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Tue., 3rd October
19:00	Warm-up dinner (Brauhaus)

Wed., 4th October
08:30 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 09:45	Opening
	Session chair: Farhat Jabeen
09:45 – 10:45	Plenary talk by Elsi Kaiser: Informativity, interaction and information structure: Psycholinguistic investigations of prosody
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00	Stefan Baumann, Jane Mertens, & Janina Kalbertodt: How ornamental are German prenuclear accents? >> slides
12:00 – 12:45	Ion Tudor Giurgea: On a special prosodic pattern of polar questions in Romanian >> Hand-out
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch Break
	Session chair: Talina Weber
13:45 – 14:30	Anna Bruggeman & Sam Hellmuth: Tune-text mapping in Moroccan Arabic question word interrogatives
14:30 – 16:00	Poster Session (Room E402)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30	Plenary talk by Petra Schulz: The role of prosody in the acquisition of relative clause meaning
19:00	Wine tasting (Weinmarkt an der Laube)

Thur., 5th October
	Session chair: Katharina Zahner
09:30 – 10:30	Plenary talk by Sonia Frota: Early perception of the prosody of statements and questions >> slides
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:45	Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie: Intonation of alternative constructions and information structure >> slides
11:45 – 12:30	Cristel Portes, Arndt Riester, & Uwe Reyle: How does French mark focus and givenness? A corpus study in a QUD approach
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break
	Session chair: Jana Neitsch
13:30 – 14:15	Janina Kalbertodt & Stefan Baumann: Two types of right dislocation – How differences in information structure affect their prosodic realisation >> slides
14:15 – 15:00	Marta Wierzba: Wh-movement and sentence stress >> slides
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30	Plenary talk by Oliver Niebuhr: How to ask without a question and to reply without an answer - Prosodic meaning dimensions in German dialogues >> slides
19:00	Conference dinner (Constanzer Wirtshaus) Menu
Fri., 6th October
	Session chair: Gisela Disselkamp
09:30 – 10:15	Yuki Asano, Ann-Kathrin Grohe, Heather Kember, & Andrea Weber: Experience with Australian English affects perception of high rising terminal contours
10:15 – 11:00	Francisco Torreira & Simeon Floyd: Intonational meaning in Spanish conversation: Low-rising vs. circumflex questions >> slides
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30	Plenary talk by Daniel Büring: Unalternative semantics: A focus semantics based on relations
12:30 – 12:40	Closing