Programme
Wednesday (Feb 27)
| 11:00 | CLARe: Board, Chairs, Inscription |
| 13:30 |
Welcome addresses Professor Pirjo Hiidenmaa (Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki) |
| Chair: Annette Gerstenberg | |
| 14:00 | Plenary Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen): Changes across linguistic levels and across life stages: In search of a pattern |
| 15:00 | David Bowie (Department of English, University of Alaska): Post-vernacular variation amidst a changing vernacular: The case of back vowel fronting in Utah |
| 15:30 | Karen V. Beaman (Queen Mary University of London), Harald Baayen & Michael Ramscar (Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen): Defounding the Effects of Competition and Attrition on Dialect Across the Lifespan |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Camilla Lindholm | |
| 16:30 | Seija Pekkala & Katja Jauhiainen (Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki): Cohesive devices in the diaries of a person with Alzheimer's disease |
| 17:00 | Jan Svennevig & Anne Marie Landmark (Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo): Managing knowledge claims in dementia care encounters |
| 17:30 | Kaarina Mononen (Department of Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki): Supporting residents’ autonomy in interaction in residential care homes |
Thursday (Feb 28)
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Chair: Jan Svennevig |
| 09:30 | Plenary Christina Samuelsson (Linköping University): Communication involving people with dementia |
| 10:30 | Anna Charalambidou (Media Department, Middlesex University): Terms of address in peer interactions of older women |
| 11:00 | Break |
| Chair: Christina Samuelsson | |
| 11:30 | Carolin Schneider & Birte Bös (Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen): Metapragmatic reflections on verbal interactions with Alzheimer’s Dementia patients – A social media study |
| 12:00 | Yoshiko Matsumoto (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University): Looking through the glasses of Lee, a woman with Alzheimer’s |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Sylvie Ratté | |
| 13:30 | Minxia Luo (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich), Gerold Schneider (English Department, University of Zürich), Megan Robbins (Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside), Mike Martin (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich) & Burcu Demiray (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich): Real-life Language Use Across Different Interlocutors: Two Naturalistic Observation Studies of Adults Varying in Age |
| 14:00 | Caroline Beese (MPI Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig), Markus Werkle-Bergner, Ulman Lindenberger (MPI Human Development, Berlin), Angela D. Friederici, & Lars Meyer (MPI Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig): Age-Related Decline in Sentence Processing: Deriving Corpus-Linguistic Hypotheses from Psycholinguistic Data |
| 14:30 | Juliane Gall (University of Leipzig): Disfluencies in older age – a longitudinal study on individuals |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 |
Corpus and poster presentations Yvonne Behrens (Seminar für Slavistik, University of Bochum): Using a picture naming task to measure the lexical knowledge of Polish- German bilingual Alzheimer's sufferers Karolina Czopek (Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw) & Joanna Byszuk (Instiute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences): Older language learner: a comparative corpus study of FL performance and learning materials Sanna Kaski & Seija Pekkala (Department of Psychology and Logopedics, University of Helsinki): Attitudes toward others in the diaries of a person with Alzheimer's disease Keith Liang (Teachers College, Columbia University): Language, Aging and Depression: Linguistic Predictors of Geriatric Depression Corpus presentations Ronny Beckert (Romanisches Seminar, Heidelberg University): “Varia-Idade” – Linguistic and discursive strategies of older people in Rio de Janeiro Marion Blondel, Fanny Catteau & Coralie Vincent (SFL, CNRS-Paris8 UPL, France), Dominique Boutet (DYLIS, Univ-Rouen, France): Signing amplitude in older signers of the SignAge Corpus: Insights from motion capture Anna Johansson (Department of Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies): “Can you repeat?”- Caregivers’ use of repair to achieve mutual understanding with persons with dementia Katrin Bente Karl (Seminar für Slavistik, Ruhr-University Bochum): Older bilingual persons in German nursing homes – a corpus presentation Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Kristina Lundholn Fors, Kathleen Fraser, Marie Eckerström, Greta Horn & Charalambos Themistokleous (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): A Multifaceted Corpus for the Study of Cognitive Decline in a Swedish Population Coralie Vincent, Fanny Catteau, Marion Blondel (SFL, CNRS-Paris8 UPL, France), Dominique Boutet (DYLIS, Univ-Rouen, France): The SignAge Corpus: Recording older signers with low cost motion capture devices Erick Velázquez Godínez, Julie Kairet, Annette Gerstenberg (Romance linguistics, Potsdam University): Exploring the LangAge Corpora with LaBB-CAT
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| 19:00 | Conference dinner at Restaurant Meripaviljonki (address: Säästöpankinranta 3) |
Friday (March 01)
| Chair: Anna Charalambidou | |
| 09:00 | Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak (Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University): Negotiating (life) time identity in cross-generational interaction |
| 09:30 | Rachel Heinrichsmeier (School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London): “It’s the only time you can have a good laugh”: investigating interaction and wellbeing in older women’s hair-salon talk |
| 10:00 | Jolien Makkinga (Meertens Instituut, Maastricht University): Internalized ageism in interaction |
| 10:30 | Christian Meier zu Verl & Christian Meyer (History and Sociology Department, University of Konstanz): Dementia, Intercorporeality and Cooperative Practice |
| 11:00 | Break |
| Chair: Birte Bös | |
| 11:30 | Svetlana Malyutina, Elena Savinova, Zoya Evdaeva, Anna Laurinavichyute, Galina Ryazanskaya, Alexandra Simdyanova, Anastasiya Antonova, Anastasiya Lopukhina (Center for Language and Brain, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia): Good-enough sentence processing in younger and older adults under normal and visual-noise processing conditions |
| 12:00 | Minxia Luo (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich) , Mona Neysari (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich), Gerold Schneider (English Department, University of Zürich), Mike Martin (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich) & Burcu Demiray (Department of Psychology, University of Zürich): Effects of Age and Interlocutors on Language Use: Conflict Conversations of Couples Varying in Age |
| 12:30 | Barbara Mertins, Renate Delucchi, Holger Mertins, Carina Ilgner, Kim Meitner & Judith Wulf (Psycholinguistics laboratories, TU Dortmund): Cognitive and linguistic indicators of Alzheimer's: an eye-tracking approach |
| 13:00 | Dagmar Bittner (Leibniz Center for General Linguistics, Berlin) & Johannes Schröder (Universitätsklinikum, University of Heidelberg): Pronoun use in German-speaking Alzheimer-patients vs. controls |
| 13:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Frans Gregersen | |
| 14:30 | Plenary Sylvie Ratté (École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal): How can Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing help researchers to study communication behaviors in later age? |
| 15:30 | Isabelle Buchstaller & Johanna Mechler (Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen): Age grading across 42 years of panel data from the North East of England |
| 16:00 | Camilla Lindholm; Annette Gerstenberg: Concluding remarks |