@misc{GotznerWartenburgerSpalek2016,
  author    = {Gotzner, Nicole and Wartenburger, Isabell and Spalek, Katharina},
  title     = {The impact of focus particles on the recognition and rejection of contrastive alternatives},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {517},
  issn      = {1866-8364},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-41342},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413420},
  pages     = {37},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The semantics of focus particles like only requires a set of alternatives (Rooth, 1992). In two experiments, we investigated the impact of such particles on the retrieval of alternatives that are mentioned in the prior context or unmentioned. The first experiment used a probe recognition task and showed that focus particles interfere with the recognition of mentioned alternatives and the rejection of unmentioned alternatives relative to a condition without a particle. A second lexical decision experiment demonstrated priming effects for mentioned and unmentioned alternatives (compared with an unrelated condition) while focus particles caused additional interference effects. Overall, our results indicate that focus particles trigger an active search for alternatives and lead to a competition between mentioned alternatives, unmentioned alternatives, and the focused element.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BurmesterSauermannSpaleketal.2018,
  author    = {Burmester, Juliane and Sauermann, Antje and Spalek, Katharina and Wartenburger, Isabell},
  title     = {Sensitivity to salience},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {454},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412838},
  pages     = {19},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person's gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse.},
  language  = {en}
}