Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon
Associate
Professor of Linguistics
Head of
the
Department
of Linguistics and Computational
Universitätsstraße
65-67
A-9020
Research Interests Selected Publications Presentations (since 1999) Upcoming Conferences
Language Universals and Typology
Cognitive Linguistics
Morphology
Quantitative Linguistics
Evolution of Language
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2012). Vowels Systems, Musical Scales,
and Musilanguage. In: S.I. Masalova, A.K. Belousova & O.M. Štompel’ (eds.) Kognitivnye issledovanija na
sovremennom etape. KISE-2012. Proceedings of the “Tret’ei Meždunarodnoi
Naučno-Praktičeskoi Konferencii”, March 29-30, Rostov-na-Donu,
Russia: UDK 101.1+167
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2011). Complexity
trade-offs in language do not imply an equal overall complexity. In: V.
Solovyev, V. Polyakov (eds.) Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies. Paper
Collection No 20. XIII th International Conference “Cognitive
Modeling in Linguistics”, 164-167. Kazan: Kazan State University Press.
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2011). Abductive inferences in systemic
typology. In: V. Solovyev, V. Polyakov (eds.) Text Processing and Cognitive
Technologies. Paper Collection No 20.
XIII th International
Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, 180-183. Kazan: Kazan State
University Press.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2010). Frequency
effects on the emergence of polysemy and homophony. International Journal
“Information Technologies and Knowledge 2010, 4 (2), 103-109.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2010). Parallèles entre langage et musique: perspective
cognitive et évolutionaire. In: I. Deliege, O. Vitouch
& O. Ladinig (eds.) Musique et
Evolution, 171-186. Wavre
(Belgique): Editions Mardaga.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2010). Measuring
Basic Tempo across Languages and some Implications for Speech Rhythm. In:
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International
Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2010), Makuhari, Japan,
1537-1540.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2010). The Association between Word
Frequency and Polysemy – a Chicken and Egg Problem? In: V. Solovyev, V.
Polyakov (eds.) Proceedings of the XII
th International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”,
167-170. Kazan: Kazan State University Press.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2009). Musical pitch in nonsense syllables: Correlations
with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives. In: J. Louhivou et al. (eds.) Proceedings of 7th Triennal
Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM
2009), University of Jyväskyla, 2009. PDF
of ms
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2009). Some
Parallels between Language and Music from a Cognitive and Evolutionary
Perspective. Musicae Scientiae,
Special Issue: Music and Evolution 2009-2010, 201-226.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2008). Scales and Cognitive Economy. In
V. Polyakov (ed.) Text Processing and
Cognitive Technologies: Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics: Proceedings of the
Xth International Conference, No 5, Vol. 2, 234-242.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2008). Complexity trade-offs between the
subsystems of language. In: M. Miestamo, K. Sinnemäki, F. Karlsson (eds.) Language Complexity: Typology, Contact,
Change. “Studies in Language Companion Series”, 43-65.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. PDF of ms
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2007). Inference and Reference in
Language Evolution. In: S. Vasniadou, D. Kayser & A. Protopapas (eds.)
Proceedings of EuroCogsci07. The European
Cognitive Science Conference, p. 889. Hove: Erlbaum.
Fenk-Oczlon,G. & Fenk, A. (2007). Linguistic complexity:
conceptualizations and results. In: G. Smith & M. Jones (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 1749. New York: Erlbaum.
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Word
Classes and Word Order. In: R. Sun & N. Miyake (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society in Vancouver, p. 2479.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2006). Speech
Rhythm and Speech Rate in Crosslinguistic Comparison. In: R. Sun & N. Miyake (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society in Vancouver, p. 2480.
Fenk, A., Fenk-Oczlon, G., &
Fenk, L. (2006). Syllable Complexity as a
Function of Word Complexity. (Menzerath’s Law) In: V. Solovyev, V. Goldberg, V. Polyakov
(eds.) The VIII th International Conference ‘Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics
2005’, Text Processing and Cognitive
Technologies 11, 324-333. Kazan: Kazan State University.
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Crosslinguistic Computation and a Rhythm-based
Classification of Languages. In: M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A.
Nürnberger, W. Gaul (eds.) From Data Information Analysis to Knowledge
Engineering. Proceedings of the 29 th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für
Klassifikation, 350-357. Berlin /Heidelberg: Springer. PDF of ms
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Within-sentence distribution and retention of content
words and function words. In: P. Grzybek (ed.) Contributions to the Science of
Text and Language. Word Length Studies and Related Issues, 157-170.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2005). Cognitive Constraints on the
Organization of Language and Music. In: B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M.
Bucciareli (eds.) Proceedings of the
Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2476.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Winkler, Ch. (eds.), (2005). Sprache und Natürlichkeit. Gedenkband für Willi
Mayerthaler. Tübingen: Gunther Narr.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (2005). Crosslinguistic correlations between size of
syllables, number of cases, and adposition order. In: G. Fenk-Oczlon &
Ch. Winkler (eds.) Sprache und
Natürlichkeit. Gedenkband für Willi Mayerthaler, 75-86. Tübingen; Gunther
Narr. pdf: Crosslinguistic correlations between size of
syllables, number of cases, and adposition order. html
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (2004). Systemic Typology and Crosslinguistic Regularities. In: V.
Solovyev & V. Polyakov (eds.) Text
Processing and Cognitive Technologies, 229-234.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002). Zipf's Tool Analogy and Word Order.
Glottometrics 5: 22-28.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002). The Clausal
Structure of Linguistic and Pre-linguistic behavior. In : T.
Givon & B.E. Malle (eds.) The
Evolution of Language out of Pre-Language. 215-229.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Fenk-Oczlon, G.
(2002). Osvedomlennost', potok informacii i lingvističeskaja forma. In: V.D.
Solovyev (ed.) Lekcii po kognitivnym
naukam. Kazan: Otechestvo. http://www.ksu.ru/ss/cogsci04/education/fenk.rtf
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (2002). Kognitive Ökonomie - sprachliche Universalien. In: P. Anreiter, P.
Ernst & I. Hausner (Hrsg.) Namen,
Sprachen und Kulturen; Imena, Jeziki in Kulture. Festschrift für Heinz
Dieter Pohl zum 60. Geburtstag, 203-220. Wien: Edition Praesens. pdf: Kognitive Ökonomie
- sprachliche Universalien. htm
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (2001). Familiarity, Information Flow, and Linguistic Form.
In: J. Bybee and P. Hopper (eds.) Frequency
and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, 431-448. Amsterdam/Philadelphia:
John Benjamins Publishing Company. pdf
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (2001). Speech Segmentation and immediate memory span. Time or Chunks,
or Time and Chunks. In: R.K. Potapova, V.D. Solovyev, V.N. Polyakov (eds.) Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (2001). What
language tells us about immediate memory span. In: K.W. Kallus, N. Posthumus & P. Jimenez (eds.) Current psychological research in Austria.
Proceedings of the 4th scientific conference of the Austrian
Psychological Society, 175-179. Graz:
Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt. htm
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. (2000). The Magical Number Seven in Language and Cognition:
Empirical Evidence and Prospects of Future Research. Papiere zur Linguistik 62/63:
3-14. pdf
htm
Fenk, A. &
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1999). Symbolsystem
Sprache. Denken & Glauben 99 (Themenheft
Kommunikation):19 - 23.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (1999). Cognition, Quantitative Linguistics, and Systemic
Typology. Linguistic Typology, 3: 151 - 177. pdf
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. (1995). Selbstorganisation und natürliche Typologie. Sprachtypologie und
Universalienforschung (STUF), 48, 3,
223-238. pdf
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. (1994). Psychische
Präsenzzeit und Selbstorganisation von Sprache. In: K. H. Ramers, H. Vater
& H. Wode (eds.) Universale
phonologische Strukturen und Prozesse, 151-167. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. pdf
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1994). Gedächtnisspanne und Sprachuniversalien“. In: H. Janig (Hrsg.) Bericht
über die 1. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für
Psychologie, 65-69. Klagenfurt: Universitätsverlag Carinthia.
Fenk,
A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1993). Menzerath's law
and the constant flow of linguistic information. In:
R. Köhler & B. Rieger, (eds.) Contributions to quantitative linguistics, 11-31. Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1991). Frequenz und Kognition - Frequenz und Markiertheit. Folia Linguistica 25: 361-394. pdf.
Fenk,
A. and Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1991). Menzerath's law explaining cross-linguistic
functions, and explained by cognitive principles”. In: Ch. Saalmann, H. Schulte
(eds.), Second International Cognitive
Linguistics Conference, Santa Cruz (California) 1991, 42-44, Duisburg,
L.A.U.D., A 312.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1990). Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip. Am Beispiel russischer
Aspekt- und Kasusbildungen. Papiere zur Linguistik 40: 46-69. pdf.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1990). Ökonomieprinzipien in Kognition
und Kommunikation. In: N. Boretzky, W.Enninger, T. Stolz (eds), Spielarten der Natürlichkeit -
Spielarten der Ökonomie, 37-50. Bochum: Brockmayer. pdf.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1989). Geläufigkeit als Determinante von
phonologischen Backgrounding-Prozessen. Papiere zur Linguistik 40:
91-103. pdf
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1989). Word frequency and word order
in freezes. Linguistics 27: 517-556. pdf.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1988).
Prototypentheorie und Frequenz. Klagenfurter
Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft: Vorträge der Arbeitstagung der
österreichischen Linguisten 13/14: 1988, 138-150
Fenk-Oczlon, G. and Fenk, A.
(1985) The mean length of propositions
is 7 plus minus 2 syllables – but the position of languages within this range
is not accidental. In: G. d’Ydevalle [ed.], Cognition, Information Processing, and Motivation, 355-359. North
Holland: Elsevier Science Publishers.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1983). Ist
die SVO-Wortfolge die natürlichste? Papiere
zur Linguistik 29: 23-32.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1983).
Kein Weiher in Österreich? Österreichische
Namenforschung 9/11: 3-9.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1983). Bedeutungseinheiten und sprachliche Segmentierung.
Eine sprachvergleichende Untersuchung über kognitive Determinanten der
Kernsatzlänge. Tübingen: G. Narr.
Fenk,
A. & Fenk G. (1980). Konstanz
im Kurzzeitgedächtnis - Konstanz im sprachlichen Informationsfluß? Zeitschrift
für experimentelle und angewandte Psychologie 27: 400 – 414.
PRESENTATIONS (since 1999)
44th Annual Meeting Societas Linguistica Europaea,
Logroño, September, 8-11, 2011
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Cross-linguistic
correlations between monosyllabism and syllabic complexity”
XIIIth International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics”, Corfu, September 22-29
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.
“Complexity trade-offs in language do not imply
an equal overall complexity” plenary talk
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Abductive inferences
in systemic typology”
15th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian
Linguistics, Malang, East Java, June, 24-26, 2011
Fenk-Oczlon, G & Fenk, A. “Malay/Indonesian
Languages in cross-linguistic comparison: Using parallel texts and quantitative
data”
XIth International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Xi’an, China, July, 11-17, 2011
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Commonalities between
Vowel Systems and Musical Scales”
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Mental Models and
Spatial Metaphors in Diagrammatic Representation”
“Topics in Musical Universals” 1st International
Colloquium, Aix-en-Provence, December 3-4, 2010
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Cross-cultural
parallels between vowel inventories and musical scales: Evidence from ethnic
music”
INTERSPEECH 2010, Makuhari, Japan, September 26-30,
2010
Fenk-Oczlon G. & Fenk, A. “Measuring Basic Tempo
across Languages and some Implications for Speech Rhythm”
XII International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics-2010”, Dubrovnik, September 6-12, 2010
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “The Association
between word Frequency and Polysemy – a Chicken and Egg Problem?” plenary talk
14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, May
13-16
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Animacy-related differential object
marking in Bavarian: a frequency-based approach”
9th Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Charles
University, Prague, Oct 15-17, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Frequency versus iconicity revisited:
Differential object marking and the length of aspect forms in Russian.”
PowerPoint
Conference on “Monosyllabism: From Phonology to
Typology, University of Bremen, Sept 28-30, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Monosyllabism from a systemic
typological perspective” (invited speaker)
10th World Congress of Semiotics, A Coruna, Sept.
22-26, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Frequency effects on
the development of polysemy and homonymy”
42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica
Europaea, Lisboa, Sept. 9-12, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Frequency Effects in
Differential Object Marking”
7th Triennal Conference of the European Society for
the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Jyväskyla, August 12-16, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Musical pitch in
nonsense syllables: Correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary
perspectives”
8th Biennal Conference of the Asociation of Linguistic
Typology, University of California, Berkeley, July 23 –26, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Toward a typology of
monosyllabic languages”
Workshop on Complexity, Typology and Acquisition (Ian
Maddieson & Yvan Rose, org.), Collegium de Lyon, Institute for Advanced
Studies, May 27-28, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Interactions of complexity among the
subsystems of language” (invited contribution)
Int. Federation of Classification Societies 2009
Conference “Classification as a Tool for Research”, Dresden, University of
Technology, March 13-18, 2009
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Measures of Semantic
Complexity”
Int. Conference on “Cognitive Linguistics between
Universality and Variation”, Dubrovnik, Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2008
Fenk-Oczlon,G. & Fenk, A. “Frequency and the
emergence of polysemy”
10th Int.
Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, Becici, Montenegro, September
06-13, 2008
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. Scales and cognitive economy”
(plenary talk) PowerPoint pdf
32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification
Society, Hamburg, July 16-18, 2008.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Cross-linguistic
regularities in the monosyllabic system” Abstract pdf
Conference on Music & Language II, Tufts
University, Boston, July 10-13, 2008
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Vowels, musical
intervals, and Alpine yodeling” poster pdf
Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm,
University College London, 28 March 2008.
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “A crosslinguistic
measure of speech rate” poster pdf
Association for Linguistic Typology. 7th Biennal
Meeting, Paris, September 25 - 28, 2007
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Typological
differences in speech rate and rhythm: Different measures and new results”
10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,
Krakow, July 15 - 20, 2007
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “What is semantic
complexity?”
The Second European Cognitive Science Conference,
Delphi, May 23 - 27, 2007
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Inference and
reference in language evolution”
Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, University of
Cambridge, UK, May 11 - 13, 2007
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Syllables and clauses
in language – notes and phrases in music” PowerPoint pdf
34.
Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Sektionen, Klagenfurt, 8.-10. Dezember 2006
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. “Komplexität im monosyllabischen System”
Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St.
Petersburg, June 9-13, 2006
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Information Processing
Limitations and Linguistic Structure”
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “A Span of Two Seconds and Seven Elements in the
Segmentation of Language and Music?”
7.
Tagung der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Klagenfurt, 28.-30. April 2006
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Fundamental Patterns
in the Rhythmic Organization of Language and Music”
The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society, Vancouver, July 26-29, 2006
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Word classes and Word
Order”
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Speech Rhythm and
Speech Rate in Crosslinguistic Comparison”
International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics”, Varna, Bulgarien, September 04-11, 2005
Fenk, A., Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, L. “Syllable
Complexity as a Function of Word Complexity” (plenary speaker)
Symposium “Approaches to Complexity in Language”,
Helsinki, August 24-26, 2005
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Linguistic Complexity
from a Systemic Perspective”
Fenk, A., Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, L. “The Balance
between Word Complexity and Syllable Complexity”
Association for . Linguistic Typology. 6th Biennal Meeting, Padang, West Sumatra, July
21-25, 2005
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Systemic Typology –
Systemic Optimality”
XXVII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society,
Stresa, Italy, July 21-23, 2005
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Cognitive Constraints
on the Organization of Language and Music”
9th Int. Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Seoul,
Korea, July 17-22, 2005
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Frequency, Bleaching of Metaphors,
and Polysemy”
Fenk-Oczlon, G. &
Fenk, A. “Parallels between Language and Music from a Cognitive and
Evolutionary Perspective”
The Science of Language: Structures of Frequencies and
Relations. An International Symposium, University of Graz, July 1-3, 2005 Fotos
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Facets of Linguistic
Complexity” (invited speaker)
29th Annual Conference of the German Classification
Society (GfKL 2005), Magdeburg, March 09-11, 2005
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Crosslinguistic
Computation and a Rhythm-based Classification of Languages”
32.
Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, 12.- 14. November 2004
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. „Intonationseinheiten in Sprache und Musik – kognitiv und
evolutionär erklärbare Parallelen?
Fenk,
A & Fenk-Oczlon, G. „ Zur Rolle sensorischer Speicher in der Evolution von
Sprache“
University
of Ljubljana, “Linguistischer Zirkel”, November 8, 2004
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. “Häufigkeit und sprachliche Struktur” (guest lecturer)
International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics 2004”, Varna, September 4-11, 2004
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Systemic Typology and
Crosslinguistic Regularities” (plenary speaker)
International Conference on Language, Culture and
Mind, University of Portsmouth, July 18-20, 2004
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Syllables and clauses
in language – beats and phrases in music”
Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of
Language. Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, March 30
- April 3, 2004
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Co-evolution of
Language and Cognition" Index of /evolang2002/ABSTRACTS/TALKS
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of
Linguistics, March 3rd, 2004
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology" (guest
lecturer)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of
Linguistics, February 10th, 2004
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology and
Crosslinguistic Regularities" (guest lecturer)
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Department of Linguistics,
November 21st, 2003
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology" (guest
lecturer)
DIATYPE Symposium on diachrony, dialectology and
typological linguistics, University of Helsinki, October 16-18, 2003
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "A view of English
from a systemic-typological perspective" (paper accepted) Abstract
5th International Conference of the Association for
Linguistic Typology (ALT V), University of Cagliari, September 15-18, 2003
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "Crosslinguistic
correlations between size of syllables, number of cases, and adposition
order" Scientific Program, Abstract
8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,
University of La Rioja, July 20-25, 2003:
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "The magical
number seven in language processing"
30.
Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Universität Innsbruck, 6.-8. 12. 2002
Fenk,
A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Funktions-und Inhaltswörter in der statistischen
Binnenstruktur von Sätzen"
Int.Tagung
zur Quantitativen Textanalyse, Universität Graz, 21.-23.06. 2002
1)
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Häufigkeit, Länge und Variabilität von Kasusformen"
(invited speaker)
2) Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. "The decay of
function words in the recall of sentences of different size" (invited
speaker)
Int.
Symposium "Germanistik im Kontaktraum Europa II" Universität Maribor,
16.-20.04.2002:
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. "Systemische Sprachtypologie" (plenary speaker)
29.
Österreichische Linguistiktagung, 26.-28.10.2001
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. "Die magische Zahl 7 in Sprache und Kognition"
7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference,
University of California, Santa Barbara, July 22-27, 2001:
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "What Speech
Segmentation can Tell us about Memory Constraints"
Interdisciplinary Symposium "The Evolution of Language
out of Pre-Language" Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences,
University of Oregon, May 4-6, 2001
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "The Clausal
Structure of Linguistic and Pre-Linguistic Behavior" (invited paper)
PRO
SCIENTIA (Österreichisches Studienförderungswerk) Sommerakademie 2001,
Rahmenthema „Sprache", Stift Michaelbeuern, 26.-30.08.2000
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. "Systemische Sprachtypologie" (invited speaker)
Universität
Maribor, Institut für Germanistik, 27.03. 2001
Fenk-Oczlon,
G."Geläufigkeit und sprachliche Form" (guest lecturer)
Akademija
nauk Respubliki Tatarstan, Kazan, 20.10.2000
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Osvedomlennost', potok
informacii i lingvisti?eskaja forma" (invited speaker)
International Conference on 'Cognitive Typology'
University of Antwerp, April 12-14, 2000
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Cognitive Economy - Cognitive
Typology"
Linguistische Konferenz "Princìpy stavby vyinu a
fungovania jazyka" Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava
9.-10.3. 2000
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Geläufigkeit und sprachliche
Form" (invited speaker)
International Conference "Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics 2000" Pereslavl'-Zalesskij, Russian Association of Artifical
Intelligence, Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science, October 23-24,
2000
Fenk-Oczlon, G & Fenk, A. "Speech
Segmentation and Immediate Memory Span - Time or Chunks or Time and
Chunks?" (plenary
speaker)
Interdisziplinäres
Symposium „Bewußtsein bei Mensch und Tier: systemtheoretische
Betrachtungen" Wien 4.- 6. 5. 2000
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. "Gegenwartsdauer und sprachliche Segmentierung"
Universität
Innsbruck, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 25.03.1999
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. "Natürliche Typologie" (guest lecturer)
Symposium on Frequency Effects & Emergent Grammar.
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 28-30, 1999
Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Familiarity and Linguistic
Form" (invited paper)
Fifth Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference, The
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London 4-5 May
2012
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “The size of syllables, words and clauses
in 16 Austronesian languages: quantitative data and cross-linguistic
comparisons”
The Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Science, Kaliningrad,
Russia, 18-24 June 2012
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Differences in the intrinsic tempo of
languages”
4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kings College,
London, 10-12 July 2012
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Vowels as a link between language and
music”
45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea,
Stockholm, 29 August – 1 September 2012
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Language intrinsic tempo, word length,
and speech rhythm”
MISCELLANEOUS
Sabbatical from October 1, 2003 to February 29, 2004
Visiting Colleague, Fulbright Research Grant,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Linguistics,Dec 1/2003 – Feb
29/2004
Visiting Colleague, University of New Mexico,
Department of Linguistics, Nov 17 – Dec 1, 2004
Visiting Colleague, University of Colorado at Boulder,
Department of Linguistics, March 1 –
March 7, 2004
An abstract of Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002)
‘The Clausal Structure of Linguistic and Pre-linguistic behavior’
has recently been published in the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Hot Topics
Series Language Origins
International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in
Linguistics”. Program Committee: Varna, Bulgaria 2004, 2005; Sofia 2007; Becici
Montengreo 2008; Constantza 2009; Dubrovnik 2010; Corfu 2011
born in
St.Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria;
married to
August Fenk;
daughter Lisa (1981), son Lorenz (1985)
* Studies
at the University of Vienna (Ethnology, Russian)
*
Translator for Russian, University of Graz, Academic Diploma 1974
*
Linguistics, Slavic languages and literatures, and Psychology at the University
of Klagenfurt.
Mag. phil. 1978. Thesis title:
“Ist der Informationsfluß in natürlichen Sprachen konstant?“
* Dr.
phil. (Linguistics), University of Klagenfurt 1981
Published
version of the doctoral thesis:
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. 1983. "Bedeutungseinheiten und
sprachliche Segmentierung. Eine sprachvergleichende Untersuchung über kognitive
Determinanten der Kernsatzlänge."
Tübingen: G. Narr
Habilitation,
Venia docendi “General Linguistics” (1990). The Habilitation Thesis on
“Geläufigkeit und sprachliche Form” (Familiarity and Linguistic Form) includes the following
articles:
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1989). Word frequency and word order in freezes.
Linguistics
27: 517-556.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1989). Geläufigkeit als Determinante von
phonologischen Backgrounding-Prozessen. Papiere zur Linguistik 40: 91-103.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1990). Ökonomieprinzipien in Kognition und
Kommunikation. In N. Boretzky, W.Enninger, T. Stolz (eds), Spielarten der Natürlichkeit
- Spielarten der Ökonomie, 37-50. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1990). Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip. Am
Beispiel russischer Aspekt- und Kasusbildungen. Papiere zur Linguistik 40: 46-69.
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. (1991). Frequenz und Kognition - Frequenz
und Markiertheit. Folia
Linguistica 25: 361-394.
Since 1996
chair of the Department of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics,
Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt
