@misc{BoumaHendriks2011, author = {Bouma, Gerlof J. and Hendriks, Petra}, title = {Partial word order freezing in Dutch}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {625}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43049}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430496}, pages = {23}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Dutch allows for variation as to whether the first position in the sentence is occupied by the subject or by some other constituent, such as the direct object. In particular situations, however, this commonly observed variation in word order is 'frozen' and only the subject appears in first position. We hypothesize that this partial freezing of word order in Dutch can be explained from the dependence of the speaker's choice of word order on the hearer's interpretation of this word order. A formal model of this interaction between the speaker's perspective and the hearer's perspective is presented in terms of bidirectional Optimality Theory. Empirical predictions of this model regarding the interaction between word order and definiteness are confirmed by a quantitative corpus study.}, language = {en} } @misc{Mueller2011, author = {M{\"u}ller, Hans-Georg}, title = {The development of spelling skills in writing test an empirical study into class 1 to 4}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft}, volume = {30}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Sprachwissenschaft}, number = {2}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0721-9067}, pages = {305 -- 309}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{BostonHaleVasishthetal.2011, author = {Boston, Marisa Ferrara and Hale, John T. and Vasishth, Shravan and Kliegl, Reinhold}, title = {Parallel processing and sentence comprehension difficulty}, series = {Language and cognitive processes}, volume = {26}, journal = {Language and cognitive processes}, number = {3}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hove}, issn = {0169-0965}, doi = {10.1080/01690965.2010.492228}, pages = {301 -- 349}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Eye fixation durations during normal reading correlate with processing difficulty, but the specific cognitive mechanisms reflected in these measures are not well understood. This study finds support in German readers' eye fixations for two distinct difficulty metrics: surprisal, which reflects the change in probabilities across syntactic analyses as new words are integrated; and retrieval, which quantifies comprehension difficulty in terms of working memory constraints. We examine the predictions of both metrics using a family of dependency parsers indexed by an upper limit on the number of candidate syntactic analyses they retain at successive words. Surprisal models all fixation measures and regression probability. By contrast, retrieval does not model any measure in serial processing. As more candidate analyses are considered in parallel at each word, retrieval can account for the same measures as surprisal. This pattern suggests an important role for ranked parallelism in theories of sentence comprehension.}, language = {en} } @article{TelkemeyerRossiNierhausetal.2011, author = {Telkemeyer, Silke and Rossi, Sonja and Nierhaus, Till and Steinbrink, Jens and Obrig, Hellmuth and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Acoustic processing of temporally modulated sounds in infants evidence from a combined near-infrared spectroscopy and EEG study}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {2}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {2}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00062}, pages = {14}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Speech perception requires rapid extraction of the linguistic content from the acoustic signal. The ability to efficiently process rapid changes in auditory information is important for decoding speech and thereby crucial during language acquisition. Investigating functional networks of speech perception in infancy might elucidate neuronal ensembles supporting perceptual abilities that gate language acquisition. Interhemispheric specializations for language have been demonstrated in infants. How these asymmetries are shaped by basic temporal acoustic properties is under debate. We recently provided evidence that newborns process non-linguistic sounds sharing temporal features with language in a differential and lateralized fashion. The present study used the same material while measuring brain responses of 6 and 3 month old infants using simultaneous recordings of electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). NIRS reveals that the lateralization observed in newborns remains constant over the first months of life. While fast acoustic modulations elicit bilateral neuronal activations, slow modulations lead to right-lateralized responses. Additionally, auditory-evoked potentials and oscillatory EEG responses show differential responses for fast and slow modulations indicating a sensitivity for temporal acoustic variations. Oscillatory responses reveal an effect of development, that is, 6 but not 3 month old infants show stronger theta-band desynchronization for slowly modulated sounds. Whether this developmental effect is due to increasing fine-grained perception for spectrotemporal sounds in general remains speculative. Our findings support the notion that a more general specialization for acoustic properties can be considered the basis for lateralization of speech perception. The results show that concurrent assessment of vascular based imaging and electrophysiological responses have great potential in the research on language acquisition.}, language = {en} } @article{HanneSekerinaVasishthetal.2011, author = {Hanne, Sandra and Sekerina, Irina A. and Vasishth, Shravan and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {Chance in agrammatic sentence comprehension what does it really mean? Evidence from eye movements of German agrammatic aphasic patients}, series = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {25}, journal = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hove}, issn = {0268-7038}, doi = {10.1080/02687038.2010.489256}, pages = {221 -- 244}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Background: In addition to the canonical subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, German also allows for non-canonical order (OVS), and the case-marking system supports thematic role interpretation. Previous eye-tracking studies (Kamide et al., 2003; Knoeferle, 2007) have shown that unambiguous case information in non-canonical sentences is processed incrementally. For individuals with agrammatic aphasia, comprehension of non-canonical sentences is at chance level (Burchert et al., 2003). The trace deletion hypothesis (Grodzinsky 1995, 2000) claims that this is due to structural impairments in syntactic representations, which force the individual with aphasia (IWA) to apply a guessing strategy. However, recent studies investigating online sentence processing in aphasia (Caplan et al., 2007; Dickey et al., 2007) found that divergences exist in IWAs' sentence-processing routines depending on whether they comprehended non-canonical sentences correctly or not, pointing rather to a processing deficit explanation. Aims: The aim of the current study was to investigate agrammatic IWAs' online and offline sentence comprehension simultaneously in order to reveal what online sentence-processing strategies they rely on and how these differ from controls' processing routines. We further asked whether IWAs' offline chance performance for non-canonical sentences does indeed result from guessing. Methods Procedures: We used the visual-world paradigm and measured eye movements (as an index of online sentence processing) of controls (N = 8) and individuals with aphasia (N = 7) during a sentence-picture matching task. Additional offline measures were accuracy and reaction times. Outcomes Results: While the offline accuracy results corresponded to the pattern predicted by the TDH, IWAs' eye movements revealed systematic differences depending on the response accuracy. Conclusions: These findings constitute evidence against attributing IWAs' chance performance for non-canonical structures to mere guessing. Instead, our results support processing deficit explanations and characterise the agrammatic parser as deterministic and inefficient: it is slowed down, affected by intermittent deficiencies in performing syntactic operations, and fails to compute reanalysis even when one is detected.}, language = {en} } @article{Prickett2011, author = {Prickett, David James}, title = {'We will show you Berlin' space, leisure, flanerie and sexuality}, series = {Leisure studies : the journal of the Leisure Studies Association}, volume = {30}, journal = {Leisure studies : the journal of the Leisure Studies Association}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0261-4367}, doi = {10.1080/02614367.2010.523836}, pages = {157 -- 177}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Both the seat of the German government and the capitol of queer German culture, Berlin has been that spatial nexus of politics, sexuality and gender, work and leisure that has enabled the development of multifarious sexual and gender identities. This has caused celebration and consternation among Germans and foreigners alike. Contemporary studies of urban homosexual space cite an erosion of its 'authenticity' when cities market homosexual space in order to attract tourists. My literary analysis shows that Berlin's homosexual male culture and space had already been subject to commoditisation in the Weimar period (1918-1933), when Berliners discovered marketing potential in the French slight la vice allemand [the German vice] - male homosexuality. This article's examination of Weimar Berlin's spatial binary as 'sexy space' and 'sexualised place' in literature by Klaus Mann and Curt Moreck engages with current debates in leisure studies on the gendering and sexing of geography and leisure. Central to this re-evaluation of leisure and tourism in Weimar Berlin is my discussion of flanerie: the figure of the flaneuse indicates that flanerie was not the lone dominion of heterosexual men. In the context of urban leisure and male homosexuality, I argue that Weimar Berlin consistently and successfully negotiated its dual function of sexy space (allowing self-fashioning for homosexual men in Berlin) and sexualised place (voyeurism and sexual exploration for Berlin's newcomers and tourists).}, language = {en} } @article{KadyamusumaDeBleserMayer2011, author = {Kadyamusuma, McLoddy R. and De Bleser, Ria and Mayer, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Perceptual discrimination of Shona lexical tones and low-pass filtered speech by left and right hemisphere damaged patients}, series = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {25}, journal = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, number = {5}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hove}, issn = {0268-7038}, doi = {10.1080/02687038.2010.540336}, pages = {576 -- 592}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Background: While the role of the right hemisphere (RH) in prosodic processing is prominent, research on the perception of lexical tones has shown that left hemisphere damaged (LHD) patients are more impaired than right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients. Dichotic listening and imaging studies with healthy speakers of tone languages demonstrate that at least at the phonemic and lexical level, prosody is processed in the left hemisphere (LH) when the variations in pitch are phonemically distinctive. There is no report available yet on the perceptual discrimination of a Bantu language in patients after unilateral brain damage. Aims: We addressed the question of how well Shona aphasic patients and right hemisphere damaged patients perceive pitch contrasts in Shona lexical words and also in their homologous low-pass filtered counterparts. We also sought to discover the validity of the current hypotheses on hemispheric lateralisation particularly the hypothesis on hemispheric lateralisation based on language function to account for the Shona data. Methods Procedures: A total of 7 LHD and 7 RHD patients and 14 healthy controls participated in two discrimination tasks that examined perception of lexical tone in (a) bisyllabic Shona words and (b) low-pass filtered stimuli. In both tasks the participants were tasked with judging the pitch as the same or different in 120 bisyllabic words and 120 low-pass filtered stimuli. Outcomes Results: The results demonstrated that the tonal discrimination of the LHD group was more reduced in comparison to the RHD group and control participants. However, the performance of the RHD patients was not error free relative to the control participants, although significantly better than the LHD patients in both tasks. Conclusions: At least for the phonemic and lexical levels, brain damage to the dominant hemisphere results in lexical tone impairment for LHD patients, and cognitive load processing results in a subdued but good performance for RHD patients. The LH is therefore dominant for processing tone when it is lexically distinctive.}, language = {en} } @article{FanselowSchlesewskyVogeletal.2011, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Vogel, Ralf and Weskott, Thomas}, title = {Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German}, series = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, volume = {49}, journal = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, number = {4}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0024-3949}, doi = {10.1515/LING.2011.021}, pages = {657 -- 683}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a wh-phrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for the answers to the multiple questions.}, language = {en} } @article{KadyamusumaDeBleserMayer2011, author = {Kadyamusuma, McLoddy R. and De Bleser, Ria and Mayer, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Lexical tone disruption in Shona after brain damage}, series = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {25}, journal = {Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal}, number = {10}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hove}, issn = {0268-7038}, doi = {10.1080/02687038.2011.590966}, pages = {1239 -- 1260}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Background: The issue of production and perception of lexical tone in patients with brain lesions has been investigated mainly through East Asian languages and Norwegian. The present study investigated the lateralisation of lexical tone in Shona, a Bantu language. Van Lancker (1980) proposed a continuum scale of the levels of functional pitch in the speech signal. According to the functional lateralisation account (FLH), the left hemisphere (LH) is associated with highly structured pitch contrasts, such as phonological tone, whereas the right hemisphere (RH) is specialised for the least structured pitch functions cueing emotional and personal information. The extant data show that the ability to produce and identify lexical tone is frequently more impaired as a result of lesions to the LH than RH lesions. Aims: The present investigation focused on the lateralisation of lexical tone in Shona speakers. The study sought to validate if the scale of hemispheric lateralisation as proposed by Van Lancker (1980) is also valid for Shona, a Bantu language. Methods \& Procedures: We examined five LH damaged (LHD) patients and five RH (RHD) damaged patients using a confrontational picture-naming task and a lexical tone identification task of Shona lexical tone. The first experiment investigated the ability of LHD patients and RHD patients to identify Shona lexical tone in 60 disyllabic minimal pairs. The second experiment examined the ability of Shona brain-damaged patients to produce lexical tone using a confrontational picture-naming task with 120 lexical items. Outcomes \& Results: We observed a dissociation in the performance of both the LHD and RHD patients in the two tasks. Both groups were impaired in the tone identification task relative to the non-brain-damaged controls. However, RHD patients performed significantly better than the LHD patients in the tone identification task. On the other hand, both LHD and RHD groups were equally impaired in the tone production task in comparison to the controls. Conclusions: The discrepancy in the production and perception of Shona lexical tone for this group of brain-damaged patients shows that, although the two modes are related, they do not always get disrupted at the same level after brain damage. The results from the tone identification task suggest to a certain extent that the FLH is also valid for Shona. In order to account for all the data there is need to carefully consider alternative accounts like the acoustic cue hypothesis (Van Lancker \& Sidtis, 1992).}, language = {en} } @article{Zimmermann2011, author = {Zimmermann, Malte}, title = {The grammatical expression of focus in West Chadic variation and uniformity in and across languages}, series = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, volume = {49}, journal = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, number = {5}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0024-3949}, doi = {10.1515/LING.2011.032}, pages = {1163 -- 1213}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The article provides an overview of the grammatical realization of focus in four West Chadic languages (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). The languages discussed exhibit an intriguing crosslinguistic variation in the realization of focus, both among themselves as well as compared to European intonation languages. They also display language-internal variation in the formal realization of focus. The West Chadic languages differ widely in their ways of expressing focus, which range from syntactic over prosodic to morphological devices. In contrast to European intonation languages, the focus marking systems of the West Chadic languages are inconsistent in that focus is often not grammatically expressed, but these inconsistencies are shown to be systematic. Subject foci (contrastive or not) and contrastive nonsubject foci are always grammatically marked, whereas information focus on nonsubjects need not be marked as such. The absence of formal focus marking supports pragmatic theories of focus in terms of contextual resolution. The special status of focused subjects and contrastive foci is derived from the Contrastive Focus Hypothesis, which requires unexpected foci and unexpected focus contents to be marked as such, together with the assumption that canonical subjects in West Chadic receive a default interpretation as topics. Finally, I discuss certain focus ambiguities which are not attested in intonation languages, nor do they follow on standard accounts of focus marking, but which can be accounted for in terms of constraint interaction in the formal expression of focus.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiese2011, author = {Wiese, Heike}, title = {So as a focus marker in German}, series = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, volume = {49}, journal = {Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences}, number = {5}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0024-3949}, doi = {10.1515/LING.2011.028}, pages = {991 -- 1039}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This paper discusses a hitherto undescribed usage of the particle so as a dedicated focus marker in contemporary German. I discuss grammatical and pragmatic characteristics of this focus marker, supporting my account with natural linguistic data and with controlled experimental evidence showing that so has a significant influence on speakers' understanding of what the focus expression in a sentence is. Against this background, I sketch a possible pragmaticalization path from referential usages of so via hedging to a semantically bleached focus marker, which, unlike particles such as auch 'also'/'too' or nur 'only', does not contribute any additional meaning.}, language = {en} } @article{FanselowLenertova2011, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and Lenertova, Denisa}, title = {Left peripheral focus mismatches between syntax and information structure}, series = {Natural language \& linguistic theory}, volume = {29}, journal = {Natural language \& linguistic theory}, number = {1}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0167-806X}, doi = {10.1007/s11049-010-9109-x}, pages = {169 -- 209}, year = {2011}, abstract = {In Czech, German, and many other languages, part of the semantic focus of the utterance can be moved to the left periphery of the clause. The main generalization is that only the leftmost accented part of the semantic focus can be moved. We propose that movement to the left periphery is generally triggered by an unspecific edge feature of C (Chomsky 2008) and its restrictions can be attributed to requirements of cyclic linearization, modifying the theory of cyclic linearization developed by Fox and Pesetsky (2005). The crucial assumption is that structural accent is a direct consequence of being linearized at merge, thus it is indirectly relevant for (locality restrictions on) movement. The absence of structural accent correlates with givenness. Given elements may later receive (topic or contrastive) accents, which accounts for fronting in multiple focus/contrastive topic constructions. Without any additional assumptions, the model can account for movement of pragmatically unmarked elements to the left periphery ('formal fronting', Frey 2005). Crucially, the analysis makes no reference at all to concepts of information structure in the syntax, in line with the claim of Chomsky (2008) that UG specifies no direct link between syntax and information structure.}, language = {en} } @article{PreussevanderMeerDeshpandeetal.2011, author = {Preusse, Franziska and van der Meer, Elke and Deshpande, Gopikrishna and Kr{\"u}ger, Frank and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Fluid intelligence allows flexible recruitment of the parieto-frontal network in analogical reasoning}, series = {Frontiers in human neuroscienc}, volume = {5}, journal = {Frontiers in human neuroscienc}, number = {3}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1662-5161}, doi = {10.3389/fnhum.2011.00022}, pages = {14}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Fluid intelligence is the ability to think flexibly and to understand abstract relations. People with high fluid intelligence (hi-fluIQ) perform better in analogical reasoning tasks than people with average fluid intelligence (ave-fluIQ). Although previous neuroimaging studies reported involvement of parietal and frontal brain regions in geometric analogical reasoning (which is a prototypical task for fluid intelligence), however, neuroimaging findings on geometric analogical reasoning in hi-fluIQ are sparse. Furthermore, evidence on the relation between brain activation and intelligence while solving cognitive tasks is contradictory. The present study was designed to elucidate the cerebral correlates of geometric analogical reasoning in a sample of hi-fluIQ and ave-fluIQ high school students. We employed a geometric analogical reasoning task with graded levels of task difficulty and confirmed the involvement of the parieto-frontal network in solving this task. In addition to characterizing the brain regions involved in geometric analogical reasoning in hi-fluIQ and ave-fluIQ, we found that blood oxygenation level dependency (BOLD) signal changes were greater for hi-fluIQ than for ave-fluIQ in parietal brain regions. However, ave-fluIQ showed greater BOLD signal changes in the anterior cingulate cortex and medial frontal gyrus than hi-fluIQ. Thus, we showed that a similar network of brain regions is involved in geometric analogical reasoning in both groups. Interestingly, the relation between brain activation and intelligence is not mono-directional, but rather, it is specific for each brain region. The negative brain activation-intelligence relationship in frontal brain regions in hi-fluIQ goes along with a better behavioral performance and reflects a lower demand for executive monitoring compared to ave-fluIQ individuals. In conclusion, our data indicate that flexibly modulating the extent of regional cerebral activity is characteristic for fluid intelligence.}, language = {en} } @article{BrunnerFuchsPerrier2011, author = {Brunner, Jana and Fuchs, Susanne and Perrier, Pascal}, title = {Supralaryngeal control in Korean velar stops}, series = {Journal of phonetics}, volume = {39}, journal = {Journal of phonetics}, number = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {London}, issn = {0095-4470}, doi = {10.1016/j.wocn.2011.01.003}, pages = {178 -- 195}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The aim of this study was to investigate the supralaryngeal control of the production of the Korean three-way contrast in velar stops. First, an EMA-experiment with three Korean speakers was carried out, and the kinematic properties of the tongue back were analyzed (length of the deceleration phase of the movement, peak velocity, peak acceleration, amplitude and duration of the looping movement during consonantal closure, and angle of incidence between tongue and palate at contact onset). To understand the potential motor control mechanisms underlying the production of the three-way contrast, the target hypothesis, which suggests that articulator movements in stops are directed towards a target at or beyond the palate, was evaluated by comparing its predictions with our experimental findings. Evidence was found in support of this hypothesis. Hence, the hypothesis was further explored in a modeling study. The results suggest that variability in the articulatory parameters can be explained by a single control parameter, namely the target position of the tongue. In a third step the Korean velar stops were simulated by varying the target position. The results show that the main trends of the simulated consonants are in good agreement with the experimental findings.}, language = {en} } @article{DrenhausZimmermannVasishth2011, author = {Drenhaus, Heiner and Zimmermann, Malte and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Exhaustiveness effects in clefts are not truth-functional}, series = {Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience}, volume = {24}, journal = {Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience}, number = {3}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0911-6044}, doi = {10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.10.004}, pages = {320 -- 337}, year = {2011}, abstract = {While it is widely acknowledged in the formal semantic literature that both the truth-functional focus particle only and it-clefts convey exhaustiveness, the nature and source of exhaustiveness effects with it-clefts remain contested. We describe a questionnaire study (n = 80) and an event-related brain potentials (ERP) study (n = 16) that investigated the violation of exhaustiveness in German only-foci versus it-clefts. The offline study showed that a violation of exhaustivity with only is less acceptable than the violation with it-clefts, suggesting a difference in the nature of exhaustivity interpretation in the two environments. The ERP-results confirm that this difference can be seen in online processing as well: a violation of exhaustiveness in only-foci elicited a centro-posterior positivity (600-800ms), whereas a violation in it-clefts induced a globally distributed N400 pattern (400-600ms). The positivity can be interpreted as a reanalysis process and more generally as a process of context updating. The N400 effect in it-clefts is interpreted as indexing a cancelation process that is functionally distinct from the only case. The ERP study is, to our knowledge, the first evidence from an online experimental paradigm which shows that the violation of exhaustiveness involves different underlying processes in the two structural environments.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Krems2011, author = {Krems, Josef F.}, title = {Selected papers from the 2nd European Conference on Human Centred Design for Intelligent Transport Systems}, series = {IET intelligent transport systems}, volume = {5}, journal = {IET intelligent transport systems}, number = {2}, publisher = {Institution of Engineering and Technology}, address = {Hertford}, issn = {1751-956X}, doi = {10.1049/iet-its.2011.9036}, pages = {101 -- 102}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{TaboadaBrookeTofiloskietal.2011, author = {Taboada, Maite and Brooke, Julian and Tofiloski, Milan and Voll, Kimberly and Stede, Manfred}, title = {Lexicon-Based methods for sentiment analysis}, series = {Computational linguistics}, volume = {37}, journal = {Computational linguistics}, number = {2}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0891-2017}, pages = {267 -- 307}, year = {2011}, abstract = {We present a lexicon-based approach to extracting sentiment from text. The Semantic Orientation CALculator (SO-CAL) uses dictionaries of words annotated with their semantic orientation (polarity and strength), and incorporates intensification and negation. SO-CAL is applied to the polarity classification task, the process of assigning a positive or negative label to a text that captures the text's opinion towards its main subject matter. We show that SO-CAL's performance is consistent across domains and on completely unseen data. Additionally, we describe the process of dictionary creation, and our use of Mechanical Turk to check dictionaries for consistency and reliability.}, language = {en} } @article{BrunnerGhoshHooleetal.2011, author = {Brunner, Jana and Ghosh, Satrajit and Hoole, Philip and Matthies, Melanie and Tiede, Mark and Perkell, Joseph}, title = {The influence of auditory acuity on acoustic variability and the use of motor equivalence during adaptation to a perturbation}, series = {Journal of speech, language, and hearing research}, volume = {54}, journal = {Journal of speech, language, and hearing research}, number = {3}, publisher = {American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc.}, address = {Rockville}, issn = {1092-4388}, doi = {10.1044/1092-4388(2010/09-0256)}, pages = {727 -- 739}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Purpose: The aim of this study was to relate speakers' auditory acuity for the sibilant contrast, their use of motor equivalent trading relationships in producing the sibilant /integral/, and their produced acoustic distance between the sibilants /s/ and /integral/. Specifically, the study tested the hypotheses that during adaptation to a perturbation of vocal-tract shape, high-acuity speakers use motor equivalence strategies to a greater extent than do low-acuity speakers in order to reach their smaller phonemic goal regions, and that high-acuity speakers produce greater acoustic distance between 2 sibilant phonemes than do low-acuity speakers. Method: Articulographic data from 7 German speakers adapting to a perturbation were analyzed for the use of motor equivalence. The speakers' produced acoustic distance between /s/ and /integral/ was calculated. Auditory acuity was assessed for the same speakers. Results: High-acuity speakers used motor equivalence to a greater extent when adapting to a perturbation than did low-acuity speakers. Additionally, high-acuity speakers produced greater acoustic contrasts than did low-acuity-speakers. It was observed that speech rate had an influence on the use of motor equivalence: Slow speakers used motor equivalence to a lesser degree than did fast speakers. Conclusion: These results provide support for the mutual interdependence of speech perception and production.}, language = {en} } @article{TsegayeDeBleserIribarren2011, author = {Tsegaye, Mulugeta Tarekegne and De Bleser, Ria and Iribarren, Carolina}, title = {The effect of literacy on oral language processing implications for aphasia tests}, series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, volume = {25}, journal = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, number = {6-7}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {0269-9206}, doi = {10.3109/02699206.2011.567348}, pages = {628 -- 639}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Most studies investigating the impact of literacy on oral language processing have shown that literacy provides phonological awareness skills in the processing of oral language. The implications of these results on aphasia tests could be significant and pose questions on the adequacy of such tools for testing non-literate individuals. Aiming at examining the impact of literacy on oral language processing and its implication on aphasia tests, this study tested 12 non-literate and 12 literate individuals with a modified Amharic version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (Paradis and Amberber, 1991, Bilingual Aphasia Test. Amharic version. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.). The problems of phonological awareness skills in oral language processing in non-literates are substantiated. In addition, compared with literate participants, non-literate individuals demonstrated difficulties in the word/sentence-picture matching tasks. This study has also revealed that the Amharic version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test may be viable for testing Amharic-speaking non-literate individuals with aphasia when modifications are incorporated.}, language = {en} } @article{WeskottFanselow2011, author = {Weskott, Thomas and Fanselow, Gisbert}, title = {On the informativity of different measures of linguistic acceptability}, series = {Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America}, volume = {87}, journal = {Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America}, number = {2}, publisher = {Linguistic Society of America}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0097-8507}, pages = {249 -- 273}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than binary or n-point scale judgments. We performed three acceptability-rating experiments that directly compared ME data to binary and seven-point scale data. The results clearly falsify the hypothesis that data gathered by the ME method carry a larger amount of information about the acceptability of a given linguistic phenomenon. The three measures are largely equivalent with respect to informativity. Moreover, ME judgments are shown to be more liable to producing spurious variance under certain circumstances.*}, language = {en} } @article{RossiJuergensonHanulikovaetal.2011, author = {Rossi, Sonja and J{\"u}rgenson, Ina B. and Hanulikova, Adriana and Telkemeyer, Silke and Wartenburger, Isabell and Obrig, Hellmuth}, title = {Implicit processing of phonotactic cues evidence from electrophysiological and vascular responses}, series = {Journal of cognitive neuroscience}, volume = {23}, journal = {Journal of cognitive neuroscience}, number = {7}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {0898-929X}, doi = {10.1162/jocn.2010.21547}, pages = {1752 -- 1764}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Spoken word recognition is achieved via competition between activated lexical candidates that match the incoming speech input. The competition is modulated by prelexical cues that are important for segmenting the auditory speech stream into linguistic units. One such prelexical cue that listeners rely on in spoken word recognition is phonotactics. Phonotactics defines possible combinations of phonemes within syllables or words in a given language. The present study aimed at investigating both temporal and topographical aspects of the neuronal correlates of phonotactic processing by simultaneously applying ERPs and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Pseudowords, either phonotactically legal or illegal with respect to the participants' native language, were acoustically presented to passively listening adult native German speakers. ERPs showed a larger N400 effect for phonotactically legal compared to illegal pseudowords, suggesting stronger lexical activation mechanisms in phonotactically legal material. fNIRS revealed a left hemispheric network including fronto-temporal regions with greater response to phonotactically legal pseudowords than to illegal pseudowords. This confirms earlier hypotheses on a left hemispheric dominance of phonotactic processing most likely due to the fact that phonotactics is related to phonological processing and represents a segmental feature of language comprehension. These segmental linguistic properties of a stimulus are predominantly processed in the left hemisphere. Thus, our study provides first insights into temporal and topographical characteristics of phonotactic processing mechanisms in a passive listening task. Differential brain responses between known and unknown phonotactic rules thus supply evidence for an implicit use of phonotactic cues to guide lexical activation mechanisms.}, language = {en} } @article{vonderMalsburgVasishth2011, author = {von der Malsburg, Titus Raban and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {What is the scanpath signature of syntactic reanalysis?}, series = {Journal of memory and language}, volume = {65}, journal = {Journal of memory and language}, number = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {0749-596X}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2011.02.004}, pages = {109 -- 127}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Which repair strategy does the language system deploy when it gets garden-pathed, and what can regressive eye movements in reading tell us about reanalysis strategies? Several influential eye-tracking studies on syntactic reanalysis (Frazier \& Rayner, 1982; Meseguer, Carreiras, \& Clifton, 2002; Mitchell, Shen, Green, \& Hodgson, 2008) have addressed this question by examining scanpaths, i.e., sequential patterns of eye fixations. However, in the absence of a suitable method for analyzing scanpaths, these studies relied on simplified dependent measures that are arguably ambiguous and hard to interpret. We address the theoretical question of repair strategy by developing a new method that quantifies scanpath similarity. Our method reveals several distinct fixation strategies associated with reanalysis that went undetected in a previously published data set (Meseguer et al., 2002). One prevalent pattern suggests re-parsing of the sentence, a strategy that has been discussed in the literature (Frazier \& Rayner, 1982); however, readers differed tremendously in how they orchestrated the various fixation strategies. Our results suggest that the human parsing system non-deterministically adopts different strategies when confronted with the disambiguating material in garden-path sentences.}, language = {en} } @article{BrunnerHoolePerrier2011, author = {Brunner, Jana and Hoole, Phil and Perrier, Pascal}, title = {Adaptation strategies in perturbed /s/}, series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, volume = {25}, journal = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, number = {8}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {0269-9206}, doi = {10.3109/02699206.2011.553699}, pages = {705 -- 724}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The purpose of this work is to investigate the role of three articulatory parameters (tongue position, jaw position and tongue grooving) in the production of /s/. Six normal speakers' speech was perturbed by a palatal prosthesis. The fricative was recorded acoustically and through electromagnetic articulography in four conditions: (1) unperturbed, (2) perturbed with auditory feedback masked, (3) perturbed with auditory feedback available and (4) perturbed after a 2-week adaptation period. At the end of the adaptation, speakers produced more high-frequency noise while either having a higher jaw position or more grooving of the tongue or both. We discuss the potential clinical implications of the results with regard to the role of jaw height and tongue grooving in the treatment of impaired /s/.}, language = {en} } @article{ChiarcosFiedlerGrubicetal.2011, author = {Chiarcos, Christian and Fiedler, Ines and Grubic, Mira and Hartmann, Katharina and Ritz, Julia and Schwarz, Anne and Zeldes, Amir and Zimmermann, Malte}, title = {Information structure in African languages corpora and tools}, series = {Language resources and evaluation}, volume = {45}, journal = {Language resources and evaluation}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {1574-020X}, doi = {10.1007/s10579-011-9153-0}, pages = {361 -- 374}, year = {2011}, abstract = {In this paper, we describe tools and resources for the study of African languages developed at the Collaborative Research Centre 632 "Information Structure". These include deeply annotated data collections of 25 sub-Saharan languages that are described together with their annotation scheme, as well as the corpus tool ANNIS, which provides unified access to a broad variety of annotations created with a range of different tools. With the application of ANNIS to several African data collections, we illustrate its suitability for the purpose of language documentation, distributed access, and the creation of data archives.}, language = {en} } @article{BartekLewisVasishthetal.2011, author = {Bartek, Brian and Lewis, Richard L. and Vasishth, Shravan and Smith, Mason R.}, title = {In Search of on-line locality effects in sentence comprehension}, series = {Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition}, volume = {37}, journal = {Journal of experimental psychology : Learning, memory, and cognition}, number = {5}, publisher = {American Psychological Association}, address = {Washington}, issn = {0278-7393}, doi = {10.1037/a0024194}, pages = {1178 -- 1198}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Many comprehension theories assert that increasing the distance between elements participating in a linguistic relation (e.g., a verb and a noun phrase argument) increases the difficulty of establishing that relation during on-line comprehension. Such locality effects are expected to increase reading times and are thought to reveal properties and limitations of the short-term memory system that supports comprehension. Despite their theoretical importance and putative ubiquity, however, evidence for on-line locality effects is quite narrow linguistically and methodologically: It is restricted almost exclusively to self-paced reading of complex structures involving a particular class of syntactic relation. We present 4 experiments (2 self-paced reading and 2 eyetracking experiments) that demonstrate locality effects in the course of establishing subject-verb dependencies; locality effects are seen even in materials that can be read quickly and easily. These locality effects are observable in the earliest possible eye-movement measures and are of much shorter duration than previously reported effects. To account for the observed empirical patterns, we outline a processing model of the adaptive control of button pressing and eye movements. This model makes progress toward the goal of eliminating linking assumptions between memory constructs and empirical measures in favor of explicit theories of the coordinated control of motor responses and parsing.}, language = {en} } @article{vonBloh2011, author = {von Bloh, Ute}, title = {No concessions made? Law and justice in the epic Loher and Mailer}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik}, volume = {41}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik}, number = {163}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0049-8653}, pages = {42 -- 65}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The late mediaeval prose epic Loher und Muller constantly challenges a naive interpretation of what constitutes justice by confronting it over and over again with extreme cases. Generally speaking, 'poetic justice' succeeds in establishing coherence and propel the narrative forward. The constituents of societal norms and of laws are nevertheless relentlessly questioned - to such an extent that the narrative inquiry occasionally departs from the common understanding of justice. With its focus on morality, especially the presence or absence of faith, Loher und Muller is primarily concerned with the potential for conflict inherent in medieval constructions of legality and justice. In doing so, the epic opens up a narrative playground unencumbered by legal constraints as - after all - literature need not comply with medieval jurisdiction and its claims to the validity and scope of its writings. It is literature's privilege to facilitate unfamiliar ways of looking. The playful - but by no means inconsequential - casuistry played out in Loher und Maller gives rise to a 'probable' world tangential to historical reality and its understanding of justice and the law.}, language = {de} } @article{Prieto2011, author = {Prieto, Julio}, title = {Regarding illegibility and poor writing in spanish america}, series = {Insula : revista de letras y ciencias humanas}, volume = {66}, journal = {Insula : revista de letras y ciencias humanas}, number = {777}, publisher = {Insula}, address = {Pozuelo de Alarcon}, issn = {0020-4536}, pages = {2 -- 4}, year = {2011}, language = {es} } @article{SchroederHoehle2011, author = {Schr{\"o}der, C. and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Prosodic perception during early language acquisition}, series = {Sprache, Stimme, Geh{\"o}r : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kommunikationsst{\"o}rungen}, volume = {35}, journal = {Sprache, Stimme, Geh{\"o}r : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Kommunikationsst{\"o}rungen}, number = {3}, publisher = {Thieme}, address = {Stuttgart}, issn = {0342-0477}, doi = {10.1055/s-0031-1284404}, pages = {E91 -- E98}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Prosody plays an important role in early language acquisition that in most children proceeds rapidly and easily. From birth on infants are able to perceive prosodic information in the speech signal. During the course of the first year of life prosodic perception abilities continue to develop. Cross-linguistic studies have shown that this development is already influenced by the native language. As prosodic and syntactic units occur often in correlation, prosodic cues in the continuous speech signal might help infants to derive information on how to segment their native language into syntactically relevant units. Indeed, infants use their prosodic perception and are able to detect word, phrase and clause boundaries using prosodic cues from the speech signal. Thus, during the first year of life when perceiving speech the processing of prosodic cues is focussed and allows for an efficient access to language acquisition. Future studies need to determine whether early prosodic perception abilities can provide markers for later language development and predict language impairment.}, language = {de} } @article{Reber2011, author = {Reber, Elisabeth}, title = {Interjections in the EFL classroom - teaching sounds and sequences}, series = {ELT journal : an international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages}, volume = {65}, journal = {ELT journal : an international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages}, number = {4}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0951-0893}, doi = {10.1093/elt/ccq070}, pages = {365 -- 375}, year = {2011}, abstract = {In line with a communicative curriculum for English, it is claimed that communicative competence involves knowledge about when and how to display affectivity in talk-in-interaction. Typically, interjections have been described as a lexical means for expressions of emotion. A survey of textbooks canonical of EFL at German elementary and secondary schools reveals that interjections are often used in (constructed) conversation examples. However, the translations of the interjections given do not adequately account for their meanings and use. Illustrated by a case study on two forms and uses of 'oh', it is argued that the approach of Interactional Linguistics can provide an empirical basis for teaching interjections in the EFL classroom. Based on the finding that the competent use of interjections depends on the correct production of the segmental and prosodic form and the timely positioning in a conversational sequence of actions, didactic guidelines for teaching interjections are proposed.}, language = {en} } @article{Zimmermann2011, author = {Zimmermann, Malte}, title = {On the functional architecture of DP and the feature content of pronominal quantifiers in Low German}, series = {The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics}, volume = {14}, journal = {The journal of comparative Germanic linguistics}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {1383-4924}, doi = {10.1007/s10828-011-9046-z}, pages = {203 -- 240}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The article investigates the functional architecture of complex pronominal quantifying expressions (PQEs) in Low German, such as jeder-een 'everyone' and keen-een 'no-one', which provide overt evidence for a Num-projection, situated between the NP- and DP-layer. The feature specification of Num as [+lattice] or [-lattice] is responsible for whether the DP denotes into the domain of atomic or mass/plural entities, respectively. In the case of complex PQEs, the syntactic Num-head hosts the overt element een 'a, one', which carries a [-lattice] feature, thus ensuring that the PQE ranges exclusively over the domain of atomic entities, but not mass or plural entities. The Num-head een differs from its simplex counterpart wat 'something', which is analyzed as an NP-proform with an underspecified [lattice]-feature. As a result, wat can range over atomic and mass domains alike. In the final part of the article, it is argued that wat is also underspecified for the operator feature [rel/wh], for which reason it can also function as an interrogative expression (what) and as a relative pronoun (which), respectively, depending on the syntactic context. Throughout the article, the Low German data are compared with relevant data from other German dialects and Germanic and Romance languages, pointing out similarities and differences in the syntactic structure and feature content of PQEs across these languages and dialects.}, language = {en} } @misc{Vicente2011, author = {Vicente, Luis}, title = {Phase theory}, series = {Journal of linguistics}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of linguistics}, number = {3}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {0022-2267}, doi = {10.1017/S0022226711000193}, pages = {719 -- 724}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{HoegerStadieSchroeder2011, author = {H{\"o}ger, Maria and Stadie, Nicole and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid}, title = {Wirksamkeit von semantischer Komplexit{\"a}t bei der Therapie von Wortabrufst{\"o}rungen? Eine Einzelfallstudie}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{EtzienMachlebLorenz2011, author = {Etzien, Maria and Machleb, Franziska and Lorenz, Antje}, title = {Semantische versus wortform-spezifische Merkmalsanalyse in der Behandlung von Wortabrufst{\"o}rungen bei Aphasie}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{PosseFrank2011, author = {Posse, Dorothea and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Der Einfluss des Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) auf die Hypernasalit{\"a}t bei Dysarthrie}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{DuesterhoeftFrank2011, author = {D{\"u}sterh{\"o}ft, Stefanie and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Das PNF-Konzept Anwendung in der orofacialen Therapie}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{WestermannStadieFrank2011, author = {Westermann, Antje and Stadie, Nicole and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Messung der Atem-Schluck-Koordination w{\"a}hrend normalem Schluck und unter Anwendung des Mendelsohn- Man{\"o}vers}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{SticherCzepluchMaetzeneretal.2011, author = {Sticher, Heike and Czepluch, Christine and M{\"a}tzener, Flurina and Wilmes, Stefanie and Hadert, Sandra and Frank, Ulrike and M{\"a}der, Mark}, title = {Dekan{\"u}lierungsmanagment bei Patienten mit respiratorischen Beeintr{\"a}chtigungen und Dysphagie}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Berger2011, author = {Berger, Frauke}, title = {Die Fokuspartikel "auch" im Erstspracherwerb fr{\"u}h vorhanden - sp{\"a}t verstande? Methodologische Maßnahmen zum Nachweis eines fr{\"u}hen Verst{\"a}ndnisses}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Stadie2011, author = {Stadie, Nicole}, title = {Entwicklungsdyslexie im Rahmen kognitiv-orientierter Erkl{\"a}rungs{\"a}tze}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{BuschHeide2011, author = {Busch, Tobias and Heide, Judith}, title = {Fehlerfreies Lernen als Methode der Aphasietherapie : theoretische Grundlagen, praktische Umsetzung und aktuelle Befunde zur Wirksamkeit}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @book{VasishthBroe2011, author = {Vasishth, Shravan and Broe, Michael}, title = {The foundations of statistics: a simulation-based approach}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-642-16312-8}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-16313-5}, pages = {178 S.}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Ritter2011, author = {Ritter, Christiane}, title = {Gr{\"o}ßere Verarbeitungseinheiten in der Therapie von Leseschwierigkeiten bei {\"a}lteren Grundschulkindern : ein Fallbeispiel}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Domahs2011, author = {Domahs, Frank}, title = {St{\"o}rungen verbalen Faktenwissens}, address = {Potsdam}, pages = {443 Bl.}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{PuritzSeidlFrank2011, author = {Puritz, Caroline and Seidl, Rainer Ottis and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Die Auswirkungen des Lee Silverman Voice Treatments (LSVT) auf die kortikalen Repr{\"a}sentation der Schluckmuskulatur bei Patienten mit Morbus Parkinson}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{WatermeyerHoehleKauschke2011, author = {Watermeyer, Melanie and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Kauschke, Christina}, title = {Ausagieren von S{\"a}tzen versus Satz-Bild-Zuordnung: Vergleich zweier Methoden zur Untersuchung des Sprachverst{\"a}ndnisses anhand von semantisch reversiblen S{\"a}tzen mit Objektvoranstellung bei drei- und f{\"u}nfj{\"a}hrigen Kindern}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @misc{FranselowSchlesewskyVogeletal.2011, author = {Franselow, Gisbert and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Vogel, Ralf and Weskott, Thomas}, title = {Animacy effects on crossing wh-movement in German}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93630}, pages = {657 -- 683}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This article presents several acceptability rating experiments concerned with crossing wh-movement in German multiple questions. Our results show that there is no general superiority effect in German, thus refuting claims to the contrary by Featherston (2005). However, acceptability is reduced when a whphrase crosses a wh-subject with which it agrees in animacy. We explain this finding in terms of the availability of different sorting keys for the answers to the multiple questions.}, language = {en} } @misc{Zimmermann2011, author = {Zimmermann, Malte}, title = {The grammatical expression of focus in West Chadic}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93617}, pages = {1163 -- 1213}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The article provides an overview of the grammatical realization of focus in four West Chadic languages (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). The languages discussed exhibit an intriguing crosslinguistic variation in the realization of focus, both among themselves as well as compared to European intonation languages. They also display language-internal variation in the formal realization of focus. The West Chadic languages differ widely in their ways of expressing focus, which range from syntactic over prosodic to morphological devices. In contrast to European intonation languages, the focus marking systems of the West Chadic languages are inconsistent in that focus is often not grammatically expressed, but these inconsistencies are shown to be systematic. Subject foci (contrastive or not) and contrastive nonsubject foci are always grammatically marked, whereas information focus on nonsubjects need not be marked as such. The absence of formal focus marking supports pragmatic theories of focus in terms of contextual resolution. The special status of focused subjects and contrastive foci is derived from the Contrastive Focus Hypothesis, which requires unexpected foci and unexpected focus contents to be marked as such, together with the assumption that canonical subjects in West Chadic receive a default interpretation as topics. Finally, I discuss certain focus ambiguities which are not attested in intonation languages, nor do they follow on standard accounts of focus marking, but which can be accounted for in terms of constraint interaction in the formal expression of focus.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Mallien2011, author = {Mallien, Grit}, title = {Explorative multizentrische Querschnittsstudie zur Diagnostik der Dysarthrie bei Progressiver Supranukle{\"a}rer Blickparese - PSP}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-58045}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Die Progressive Supranukle{\"a}re Blickparese (PSP) ist eine sporadisch auftretende neurodegenerative Erkrankung im Rahmen der atypischen Parkinson-Syndrome (APS), die im fr{\"u}hen Verlauf h{\"a}ufig mit dem Idiopathischen Parkinson-Syndrom (IPS) verwechselt wird. Dabei ist die Dysarthrie als eine erworbene, zentral bedingte sprechmotorische St{\"o}rung ein h{\"a}ufiges und fr{\"u}h auftretendes Symptom bei PSP. Bislang spricht man von einer eher unspezifischen „gemischten" Dysarthrie aus hypokinetischen, spastischen und auch ataktischen Komponenten. Im Rahmen einer explorativen Querschnittsstudie am „Fachkrankenhaus f{\"u}r Bewegungsst{\"o}rungen und Parkinson" Beelitz-Heilst{\"a}tten in Kooperation mit der „Entwicklungsgruppe Klinische Neuropsychologie" M{\"u}nchen (EKN) sowie der „Interdisziplin{\"a}ren Ambulanz f{\"u}r Bewegungsst{\"o}rungen" am Klinikum M{\"u}nchen-Großhadern wurden 50 Patienten dahingehend untersucht, ob sich f{\"u}r die Progressive Supranukle{\"a}re Blickparese (PSP) eine spezielle, fr{\"u}hzeitig zu diagnostizierende und differentialdiagnostisch relevante Dysarthrie beschreiben ließe. In diesem Zusammenhang soll gekl{\"a}rt werden, ob es sich um ph{\"a}notypische Auspr{\"a}gungen im Rahmen eines St{\"o}rungsspektrums handelt oder ob sich differenzierbare Subtypen der Krankheit, insbesondere ein „klassischer" PSP-Typ (PSP-RS) und ein „atypischer" PSP-Typ (PSP-P), auch im Bereich der Dysarthrie zeigen. Im Rahmen der Untersuchungen wurde der Schweregrad der Erkrankung mittels der „PSP-sensitiven Ratingskala (PSPRS)" gemessen. Die Dysarthriediagnostik erfolgte anhand der „Bogenhausener Dysarthrieskalen (BoDyS)" zur Beschreibung der Art und Auspr{\"a}gung der Dysarthrie bei PSP. Die Verst{\"a}ndlichkeit wurde mithilfe des „M{\"u}nchner Verst{\"a}ndlichkeits-Profils (MVP)" sowie eines weiteren Transkriptionsverfahrens ermittelt, wobei Ausschnitte aus den Tests zum Lesen und Nachsprechen der BoDyS zugrunde lagen. Weiterhin erfolgte eine Einsch{\"a}tzung der Nat{\"u}rlichkeit des Sprechens. Die Ergebnisse hinsichtlich des Einflusses von Nat{\"u}rlichkeit und Verst{\"a}ndlichkeit des Sprechens auf den Schweregrad der Dysarthrie zeigten, dass dieser modalit{\"a}ten{\"u}bergreifend mit beiden Schweregradaspekten korreliert, wenngleich es offenbar die Nat{\"u}rlichkeit des Sprechens ist, die bei PSP bereits fr{\"u}hzeitig beeintr{\"a}chtigt ist und somit als das entscheidende differentialdiagnostische Kriterium zur Differenzierung zwischen beiden PSP-Subtypen zu beurteilen ist, m{\"o}glicherweise auch gegen{\"u}ber anderen Parkinson-Syndromen. Anhand statistisch valider Ergebnisse konnten spezifische St{\"o}rungsmerkmale der Dysarthrie extrahiert werden, die eine signifikante Trennung von PSP-RS und PSP-P erm{\"o}glichen: eine leise und behaucht-heisere Stimme sowie ein verlangsamtes Sprechtempo und Hypernasalit{\"a}t. Damit k{\"o}nnen f{\"u}r die hier fokussierten Subtypen der PSP zwei unterschiedliche Dysarthrietypen postuliert werden. Danach wird dem Subtyp PSP-RS eine spastisch betonte Dysarthrie mit ausgepr{\"a}gter Verlangsamung des Sprechtempos zugeordnet, dem Subtyp PSP-P hingegen eine hypokinetische Dysarthrie mit behaucht-heiserer Hypophonie. Desweiteren konnte ein „Dysarthrie-Schwellenwert" als Zusatzkriterium f{\"u}r eine zeitliche Differenzierung beider PSP-Subtypen ermittelt werden. Anhand der Daten zeigte sich die Dysarthrie bei dem Subtyp PSP-RS gleich zu Beginn der Erkrankung, jedoch sp{\"a}testens 24 Monate danach. Hingegen konnte die Dysarthrie beim Subtyp PSP-P fr{\"u}hestens 24 Monate nach Erkrankungsbeginn festgestellt werden. Die Daten dieser Studie verdeutlichen, dass der Frage nach einer subtypenspezifischen Auspr{\"a}gung der Dysarthrie bei PSP eine L{\"a}ngsschnittsstudie folgen sollte, um die ermittelten Ergebnisse zu konsolidieren.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Spreyer2011, author = {Spreyer, Kathrin}, title = {Does it have to be trees? : Data-driven dependency parsing with incomplete and noisy training data}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57498}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2011}, abstract = {We present a novel approach to training data-driven dependency parsers on incomplete annotations. Our parsers are simple modifications of two well-known dependency parsers, the transition-based Malt parser and the graph-based MST parser. While previous work on parsing with incomplete data has typically couched the task in frameworks of unsupervised or semi-supervised machine learning, we essentially treat it as a supervised problem. In particular, we propose what we call agnostic parsers which hide all fragmentation in the training data from their supervised components. We present experimental results with training data that was obtained by means of annotation projection. Annotation projection is a resource-lean technique which allows us to transfer annotations from one language to another within a parallel corpus. However, the output tends to be noisy and incomplete due to cross-lingual non-parallelism and error-prone word alignments. This makes the projected annotations a suitable test bed for our fragment parsers. Our results show that (i) dependency parsers trained on large amounts of projected annotations achieve higher accuracy than the direct projections, and that (ii) our agnostic fragment parsers perform roughly on a par with the original parsers which are trained only on strictly filtered, complete trees. Finally, (iii) when our fragment parsers are trained on artificially fragmented but otherwise gold standard dependencies, the performance loss is moderate even with up to 50\% of all edges removed.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Jurish2011, author = {Jurish, Bryan}, title = {Finite-state canonicalization techniques for historical German}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55789}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2011}, abstract = {This work addresses issues in the automatic preprocessing of historical German input text for use by conventional natural language processing techniques. Conventional techniques cannot adequately account for historical input text due to conventional tools' reliance on a fixed application-specific lexicon keyed by contemporary orthographic surface form on the one hand, and the lack of consistent orthographic conventions in historical input text on the other. Historical spelling variation is treated here as an error-correction problem or "canonicalization" task: an attempt to automatically assign each (historical) input word a unique extant canonical cognate, thus allowing direct application-specific processing (tagging, parsing, etc.) of the returned canonical forms without need for any additional application-specific modifications. In the course of the work, various methods for automatic canonicalization are investigated and empirically evaluated, including conflation by phonetic identity, conflation by lemma instantiation heuristics, canonicalization by weighted finite-state rewrite cascade, and token-wise disambiguation by a dynamic Hidden Markov Model.}, language = {en} } @book{KunowStehlFranzetal.2011, author = {Kunow, R{\"u}diger and Stehl, Thomas and Franz, Norbert and Rowe, John Carlos and R{\"o}der, Katrin and Priewe, Marc and Goldschweer, Ulrike and Kraft, Tobias and Drexler, Peter and Marszałek, Magdalena and Kirjuchina, Ljuba and Talabardon, Susanne and Wiemann, Dirk and Uffelmann, Dirk}, title = {Kulturelle Mobilit{\"a}tsforschung : Themen - Theorien - Tendenzen}, editor = {Franz, Norbert P. and Kunow, R{\"u}diger}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-090-8}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52593}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {392}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Mobilit{\"a}t ist eine der Schl{\"u}sselerfahrungen unserer Zeit. Sie scheint im Gefolge technisch-{\"o}konomischer und politisch-sozialer Ver{\"a}nderungen allumfassend geworden zu sein. Dabei ver{\"a}ndern die Erfahrungen, die Menschen in und mit Mobilit{\"a}t machen, auch die Funktion und den Stellenwert ihrer Kulturen. Durch die anhaltende Mobilit{\"a}t werden Kulturen aus ihren traditionellen nationalen Verankerungen gel{\"o}st (werden also selbst mobil), die mobiler gewordenen Menschen sind aber mehr als zuvor darauf angewiesen, zur Bew{\"a}ltigung ihrer Erfahrungen auf ihre kulturellen Ressourcen zur{\"u}ckzugreifen (sie zu mobilisieren). Diese Ambivalenz von Kulturen in/der Mobilit{\"a}t ist f{\"u}r die Beitr{\"a}ge des vorliegenden Bandes erkenntnisleitend. Im Kontext der zahlreichen Publikationen zu den Themen Globalisierung, Migration und Kultur stellt das Potsdamer Forschungsprojekt insofern eine Besonderheit dar, als es linguistische und literaturwissenschaftliche, historische und systematische, empirische und theoretische Zugriffsweisen auf innovative Weise verbindet. Das besondere des hier leitenden Ansatzes besteht darin, dass hier nicht einfach Kulturen als geschlossene Systeme vergleichend gegen{\"u}berstellt werden, sondern Formen und Szenarien der interkulturellen Begegnung im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen werden. Diese Szenarien sind von ihrem Wesen bzw. ihrer Verfasstheit solcherart, dass sie mit Bezug auf eine nationale Kultur nicht mehr angemessen zu beschreiben w{\"a}ren. Sie stellen vielmehr Momente des Aushandelns nicht konvertierbarer kultureller Andersartigkeit dar, die zur Reflexion und Vermittlung mit der Eigenkultur zwingen.}, language = {de} } @article{WatermeyerHoehleKauschke2011, author = {Watermeyer, Melanie and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Kauschke, Christina}, title = {Ausagieren von S{\"a}tzen versus Satz-Bild-Zuordnung}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54374}, pages = {237 -- 246}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{BuschHeide2011, author = {Busch, Tobias and Heide, Judith}, title = {Fehlerfreies Lernen als Methode der Aphasietherapie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54351}, pages = {209 -- 215}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{HoegerStadieSchroeder2011, author = {H{\"o}ger, Maria and Stadie, Nicole and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid}, title = {Wirksamkeit von semantischer Komplexit{\"a}t bei der Therapie von Wortabrufst{\"o}rungen?}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54346}, pages = {199 -- 207}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{EtzienMachlebLorenz2011, author = {Etzien, Maria and Machleb, Franziska and Lorenz, Antje}, title = {Semantische versus wortform-spezifische Merkmalsanalyse in der Behandlung von Wortabrufst{\"o}rungen bei Aphasie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54337}, pages = {193 -- 197}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{PuritzSeidlFrank2011, author = {Puritz, Caroline and Seidl, Rainer Ottis and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Die Auswirkungen des Lee Silverman Voice Treatments (LSVT) auf die kortikalen Repr{\"a}sentationen der Schluckmuskulatur bei Patienten mit Morbus Parkinson}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54322}, pages = {189 -- 191}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{PosseFrank2011, author = {Posse, Dorothea and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Der Einfluss des Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) auf die Hypernasalit{\"a}t bei Dysarthrie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54313}, pages = {185 -- 187}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{DuesterhoeftFrank2011, author = {D{\"u}sterh{\"o}ft, Stefanie and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Das PNF-Konzept}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54306}, pages = {171 -- 183}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{WestermannStadieFrank2011, author = {Westermann, Antje and Stadie, Nicole and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Messung der Atem-Schluck-Koordination w{\"a}hrend normalem Schluck und unter Anwendung des Mendelsohn-Man{\"o}vers}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54286}, pages = {143 -- 147}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{SticherCzepluchMaetzeneretal.2011, author = {Sticher, Heike and Czepluch, Christine and M{\"a}tzener, Flurina and Wilmes, Stefanie and Hadert, Sandra and Frank, Ulrike and M{\"a}der, Mark}, title = {Dekan{\"u}lierungsmanagement bei Patienten mit respiratorischen Beeintr{\"a}chtigungen und Dysphagie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54277}, pages = {141 -- 142}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Berger2011, author = {Berger, Frauke}, title = {Die Fokuspartikel ‚auch' im Erstspracherwerb: Fr{\"u}h vorhanden - sp{\"a}t verstanden?}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54260}, pages = {135 -- 139}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Stadie2011, author = {Stadie, Nicole}, title = {Entwicklungsdyslexie im Rahmen kognitiv-orientierter Erkl{\"a}rungsans{\"a}tze}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54191}, pages = {23 -- 31}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Costard2011, author = {Costard, Sylvia}, title = {Der Leseerwerb}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik}, number = {4}, issn = {1869-3822}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-54180}, pages = {1 -- 22}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @misc{CostardStadieRitteretal.2011, author = {Costard, Sylvia and Stadie, Nicole and Ritter, Christiane and Moll, Kristina and Landerl, Karin and Kohnen, Saskia and Kentner, Gerrit and Bethmann, Anja and Scheich, Henning and Brechmann, Andr{\´e} and De Kok, D{\"o}rte and Berger, Frauke and Sticher, Heike and Czepluch, Christine and M{\"a}tzener, Flurina and Wilmes, Stefanie and Hadert, Sandra and Frank, Ulrike and M{\"a}der, Mark and Westermann, Antje and Meinusch, Miriam and Neumann, Sandra and D{\"u}sterh{\"o}ft, Stefanie and Posse, Dorothea and Puritz, Caroline and Seidl, Rainer Ottis and Etzien, Maria and Machleb, Franziska and Lorenz, Antje and H{\"o}ger, Maria and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Busch, Tobias and Heide, Judith and Tagoe, Tanja and Watermeyer, Melanie and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Kauschke, Christina}, title = {Spektrum Patholinguistik = Schwerpunktthema: Lesen lernen: Diagnostik und Therapie bei St{\"o}rungen des Leseerwerbs}, number = {4}, editor = {Hanne, Sandra and Fritzsche, Tom and Ott, Susan and Adelt, Anne}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, organization = {Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e. V. (vpl)}, isbn = {978-3-86956-145-5}, issn = {1869-3822}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-5155}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53146}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Am 20. November 2010 fand an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam das 4. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik statt. Die Konferenzreihe wird regelm{\"a}ßig seit 2007 vom Verband f{\"u}r Patholinguistik e.V. (vpl) durchgef{\"u}hrt. Der vorliegende Tagungsband ver{\"o}ffentlicht die Hauptvortr{\"a}ge des Herbsttreffens zum Thema "Lesen lernen: Diagnostik und Therapie bei St{\"o}rungen des Leseerwerbs". Des Weiteren sind die Beitr{\"a}ge promovierender bzw. promovierter PatholinguistInnen sowie der Posterpr{\"a}sentationen enthalten.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Herold2011, author = {Herold, Birgit}, title = {Prosodische Verarbeitung und lexikalische Entwicklung sehr untergewichtiger Fr{\"u}hgeborener w{\"a}hrend des ersten Lebensjahres}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-107-3}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48517}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xv, 244}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Fragestellung, ob die Fr{\"u}hgeburtlichkeit eine Auswirkung auf den Spracherwerb im ersten Lebensjahr hat. Insbesondere wurde der Frage nachgegangen, ob sich die Verarbeitung der rhythmisch-prosodischen Eigenschaften von Sprache im ersten Lebensjahr und deren weitere Ausnutzung f{\"u}r die Entwicklung des Lexikons bei sehr untergewichtigen Deutsch lernenden Fr{\"u}hgeborenen im Vergleich zu Reifgeborenen unterscheidet. Die besondere Spracherwerbssituation Fr{\"u}hgeborener liefert weitere Erkenntnisse bez{\"u}glich der Frage, inwieweit der fr{\"u}he Spracherwerb durch pr{\"a}determinierte reifungsbedingte Mechanismen und Abl{\"a}ufe bestimmt wird und inwieweit dessen Verlauf und die relevanten Erwerbsmechanismen durch individuelle erfahrungsabh{\"a}ngige Faktoren beeinflusst werden. Damit liefern die Ergebnisse auch einen weiteren Beitrag zur Nature-Nurture-Diskussion.}, language = {de} }