Speakers and Schedule
Kellogg School of Management
Room
1246 in the Donald P. Jacobs Center


9:00-9:10am Opening Comments
9:10-9:40am Matt Carlson*, Morgan Sonderegger and Max Bane, *University of Texas-El Paso, The impact of phonological network structure in child-directed speech on children's word learning: A survival analysis
9:40-10:10am Michael Vitevitch, University of Kansas, The influence of path-length and assortative mixing by degree on lexical processing
10:10-10:30am Break
10:30-11:00am Alexander Mehler, Goethe University, Text-technological aspects of linguistic networks
11:00-11:30am Nicole Beckage*, Carter Butts and Linda Smith, *University of California-Irvine, Network growth models of semantic acquisition
11:30-Noon Paolo Masucci, University College of London, Semantic flows in Wikipedia and the dynamics of meaning
Noon - 1:30pm Lunch break on your own
1:30 - 2:00pm  Gareth J. Baxter, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Network Effects in a Language Change Model
2:00 - 2:30pm Matthew Brook O’Donnell Nick C Ellis and Gin Corden, University of Michigan, Exploring semantics in verb argument constructions using community identification algorithms
2:30 - 2:50pm Break
3:00 - 3:30pm Xiaoju Zheng, Northwestern University, Using User Dispersion to Understand Hashtag Dynamics on Twitter
3:30 - 4:00pm Andrea Baronchelli, Northeastern University, The Role of Topology on the Emergence of a Shared Linguistic Convention
4:00 - 4:10pm Closing Remarks

30 minutes will be allotted for each speaker. We anticipate that each person will present for ~25 minutes and leave ~5 minutes to address comments and questions.