Conference announcement: “Hearing and Linguistics” – Hearing4All

13.05.2022 - 14.05.2022

We would like to point your attention to the conference “Hearing and Linguistics”, which will take place from May 13 to 14, 2022 (Friday to Saturday) at Schlaues Haus (Schloßplatz 16) in Oldenburg. The conference is organized by Marcel Schlechtweg, Esther Ruigendijk, Bénédicte Grandon, and Stephanie Kaucke.

You are welcome to join the conference! For organizational reasons, however, the hosts would welcome to receive a short notice from you by March 15, 2022 if you are / might be interested in attending the conference / parts of the conference. Simply send an email to marcel.schlechtweg@uni-oldenburg.de.

Dates and location
May 13-14, 2022 (Friday and Saturday) Oldenburg, Germany, In person (if official regulations permit)

Provisional program
Keynotes = Talk (45 minutes) + Discussion (15 minutes)
Regular talks = Talk (20 minutes) + Discussion (10 minutes)

Friday, May 13, 2022

Welcome and registration
9.00 – 9.30

Keynote 1
9.30 – 10.30, Sven Mattys, University of York, UK
Perceiving speech under cognitive load: theoretical implications and clinical opportunities

Regular talk 1
10.30 – 11.00, Silvia D’Ortenzio, and Francesca Volpato, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
That-relatives and wh-relatives in Italian-speaking children with and without cochlear
implants: evidence from a production task and a repetition task

Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30

Regular talk 2
11.30 – 12.00, Martina Penke, and Laura Beleva, University of Cologne, Germany
Verbal agreement inflection in children with hearing loss: the role of hearing device, perceptual prominence and syllable structure

Regular talk 3
12.00 – 12.30, Bénédicte Grandon, Marcel Schlechtweg, and Esther Ruigendijk, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Acquisition of plural nominal marking in children with and without cochlear implants: eye-tracking and production studies

Regular talk 4
12.30 – 13.00, Eva Wimmer1, Silvia D’Ortenzio2, Martina Penke3, and Francesca Volpato2, 1Technical University of Dortmund, Germany; 2Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy; 3University of Cologne, Germany
Wh-movement in children with hearing loss: a comparison of German and Italian data

Lunch break
13.00 – 14.00

Regular talk 5
14.00 – 14.30, Stephanie Kaucke, and Marcel Schlechtweg, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
English speakers’ perception of German vowel contrasts in adverse listening conditions

Regular talk 6
14.30 – 15.00, Marita K. Everhardt, Anastasios Sarampalis, Matt Coler, Deniz Baskent, and Wander Lowie, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Non-native listeners’ interpretation of prosodically marked focus in cochlear implant-simulated speech

Regular talk 7
15.00 – 15.30, Dana Bsharat-Maalouf, and Hanin Karawani, University of Haifa, Israel
Bilingual speech in noise processing: language and bilingualism effects

Coffee break
15.30 – 16.00

Regular talk 8
16.00 – 16.30, Mark A. Gibson, University of Navarra, Spain
An ultrasound study of speech-motor development by children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing

Regular talk 9
16.30 – 17.00, Annemiek Hammer, and Martine Coene, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Auditory and linguistic factors affecting speech understanding of teacher instructions in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing

Regular talk 10
17.00 – 17.30, Bettina Zeisler, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Germany
When hearing (and touching) replaces vision: a blind speaker’s use of the evidential marker for visual perception

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Keynote 2
9.30 – 10.30, Barbara Höhle, University of Potsdam, Germany
Not only noise: effects of acoustic variability on the development of phonological categories in early language acquisition

Regular talk 11
10.30 – 11.00, Bénédicte Grandon, and Esther Ruigendijk, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
The role of phonological information in lexical access in children with and without cochlear implants: a comprehension study

Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30

Regular talk 12
11.30 – 12.00, Kristin Sprenger, and Thomas Brand, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Modelling the effect of sentence context on word recognition in noisy and reverberated listening conditions for listeners with and without hearing loss

Regular talk 13
12.00 – 12.30, Dana Bsharat-Maalouf, and Hanin Karawani, University of Haifa, Israel
Bilingual subcortical speech in noise processing: from physiology to behavior