Saturday, April 23rd 2022

10:30-10:45   Welcome  Lipsius 0.19


10:45-11:45   Keynote: Onno Crasborn  Lipsius 0.19

International sign: another language we all understand?


11:50-12:10   Sofiya Ros  Lipsius 0.05

Sabar drumming: music or language?

        Bertram Mullin  Lipsius 0.03

English as a Foreign Language Education Beyond University: Pronunciation Studies

 
12:10-12:25   Short break


(Discussion panel cancelled due to cases of COVID-19)


12:25-13:10   Iris Dijkstra & Kenya Ronde  Lipsius 0.05 

A community-built dictionary (Sranan Tongo) 


13:10-13:35   Long break


13:35-14:35   Keynote: Maria Carmen Fonseca-Mora  Lipsius 0.19

Musical aptitude as an individual difference in learning to read


14:40-15:00   Elise Alberts  Lipsius 0.05

Religion in a Second Language: Language Attitudes in International Anglophone Churches in the Netherlands

        Paula Badilla & Gabriel Colipán  Lipsius 0.03 

Testing Linguistic relativity: perceiving the world through more than one language


15:00-15:15   Short break


15:15-15:35   Jeroen van Ravenhorst  Lipsius 0.05

Comparison of semantic structures between Surinamese creole and West African languages

 
15:45-16:45   Keynote: Azeb Amha  Lipsius 0.19 

"Whistle my name": intersections of music and language among the Oyda people of Ethiopia

Sunday, April 24th 2022

10:30-10:45   Welcome  Lipsius 0.19 

 
10:45-11:45   Keynote: Peter-Alexander Kerkhof  Lipsius 0.19

How the Flemish made Holland and the case of Walloon toponyms in the northern Low Countries

 
11:50-12:10   Matthijs Verzijden  Lipsius 0.05

Hakka mountain songs

        Wout Damen  Lipsius 0.03

Handshape acquisition in Sign Language of the Netherlands

 
12:10-12:25   Short break


12:25-12:45   Jelle Christiaans  Lipsius 0.03

Reinventing a 2500-year-old category: on verbal aspect, breaking with tradition, and persuasive rhetoric (no knowledge of Classical Greek or the Greek alphabet necessary!)

 
12:50-13:10   Ariëlle Reitsema  Lipsius 0.05

Chameleon or Copycat? The Morphological Causative and Passive in Korean


13:10-13:35   Long break


13:35-14:35   Keynote: Dicky Gilbers  Lipsius 0.19 

Comparing language and music cross‑culturally


14:40-14:55   Closing  Lipsius 0.19 


15:00-15:20   Kambiz Nasseri  Lipsius 0.05

The effects of individual differences in L1-complexity on L2-complexity
David Ginebra  Lipsius 0.03

Segments defining the South America macro-area: evidence from a quantitative study

 
15:20-15:35   Short break


15:35-15:5 Aholi So  Lipsius 0.05

Language Transmission Challenges of Cantonese Heritage Speakers in the Netherlands

 
16:00-17:00   Workshop  Lipsius 2.33


16:00    →      Post-conference drinks at Pakhuis!

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Who organizes the Conference?

The conference is organized by the Conference Committee of Studievereniging T.W.I.S.T., the study association for Linguistics at Leiden University.