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). Vowel 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”, 145-148. 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”, 161-164. 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. (2009-2010). Some Parallels between Language and Music from a Cognitive and Evolutionary
Perspective. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue: Music and
Evolution (guest editors O. Vitouch & O. Ladinig) 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
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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. (1997). Die Länge einfacher deutscher Aussagesätze im
typologischen Vergleich. In: T. Birkmann, H.
Klingenberg, D. Nübling & E. Ronneberger-Sibold
(eds.) Vergleichende
germanische Philologie und Skandinavistik, Festschrift für Otmar Werner,
101-110. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
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)
From Grooming to Speaking: Recent trends in social primatology
and human ethology.
University of Lisbon, 10 – 12 September 2012
Fenk, A & Fenk-Oczlon,
G. “Language evolution requires and reinforces inferential machinery”
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”
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”
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”
Fenk-Oczlon,
G. & Fenk, A. “The size
of syllables, words and clauses in 16 Austronesian
languages: quantitative data and cross-linguistic comparisons”
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)
19th International Congress of Linguists, Geneva, 22-27 July 2013
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Relationships
between semantic complexity, structural complexity and markedness:
Frequency matters”
10th Biennal
Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, pre-conference Workshop on Corpus-based
Quantitative Typology (CoQuat 2013)
Fenk-Oczlon, G & Fenk, A. “Quantitative
typology based on a matched set of simple declarative sentences”
44th Poznan Linguistic Meeting: PLM2013, Poznan 29 August–1 September. Participant in the “Debate on linguistic complexity”
13th International Pragmatics Conference, New Delhi,
8-13 September 2013
Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Using
internet-based communication to keep track of animacy-related
differential object marking in Bavarian”.
46th Annual Meeting of the Societas
Linguistica Europaea,
Split, 18-21 September 2013
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk
A. “Parallel texts and cross-linguistic correlations”
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
head of the Department of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
