Schedule

Friday 9 April

10:30-10:45
Walk-in

10:45-11:00 Welcome
A welcoming message by T.W.I.S.T.'s chairperson Annemarie van Heerwaarden

11:00-12:00 Keynote 1
Dr. Tessa Verhoef
Conventionalisation in space and time: emergence of structure and meaning in language

12:05-12:25 Student talks
1. Yuliia Zaichenko (PhD)
Linguocultural Character Types in Fantasy Texts
2. Jérémy Genette (MA)
Voice Quality and Language Attitudes: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study

12:25-12:40 Short break

Short break

12:40-13:00 Student talks
3. Jeroen van Ravenhorst (MA)
Korean verbs of perception
4. Erika Sajtós (BA)
Investigating short front vowel shifts in New Zealand English

13:05-13:35 Student talks
5. Kambiz Nasseri (BA)
Perception of the English word-final plosive voicing contrast by native speakers of Dutch and Farsi
6. Clemens Mayer (MA)
The Language of Motion: Animacy-based semantic restrictions on movement and posture verbs in Sentani

13:35-14:00 Long break

Long break

14:00-14:20 Student talks
7. Ariëlle Reitsema (BA)
The Quest to Ban All Linguistic Impurities: Ideological Reasons for North and South Korea’s Diverging Attitudes Towards Loanwords
8. Jelle Christiaans (BA)
Is Japanese “split-ergative”? On alignment typology and diagnostics

14:30-15:30 Keynote 2
Dr. Eduardo Alves Vieira
Is Portuguese becoming queer(er)? The use of the Pajubá slang and expressions by (non)LGBTQIA+ speakers in Brazil

Saturday 10 April

10:30-10:45
Walk-in

10:45-11:00 Welcome
A welcoming message by T.W.I.S.T.'s chairperson Annemarie van Heerwaarden

11:00-12:00 Keynote 3
Prof. dr. Helen de Hoop
"Leiden, you are raining!" Spatio-temporal addressees in tweets

12:05-12:25 Student talks
9. Lorenzo Oechies & Suze Geuke (MA)
How Chinese is The Hague's Chinatown?
10. Maggie Mi (BA)
The Unsolved Problem of Language Identification: A GMM-based Approach

12:25-12:40 Short break

Short break

12:40-13:00 Student talks
11. Nadine Bayer (MA)
Peculiarities of the two Judaeo-Arabic Varieties of Sudan
12. Shaun Tyan Gin Lim (BA)
From Pasir Ris to Pioneer: Naming Practices of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Stations

13:05-13:35 Student talks
13. Boussayer Abdelaaziz (PhD)
NP-internal Agreement: Adjectival modification in Tamazight
14. Mitchell McKee (BA)
Fight the virus, stick with the rules and reduce the peak: an analysis of the metaphors used by Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic

13:35-14:00 Long break

Long break

14:00-14:20 Student talks
15. Amari Grey Johnson (BA)
Black Twitter: Semiotics of the Digital Self
16. Yingyu Su (MA)
Why-Stripping in Mandarin Chinese

14:30-15:30 Keynote 4
Dr. Nick Emlen
Poetics, metaphor, and sound symbolism in a 17th century Aymara text: a view from anthropological linguistics

Sunday 11 April

10:30-10:45
Walk-in

10:45-11:00 Welcome
A welcoming message by T.W.I.S.T.'s chairperson Annemarie van Heerwaarden

11:00-12:00 Keynote 5
Dr. Xander Vertegaal
A Luwian Conspiracy

12:05-12:25 Student talks
17. Tekla Gabunia (MA)
To Us!: Georgian Tradition of Toasting and its Effects
18. Matías Sanhueza (MA)
“HIV and homoerotism configure my identity”: Sociodiscursive representations of homosexuality and HIV/aids in young homoerotic guys who live with HIV in Santiago, Chile

12:25-12:40 Short break

Short break

12:40-13:00 Student talks
19. Luuk Suurmeijer (MA)
Compositionality in Neural Semantics
20. Hamza R'boul (PhD)
Teaching Interculturality and the Supremacy of English in Expanding Circle Countries: Culture, Language and Identity

13:05-13:35 Student talks
21. Heran Gao
Why Should People Care If a Language Goes Extinct?
22. Andrea Melina Leiva Pennesi (MA)
Word classes and word formation in LSA

13:35-14:00 Long break

Long break

14:00-15:30 Quiz by Jansen&Jansen