Our conferences and lectures focus on current topics from all areas of linguistics and examine them from various theoretical and empirical perspectives. Researchers and students of the University of Oldenburg as well as interested laypersons are cordially invited to attend. The contributions are organised by the linguistic components of the Institutes of English and American Studies, German Studies, Dutch Studies and Slavic Studies.

Past conferences

Oldenburg-Groningen Workshop on Language Acquisition and Processing
Organised by Esther Ruigendijk and Andreas Hiemstra
13 December 2023

15th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium
Organised by Katharina Schuhmann, Tio Rohloff and Chantal Rinke
01 - 02 December 2023

Advanced Language Acquisition
Organised by Esther Ruigendijk, Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke and Tanja Jungmann
10 to 11 October 2022

Oldenburg-Groningen Workshop on Language Acquisition and Processing
Organised by Ankelien Schippers, Andreas Hiemstra, Matthias Reiner, Esther Ruigendijk and Fenna Somberg
23 August 2022

The mirror asymetry: Long-distance subject/object asymmetries from a theoretical and empirical perspective
Organised by Ankelien Schippers
22 August 2022

Small languages, big ideas (SLBI)
Organised by Franziska Buchmann, Suzanne Dekkers, Andreas Hiemstra, Hanneke Loerts, Ankelien Schippers and Heike Schoormann
30 June to 1 July 2022

Current Trends in English Linguistics
Organised by Marcel Schlechtweg and Ronald Geluykens
19 May 2022

Hearing and Linguistics
Organised by Marcel Schlechtweg, Esther Ruigendijk, Bénédicte Grandon and Stephanie Kaucke
13 to 14 May 2022

22nd North German Linguistic Colloquium (NLK)
Organised by Burçin Amet, Marina Frank and Nadine Pirsch
7 to 8 April 2022

Interpunktion verpflichtet (AG 13 during the 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society)
Organised by Marcel Schlechtweg and Nanna Fuhrhop
24 to 25 February 2022

13th Northwest German Linguistic Colloquium (NWLK)
Organised by Marina Frank, Andreas Hiemstra and Marina Rohloff
12 November 2021

10th Colloquium of the Association for Low German Language Research (VndS)
Organised by Marina Frank, Robert Langhanke and Marina Rohloff
4 to 6 October 2021

Interfaces of Phonetics
Organised by Marcel Schlechtweg
18 to 19 May 2021

21st North German Linguistic Colloquium
Organised by Hanna Lüschow and Niklas Reinken
25 to 26 March 2020

Past lectures

The Scottish vowel length rule
Tamara Rathcke, University of Konstanz
17 January 2024

Computational and empirical analyses of vowels produced by learners of English
Martin Schweinberger, The University of Queensland, Australia
13 December 2023

Diachronic and diatopic diversity of Ukrainian in corpora resources
Maria Shvedova & Dmitri Sitchinava, Friedrich Schiller University Jena & University of Potsdam
12 July 2023

The processing of compounds and phrases
Hilary Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
14 June 2023

Electrophysiology as a window into (a)typical language development
Claudia Männel, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
10 May 2023

The consideration of gender in sociophonetic research - Nature vs. Nurture
Melanie Weirich, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
3 May 2023

Spreading like a virus - COVID discourses in the UK and Germany
Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg
26 April 2023

A user-friendly linguistic corpus: How do you make one and what can you do with it?
Timofey Arkhangelskiy, University of Hamburg
19 April 2023

"Stating the Obvious": Genus differentiation in the 1st person singular
Thomas Berg, Universität Hamburg
13 July 2022

The dialecrs of East Slavic languages in contact with Spanish in South America
Gleb Pilipenko
6 July 2022

Compounding from a psycholinguistic perspective
Christina Gagné, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
15 June 2022

Building up a phonological system: Asymmetries in phonological perception and production
Paula Fikkert, Radboud University, Netherlands
18 May 2022

Alignment in foreign language teaching
Marije Michel, University of Groningen, Netherlands
11 May 2022

Tense and aspect in bilingual acquisition
Elena Nicoladis, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada
4 May 2022

Accented speech perception: evidence from electrophysiology
Sendy Caffarra, Stanford University, USA + University of Modena, Italy
24 November 2021

The production of syllable-timing patterns by bilingual children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing
Mark A. Gibson, University of Navarra, Spain
17 November 2021

Embodied grammar in dairy cows
Marjo van Koppen & Leonie Cornips, University of Groningen, Netherlands
14 July 2021

Language acquisition
Petra Schulz, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
30 June 2021

Language dynamics in language history
Renata Szczepaniak, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
9 June 2021

The evolution of diversity in the Balkan Slavic dialects: Complexity and innovations
Anastasia Echer, Maria Morozova & Alexander Rusakov
2 June 2021

On the dynamics of the effect of hate speech forms on the recipient: An analysis with biosignals
Oliver Niebuhr, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
19 May 2021

Corpus linguistics
Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
5 May 2021

Clitics in contact
Francesco Gardani, University of Zurich, Switzerland
21 April 2021