[Provisional program]
Keynotes
Prof. Dr. Harald Baayen (Universität Tübingen / University of Alberta, Edmonton), Dr. Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley): "Twenty-eight years of vowels: An investigation of changes in vowel formants and vowel duration in the Up corpus"
- Prof. Dr. Heidi Hamilton (Georgetown University): "Language, dementia and meaning-making in art galleries and homes: Objects of joint attention as resources for transforming knowledge, building topics and lifting spirits"
- Prof. Dr. Deborah Keller-Cohen (University of Michigan): "Pragmatic Spaces and social relations in aging"
Prof. Dr. Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University): "Being ordinary: A powerful narrative strategy when feeling vulnerable"
- Dr. Heather Harris Wright (East Carolina University): "Discourse Changes with Age: Considering microlinguistic and macrolinguistic processes"
Talks / Presentations
- Dr. Peter Backhaus: "Communication in institutional eldercare: A Japanese perspective" (WASEDA University)
- Dr. Marion Blondel (SFL, CNRS-Paris8), Dr. Dominique Boutet (Université Evry / LIAS), Dr. Sarra El Ayari (SFL, CNRS-Paris8), Coralie Vincent (SFL, CNRS-Paris8): "LSF interactions in older signers: wich insights from motion capture?"
- Dr. Catherine T. Bolly: "Multimodal stance in later life" (Universität zu Köln / UCLouvain)
Prof. Dr. David Bowie (University of Anchorage, Alaska): "The role of the individual in the development of the Western Vowel System in Utah"
- Prof. Dr. Buchstaller Isabel (Universität Leipzig): "The effect of the socio-economic trajectory on longitudinal life-span change"
- Dr. Céline De Looze (Trinity College Dublin): "Speech markers as an objective evaluation of cognitive impairment and related psychosocial outcomes in populations with Mild-Cognitive Impairment and mild-to-moderate Alzheimer’s disease"
- Dr. Valantis Fyndanis (University of Oslo): "Methods for assessing language abilities in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease"
- Prof. Dr. Frédérique Gayraud (Université of Lyon 2): "Problems with assessing cognitive abilities in bilingual patients with Alzheimer's disease"
- Prof. Dr. Annette Gerstenberg (Freie Universität Berlin): "Normative features in a longitudinal perspective"
- Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak (University of Poznan): "Narratives about life across generations: communicating generational intelligence"
- Dr. Camilla Lindholm (University of Helsinki): "Eating or interacting? Feeding situations as communication"
- Dr. Lucia Marconi (CNR): "Nouns and verbs extracted from an Italian corpus of the elderly"
- Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Parisot, Dr. Julie Rinfret (Université de Québec, Montréal): "Intergenerational variation in the use of space in Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ): The case of verb agreement marking Université de Québec, Montréal"
- Dr. Lucie Rousier-Vercruyssen (University of Neuchâtel / University of Paris Nanterre La Défense): "How when and why old speakers use less specific referential expressions within their narrative flow than young speakers?"
- Dr. Svenja Sachweh (TalkCare Bochum): "As good as it (probably) gets - how living in a dementia housing project engenders animation and interactivity"
- Prof. Dr. Johannes Schröder (Universität Heidelberg): "ILSE Corpus: Experiences from the longitudinal study"
- Inneke Schuurman (KU Leuven): "You're never too old for E-inclusion, are you?"
Dr. Maarja Siiner (University of Oslo): "Dementia and raging talk and talk about dementia and ageing: some examples of use of corpora"
Prof. Dr. Jan Svennevig (University of Oslo): "Collaborative word searches in conversations involving bilingual speakers with dementia"
Call for abstracts
We encourage people to submit proposals for project or corpora presentations dealing with issues in language and aging (see Call for proposals).
