TY - JOUR A1 - Felser, Claudia A1 - Jessen, Anna T1 - Correlative coordination and variable subject-verb agreement in German JF - Languages : open access journal N2 - Coordinated subjects often show variable number agreement with the finite verb, but linguistic approaches to this phenomenon have rarely been informed by systematically collected data. We report the results from three experiments investigating German speakers' agreement preferences with complex subjects joined by the correlative conjunctions sowohl horizontal ellipsis als auch ('both horizontal ellipsis and'), weder horizontal ellipsis noch ('neither horizontal ellipsis nor') or entweder horizontal ellipsis oder ('either horizontal ellipsis or'). We examine to what extent conjunction type and a conjunct's relative proximity to the verb affect the acceptability and processibility of singular vs. plural agreement. Experiment 1 was an untimed acceptability rating task, Experiment 2 a timed sentence completion task, and Experiment 3 was a self-paced reading task. Taken together, our results show that number agreement with correlative coordination in German is primarily determined by a default constraint triggering plural agreement, which interacts with linear order and semantic factors. Semantic differences between conjunctions only affected speakers' agreement preferences in the absence of processing pressure but not their initial agreement computation. The combined results from our offline and online experimental measures of German speakers' agreement preferences suggest that the constraints under investigation do not only differ in their relative weighting but also in their relative timing during agreement computation. KW - correlative coordination KW - subject– verb agreement KW - German Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020067 SN - 2226-471X VL - 6 IS - 2 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Adverbal expression of aspectuality and interaction with perfective and imperfective verbs JF - Russian Grammar: System – Usus – Variation/Русская грамматика: Cистема – узус – варьирование N2 - This paper intends to explore the interaction between aspect and lexical means, in this case temporal adverbials, in the bounding of representations of situations. First, the theoretical basis is outlined, followed by the results of a corpus analysis of coccurrences with adverbs that limit situations. The term situation encompasses all representable processes, states, events, or actions. Finally, some theoretical conclusions are drawn concerning the cognitive category of bounding, using the example of aspectuality. The imperfective verb forms maintain their aspectuality in delimiting connections with adverbs, resulting in a complex, multi-dimensional aspectuality. In nongrammaticalized forms, such as lexical markers, the speaker is free to make a temporal localization or an aspectual perspective. Lexical expressions can make temporal and aspect markings even more precisely and clearly than tenses. They can also limit or extend situations and thus express aspect. Aspectuality thus presents itself as a compositional category, in which external bounding and the internal representation of a course of action or development can interact. N2 - Данная статья ставит своей целью исследовать взаимодействие между видом глагола и лексическими средствами, в данном случае временными наречиями, в ограни чении репрезентаций ситуаций. После изложения теоретических основ исследования приводятся результаты корпусного анализа совпадений грамматического вида с наречиями, ограничивающими ситуации. Термин “ситуация” в статье охватывает все репрезен- тируемые процессы, состояния, события или действия. В заключении делаются некоторые теоретические выводы относительно когнитивной категории ограничения на примере аспектуальности. Формы несовершенного вида сохраняют свою изначальную аспектуальность при разграничении связей с наречиями, что приводит к сложной, много-мерной аспектуальности. В неграмматикализованных формах, таких как лексические маркеры, говорящий свободен в выборе временной локализации или аспектуальной перспективы. Лексические средства могут выражать временные и видовые нюансы даже более точно и четко, чем времена. Они также могут ограничивать или расширять ситуации и, таким образом, выражать аспектуальность. Таким образом, аспектуальность представ- ляется как композиционная категория, в которой могут взаимодействовать внешнее ограничение и внутреннее представление развития действия. T2 - Адвербиальное выражение аспектуальности и его взаимодействие с глаголами совершенного и несовершенного вида Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-87748-7 SP - 219 EP - 234 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wardlitz, Vladislava T1 - Introduction JF - Russian grammar: system - usus - variation = Russkaja grammatika: sistema - uzus - varʹirovanie / Vladislava Warditz Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-86458-6 SN - 978-3-631-87748-7 SN - 978-3-631-87749-4 SN - 2750-297X SN - 2750-2961 SP - 15 EP - 22 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Clahsen, Harald A1 - Jessen, Anna T1 - Morphological generalization in bilingual language production BT - age of acquisition determines variability JF - Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics N2 - Morphological variability in bilingual language production is widely attested. Producing inflected words has been found to be less reliable and consistent in bilinguals than in first-language (functionally monolingual) L1 speakers, even for bilingual speakers at advanced proficiency levels. The sources for these differences are not well understood. The current study presents a detailed investigation of morphological generalization processes in bilingual speakers' language production. We examined past participle formation of German using an elicited-production experiment containing nonce verbs with varying degrees of similarity to existing verbs testing a large group of bilingual Turkish/German speakers relative to L1 German speakers. We compared similarity-based lexical extensions with generalizations of morphological rules. The results show that rule-based generalizations are used less often and more variably within the bilingual group than within the L1 group. Our results also show a selective effect of age of acquisition on the bilingual speakers' morphological generalizations. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1910267 SN - 1048-9223 SN - 1532-7817 VL - 28 IS - 4 SP - 370 EP - 386 PB - Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kocaman, Ceren A1 - Selvi, Ali Fuad T1 - Gender, sexuality, and language teaching materials BT - why materials matter for social justice in the language classroom JF - Babylonia Journal of Language Education N2 - Obwohl schon viel über kommerzielle Materialien gesagt und geschrieben wurde, ist unser Verständnis sehr begrenzt, wenn es um lokal produzierte (hauseigene, nicht-kommerzielle) Materialien geht, die oft verwendet werden, um bestehende veröffentlichte Materialien zu ersetzen oder zu ergänzen. In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen Überblick über die Literatur zur Darstellung von Geschlecht und Sexualität in kommerziellen Lehrmitteln und unsere Überlegungen zu lokal produzierten Unterrichtsmaterialien, die in einem Englisch-Intensivprogramm an einer Universität in der Türkei mit Englisch als Unterrichtsmedium (EMI) verwendet werden. Wir unterstreichen die Bedeutung von Materialien für die Handlungsfähigkeit von Lehrkräften bei der Schaffung eines sicheren und inklusiven Klassenzimmers und bei der Bekämpfung von systematischer Unterdrückung, Diskriminierung und Ungerechtigkeit im und ausserhalb des Klassenzimmers. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://babylonia.online/index.php/babylonia/article/view/41/66 VL - 1 SP - 76 EP - 81 ER - TY - JOUR ED - Behrendt, Aileen Jorena ED - Courtman, Nicholas T1 - Writing the economic subject in modern western Europe BT - representation, contestation, critique JF - Literature, Culture, Economy JF - Literatur, Kultur, Ökonomie N2 - This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-83999-7 SN - 978-3-631-85753-3 SN - 978-3-631-85755-7 SN - 978-3-631-85754-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3726/b18541 SN - 2364-1304 IS - 9 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grubic, Mira A1 - Wierzba, Marta T1 - The German additive particle noch BT - testing the role of topic situations JF - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics N2 - The particle noch (‘still’) can have an additive reading similar to auch (‘also’). We argue that both particles indicate that a previously partially answered QUD is re-opened to add a further answer. The particles differ in that the QUD, in the case of auch, can be re-opened with respect to the same topic situation, whereas noch indicates that the QUD is re-opened with respect to a new topic situation. This account predicts a difference in the accommodation behavior of the two particles. We present an experiment whose results are in line with this prediction. KW - additive particles KW - noch KW - auch KW - German KW - topic situation KW - semantics KW - experiments Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1275 SN - 2397-1835 VL - 6 IS - 1 PB - Ubiquity Press CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Uygun, Serkan A1 - Clahsen, Harald T1 - Morphological processing in heritage speakers BT - a masked priming study on the Turkish aorist JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition N2 - Previous research has shown that heritage speakers struggle with inflectional morphology. 'Limitations of online resources' for processing a non-dominant language has been claimed as one possible reason for these difficulties. To date, however, there is very little experimental evidence on real-time language processing in heritage speakers. Here we report results from a masked priming experiment with 97 bilingual (Turkish/German) heritage speakers and a control group of 40 non-heritage speakers of Turkish examining regular and irregular forms of the Turkish aorist. We found that, for the regular aorist, heritage speakers use the same morphological decomposition mechanism ('affix stripping') as control speakers, whereas for processing irregularly inflected forms they exhibited more variability (i.e., less homogeneous performance) than the control group. Heritage speakers also demonstrated semantic priming effects. At a more general level, these results indicate that heritage speakers draw on multiple sources of information for recognizing morphologically complex words. KW - Turkish KW - morphology KW - aorist KW - priming KW - variability KW - processing Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000577 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 3 SP - 415 EP - 426 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P. T1 - nà-cleft (non-)exhaustivity BT - variability in Akan JF - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics N2 - This paper presents two experimental studies on the exhaustive inference associated with focus-background na-clefts in Akan (among others, Boadi 1974; Duah 2015; Grubic & Renans & Duah 2019; Titov 2019), with a direct comparison to two recent experiments on German es-clefts employing an identical design (De Veaugh-Geiss et al. 2018). Despite the unforeseen response patterns in Akan in the incremental information-retrieval paradigm used, a post-hoc exploratory analysis reveals compelling parallels between the two languages. The results are compatible with a unified approach both (i) cross-linguistically between Akan and German; and (ii) cross-sententially between na-clefts (a na P, 'It is a who did P') and definite pseudoclefts, i.e., definite descriptions with identity statements (Nipa no a P ne a, 'The person who did P is a') (Boadi 1974; Ofori 2011). Participant variability in (non-)exhaustive interpretations is compatible with discourse pragmatic approaches to cleft exhaustivity (Pollard & Yasavul 2016; De Veaugh-Geiss et al. 2018; Titov 2019). KW - Akan KW - nà-clefts KW - definite pseudoclefts KW - exhaustivity KW - experimental studies Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5698 SN - 2397-1835 VL - 6 IS - 1 PB - Open Library of Humanities CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bade, Nadine T1 - On the scope and nature of Maximise Presupposition JF - Language and linguistics compass N2 - The paper introduces the principle Maximise Presupposition and its cognates. The main focus of the literature and this article is on the inferences that arise as a result of reasoning with Maximise Presupposition ('anti-presuppositions'). I will review the arguments put forward for distinguishing them from other inference types, most notably presuppositions and conversational implicatures. I will zoom in on three main issues regarding Maximise Presupposition and these inferences critically discussed in the literature: epistemic strength(ening), projection, and the role of alternatives. I will discuss more recent views which argue for either a uniform treatment of anti-presuppositions and implicatures and/or a revision of the original principle in light of new data and developments in pragmatics. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12416 SN - 1749-818X VL - 15 IS - 6 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tran, Thuan T1 - Non-canonical word order and temporal reference in Vietnamese JF - Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences N2 - The paper revisits Duffield's (2007) (Duffield, Nigel. 2007. Aspects of Vietnamese clausal structure: Separating tense from assertion. Linguistics 45(4). 765-814) analysis of the correlation between the position of a 'when'-phrase and the temporal reference of a bare sentence in Vietnamese. Bare sentences in Vietnamese, based on (Smith, Carlota S. & Mary S. Erbaugh. 2005. Temporal interpretation in Mandarin Chinese. Linguistics 43(4). 713-756), are argued to obtain their temporal interpretation from their aspectual composition, and the default temporal reference: bounded events are located in the past, unbounded events at present. It is shown that the correlation so observed in when-questions is superficial, and is tied to the syntax and semantics of temporal modification and the requirement that temporal adverbials denoting future time is base generated in sentence-initial position, and past time adverbials in sentence-final position. A 'when'-phrase, being temporally underspecified, obtains its temporal value from its base position. However, the correlation between word order and temporal reference in argument wh-questions and declaratives is factual, depending on whether the predicate-argument configuration allows for a telic interpretation or not. To be specific, it is dependent on whether the application of Generic Modification (Snyder, William. 2012. Parameter theory and motion predicates. In Violeta Demonte & Louise McNally (eds.), Telicity, change, and state. Acrosscategorial view of event structure, 279-299. Oxford: Oxford University Press) or accomplishment composition is realized. Canonical declaratives, and argument wh-questions, with telicity inducing material, license GM or accomplishment composition, yielding bounded events, hence past; by contrast, their noncanonical counterparts block GM or accomplishment composition, giving rise to unbounded event descriptions, hence non-past. KW - Vietnamese KW - accomplishment composition KW - temporal reference KW - generic KW - modification KW - temporal modification Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0256 SN - 0024-3949 SN - 1613-396X VL - 59 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 34 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Erdmann, Julius T1 - Kultursemiotik digitaler Bildzeichen der tunesischen Revolution BT - Visuelle Protestkultur zwischen 2010 und 2013 T2 - Communicatio ; 51 Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-063845-5 SN - 978-3-11-064443-2 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Koch, Franziska T1 - Zwischen Rache, Schuld und Wunschtraum. Die Zerstörung der dörflichen Gemeinschaft in Tadeusz Nowaks "A jak królem, a jak katem będziesz" JF - Close Reading – Distant Reading. Spannungsfelder der slavistischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften N2 - Der Artikel diskutiert den Roman „A jak królem, a jak katem będziesz“ (1968, „Und wenn du König und wenn du Henker bist“) von Tadeusz Nowak unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Frage, wie die – durch die Augenzeugenschaft der Shoah begründeten – Traumata des polnischen Dorfes in Nowaks Text sichtbar werden. Der Roman ist geprägt durch ein ambivalentes, zwischen Wunsch- und Schuldnarrativen pendelndes Erzählen. Der Protagonist verkörpert einen unbequemen Helden, der tief verwurzelt in den volkstümlichen Traditionen seiner bäuerlichen Herkunft ist. Als paternalistischer Beschützer und Rächer seines jüdischen Freundes erlebt er die Zerstörung der dörflichen Idylle. Taumelnd zwischen Rachegedanken und Schuldgefühlen gegenüber seiner Dorfgemeinschaft verfällt Piotr dem Wahnsinn. Ein Weiterleben nach Kriegsende ist für ihn nur durch Amnesie und kathartische Wiederaufnahme in das dörfliche Kollektiv möglich. Die Stärke von Nowaks Roman liegt nicht allein in der Rekonstruktion der polnischen volkstümlichen Kultur. Vielmehr zeigt der Roman den Versuch, die historischen und sozialen Traumata des polnischen Dorfes während der Jahre 1939–1945 – die in der direkten und unmittelbaren Augenzeugenschaft der Shoah begründet liegen – mit dem der ruralen Bevölkerung eigenen Wort-, Legenden- und Erfahrungsschatz wiederzugeben. N2 - The article discusses the novel "A jak królem, a jak katem będziesz" (1968) by Tadeusz Nowak with special attention to the question of how the traumas of the Polish village - grounded in eyewitnessing the Shoah - become visible in Nowak's text. The novel is characterized by an ambivalent narrative oscillating between narratives of desire and guilt. The protagonist embodies an uncomfortable hero, deeply rooted in the folk traditions of his peasant origins. As paternalistic protector and avenger of his Jewish friend, he experiences the destruction of the village idyll. Staggering between thoughts of revenge and feelings of guilt towards his village community, Piotr falls into madness. For him, survival after the end of the war is only possible through amnesia and cathartic reintegration into the village collective. The strength of Nowak's novel does not lie solely in its reconstruction of Polish folk culture. Rather, the novel shows an attempt to render the historical and social traumas of the Polish village during 1939–1945 – rooted in direct and immediate eyewitnessing of the Shoah – with the vocabulary of words, legends, and experiences peculiar to the rural population. KW - Tadeusz Nowak KW - Dorfliteratur KW - Literatur der Volksrepublik Polen KW - Augenzeugenschaft der Shoah Y1 - 2021 UR - https://opendata.uni-halle.de/bitstream/1981185920/37203/1/Reflexionen%20des%20Gesellschaftlichen_Band%209_Close%20Reading%20%E2%80%93%20Distant%20Reading.pdf SN - 978-3-96670-076-4 U6 - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/36970 SN - 2194-7473 SP - 279 EP - 293 PB - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg CY - Halle ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Clahsen, Harald T1 - Obituary: Pieter Muysken JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000249 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 597 EP - 598 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ernst, Marion Eva T1 - Negative menschliche Eigenschaften im Spiegel der Vogel-Metaphorik JF - Sprache & Sprachen : Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen N2 - In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird es um Metaphern und Phraseologismen gehen, in denen sich negative menschliche Eigenschaften wie z.B. Dummheit, Verrücktheit oder Unsauberkeit im Spiegel der Vogel-Metaphorik niederschlagen. Für die Metaphern wird ausgeführt, wie, vor dem Hintergrund der Metapherntheorie von Lakoff & Johnson (1980), Charakteristika der jeweiligen Vogelart semantisch auf Subfelder mangelnder menschlicher sozialer und kognitiver Kompetenzen bezogen sind. Welcher Bezug besteht zwischen einem Ursprungsbereich (source domain) und einem Zielbereich (target domain) wie in Pleitegeier? Wie motiviert oder motivierbar sind Metaphern und Phraseologismen wie Spinatwachtel oder eine Meise haben? In Bezug auf die Phraseologismen wird erörtert, welche struktursemantischen Klassen vertreten sind und welche semantischen Subfelder im Vergleich zu den Metaphern Verwendung finden. N2 - This paper discusses negative human qualities, such as foolishness, craziness and uncleanliness, associated with metaphors and idioms involving birds. Based on Lakoff & Johnson's (1980) metaphor theory it is shown how specific characteristics of a given bird species are used in metaphors to describe people lacking in social or cognitive competence. Furthermore it will be shown which semantic subfields are predominantly represented. Questions such as the following will be addressed: How are the source domain and the target domain in e.g. Pleitegeier (bankruptcy vulture "being on the brink of disaster") related? How motivated are metaphors such as Spinatwachtel (spinach quail "old frump") or idioms such as eine Meise haben (have a tit "be off one's head")? Which structural-semantic classes occur in idioms will be discussed as well as which semantic subfields are used in idioms as opposed to metaphors. T2 - Negative human qualities mirrored in metaphors and idioms involving birds KW - idioms KW - metaphors KW - negative human qualities KW - Metaphern KW - negative menschliche Eigenschaften KW - Phraseologismen Y1 - 2021 SN - 0934-6813 SN - 2199-6016 IS - Sonderheft SP - 91 EP - 107 PB - GeSuS CY - Gelsenkirchen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassler, Gerda T1 - Meaning and Function BT - the Place of Coseriu’s Linguistic Theory in Functional Linguistics JF - Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : international journal for researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cross-cultural and translation strategies N2 - The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu‘s view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu‘s difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography. KW - function KW - meaning KW - grammatography KW - oppositions KW - functional unit Y1 - 2021 SN - 2065-4057 SN - 2457-8835 IS - 16 SP - 17 EP - 50 PB - Ştefan cel Mare University Press CY - Suceava ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Puebla, Cecilia A1 - Garcia, Juan T1 - Advocating the inclusion of older adults in digital language learning technology and research BT - some considerations JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000742 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 398 EP - 399 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - THES A1 - Kraft, Justin T1 - Eine vergleichende Analyse der sprachlichen Manipulationsstrategien von AfD und NSDAP anhand ausgewählter Beispiele N2 - In den letzten Jahren erlebte der Rechtspopulismus in Europa einen Aufstieg. Die ‚Alternative für Deutschland‘ (AfD) erhielt bei der deutschen Bundestagswahl 2017 beispielsweise 12,7 % der abgegebenen Stimmen und war darüber hinaus gerade im Osten des Landes erfolgreich. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird vergleichend untersucht, welche sprachlichen Manipulationsstrategien der AfD dazu beitragen und wie sie wirken. Die Arbeit gliedert sich grob in zwei Teile: die Analyse des Sprachgebrauchs der AfD und schließlich der Vergleich mit jenem der Nationalsozialist:innen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es nicht, die AfD als Kopie der NSDAP zu entlarven, sondern ihre sprachlichen Manipulationsstrategien im historischen Kontext ergebnisoffen zu analysieren und so ein tieferes Verständnis dieser zu ermöglichen, um eine Grundlage für die zukünftige Erarbeitung möglicher Gegenstrategien zu schaffen. Dabei stellt sich die Verwendung von diskriminierenden Sprechakten als wesentlicher Teilaspekt der Strategie heraus. So kann aus den Ergebnissen geschlussfolgert werden, dass die Polarisierung der Gesellschaft in zwei Teile (Ingroup und Outgroup) sowie die damit verbundene Diskriminierung der Outgroup als Ziel des Sprachgebrauchs der AfD bezeichnet werden können. Auf diesem Weg kann eine zunehmende Radikalisierung des Sprachgebrauchs innerhalb der letzten Jahre festgestellt werden. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden im Vergleich mit den Nationalsozialist:innen zahlreiche Parallelen deutlich: Über gemeinsame Stilmittel wie Metaphorik, Verwendung von Superlativen oder bestimmten Begrifflichkeiten hinaus ist hier vor allem die Diskriminierung eines konkreten Feindbildes sowie die angestrebte Spaltung der Bevölkerung zu nennen. Zugleich gilt es auch, die deutlichen Unterschiede zwischen dem Sprachgebrauch im Nationalsozialismus und jenem der AfD zu akzentuieren, um eine ebenso leichtfertige wie unangemessene Gleichsetzung zu verhindern. Zentral ist hier die Eindeutigkeit des Sprachgebrauchs. Die Vergleiche mit verschiedenen Quellen aus dem Dritten Reich verdeutlichen, dass der Sprachgebrauch im Nationalsozialismus direkter und viel radikaler war. Die AfD ist hingegen oftmals darauf bedacht, ihre Aussagen nur augenscheinlich eindeutig zu formulieren, sich insgesamt aber immer eine Möglichkeit des sprachlichen Zurückruderns offen zu halten. Ein offensichtlicher Grund dürften die unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen zu beiden Zeiten sein. Für die AfD ist es heute schwieriger, eine ausreichend große Masse an mindestens unsicheren Menschen zu mobilisieren. Begründet werden kann dies mit einer im Vergleich zur Weimarer Republik über Jahrzehnte hinweg gesetzlich, politisch und gesellschaftlich etablierten und sehr stabilen Demokratie. Deshalb ist die AfD darauf angewiesen, eine mehrdeutige Sprache zu verwenden, die ihnen im Bedarfsfall eine Rechtfertigung und somit einen Weg zurück ermöglicht. Darüber hinaus ermöglicht ihnen ein solcher Sprachgebrauch aber auch, sich einerseits gegenüber den Institutionen der Demokratie (beispielsweise dem Verfassungsschutz) zu rechtfertigen und andererseits insbesondere der konservativen Wählerschaft das Gefühl zu geben, dass sie keine rechtsextreme Partei wählen. Aus den Ergebnissen der Arbeit lässt sich darüber hinaus die These ableiten, dass eine Veränderung des Sprachgebrauchs allein nicht dazu führt, dass Menschen einer Ideologie folgen. Der historische Vergleich deutet aber darauf hin, dass ein diskriminierender Sprachgebrauch zur Entstehung eines Nährbodens einer solchen Ideologie beitragen kann, wenn der gesellschaftliche und politische Rahmen es zulässt. Diesen Rahmen versucht die AfD Stück für Stück in ihrem Sinne zu verschieben. In den letzten Jahren gelang es ihr zunehmend, den öffentlichen Diskurs zu ihren Gunsten mitzubestimmen und zu verändern. Dafür ist der manipulative Gebrauch von Sprache entscheidend. Durch ihn sind sie in der Lage, die ›gefühlte‹ Wahrheit im Kampf gegen Fakten siegen zu lassen und Diskurse wie die Klima-Debatte oder die Diskussionen um Maßnahmen gegen die Coronapandemie zu beeinflussen. Die Arbeit macht aber auch deutlich, wie kompliziert das Vorhaben der Polarisierung in einer heterogenen Gesellschaft wie der heutigen deutschen ist. Sogar innerhalb der AfD kommt es immer häufiger zu Uneinigkeiten. N2 - In recent years, Right-wing populism has been on the rise in Europe. For example, the “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD), a German right-wing party, received 12.7% of the votes cast in the 2017 German federal elections, with disproportional success in the east of the country. This thesis conducts a comparative analysis on linguistic manipulation strategies employed by the AfD and analyses their contribution to the party's success. The thesis is structured into two parts: first an analysis of the AfD's use of language, followed by a comparison with the language used by the National Socialists (NSDAP) during the Third Reich. The aim of this thesis is not to expose the AfD as a reincarnation of the NSDAP, but to analyse its linguistic manipulation strategies in historical context and thus enable a deeper understanding of how they work in order to create a basis for the future development of counter-strategies. In this process, the use of 'discriminatory speech acts' emerges as an essential aspect of the party's strategy. Results suggest that the goal of the AfD's language-use is to split society into two parts (ingroup and outgroup), as well as discriminating the outgroup. Accordingly, over the last few years, an increasing radicalisation of language-use by representatives of the party can be identified. In the second part, a comparison of the language-use by the AfD to that of the NSDAP reveals numerous parallels: beyond common stylistic devices such as metaphor, the use of superlatives, a certain repetitive terminology, the demonization of a specific enemy, as well as an intentional division of the population should be mentioned. At the same time, it is important to accentuate the clear differences between the use of language by the NSDAP and the AfD in order to avoid an inappropriate equation. The unambiguousness of language-use is central here. Comparisons with various sources from the Third Reich make clear that the use of language during the times of NSDAP rule was more direct and much more radical. The AfD, on the other hand, is often careful to formulate its statements in a way that is unambiguous only on the surface, and always maintains a stance of linguistic backpedalling. One obvious reason for this is probably the different social conditions at both times. Today, it is more difficult for the AfD to mobilise a sufficiently large mass of unsettled and disaffected people than it was for the NSDAP back then. This can be justified with the fact that, compared to the Weimar Republic, the Germany of today has been a legally, politically, and socially stable democracy for decades. Therefore, the AfD is forced to use ambiguous language that allows it to wriggle out of contention if necessary. Moreover, such language-use also enables them, on the one hand, to justify themselves to the institutions of democracy (for example the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the "Verfassungsschutz"), and, on the other hand, to give the mainstream conservative electorate the feeling that they would not be voting for an extreme right-wing party. Furthermore, another conclusion from this study is that a change in language-use alone does not compel people to follow an ideology. However, the historical comparison suggests that using discriminatory language can contribute to the emergence of a breeding-ground for such ideology if the social and political conditions allow for it. The AfD is thus trying to shift these conditions. In recent years, it has increasingly succeeded in determining and changing public discourse in its favour. The manipulative use of language is crucial in this. Through it, the party is able to let a perceived reality win the battle against actual facts and influence discourses such as the climate debate or the discussions about measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. However, this thesis also illustrates the complexities of polarisation is in a heterogeneous society like contemporary Germany. Even within the AfD, disagreements are becoming more frequent. T2 - A comparative analysis of the linguistic manipulation strategies of AfD and NSDAP based on selected examples KW - AfD KW - Nationalsozialismus KW - Sprache KW - NSDAP KW - Drittes Reich KW - Rechtspopulismus KW - Höcke KW - Hitler KW - Manipulation KW - Third Reich KW - National Socialists KW - Right-wing populism KW - Hitler KW - Höcke KW - Language KW - AfD KW - NSDAP KW - Manipulation Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-496104 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Grubic, Mira A1 - Wierzba, Marta T1 - The German additive particle noch BT - testing the role of topic situations T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - The particle noch (‘still’) can have an additive reading similar to auch (‘also’). We argue that both particles indicate that a previously partially answered QUD is re-opened to add a further answer. The particles differ in that the QUD, in the case of auch, can be re-opened with respect to the same topic situation, whereas noch indicates that the QUD is re-opened with respect to a new topic situation. This account predicts a difference in the accommodation behavior of the two particles. We present an experiment whose results are in line with this prediction. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 709 KW - additive particles KW - noch KW - auch KW - German KW - topic situation KW - semantics KW - experiments Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-510049 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 709 ER - TY - THES A1 - Pauly, Dennis Nikolas T1 - The effect of noun capitalization when reading German and English N2 - Das Promotionsprojekt hatte als Ziel, die Fragestellung zu beantworten, ob die strukturelle wortinitiale Substantivgroßschreibung, wie sie sich neben dem Deutschen sonst nur noch im Luxemburgischen finden lässt, über eine Funktion verfügt, die dem Leser einen Vorteil bringt. Die übergeordnete Hypothese war, dass ein Vorteil dadurch erreicht wird, dass durch die parafoveale Wahrnehmung der Majuskel bereits eine syntaktische Kategorie, nämlich der Kern einer Nominalgruppe, aktiviert wird. Durch diese Wahrnehmung aus dem Augenwinkel sollte das nachfolgende Substantiv schon vorverarbeitet werden können. Im Ergebnis sollte eine Erleichterung der Satzverarbeitung bewirkt werden, was sich letztlich in insgesamt schnelleren Lese- bzw. Fixationszeiten zeigen sollte. Die Struktur des Projekts beinhaltet drei Studien, die teilweise jeweils unterschiedliche Versuchspersonengruppen umfassten: Studie 1: - Studiendesign: Semantisches Priming mittels sogenannter Holzwegsätze sollten die Funktionsweise der Substantivgroßschreibung für den Leser hervorbringen - Versuchspersonen: Deutsche L1-Sprecher lesen Deutsch Studie 2: - Studiendesign: gleiches Design wie Studie 1, allerdings auf Englisch - Versuchspersonengruppen: Studie 3: 1. Englische L1-Sprecher gänzlich ohne Deutschkenntnisse, 2. englische L1-Sprecher, die regelmäßig deutsche Texte lesen, 3. deutsche L1-Sprecher mit exzellenten Englischkenntnissen. - Studiendesign: Einfluss der Substantivfrequenz auf eine potentielle Vorverarbeitung mittels boundary paradigm; Untersuchungsprachen: Deutsch und Englisch - Versuchspersonengruppen: 1. Deutsche L1-Sprecher lesen Deutsch, 2. englische L1-Sprecher gänzlich ohne Deutschkenntnisse lesen Englisch, 3. deutsche L1-Sprecher mit exzellenten Englischkenntnissen lesen Englisch. Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse: Die Substantivgroßschreibung hat eindeutig einen Einfluss auf die Satzverarbeitung sowohl im Deutschen als auch im Englischen. Dass dieser einen substanziell entscheidenden Vorteil bringt, kann nicht bestätigt werden. N2 - The aim of the doctoral project was to answer the question of whether the structural word-initial noun capitalization, as it can otherwise only be found in Luxembourgish alongside German, has a function that is advantageous for the reader. The overriding hypothesis was that an advantage is achieved by activating a syntactic category, namely the core of a noun phrase, through the parafoveal perception of the capital letters. This perception from the corner of the eye should make it possible to preprocess the following noun. As a result, sentence processing should be facilitated, which should ultimately be reflected in overall faster reading times and fixation durations. The structure of the project includes three studies, some of which included different participant groups: Study 1: Study design: Semantic priming using garden-path sentences should bring out the functionality of noun capitalization for the reader Participant groups: German natives reading German Study 2: Study design: same design as study 1, but in English Participant groups: English natives without any knowledge of German reading English English natives who regularly read German reading English German with high proficiency in English reading English Study 3: Study design: Influence of the noun frequency on a potential preprocessing using the boundary paradigm; Study languages: German and English Participant groups: German natives reading German English natives without any knowledge of German reading English German with high proficiency in English reading English Brief summary: The noun capitalization clearly has an impact on sentence processing in both German and English. It cannot be confirmed that this has a substantial, decisive advantage. T2 - Der Einfluss der Substantivgroßschreibung beim Lesen von Deutsch und Englisch KW - Eye-tracking KW - Noun capitalization KW - Orthography KW - Blickbewegungen KW - Orthographie KW - Lesen KW - Substantivgroßschreibung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-498031 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Paetzel-Prüsmann, Maike A1 - Perugia, Giulia A1 - Castellano, Ginevra T1 - The influence of robot personality on the development of uncanny feelings JF - Computers in human behavior N2 - Empirical investigations on the uncanny valley have almost solely focused on the analysis of people?s noninteractive perception of a robot at first sight. Recent studies suggest, however, that these uncanny first impressions may be significantly altered over an interaction. What is yet to discover is whether certain interaction patterns can lead to a faster decline in uncanny feelings. In this paper, we present a study in which participants with limited expertise in Computer Science played a collaborative geography game with a Furhat robot. During the game, Furhat displayed one of two personalities, which corresponded to two different interaction strategies. The robot was either optimistic and encouraging, or impatient and provocative. We performed the study in a science museum and recruited participants among the visitors. Our findings suggest that a robot that is rated high on agreeableness, emotional stability, and conscientiousness can indeed weaken uncanny feelings. This study has important implications for human-robot interaction design as it further highlights that a first impression, merely based on a robot?s appearance, is not indicative of the affinity people might develop towards it throughout an interaction. We thus argue that future work should emphasize investigations on exact interaction patterns that can help to overcome uncanny feelings. KW - Human-robot interaction KW - Uncanny valley KW - Robot personality KW - Human KW - perception of robots KW - Crowd-sourcing KW - Multimodal behavior Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106756 SN - 0747-5632 SN - 1873-7692 VL - 120 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Korochkina, Maria A1 - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris A1 - Nickels, Lyndsey T1 - Apples and oranges BT - how does learning context affect novel word learning? JF - Journal of memory and language : JML N2 - Despite scarce empirical evidence, introducing new vocabulary in semantic categories has long been standard in second language teaching. We examined the effect of learning context on encoding, immediate recall and integration of new vocabulary into semantic memory by contrasting categorically related (novel names for familiar concepts blocked by semantic category) and unrelated (mixed semantic categories) learning contexts. Two learning sessions were conducted 24 hours apart, with each participant exposed to both contexts. Subsequently, a test phase examined picture naming, translation and picture-word interference tasks. Compared to the unrelated context, the categorically related context resulted in poorer naming accuracy in the learning phase, slower response latencies at the immediate recall tasks and greater semantic interference in the picture-word interference task (picture naming in L1 with semantically related novel word distractors). We develop a theoretical account of word learning that attributes observed differences to episodic rather than semantic memory. KW - Word learning KW - Learning context KW - Episodic memory KW - Semantic memory KW - Integration KW - Word production Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2021.104246 SN - 0749-596X SN - 1096-0821 VL - 120 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Fominyam, Henry Zamchang T1 - Aspects of Awing grammar and information structure N2 - This project describes the nominal, verbal and ‘truncation’ systems of Awing and explains the syntactic and semantic functions of the multifunctional l<-><-> (LE) morpheme in copular and wh-focused constructions. Awing is a Bantu Grassfields language spoken in the North West region of Cameroon. The work begins with morphological processes viz. deverbals, compounding, reduplication, borrowing and a thorough presentation of the pronominal system and takes on verbal categories viz. tense, aspect, mood, verbal extensions, negation, adverbs and triggers of a homorganic N(asal)-prefix that attaches to the verb and other verbal categories. Awing grammar also has a very unusual phenomenon whereby nouns and verbs take long and short forms. A chapter entitled truncation is dedicated to the phenomenon. It is observed that the truncation process does not apply to bare singular NPs, proper names and nouns derived via morphological processes. On the other hand, with the exception of the 1st person non-emphatic possessive determiner and the class 7 noun prefix, nouns generally take the truncated form with modifiers (i.e., articles, demonstratives and other possessives). It is concluded that nominal truncation depicts movement within the DP system (Abney 1987). Truncation of the verb occurs in three contexts: a mass/plurality conspiracy (or lattice structuring in terms of Link 1983) between the verb and its internal argument (i.e., direct object); a means to align (exhaustive) focus (in terms of Fery’s 2013), and a means to form polar questions. The second part of the work focuses on the role of the LE morpheme in copular and wh-focused clauses. Firstly, the syntax of the Awing copular clause is presented and it is shown that copular clauses in Awing have ‘subject-focus’ vs ‘topic-focus’ partitions and that the LE morpheme indirectly relates such functions. Semantically, it is shown that LE does not express contrast or exhaustivity in copular clauses. Turning to wh-constructions, the work adheres to Hamblin’s (1973) idea that the meaning of a question is the set of its possible answers and based on Rooth’s (1985) underspecified semantic notion of alternative focus, concludes that the LE morpheme is not a Focus Marker (FM) in Awing: LE does not generate or indicate the presence of alternatives (Krifka 2007); The LE morpheme can associate with wh-elements as a focus-sensitive operator with semantic import that operates on the focus alternatives by presupposing an exhaustive answer, among other notions. With focalized categories, the project further substantiates the claim in Fominyam & Šimík (2017), namely that exhaustivity is part of the semantics of the LE morpheme and not derived via contextual implicature, via a number of diagnostics. Hence, unlike in copular clauses, the LE morpheme with wh-focused categories is analysed as a morphological exponent of a functional head Exh corresponding to Horvath's (2010) EI (Exhaustive Identification). The work ends with the syntax of verb focus and negation and modifies the idea in Fominyam & Šimík (2017), namely that the focalized verb that associates with the exhaustive (LE) particle is a lower copy of the finite verb that has been moved to Agr. It is argued that the LE-focused verb ‘cluster’ is an instantiation of adjunction. The conclusion is that verb doubling with verb focus in Awing is neither a realization of two copies of one and the same verb (Fominyam and Šimík 2017), nor a result of a copy triggered by a focus marker (Aboh and Dyakonova 2009). Rather, the focalized copy is said to be merged directly as the complement of LE forming a type of adjoining cluster. N2 - Diese Arbeit beschreibt die nominalen und verbalen Systeme sowie die 'Verkürzungs-Systeme' in Awing und erklärt die syntaktischen und semantischen Funktionen des multifunktionalen Morphems l<-><-> (LE), sowohl in Kopula- als auch in wh-fokussierten Konstruktionen. Bei Awing handelt es sich um eine Sprache der Bantu Grassfields Familie und die im Nord-Westen Kameruns gesprochen wird. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden zuerst morphologische Prozesse wie Deverbale, Compounding, Reduplikation und Borrowing dargestellt. Darüber hinaus wird das pronominale System der Sprache und die verbalen Kategorien wie Tempus, Aspekt, Modus, verbale Extensionen, Negation und Adverbien ausführlich präsentiert. Weiterhin wird auf die Auslöser eines homorganischen N(asalen)-Präfixes eingegangen, das sich an das Verb und an andere verbale Kategorien bindet. Die Grammatik des Awing zeigt außerdem ein sehr ungewöhnliches Phänomen, nämlich die Existenz von sowohl langen als auch kurzen Formen von Substantiven und Verben. Diese Besonderheit wird im Kapitel 'truncation' thematisiert. Darüber hinaus haben Beobachtungen jedoch gezeigt, dass dieser Verkürzungsprozess nicht bei Singular-NPs, Namen und durch morphologische Prozesse abgeleitete Substantive angewendet werden kann. Im Kontrast dazu muss wiederum festgehalten werden, dass Substantive im Regelfall nur in ihrer verkürzten Form mit Modifizierern (z.B. Artikel, Demonstrative und andere Possessive) auftreten. Davon ausgenommen sind nur nicht-emphatische Possessiv-Determinierer in der ersten Person sowie das Nominal-Präfix der Klasse 7. Zusammenfassend wird dargelegt, dass nominale Verkürzung Bewegung innerhalb des DP-Systems anzeigt (Abney 1987). Die Verkürzung von Verben tritt in drei verschiedenen Kontexten auf: in einer Masse/Plural (‚lattice structure‘ Link 1983) Konspiration zwischen dem Verb und dem direkten Objekt, Fokus auszurichten (nach Féry 2013), und um polare Fragen zu bilden. Der zweite Teil dieser Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Rolle der LE Morpheme in Kopula- und wh-fokussierten Sätzen. Zuerst wird die Syntax des Kopula-Satzes in Awing präsentiert und es wird herausgestellt, dass Kopula-Sätze in Awing zwischen 'Subjekt-Fokus' und 'thematischem Fokus' unterschieden werden. Außerdem wird dargelegt, dass das LE Morphem solche Funktionen indirekt miteinander in Verbindung bringt. Von semantischer Seite aus wird gezeigt, dass LE weder Kontrast noch Vollständigkeit in Kopula-Sätzen ausdrückt. Bezüglich wh-Konstruktionen hält die Arbeit an der Idee von Hamblin (1973) fest, dass die Bedeutung einer Frage die Menge ihrer möglichen Antworten ist. Außerdem basiert die Arbeit auf Rooth's (1985) unterspezifizierten semantischer Auffassung von alternativem Fokus. Es wird zusammenfassend herausgestellt, dass es sich bei dem LE Morphem nicht um eine Fokus-Markierung handelt: durch LE werden keine Alternativen generiert und auch deren Präsenz nicht angezeigt (Krifka 2007); das LE Morphem kann sich mit wh-Elementen zu einem Fokus-sensitiven Operator mit semantischer Bedeutung verbinden. Dieser wird auf die Fokus-Alternativen angewendet, indem, neben anderen Ansichten, eine vollständige Antwort presupponiert wird. Unter der Annahmen von mit Fokus markierten Kategorien konkretisiert dieses Projekt mithilfe verschiedenen Untersuchungsmethoden weiterhin die Aussage in Fominyam & Šimík (2017), nämlich, dass Vollständigkeit einen Teil der Semantik des LE Morphems darstellt und nicht durch kontextuelle Implikaturen abgeleitet werden kann. Anders als in Kopula-Sätzen wird das LE Morphem mit wh-fokussierten Kategorien daher als ein morphologischer Exponent eines funktionellen Kopfes Exh analysiert– in Übereinstimmung mit Horvath's (2010) EI (Exhaustive Identification). Die Arbeit endet mit der Struktur und Syntax von verbalem Fokus und Negation. Darüber hinaus wird die Idee von Fominyam & Šimík (2017) weiterhin modifiziert, indem herausgestellt wird, dass das mit Fokus markierte Verb, welches sich mit dem vollständigen (LE) Partikel verbindet, eine tieferliegende Kopie des nach Agr bewegten, finiten Verbes ist. Es wird argumentiert, dass das LE-fokussierte Verb-Cluster eine Form von Adjunktion ist. Die Schlussfolgerung ist, dass Verb-Verdopplung mit verbalem Fokus in Awing weder eine Realisierung zweier Kopien von ein und demselben Verb (Fominyam & Šimík 2017), noch das Ergebnis einer von einer Fokus-Markierung hervorgerufenen Kopie ist (Aboh and Dyakonova 2009). Viel eher wird angenommen, dass die Fokus-markierte Kopie direkt als das Komplement von LE generiert wird und dadurch eine Art Adjunktions-Cluster bildet. KW - Awing Grammar KW - Nominal morphology KW - Verbal morphology KW - Truncation KW - Copular clauses KW - Verb focus and negation KW - Information Structure KW - Awing Grammatik KW - Nominale Morphologie KW - Trunkation/Verkürzung KW - Kopula-Sätze KW - Verbaler Fokus und Negation Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-518068 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reifegerste, Jana T1 - The effects of aging on bilingual language BT - what changes, what doesn't, and why JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition N2 - Substantial research has examined cognition in aging bilinguals. However, less work has investigated the effects of aging on language itself in bilingualism. In this article I comprehensively review prior research on this topic, and interpret the evidence in light of current theories of aging and theories of bilingualism. First, aging indeed appears to affect bilinguals' language performance, though there is considerable variability in the trajectory across adulthood (declines, age-invariance, and improvements) and in the extent to which these trajectories resemble those found in monolinguals. I argue that these age effects are likely explained by the key opposing forces of increasing experience and cognitive declines in aging. Second, consistent with some theoretical work on bilingual language processing, the grammatical processing mechanisms do not seem to change between younger and older bilingual adults, even after decades of immersion. I conclude by discussing how future research can further advance the field. KW - aging KW - bilingualism KW - second language KW - lexical processing KW - grammatical KW - processing Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000413 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hohaus, Vera A1 - Zimmermann, Malte T1 - Comparisons of equality with German so ... wie, and the relationship between degrees and properties JF - Journal of semantics N2 - We present a compositionally transparent, unified semantic analysis of two kinds of so ... wie-equative constructions in German, namely degree equatives and property equatives in the domain of individuals or events. Unlike in English and many other European languages (Haspelmath & Buchholz 1998, Rett 2013), both equative types in German feature the parameter marker so, suggesting a unified analysis. We show that the parallel formal expression of German degree and property equatives is accompanied by a parallel syntactic distribution (in predicative, attributive, and adverbial position), and by identical semantic properties: Both equative types allow for scope ambiguities, show negative island effects out of context, and license the negative polarity item uberhaupt 'at all' in the complement clause. As the same properties are also shared by German comparatives, we adopt the influential quantificational analysis of comparatives in von Stechow (1984ab), Heim (1985, 2001, 2007), and Beck (2011), and treat both German equative types in a uniform manner as expressing universal quantification over sets of degrees or over sets of properties (of individuals or events). Conceptually, the uniform marking of degree-related and property-related meanings is expected given that the abstract semantic category degree (type ) can be reconstructed in terms of equivalence classes, i.e., ontologically simpler sets of individuals (type ) or events (type ). These are found in any language, showing that whether or not a language makes explicit reference to degrees (by means of gradable adjectives, degree question words, degree-only equatives) does not follow on general conceptual or semantic grounds, but is determined by the grammar of that language. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffaa011 SN - 0167-5133 SN - 1477-4593 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 95 EP - 143 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar A1 - Ogden, Richard T1 - “Chunking” spoken language BT - Introducing weak cesuras JF - Open linguistics N2 - In this introductory paper to the special issue on “Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction”, we aim to guide the reader into current work on the “chunking” of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted in the methodological frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics – two approaches that consider the interactional aspect of humans talking with each other to be a crucial starting point for its analysis. In doing so, we will (1) lay out the background of this special issue (what is problematic about “chunking” talk-in-interaction, the characteristics of the methodological approach chosen by the contributors, the cesura model), (2) highlight what can be gained from such a revised understanding of “chunking” in talk-in-interaction by referring to previous work with this model as well as the findings of the contributions to this special issue, and (3) indicate further directions such work could take starting from papers in this special issue. We hope to induce a fruitful exchange on the phenomena discussed, across methodological divides. KW - Conversation Analysis KW - Interactional Linguistics KW - prosody KW - phonetics KW - intonation units KW - talk-in-interaction KW - syntax KW - kinetics Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0173 SN - 2300-9969 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 531 EP - 548 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuchs, Susanne A1 - Koenig, Laura L. A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette T1 - A longitudinal study of speech acoustics in older French females BT - analysis of the filler particle euh across utterance positions JF - Languages : open access journal N2 - Aging in speech production is a multidimensional process. Biological, cognitive, social, and communicative factors can change over time, stay relatively stable, or may even compensate for each other. In this longitudinal work, we focus on stability and change at the laryngeal and supralaryngeal levels in the discourse particle euh produced by 10 older French-speaking females at two times, 10 years apart. Recognizing the multiple discourse roles of euh, we divided out occurrences according to utterance position. We quantified the frequency of euh, and evaluated acoustic changes in formants, fundamental frequency, and voice quality across time and utterance position. Results showed that euh frequency was stable with age. The only acoustic measure that revealed an age effect was harmonics-to-noise ratio, showing less noise at older ages. Other measures mostly varied with utterance position, sometimes in interaction with age. Some voice quality changes could reflect laryngeal adjustments that provide for airflow conservation utterance-finally. The data suggest that aging effects may be evident in some prosodic positions (e.g., utterance-final position), but not others (utterance-initial position). Thus, it is essential to consider the interactions among these factors in future work and not assume that vocal aging is evident throughout the signal. KW - aging KW - prosody KW - voice quality KW - fundamental frequency KW - formants KW - filler KW - particles Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040211 SN - 2226-471X VL - 6 IS - 4 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Iefremenko, Kateryna A1 - Schroeder, Christoph A1 - Kornfilt, Jaklin T1 - Converbs in heritage Turkish BT - a contrastive approach JF - Nordic journal of linguistics / publ. for The Nordic Association of Linguists N2 - Turkish expresses adverbial subordination predominantly by means of converb clauses. These are headed by nonfinite verbs, i.e. converbs, which have a converb suffix attached to the stem. The different converbs express different aspectual relations between the subordinate and the superordinate clause, and they can be modifying or non-modifying. We analyse data from speakers of Turkish as a heritage language in Germany and the U.S. as well as monolingual speakers of Turkish in Turkey. The data come from two age groups: adults and adolescents. We show that unlike in canonical Turkish, converbs in heritage Turkish can be multifunctional, meaning that they can express both simultaneity and causality, for example. Furthermore, we show that converbs in heritage Turkish can be both modifying and non-modifying. As possible factors which might be responsible for such variation, we discuss language contact, sociolinguistic differences between the speaker communities (Germany vs. the U.S.) and age of the speakers. KW - adverbial clauses KW - converbs KW - heritage Turkish KW - majority English KW - majority German Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0332586521000160 SN - 0332-5865 SN - 1502-4717 VL - 44 IS - 2 SP - 130 EP - 154 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mazzarella, Diana A1 - Gotzner, Nicole T1 - The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening BT - dissociating adjectival polarity from face-threatening potential JF - Glossa : a journal of general linguistics N2 - The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite ('X is uninteresting') than the negation of a negative polarity antonym (X is not uninteresting to convey that 'X is interesting') is. A classical explanation of this asymmetry relies on face-management. Since the predication of a negative polarity antonym (X is uninteresting) is potentially face-threatening in most contexts, the negation of the corresponding positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be interpreted as an indirect strategy to minimise face-threat while getting the message across. We present two experimental studies in which we test the predictions of this explanation. In contrast with it, our results show that adjectival polarity, but not face-threatening potential, appears to be responsible for the asymmetric interpretation of negated antonyms. KW - negation KW - polarity KW - antonyms KW - negative strengthening KW - politeness KW - face Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1342 SN - 2397-1835 VL - 6 IS - 1 PB - Open Library of Humanities CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pregla, Dorothea A1 - Lissón Hernández, Paula J. A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - Burchert, Frank A1 - Stadie, Nicole T1 - Variability in sentence comprehension in aphasia in German JF - Brain & language : a journal of the neurobiology of language N2 - An important aspect of aphasia is the observation of behavioral variability between and within individual participants. Our study addresses variability in sentence comprehension in German, by testing 21 individuals with aphasia and a control group and involving (a) several constructions (declarative sentences, relative clauses and control structures with an overt pronoun or PRO), (b) three response tasks (object manipulation, sentence-picture matching with/without self-paced listening), and (c) two test phases (to investigate test-retest performance). With this systematic, large-scale study we gained insights into variability in sentence comprehension. We found that the size of syntactic effects varied both in aphasia and in control participants. Whereas variability in control participants led to systematic changes, variability in individuals with aphasia was unsystematic across test phases or response tasks. The persistent occurrence of canonicity and interference effects across response tasks and test phases, however, shows that the performance is systematically influenced by syntactic complexity. KW - Aphasia KW - Sentence Comprehension KW - Variability KW - Test-retest reliability KW - Task demands KW - Canonicity and interference effects KW - Object manipulation KW - Sentence-picture matching KW - Self-paced listening KW - Adaptation Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bl.2021.105008 SN - 0093-934X SN - 1090-2155 VL - 222 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stenzel, Kristine A1 - Williams, Nicholas T1 - Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism BT - Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon JF - Language & communication : an interdisciplinary journal N2 - This study examines language ideologies and communicative practices in the multilingual Vaupes region of northwestern Amazonia. Following a comparative overview of the Vaupes as a 'small-scale' language ecology, it discusses claims from existing ethnographic work on the region in light of data from a corpus of video-recordings of sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous everyday conversations. It shows how a practice-based and interdisciplinary approach combining language documentation methodology and ethnographic, structural linguistic, and interactional perspectives can contribute to understanding of macro and micro aspects of multilingualism, thus contributing to future work on the Vaupes, typologies of small-scale multilingual ecologies, and language contact research. KW - Multilingualism KW - Language ideology KW - North-west Amazonia KW - Tukanoan KW - languages KW - Language documentation KW - Conversation analysis Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.010 SN - 0271-5309 SN - 1873-3395 VL - 80 SP - 136 EP - 164 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette A1 - Skupien-Dekens, Carine T1 - A grammar of authority? BT - directive Speech Acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French JF - Journal of historical pragmatics N2 - Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, sermo and apwcf. We present these corpora in terms of their genre characteristics on a communicative-functional and socio-pragmatic level. Based on the observation that, both in sermo and apwcf, dsas frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare the results with regard to special features in the individual corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise dsas. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of an underlying "grammar of authority". KW - corpus KW - correspondence KW - directive speech acts KW - politeness KW - sermons KW - terms of address Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.17006.ger SN - 1566-5852 SN - 1569-9854 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 33 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mertzen, Daniela A1 - Lago, Sol A1 - Vasishth, Shravan T1 - The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition N2 - Preregistration is an open science practice that requires the specification of research hypotheses and analysis plans before the data are inspected. Here, we discuss the benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven, confirmatory bilingualism research. Using examples from psycholinguistics and bilingualism, we illustrate how non-peer reviewed preregistrations can serve to implement a clean distinction between hypothesis testing and data exploration. This distinction helps researchers avoid casting post-hoc hypotheses and analyses as confirmatory ones. We argue that, in keeping with current best practices in the experimental sciences, preregistration, along with sharing data and code, should be an integral part of hypothesis-driven bilingualism research. KW - preregistration KW - open science KW - bilingualism KW - psycholinguistics KW - confirmatory analysis KW - exploratory analysis Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000031 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 807 EP - 812 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stegenwallner-Schütz, Maja A1 - Adani, Flavia T1 - Number dissimilarity effects in object-initial sentence comprehension by German-speaking children with specific language impairment JF - Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR / American Speech Language Hearing Association N2 - Purpose: This study examines the contribution of number morphology to language comprehension abilities among children with specific language impairment (SLI) and age-matched controls. It addresses the question of whether number agreement facilitates the comprehension accuracy of object-initial declarative sentences. According to the predictions of the structural intervention account for German, number agreement should assist the correct interpretation of object-initial sentences. Method: This study examines German-speaking children with SLI and a control group of age-matched typically developing children on their sentence comprehension skills for auditory presented subject-verb-object and object-verb-subject (OVS) sentences. The sentences were manipulated with respect to the number properties of the noun phrases (e.g., one plural and one singular, or both singular) and the number agreement of the verb. Results: The group of children with SLI demonstrated poorer comprehension accuracy in comparison to controls. Comprehension difficulty was limited to OVS sentences among children with SLI. In addition, children with SLI comprehended OVS sentences in which number agreement (with plural subject and verb inflection) indicated the noncanonical word order more accurately than OVS sentences with two singular noun phrases and therein did not differ from controls. Conclusion: The study suggests that number agreement helps alleviate the difficulty with OVS sentences and enhances comprehension accuracy, despite the finding that children with SLI exhibit lower comprehension accuracy and more heterogeneous interindividual differences, relative to controls. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-19-00305 SN - 1092-4388 SN - 1558-9102 VL - 64 IS - 3 SP - 870 EP - 888 PB - American Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc. CY - Rockville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elsner, Birgit A1 - Adam, Maurits T1 - Infants’ goal prediction for simple action events BT - the role of experience and agency cues JF - Topics in cognitive science / Cognitive Science Society N2 - Looking times and gaze behavior indicate that infants can predict the goal state of an observed simple action event (e.g., object-directed grasping) already in the first year of life. The present paper mainly focuses on infants' predictive gaze-shifts toward the goal of an ongoing action. For this, infants need to generate a forward model of the to-be-obtained goal state and to disengage their gaze from the moving agent at a time when information about the action event is still incomplete. By about 6 months of age, infants show goal-predictive gaze-shifts, but mainly for familiar actions that they can perform themselves (e.g., grasping) and for familiar agents (e.g., a human hand). Therefore, some theoretical models have highlighted close relations between infants' ability for action-goal prediction and their motor development and/or emerging action experience. Recent research indicates that infants can also predict action goals of familiar simple actions performed by non-human agents (e.g., object-directed grasping by a mechanical claw) when these agents display agency cues, such as self-propelled movement, equifinality of goal approach, or production of a salient action effect. This paper provides a review on relevant findings and theoretical models, and proposes that the impacts of action experience and of agency cues can be explained from an action-event perspective. In particular, infants' goal-predictive gaze-shifts are seen as resulting from an interplay between bottom-up processing of perceptual information and top-down influences exerted by event schemata that store information about previously executed or observed actions. KW - Action events KW - Infant action‐ goal prediction KW - Infant gaze KW - behavior KW - Eye tracking KW - Feedforward processes KW - Perception of KW - agency  cues Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12494 SN - 1756-8765 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 45 EP - 62 PB - Wiley CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lialiou, Maria A1 - Sotiropoulou, Stavroula A1 - Gafos, Adamantios I. T1 - Spatiotemporal coordination in word-medial stop-lateral and s-stop clusters of American English JF - Phonetica : international journal of phonetic science N2 - This paper is concerned with the relation between syllabic organization and intersegmental spatiotemporal coordination using Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from seven speakers of American English (henceforth, English). Whereas previous work on English has focused on word-initial clusters (preceding a vowel whose identity was not systematically varied), the present work examined word-medial clusters /pl, kl, sp, sk/ in the context of three different vowel heights (high, mid, low). Our results provide evidence for a global organization for the segments involved in these cluster-vowel combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways: compression of the prevocalic consonant and reduction of CV timing in the word-medial cluster case compared to its singleton paired word in both stop-lateral and s-stop clusters, early vowel initiation (as permitted by the clusters' phonetic properties), and presence of compensatory relations between phonetic properties of different segments or intersegmental transitions within each cluster. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking in these word-medial tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed in multiple phonetic exponents rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure employed in previous works. KW - American English KW - intersegmental coordination KW - s-stop clusters KW - stop-lateral clusters KW - syllabic structure Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2010 SN - 0031-8388 SN - 1423-0321 VL - 78 IS - 5-6 SP - 385 EP - 433 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Parshina, Olga A1 - Laurinavichyute, Anna A1 - Sekerina, Irina A. T1 - Eye-movement benchmarks in heritage language reading JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition N2 - This eye-tracking study establishes basic benchmarks of eye movements during reading in heritage language (HL) by Russian-speaking adults and adolescents of high (n = 21) and low proficiency (n = 27). Heritage speakers (HSs) read sentences in Cyrillic, and their eye movements were compared to those of Russian monolingual skilled adult readers, 8-year-old children and L2 learners. Reading patterns of HSs revealed longer mean fixation durations, lower skipping probabilities, and higher regressive saccade rates than in monolingual adults. High-proficient HSs were more similar to monolingual children, while low-proficient HSs performed on par with L2 learners. Low-proficient HSs differed from high-proficient HSs in exhibiting lower skipping probabilities, higher fixation counts, and larger frequency effects. Taken together, our findings are consistent with the weaker links account of bilingual language processing as well as the divergent attainment theory of HL. KW - bilingualism KW - heritage language KW - reading KW - eye movements KW - Russian KW - children KW - L2 learners Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672892000019X SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 69 EP - 82 PB - Cambridge University Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - Gelman, Andrew T1 - How to embrace variation and accept uncertainty in linguistic and psycholinguistic data analysis JF - Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences N2 - The use of statistical inference in linguistics and related areas like psychology typically involves a binary decision: either reject or accept some null hypothesis using statistical significance testing. When statistical power is low, this frequentist data-analytic approach breaks down: null results are uninformative, and effect size estimates associated with significant results are overestimated. Using an example from psycholinguistics, several alternative approaches are demonstrated for reporting inconsistencies between the data and a theoretical prediction. The key here is to focus on committing to a falsifiable prediction, on quantifying uncertainty statistically, and learning to accept the fact that - in almost all practical data analysis situations - we can only draw uncertain conclusions from data, regardless of whether we manage to obtain statistical significance or not. A focus on uncertainty quantification is likely to lead to fewer excessively bold claims that, on closer investigation, may turn out to be not supported by the data. KW - experimental linguistics KW - statistical data analysis KW - statistical KW - inference KW - uncertainty quantification Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0051 SN - 0024-3949 SN - 1613-396X VL - 59 IS - 5 SP - 1311 EP - 1342 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuberski, Stephan R. A1 - Gafos, Adamantios I. T1 - Fitts’ law in tongue movements of repetitive speech JF - Phonetica : international journal of phonetic science N2 - Fitts' law, perhaps the most celebrated law of human motor control, expresses a relation between the kinematic property of speed and the non-kinematic, task-specific property of accuracy. We aimed to assess whether speech movements obey this law using a metronome-driven speech elicitation paradigm with a systematic speech rate control. Specifically, using the paradigm of repetitive speech, we recorded via electromagnetic articulometry speech movement data in sequences of the form /CV.../ from 6 adult speakers. These sequences were spoken at 8 distinct rates ranging from extremely slow to extremely fast. Our results demonstrate, first, that the present paradigm of extensive metronome-driven manipulations satisfies the crucial prerequisites for evaluating Fitts' law in a subset of our elicited rates. Second, we uncover for the first time in speech evidence for Fitts' law at the faster rates and specifically beyond a participant-specific critical rate. We find no evidence for Fitts' law at the slowest metronome rates. Finally, we discuss implications of these results for models of speech. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000501644 SN - 0031-8388 SN - 1423-0321 VL - 78 IS - 1 SP - 3 EP - 27 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gumbsch, Christian A1 - Adam, Maurits A1 - Elsner, Birgit A1 - Butz, Martin V. T1 - Emergent goal-anticipatory gaze in infants via event-predictive learning and inference JF - Cognitive science N2 - From about 7 months of age onward, infants start to reliably fixate the goal of an observed action, such as a grasp, before the action is complete. The available research has identified a variety of factors that influence such goal-anticipatory gaze shifts, including the experience with the shown action events and familiarity with the observed agents. However, the underlying cognitive processes are still heavily debated. We propose that our minds (i) tend to structure sensorimotor dynamics into probabilistic, generative event-predictive, and event boundary predictive models, and, meanwhile, (ii) choose actions with the objective to minimize predicted uncertainty. We implement this proposition by means of event-predictive learning and active inference. The implemented learning mechanism induces an inductive, event-predictive bias, thus developing schematic encodings of experienced events and event boundaries. The implemented active inference principle chooses actions by aiming at minimizing expected future uncertainty. We train our system on multiple object-manipulation events. As a result, the generation of goal-anticipatory gaze shifts emerges while learning about object manipulations: the model starts fixating the inferred goal already at the start of an observed event after having sampled some experience with possible events and when a familiar agent (i.e., a hand) is involved. Meanwhile, the model keeps reactively tracking an unfamiliar agent (i.e., a mechanical claw) that is performing the same movement. We qualitatively compare these modeling results to behavioral data of infants and conclude that event-predictive learning combined with active inference may be critical for eliciting goal-anticipatory gaze behavior in infants. KW - Infancy KW - Goal-anticipatory gaze KW - Computational model KW - Event cognition KW - Active inference Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13016 SN - 1551-6709 VL - 45 IS - 8 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Malden, Mass. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stone, Kate A1 - Lago, Sol A1 - Schad, Daniel T1 - Divergence point analyses of visual world data BT - applications to bilingual research JF - Bilingualism : language and cognition N2 - Much work has shown that differences in the timecourse of language processing are central to comparing native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers. However, estimating the onset of experimental effects in timecourse data presents several statistical problems including multiple comparisons and autocorrelation. We compare several approaches to tackling these problems and illustrate them using an L1-L2 visual world eye-tracking dataset. We then present a bootstrapping procedure that allows not only estimation of an effect onset, but also of a temporal confidence interval around this divergence point. We describe how divergence points can be used to demonstrate timecourse differences between speaker groups or between experimental manipulations, two important issues in evaluating L2 processing accounts. We discuss possible extensions of the bootstrapping procedure, including determining divergence points for individual speakers and correlating them with individual factors like L2 exposure and proficiency. Data and an analysis tutorial are available at https://osf.io/exbmk/. KW - divergence point analyses KW - non-parametric approaches KW - bootstrapping KW - visual world eye-tracking KW - bilingualism Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000607 SN - 1366-7289 SN - 1469-1841 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 833 EP - 841 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Paape, Dario A1 - Avetisyan, Serine A1 - Lago, Sol A1 - Vasishth, Shravan T1 - Modeling misretrieval and feature substitution in agreement attraction BT - a computational evaluation JF - Cognitive science N2 - We present computational modeling results based on a self-paced reading study investigating number attraction effects in Eastern Armenian. We implement three novel computational models of agreement attraction in a Bayesian framework and compare their predictive fit to the data using k-fold cross-validation. We find that our data are better accounted for by an encoding-based model of agreement attraction, compared to a retrieval-based model. A novel methodological contribution of our study is the use of comprehension questions with open-ended responses, so that both misinterpretation of the number feature of the subject phrase and misassignment of the thematic subject role of the verb can be investigated at the same time. We find evidence for both types of misinterpretation in our study, sometimes in the same trial. However, the specific error patterns in our data are not fully consistent with any previously proposed model. KW - Agreement attraction KW - Eastern Armenian KW - Self-paced reading KW - Computational modeling Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13019 SN - 0364-0213 SN - 1551-6709 VL - 45 IS - 8 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Malden, Mass. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wright, Michelle F. A1 - Wachs, Sebastian A1 - Gámez-Guadix, Manuel T1 - Jóvenes ante el ciberodio BT - El rol de la mediación parental y el apoyo familiar BT - Roles of parental mediation and family support JF - Comunicar : revista científica de comunicación y educación N2 - Adolescents around the world are increasingly exposed to cyberhate. More knowledge is needed to understand how adolescents cope with cyberhate and how they can be supported when exposed. To this end, the present study investigated the associations between parental mediation of Internet use and adolescents' problem-focused coping strategies for hypothetical cyberhate victimization while considering family support as a moderator of these relationships. The sample consisted of self-reports of 5,960 adolescents between 12-18 years old (M=14.94; SD=1.61; females: 50.7%) from Cyprus, Germany, Greece, India, Spain, South Korea, and Thailand. A structural equation model was used to investigate the relationship among parental mediation, family support, and coping with cyberhate. Findings showed a positive relationship between instructive parental mediation and adolescents' problem-focused coping strategies, and a negative relationship between restrictive parental mediation and adolescents' capability to cope productively with cyberhate. In addition, family support strengthened the positive relationship between instructive parental mediation and adolescents' use of coping strategies and attenuated the negative relationship between restrictive parental mediation and adolescents' use of coping strategies. The findings highlight the need for parental education training and underscore the importance of family support for increasing adolescents' ability to cope productively with cyberhate. N2 - Adolescentes de todo el mundo están cada vez más expuestos al ciberodio. Se necesita más conocimiento para comprender cómo los y las adolescentes afrontan estas experiencias. El presente estudio investigó la relación entre la mediación parental en el uso de Internet y las estrategias de afrontamiento entre adolescentes centradas en el problema en una hipotética victimización en ciberodio, al tiempo que se consideró el apoyo familiar como moderador de estas relaciones. La muestra estuvo formada por 5.960 adolescentes de entre 12 y 18 años que completaron autoinformes (M=14,94; DE=1,61; mujeres: 50,7%) de Chipre, Alemania, Grecia, India, España, Corea del Sur y Tailandia. Se estimó un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales para investigar la relación entre mediación parental, apoyo social y afrontamiento. Se halló una relación positiva entre la mediación parental instructiva y el uso de estrategias de afrontamiento centradas en el problema y una relación negativa entre la mediación parental restrictiva y la capacidad de los adolescentes para afrontar de forma adecuada el ciberodio. Además, el apoyo familiar moderó estas relaciones, incrementando la relación entre mediación instructiva y afrontamiento y disminuyendo la relación entre mediación restrictiva y afrontamiento de ciberodio. Los hallazgos enfatizan la necesidad de proporcionar información a los padres y ponen de manifiesto la importancia de que las familias fomenten la habilidad de los adolescentes para afrontar de manera adecuada el ciberodio. T2 - Youths’ coping with cyberhate KW - Cyberhate KW - hate speech KW - parental mediation KW - family support KW - coping KW - media education KW - Ciberodio KW - discurso del odio KW - mediación parental KW - apoyo familiar KW - afrontamiento KW - educación mediática Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3916/C67-2021-02 SN - 1134-3478 SN - 1988-3293 VL - 29 IS - 67 SP - 21 EP - 33 PB - Grupo Comunicar CY - Huelva ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huttenlauch, Clara A1 - Beer, Carola de A1 - Hanne-Kloth, Sandra A1 - Wartenburger, Isabell T1 - Production of prosodic cues in coordinate name sequences addressing varying interlocutors JF - Laboratory phonology N2 - Prosodic boundaries can be used to disambiguate the syntactic structure of coordinated name sequences (coordinates). To answer the question whether disambiguating prosody is produced in a situationally dependent or independent manner and to contribute to our understanding of the nature of the prosody-syntax link, we systematically explored variability in the prosody of boundary productions of coordinates evoked by different contextual settings in a referential communication task. Our analysis focused on prosodic boundaries produced to distinguish sequences with different syntactic structures (i.e., with or without internal grouping of the constituents). In German, these prosodic boundaries are indicated by three major prosodic cues: f0-range, final lengthening, and pause. In line with the Proximity/Anti-Proximity principle of the syntax-prosody model by Kentner and Fery (2013), speakers clearly use all three cues for constituent grouping and prosodically mark groups within and at their right boundary, indicating that prosodic phrasing is not a local phenomenon. Intra-individually, we found a rather stable prosodic pattern across contexts. However, inter-individually speakers differed from each other with respect to the prosodic cue combinations that they (consistently) used to mark the boundaries. Overall, our data speak in favour of a close link between syntax and prosody and for situational independence of disambiguating prosody. KW - Prosodic boundaries KW - prosodic cues KW - coordinates KW - varying interlocutors KW - variability KW - f0 KW - duration KW - pre-final lengthening KW - pause Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.221 SN - 1868-6346 SN - 1868-6354 VL - 12 IS - 1 PB - Ubiquity Press CY - London ER - TY - THES A1 - De Cesare, Ilaria T1 - Word order variability and change in German infinitival complements T1 - Variation und Wandel in der Stellung deutscher Infinitivkomplemente BT - a multi-causal approach BT - ein multikausaler Ansatz N2 - The present work deals with the variation in the linearisation of German infinitival complements from a diachronic perspective. Based on the observation that in present-day German the position of infinitival complements is restricted by properties of the matrix verb (Haider, 2010, Wurmbrand, 2001), whereas this appears much more liberal in older stages of German (Demske, 2008, Maché and Abraham, 2011, Demske, 2015), this dissertation investigates the emergence of those restrictions and the factors that have led to a reduced, yet still existing variability. The study contrasts infinitival complements of two types of matrix verbs, namely raising and control verbs. In present-day German, these show different syntactic behaviour and opposite preferences as far as the position of the infinitive is concerned: while infinitival complements of raising verbs build a single clausal domain with the with the matrix verb and occur obligatorily intraposed, infinitive complements of control verbs can form clausal constituents and occur predominantly extraposed. This correlation is not attested in older stages of German, at least not until Early New High German. Drawing on diachronic corpus data, the present work provides a description of the changes in the linearisation of infinitival complements from Early New High German to present-day German which aims at finding out when the correlation between infinitive type and word order emerged and further examines their possible causes. The study shows that word order change in German infinitival complements is not a case of syntactic change in the narrow sense, but that the diachronic variation results from the interaction of different language-internal and language-external factors and that it reflects, on the one hand, the influence of language modality on the emerging standard language and, on the other hand, a process of specialisation. N2 - Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Variation in der Linearisierung von deutschen Infinitivkomplementen aus diachroner Perspektive. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass im Gegenwartsdeutschen die Stellung von Infinitivkomplementen durch Eigenschaften des Matrixverbs eingeschränkt wird (Haider, 2010, Wurmbrand, 2001), während diese in älteren Sprachstufen des Deutschen viel liberaler erscheint (Demske, 2008, Maché und Abraham, 2011, Demske, 2015), untersucht die vorliegende Dissertation die Entstehung solcher Beschränkungen und die Faktoren, die zu einer reduzierten, jedoch noch bestehenden Variation geführt haben. In der Untersuchung werden die Wortstellungseigenschaften von Infinitivkomplementen gegenübergestellt, die von zwei Typen von Matrixverben eingebettet werden, nämlich Anhebungs- und Kontrollverben. Diese zeigen im Gegenwartsdeutschen ein unterschiedliches syntaktisches Verhalten und entgegengesetzte Präferenzen, was die Stellung des Infinitivs betrifft: Während Infinitivkomplemente von Anhebungsverben einen Verbalkomplex mit dem Matrixverb bilden und obligatorisch intraponiert vorkommen, bilden Infinitivkomplemente von Kontrollverben sententiale Konstituenten und kommen überwiegend extraponiert vor. In älteren Sprachstufen des Deutschen konnte diese Korrelation bis ins Frühneuhochdeutsche nicht festgestellt werden. Neben einer empirisch fundierten Beschreibung des Wortstellungswandels von Infinitivkomplementen, die darauf abzielt, den Zeitpunkt der Entstehung dieser Korrelation zu identifizieren, werden in der Arbeit mögliche Faktoren und Gründe untersucht, die zu diesen Präferenzen geführt haben. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass der Worstellungswandel in deutschen Infinitivkomplementen nicht dem syntaktischen Wandel im engeren Sinne zuzuordnen ist, sondern dass die diachrone Variation auf einem Zusammenspiel von verschiedenen sprachinternen und sprachexternen Faktoren beruht. Es wird dafür argumentiert, dass sich die diachrone Distribution der Wortstellungsmuster zum einen durch den Einfluss von Medialität auf die Entstehung der Standardsprache, zum anderen durch einen Prozess der Spezialisierung erklären lässt. KW - infinitival complements KW - syntactic change KW - Early New High German KW - quantitative historical linguistics KW - corpus study KW - Infinitivkomplemente KW - syntaktischer Wandel KW - Frühneuhochdeutsch KW - quantitative historische Linguistik KW - Korpusstudie Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-527358 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bosch, Sina A1 - De Cesare, Ilaria A1 - Demske, Ulrike A1 - Felser, Claudia T1 - New empirical approaches to grammatical variation and change JF - Languages : open access journal Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6030113 SN - 2226-471X VL - 6 IS - 3 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - THES A1 - Eilers, Sarah T1 - Children's processing of anaphora during reading comprehension BT - an eye tracking study N2 - Viele Kinder haben Schwierigkeiten, während des Lesens einen Textinhalt adäquat zu erfassen. Lesen ist eine komplexe kognitive Aufgabe, die verschiedene Unteraufgaben umfasst, darunter zum Beispiel das Dekodieren von Wörtern und das Verknüpfen mehrerer aufeinander folgender Sätze. Einen Teil dieser Verknüpfungen machen referenzielle Ausdrücke aus. Referenzen wie nominale Anaphern (Minky/die Katze) oder Pronomen (Minky/sie) signalisieren den Lesenden, wie die Protagonisten und Protagonistinnen in aufeinander folgenden Sätzen zusammenhängen. Die Lesenden verknüpfen diese Information in einem mentalen Modell des Textes, nachdem sie die Referenz aufgelöst haben. Besonders Personalpronomen (er/sie) können ohne einen solchen Auflösungsprozess nicht verstanden werden. Sie müssen mit einem passenden Antezedenten in Verbindung gebracht werden, oder das mentale Modell bleibt unvollständig. Gelungene Pronomenauflösung ist somit besonders bedeutsam für ein gutes Textverständnis. Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Pronomenauflösung von Grundschulkindern im Alter von 8-9 Jahren und geht dabei der grundsätzlichen Frage nach, ob Kinder in diesem Alter Pronomen in natürlichen Lesesituationen spontan auflösen. Zudem wurde am Beispiel der Geschlechtsinformation des Pronomens untersucht, welchen Einfluss die Informationsdichte um die Pronomenregion auf die Blickbewegungen von Kindern hat. Dabei ging es auch um den Einfluss von Leseentwicklung und Lesefertigkeiten auf die Blickbewegungen beim Lesen, sowie auf das Verstehen eines Pronomens. Die erste Studie untersuchte das Lesen kurzer Texte, die aus jeweils drei Sätzen bestanden. Der erste Satz führte einen Protagonisten mit Namen ein (Mia), auf den sich der zweite oder dritte Satz bezog, entweder mit einer Wiederholung des Namens (Mia) oder einem Pronomen (sie). Die Studie ging der Frage nach, ob Kinder bei solchen salienten Antezedenten ein Pronomen (sie) als referenziellen Ausdruck dem wiederholten Namen (Mia) vorziehen. In der Literatur zum Lesen Erwachsener ist dieser Befund als repeated name penalty effect bekannt: Der Lesefluss von geübten Lesenden wird durch die Wiederholung einer Nominalphrase deutlich beeinträchtigt. Für Kinder dagegen wurde die Hypothese aufgestellt, dass deren Lesefluss durch die Wiederholung verbessert werden könnte, und zwar aufgrund der sich überlappenden Wortform (Mia – Mia) die eine kognitiv aufwändige Auflösung des Pronomens (Mia – sie) überflüssig macht. Die zweite Studie untersuchte die Verarbeitung von kongruenten und inkongruenten Geschlechtsinformation auf dem Pronomen. Die Kinder bekamen komplexe Sätze zu lesen, bei denen das Pronomen entweder passend zum Antezedenten gewählt war (Mia – sie) oder unpassend (Mia – er). Ergänzend wurden Leseverstehen und Leseflüssigkeit erhoben und mit der Fähigkeit der Kinder, spontan ein inkongruentes Pronomen während des Lesens zu erkennen, in Verbindung gebracht. Die dritte Studie untersuchte die Blickbewegungen auf dem Pronomen in Abhängigkeit von variierender Geschlechtsinformationen genauer. Sie verglich den Lesefluss und das Leseverstehen von Kindern in Pronomenregionen, in denen das Pronomen anhand von der Geschlechtsinformation eindeutig einem Protagonisten zugeordnet werden kann (Peter und Paula…, er…) mit Lesesituationen, in denen der weitere Satzkontext zur Auflösung herangezogen werden muss (Peter und Paul, … er…). Dabei wurden die Blickbewegungen auf der Pronomenregion mit dem Leseverstehen, insbesondere dem Verstehen des Pronomens, in Verbindung gebracht. Dieses Experiment wurde im Sinne einer Longitudinalstudie in Klasse 3 und Klasse 4 mit der gleichen Gruppe von 70 Kindern durchgeführt. Zusammengefasst belegen die Ergebnisse dieser Dissertation, dass Kinder im Alter zwischen 8 und 9 Jahren noch deutliche Schwierigkeiten mit dem Verstehen von Pronomen in Leseaufgaben haben. Die Antworten auf Verständnisfragen zum Pronomen zeigen insbesondere, dass Kinder die Kontextinformation in Sätzen nur unzureichend für die Pronomenauflösung nutzen, und dass ihr Verständnis eines Pronomens wesentlich davon abhängt, ob das Pronomen anhand der Geschlechtsinformation eindeutig einem Antezedenten zugewiesen werden kann. Dies zeigte sich bei Kindern im 3., aber auch noch im 4. Schuljahr. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse von Blickbewegungsdaten, welche den wesentlichen Beitrag der vorliegenden Dissertation zum Forschungsfeld darstellen, zeigen zunächst, dass Kinder ein Pronomen erwarten, wenn der Antezent salient ist (Studie 1). Anders als angenommen gibt es keinen Beleg dafür, dass der kindliche Lesefluss von einer Wiederholung des Antezedenten profitiert. Der Befund eines repeated name penalty effects bei Kindern dieser Altersgruppe belegt im Gegenteil eine Sensitivität für die Diskursregeln, nach denen Pronomen auf saliente Antezedenten referieren. Allerdings kann daraus nicht abgeleitet werden, dass die Online-Pronomenauflösung von Kindern mit denen von erwachsenen Lesenden vergleichbar ist. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse von Blickbewegungsdaten auf der Pronomenregion (Studien 2 und 3) belegen wichtige Unterschiede zwischen Kindern und Erwachsenen, sowie deutliche interindividuelle Unterschiede in Zusammenhang mit dem Leseverstehen und der Leseflüssigkeit der Kinder. Die Ergebnisse der Studie 2 belegen einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Leseflüssigkeit eines Kindes und der Fähigkeit, eine Inkongruenz zwischen Pronomen und Antezedenten während des Lesens wahrzunehmen. Während alle Kinder längere gaze durations (erste Verweildauer) auf einem inkongruenten Pronomen hatten, zeigte sich nur bei Kindern mit hoher Leseflüssigkeit eine Tendenz zu regressiven Blickbewegungen aus der fraglichen Pronomenregion. Diese regressiven Blickbewegungen gelten als Signal für eine lokale Verarbeitungsschwierigkeit und werden als Versuch interpretiert, diese Schwierigkeit aufzulösen. Eine hohe Leseflüssigkeit war also korreliert mit dem Erkennen der Inkongruenz. Darüber hinaus war das Blickbewegungsmuster der Kinder, die die Inkongruenz erkannten, vergleichbarer mit dem der erwachsenen Kontrollgruppe. Die Befunde werden so interpretiert, dass Kinder mit einer höheren Leseflüssigkeit mehr kognitive Ressourcen für die Überwachung ihres eigenen Leseprozesses zur Verfügung stehen, und sie diese freien Ressourcen zur Pronomenauflösung auch in schwierigen Satzkontexten nutzen können. Kinder unterscheiden sich stark in ihrem Leseverstehen, auch innerhalb einer Kohorte. Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Dissertation belegen, dass vorwiegend Kinder mit gutem Leseverstehen in der Lage sind, Pronomen während des Lesens anhand derer Geschlechtsinformation aufzulösen. Es lässt sich zeigen, dass sich gute Lesende nachweislich mehr Zeit in einer Pronomenregion nehmen, wenn das Pronomen anhand der Geschlechtsinformation direkt aufgelöst werden kann. Darin unterscheiden sie sich von schlechteren Lesenden, auch wenn diese insgesamt eine längere Lesedauer zeigen. Das Alter der Kinder war dabei weniger entscheidend als ihre individuelle Leistung im Leseverstehens- und Leseflüssigkeitstest. Zusammengefasst lässt sich sagen, dass gute Lesende unter den Kindern in der Lage sind, Pronomen während des Lesens spontan aufzulösen. Dabei ist das Leseverstehen ein entscheidender Faktor in beiden untersuchten Altersstufen. Für einen Einfluss des Alters der Kinder gab es dagegen kein Indiz. Der Beitrag der vorliegenden Dissertation zum Forschungsfeld ist die Untersuchung und Darstellung der spezifischen Blickbewegungsmuster im Zusammenhang mit einer erfolgreichen Auflösung von Pronomen bei Kindern. Das Blickbewegungsverhalten in der Pronomenregion ist abhängig vom Leseverstehen und der Leseflüssigkeit der Kinder. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse lassen vermuten, dass viele Kinder Pronomen während des Satzverstehens nicht spontan auflösen, was sich negativ auf ihr Leseverstehen auswirkt, und zwar vermutlich umso mehr in komplexeren Textzusammenhängen. Die vorliegende Arbeit verdeutlicht die kognitiven Anforderungen, die erfolgreiche Pronomenauflösung an Kinder stellt. Nicht zuletzt gibt sie wichtige Impulse für die Untersuchung von übergeordneten Leseprozessen in natürlichen Leseumgebungen mittels Eyetracking auch bei jüngeren Kindern. N2 - Many children struggle with reading for comprehension. Reading is a complex cognitive task depending on various sub-tasks, such as word decoding and building connections across sentences. The task of connecting sentences is guided by referential expressions. References, such as anaphoric noun phrases (Minky/the cat) or pronouns (Minky/she), signal to the reader how the protagonists of adjacent sentences are connected. Readers construct a coherent mental model of the text by resolving these references. Personal pronouns (he/she) in particular need to be resolved towards an appropriate antecedent before they can be fully understood. Pronoun resolution therefore is vital for successful text comprehension. The present thesis investigated children’s resolution of personal pronouns during natural reading as a possible source of reading comprehension difficulty. Three eye tracking studies investigated whether children aged 8-9 (Grade 3-4) resolve pronouns online during reading and how the varying information around the pronoun region influences children’s eye movement behavior. The first study investigated whether children prefer a pronoun over a noun phrase when the antecedent is highly accessible. Children read three-sentence stories that introduced a protagonist (Mia) in the first sentence and a reference to this protagonist in one of the following sentences using either a repeated name (Mia) or a pronoun (she). For proficient readers, it was repeatedly shown that there is a preference for a pronoun over the name in these contexts, i.e., when the antecedent is salient. The first study tested the repeated name penalty effect in children using eye tracking. It was hypothesized that in contrast to proficient readers, the fluency of children’s reading processing profits from an overlapping word form (i.e., the repeated noun phrase) compared to a pronoun. This is because overlapping word forms allow for direct mapping, whereas pronouns have to be resolved towards their antecedent first. The second study investigated children’s online processing of pronominal gender in a mismatch paradigm. Children read sentences in which the pronoun either was a gender-match to the antecedent or a gender-mismatch. Reading skill and reading fluency were also tested and related to children’s ability to detect a mismatching pronoun during reading. The third study investigated the online processing of gender information on the pronoun and whether disambiguating gender information improves the accuracy of pronoun comprehension. Offline comprehension accuracy, that is the comprehension of the pronoun, was related to children’s online eye movement behavior. This study was conducted in a semi-longitudinal paradigm: 70 children were tested in Grade 3 (age 8) and again in Grade 4 (age 9) to investigate effects of age and reading skill on pronoun processing and comprehension. The results of this thesis clearly show that children aged 8-9, when they are in the second half of primary school, struggle with the comprehension of pronouns in reading tasks. The responses to pronoun comprehension questions revealed that children have difficulties with the comprehension of a pronoun in the absence of a disambiguating gender cue, that is when they have to apply context information. When there is a gender cue to disambiguate the pronoun, children’s accuracy improves significantly. This is true for children in Grade 3, but also in Grade 4, albeit their overall resolution accuracy slightly improves with age. The results from the analyses of eye movements suggest that the discourse accessibility of an antecedent does play a role in children’s processing of pronouns and repeated names. The repetition of a name does not facilitate children’s reading processing like it was anticipated. Similar to adults, children showed a penalty effect for the repeated name where a pronoun is expected. However, this does not mean that children’s processing of pronouns is always adult-like. The results from eye movement analyses in the pronoun region during sentence reading revealed significant individual differences related to children’s individual reading skill and reading fluency. The results from the mismatch study revealed that reading fluency is associated with children’s detection of incongruent pronouns. All children had longer gaze durations at mismatching than matching pronouns, but only fluent readers among the children followed this up with a regression out of the pronoun region. This was interpreted as an attempt to gain processing time and “repair” the inconsistency. Reading fluency was therefore associated with detection of the mismatch, while less fluent readers did not see any mismatch between pronoun and antecedent. The eye movement pattern of the “detectors” is more adult-like and was interpreted as reflecting successful monitoring and attempted pronoun resolution. Children differ considerably in their reading comprehension skill. The results of this thesis show that only skilled readers among the children use gender information online for pronoun resolution. They took more time to read the pronoun when there was disambiguating gender information that was useful to resolve the pronoun, in contrast to the less skilled readers. Age was a less important factor in pronoun resolution processes and comprehension than were reading skill and reading fluency. Taken together, this suggests that the good readers direct cognitive resources towards pronoun resolution when the pronoun can be resolved, which is a successful comprehension strategy. Moreover, there was evidence that reading skill is a relevant factor in this task but not age. The contribution of the present thesis is a depiction of the specific eye movement patterns that are related to successful and unsuccessful attempts at pronoun resolution in children. Eye movement behavior in the pronoun area is related to children’s reading skill and fluency. The results of this thesis suggest that many children do not resolve pronouns spontaneously during sentence reading, which is likely detrimental to their reading comprehension in more complex reading materials. The present thesis informs our understanding of the challenge that pronoun resolution poses for beginning readers, and gives new impulses for the study of higher-order reading processes in children’s natural reading. KW - reading development KW - pronoun resolution KW - anaphora KW - Anaphern KW - Pronomenauflösung KW - Leseentwicklung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-527141 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Felisatti, Arianna A1 - Fischer, Martin H. A1 - Kulkova, Elena A1 - Kühne, Katharina A1 - Michirev, Alexej T1 - Separation/connection procedures BT - from cleansing behavior to numerical cognition JF - Behavioral and brain sciences : an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary N2 - Lee and Schwarz (L&S) suggest that separation is the grounded procedure underlying cleansing effects in different psychological domains. Here, we interpret L&S's account from a hierarchical view of cognition that considers the influence of physical properties and sensorimotor constraints on mental representations. This approach allows theoretical integration and generalization of L&S's account to the domain of formal quantitative reasoning. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000461 SN - 1469-1825 VL - 44 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hyönä, Jukka A1 - Heikkilä, Timo T. A1 - Vainio, Seppo A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Parafoveal access to word stem during reading BT - an eye movement study JF - Cognition : international journal of cognitive science N2 - Previous studies (Hyona, Yan, & Vainio, 2018; Yan et al., 2014) have demonstrated that in morphologically rich languages a word's morphological status is processed parafoveally to be used in modulating saccadic programming in reading. In the present parafoveal preview study conducted in Finnish, we examined the exact nature of this effect by comparing reading of morphologically complex words (a stem + two suffixes) to that of monomorphemic words. In the preview-change condition, the final 3-4 letters were replaced with other letters making the target word a pseudoword; for suffixed words, the word stem remained intact but the suffix information was unavailable; for monomorphemic words, only part of the stem was parafoveally available. Three alternative predictions were put forth. According to the first alternative, the morphological effect in initial fixation location is due to parafoveally perceiving the suffix as a highly frequent letter cluster and then adjusting the saccade program to land closer to the word beginning for suffixed than monomorphemic words. The second alternative, the processing difficulty hypothesis, assumes a morphological complexity effect: suffixed words are more complex than monomorphemic words. Therefore, the attentional window is narrower and the saccade is shorter. The third alternative posits that the effect reflects parafoveal access to the word's stem. The results for the initial fixation location and fixation durations were consistent with the parafoveal stem-access view. KW - Eye movements KW - Reading KW - Morphological complexity KW - Parafoveal processing KW - Display change KW - Initial fixation location Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104547 SN - 0010-0277 SN - 1873-7838 VL - 208 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -