |
| 12.07 | 15:45 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Inbar et al. Empirical testing of intonation unit dynamics across diverse languages |
| 12.07 | 16:30 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Reinöhl & Ellison The one-new-idea constraint and holistic language processing |
| 12.07 | 17:15 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Closing |
| 12.07 | 18:30 | HS 1034, KG I Platz der Universität 3 | Apéritif in der Alten Wache (direkt neben dem Münster) |
| 12.07 | 20:00 | Rothaus Bertoldstr. 17 | Abendessen |
| 13:07 | 10:00 | Uniseum Bertoldstr. 17 | Guided Tour of Zur Sprache Kommen: Forschung zu bedrohten Sprachen sichtbar gemacht (English) |