@article{YueAlterHowardetal.2017, author = {Yue, Jinxing and Alter, Kai-Uwe and Howard, David and Bastiaanse, Roelien}, title = {Early access to lexical-level phonological representations of Mandarin word-forms}, series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, volume = {32}, journal = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, number = {9}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {2327-3798}, doi = {10.1080/23273798.2017.1290261}, pages = {1148 -- 1163}, year = {2017}, abstract = {An auditory habituation design was used to investigate whether lexical-level phonological representations in the brain can be rapidly accessed after the onset of a spoken word. We studied the N1 component of the auditory event-related electrical potential, and measured the amplitude decrements of N1 associated with the repetition of a monosyllabic tone word and an acoustically similar pseudo-word in Mandarin Chinese. Effects related to the contrastive onset consonants were controlled for by introducing two control words. We show that repeated pseudo-words consistently elicit greater amplitude decrements in N1 than real words. Furthermore, this lexicality effect is free from sensory fatigue or rapid learning of the pseudo-word. These results suggest that a lexical-level phonological representation of a spoken word can be accessed as early as 110ms after the onset of the word-form.}, language = {en} } @article{WuKaiserVasishth2017, author = {Wu, Fuyun and Kaiser, Elsi and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Effects of early cues on the processing of chinese relative clauses}, series = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, volume = {42}, journal = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0364-0213}, doi = {10.1111/cogs.12551}, pages = {1101 -- 1133}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We used Chinese prenominal relative clauses (RCs) to test the predictions of two competing accounts of sentence comprehension difficulty: the experience-based account of Levy () and the Dependency Locality Theory (DLT; Gibson, ). Given that in Chinese RCs, a classifier and/or a passive marker BEI can be added to the sentence-initial position, we manipulated the presence/absence of classifiers and the presence/absence of BEI, such that BEI sentences were passivized subject-extracted RCs, and no-BEI sentences were standard object-extracted RCs. We conducted two self-paced reading experiments, using the same critical stimuli but somewhat different filler items. Reading time patterns from both experiments showed facilitative effects of BEI within and beyond RC regions, and delayed facilitative effects of classifiers, suggesting that cues that occur before a clear signal of an upcoming RC can help Chinese comprehenders to anticipate RC structures. The data patterns are not predicted by the DLT, but they are consistent with the predictions of experience-based theories.}, language = {en} } @article{WilzekFrankvandenEnglHoeketal.2017, author = {Wilzek, Alexa and Frank, Ulrike and van den Engl-Hoek, Lenie and Huckabee, Maggie-Lee}, title = {Normdatenerhebung f{\"u}r den »Test of Mastication and Swallowing Solids« f{\"u}r Kinder und Jugendliche im Altersbereich von 4 bis 14 Jahren}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405195}, pages = {123 -- 129}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{WieseOncuBracker2017, author = {Wiese, Heike and Oncu, Mehmet Tahir and Bracker, Philip}, title = {Verb-third-position in Turkish-German Language Contact}, series = {Deutsche Sprache : ds ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation}, volume = {45}, journal = {Deutsche Sprache : ds ; Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation}, number = {1}, publisher = {Erich Schmidt}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0340-9341}, pages = {31 -- 52}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In present-day German we find new word order options, particularly well-known from Turkish-German bilingual speakers in the contexts of new urban dialects, which allow violations of the canonical verb-second position in independent declarative clauses. In these cases, two positions are occupied in the forefield in front of the finite verb, usually by an adverbial and a subject, which identify, at the level of information structure, frame-setter and topic, respectively. Our study investigates the influence of verbal versus language -independent information-structural preferences for this linearisation, comparing Turkish-German multilingual speakers who have grown up in Germany with monolingual German and Turkish speakers. For tasks, in which grammatical restrictions were largely minimised, the results indicate a general tendency to place verbs in a position after the frame-setter and the topic; in addition, we found language-specific influences that distinguish Turkish-German and monolingual German speakers from monolingual Turkish ones. We interpret this as evidence for an information-structural motivation for verb-third, and for a clear dominance of German for Turkish-German speakers in Germany.}, language = {en} } @article{WieseMayrKraemeretal.2017, author = {Wiese, Heike and Mayr, Katharina and Kr{\"a}mer, Philipp and Seeger, Patrick and M{\"u}ller, Hans-Georg and Mezger, Verena}, title = {Changing teachers' attitudes towards linguistic diversity}, series = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics}, volume = {27}, journal = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0802-6106}, doi = {10.1111/ijal.12121}, pages = {198 -- 220}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We discuss an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual 'standard' and its speakers. The programme combines anti-bias methods relating to linguistic diversity with objectives of raising critical language awareness. Evaluation through teachers' workshops in Berlin and Brandenburg points to positive and enduring attitudinal changes in participants, but not in control groups that did not attend workshops, and effects were independent of personal variables gender and teaching subject and only weakly associated with age. We relate these effects to such programme features as indirect and inclusive methods that foster active engagement, and the combination of 'safer' topics targeting attitudes towards linguistic structures with more challenging ones dealing with the discrimination of speakers.}, language = {en} } @article{Warditz2017, author = {Warditz, Vladislava Maria}, title = {Br{\"u}ckners H{\"o}flichkeitskonzept (1916): Linguistik oder Ideologie? Linguistische Untersuchung des sprachpolitischen Manifests eines Universalgelehrten}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Slawistik}, volume = {62}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Slawistik}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0044-3506}, doi = {10.1515/slaw-2017-0014}, pages = {297 -- 315}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The paper presents the Polish study Ty-wy-pan. Kartka z dziej{\´o}w pr{\´o}\&\#380;no\&\#347;ci ludzkiej ('You (singular)-you (plural)-Lord. An overview on the history of the people's vanity', 1916) by Alexander Br{\"u}ckner from a linguistic-pragmatical as well as ideological point of view. In his pioneer study on politeness, the German-Polish slavist Br{\"u}ckner (1856-1939) critically reflects on the current system of Polish addresses and titles, especially in relating to the soon-to-be refoundation of the Second Polish Republic (1918). The paper analyzes how his linguistic description and his ideas for reformation of the Polish addressative system are pragmatically justified and how they are ideologically motivated. Furthermore, the paper reconstructs the status of Br{\"u}ckner's concept of politeness in the context of current studies on Polish pragmatics.}, language = {de} } @article{vonderMalsburgAngele2017, author = {von der Malsburg, Titus Raban and Angele, Bernhard}, title = {False positives and other statistical errors in standard analyses of eye movements in reading}, series = {Journal of memory and language}, volume = {94}, journal = {Journal of memory and language}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {0749-596X}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2016.10.003}, pages = {119 -- 133}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In research on eye movements in reading, it is common to analyze a number of canonical dependent measures to study how the effects of a manipulation unfold over time. Although this gives rise to the well-known multiple comparisons problem, i.e. an inflated probability that the null hypothesis is incorrectly rejected (Type I error), it is accepted standard practice not to apply any correction procedures. Instead, there appears to be a widespread belief that corrections are not necessary because the increase in false positives is too small to matter. To our knowledge, no formal argument has ever been presented to justify this assumption. Here, we report a computational investigation of this issue using Monte Carlo simulations. Our results show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, false positives are increased to unacceptable levels when no corrections are applied. Our simulations also show that counter-measures like the Bonferroni correction keep false positives in check while reducing statistical power only moderately. Hence, there is little reason why such corrections should not be made a standard requirement. Further, we discuss three statistical illusions that can arise when statistical power is low, and we show how power can be improved to prevent these illusions. In sum, our work renders a detailed picture of the various types of statistical errors than can occur in studies of reading behavior and we provide concrete guidance about how these errors can be avoided. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.}, language = {en} } @article{SzendrőiSchumacherFritzscheetal.2017, author = {Szendrői, Kriszta and Schumacher, Rebecca and Fritzsche, Tom and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Acquisition of quantifier raising of a universal across an existential}, series = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, volume = {2}, journal = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, publisher = {Open Library of Humanities}, address = {London}, issn = {2397-1835}, pages = {16}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Our paper reports an act out task with German 5- and 6-year olds and adults involving doubly-quantified sentences with a universal object and an existential subject. We found that 5- and 6-year olds allow inverse scope in such sentences, while adults do not. Our findings contribute to a growing body of research (e.g. Gualmini et al. 2008; Musolino 2009, etc.) showing that children are more flexible in their scopal considerations than initially proposed by the Isomorphism proposal (Lidz \& Musolino 2002; Musolino \& Lidz 2006). This result provides support for a theory of German, a "no quantifier raising"-language, in terms of soft violable constraints, or global economy terms (Bobaljik \& Wurmbrand 2012), rather than in terms of hard inviolable constraints or rules (Frey 1993). Finally, the results are compatible with Reinhart's (2004) hypothesis that children do not perform global interface economy considerations due to the increased processing associated with it.}, language = {en} } @article{SzendroiBernardBergeretal.2017, author = {Szendroi, Kriszta and Bernard, Carline and Berger, Frauke and Gervain, Judit and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Acquisition of prosodic focus marking by English, French, and German three-, four-, five- and six-year-olds}, series = {Journal of child language}, volume = {45}, journal = {Journal of child language}, number = {1}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {0305-0009}, doi = {10.1017/S0305000917000071}, pages = {219 -- 241}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Previous research on young children's knowledge of prosodic focus marking has revealed an apparent paradox, with comprehension appearing to lag behind production. Comprehension of prosodic focus is difficult to study experimentally due to its subtle and ambiguous contribution to pragmatic meaning. We designed a novel comprehension task, which revealed that three- to six-year-old children show adult-like comprehension of the prosodic marking of subject and object focus. Our findings thus support the view that production does not precede comprehension in the acquisition of focus. We tested participants speaking English, German, and French. All three languages allow prosodic subject and object focus marking, but use additional syntactic marking to varying degrees (English: dispreferred; German: possible; French preferred). French participants produced fewer subject marked responses than English participants. We found no other cross-linguistic differences. Participants interpreted prosodic focus marking similarly and in an adult-like fashion in all three languages.}, language = {en} } @article{Selting2017, author = {Selting, Margret}, title = {The display and management of affectivity in climaxes of amusing stories}, series = {Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies}, volume = {111}, journal = {Journal of pragmatics : an interdisciplinary journal of language studies}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0378-2166}, doi = {10.1016/j.pragma.2017.01.008}, pages = {1 -- 32}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{SchotterLeinengervonderMalsburg2017, author = {Schotter, Elizabeth Roye and Leinenger, Mallorie and von der Malsburg, Titus Raban}, title = {When your mind skips what your eyes fixate}, series = {Psychonomic bulletin \& review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society}, volume = {25}, journal = {Psychonomic bulletin \& review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society}, number = {5}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {New York}, issn = {1069-9384}, doi = {10.3758/s13423-017-1356-y}, pages = {1884 -- 1890}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The phenomenon of forced fixations suggests that readers sometimes fixate a word (due to oculomotor constraints) even though they intended to skip it (due to parafoveal cognitive-linguistic processing). We investigate whether this leads readers to look directly at a word but not pay attention to it. We used a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm to dissociate parafoveal and foveal information (e.g., the word phone changed to scarf once the reader's eyes moved to it) and asked questions about the sentence to determine which one the reader encoded. When the word was skipped or fixated only briefly (i.e., up to 100 ms) readers were more likely to report reading the parafoveal than the fixated word, suggesting that there are cases in which readers look directly at a word but their minds ignore it, leading to the illusion of reading something they did not fixate.}, language = {en} } @article{RaelingHanneSchroederetal.2017, author = {R{\"a}ling, Romy and Hanne, Sandra and Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Keßler, Carla and Wartenburger, Isabell}, title = {Judging the animacy of words}, series = {Quarterly journal of experimental psychology}, volume = {70}, journal = {Quarterly journal of experimental psychology}, number = {10}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1747-0218}, doi = {10.1080/17470218.2016.1223704}, pages = {2094 -- 2104}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The age at which members of a semantic category are learned (age of acquisition), the typicality they demonstrate within their corresponding category, and the semantic domain to which they belong (living, non-living) are known to influence the speed and accuracy of lexical/semantic processing. So far, only a few studies have looked at the origin of age of acquisition and its interdependence with typicality and semantic domain within the same experimental design. Twenty adult participants performed an animacy decision task in which nouns were classified according to their semantic domain as being living or non-living. Response times were influenced by the independent main effects of each parameter: typicality, age of acquisition, semantic domain, and frequency. However, there were no interactions. The results are discussed with respect to recent models concerning the origin of age of acquisition effects.}, language = {en} } @article{PritschTelkemeyerMuehlenbecketal.2017, author = {Pritsch, Carla and Telkemeyer, Silke and M{\"u}hlenbeck, Cordelia and Liebal, Katja}, title = {Perception of facial expressions reveals selective affect-biased attention in humans and orangutans}, series = {Scientific reports}, volume = {7}, journal = {Scientific reports}, publisher = {Nature Publ. Group}, address = {London}, issn = {2045-2322}, doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-07563-4}, pages = {3001 -- 3023}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{Prieto2017, author = {Prieto, Julio}, title = {From blind shorthand}, series = {Cahiers de LIRICO}, journal = {Cahiers de LIRICO}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t de Paris}, address = {Saint-Denis}, issn = {2263-2158}, doi = {10.4000/lirico.3807}, pages = {16}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This essay explores the poetics of obscurity that informs Luis Chitarroni's « unfinished novel » The No Variations. Focusing on the « reticent » erudition that distinguishes this text, my analysis examines its dialogue with the paradigm of Borges' erudition and narrative poetics, as well as with certain « counter-Borgesian » constellations in recent Argentine literature. My reading aims to show how Chitarroni's anti-novel reactivates a specific Argentinean tradition of productive illegibility while considering how it relates to the practices of « impediment » and « aesthetic reduction » that pervade modern art and literature.}, language = {en} } @article{PetroneTruckenbrodtWellmannetal.2017, author = {Petrone, Caterina and Truckenbrodt, Hubert and Wellmann, Caroline and Holzgrefe-Lang, Julia and Wartenburger, Isabell and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Prosodic boundary cues in German}, series = {Journal of phonetics}, volume = {61}, journal = {Journal of phonetics}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {London}, issn = {0095-4470}, doi = {10.1016/j.wocn.2017.01.002}, pages = {71 -- 92}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This study investigates prosodic phrasing of bracketed lists in German. We analyze variation in pauses, phrase-final lengthening and f0 in speech production and how these cues affect boundary perception. In line with the literature, it was found that pauses are often used to signal intonation phrase boundaries, while final lengthening and f0 are employed across different levels of the prosodic hierarchy. Deviations from expectations based on the standard syntax-prosody mapping are interpreted in terms of task-specific effects. That is, we argue that speakers add/delete prosodic boundaries to enhance the phonological contrast between different bracketings in the experimental task. In perception, three experiments were run, in which we tested only single cues (but temporally distributed at different locations of the sentences). Results from identification tasks and reaction time measurements indicate that pauses lead to a more abrupt shift in listeners׳ prosodic judgments, while f0 and final lengthening are exploited in a more gradient manner. Hence, pauses, final lengthening and f0 have an impact on boundary perception, though listeners show different sensitivity to the three acoustic cues.}, language = {en} } @article{PattersonEsaulovaFelser2017, author = {Patterson, Clare and Esaulova, Yulia and Felser, Claudia}, title = {The impact of focus on pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension}, series = {Second language research}, volume = {33}, journal = {Second language research}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0267-6583}, doi = {10.1177/0267658317697786}, pages = {403 -- 429}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{PaapeNicenboimVasishth2017, author = {Paape, Dario L. J. F. and Nicenboim, Bruno and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Does antecedent complexity affect ellipsis processing?}, series = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, volume = {2}, journal = {Glossa : a journal of general linguistics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Ubiquity Press}, address = {London}, issn = {2397-1835}, doi = {10.5334/gjgl.290}, pages = {1 -- 29}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer- or "sharing"-based approaches to ellipsis processing (Frazier \& Clifton 2001, 2005; Martin \& McElree 2008) predict no effect of antecedent complexity on reading times at the ellipsis site while other accounts predict increased antecedent complexity to either slow down processing (Murphy 1985) or to speed it up (Hofmeister 2011). Experiment 1 manipulated antecedent complexity and elision, yielding evidence against a speedup at the ellipsis site and in favor of a null effect. In order to investigate possible superficial processing on part of participants, Experiment 2 manipulated the amount of attention required to correctly respond to end-of-sentence comprehension probes, yielding evidence against a complexity-induced slowdown at the ellipsis site. Overall, our results are compatible with pointer-based approaches while casting doubt on the notion that changes antecedent complexity lead to measurable differences in ellipsis processing speed.}, language = {en} } @article{ObrigMockStephanetal.2017, author = {Obrig, Hellmuth and Mock, Julia and Stephan, Franziska and Richter, Maria and Vignotto, Micol and Rossi, Sonja}, title = {Impact of associative word learning on phonotactic processing in 6-month-old infants: A combined EEG and fNIRS study}, series = {Developmental cognitive neuroscience : a journal for cognitive, affective and social developmental neuroscience}, volume = {25}, journal = {Developmental cognitive neuroscience : a journal for cognitive, affective and social developmental neuroscience}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {1878-9293}, doi = {10.1016/j.dcn.2016.09.001}, pages = {185 -- 197}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{Mucha2017, author = {Mucha, Anne}, title = {Past interpretation and graded tense in Medumba}, series = {Natural language semantics : an international journal of semantics and its interfaces in grammar}, volume = {25}, journal = {Natural language semantics : an international journal of semantics and its interfaces in grammar}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Dordrecht}, issn = {0925-854X}, doi = {10.1007/s11050-016-9128-1}, pages = {1 -- 52}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This paper provides a formal semantic analysis of past interpretation in Medumba (Grassfields Bantu), a graded tense language. Based on original fieldwork, the study explores the empirical behavior and meaning contribution of graded past morphemes in Medumba and relates these to the account of the phenomenon proposed in Cable (Nat Lang Semant 21:219-276, 2013) for GA (c) ky. Investigation reveals that the behavior of Medumba gradedness markers differs from that of their GA (c) ky counterparts in meaningful ways and, more broadly, discourages an analysis as presuppositional eventuality or reference time modifiers. Instead, the Medumba markers are most appropriately analyzed as quantificational tenses. It also turns out that Medumba, though belonging to the typological class of graded tense languages, shows intriguing similarities to genuinely tenseless languages in allowing for temporally unmarked sentences and exploiting aspectual and pragmatic cues for reference time resolution. The more general cross-linguistic implication of the study is that the set of languages often subsumed under the label "graded tense" does not in fact form a natural class and that more case-by-case research is needed to refine this category.}, language = {en} } @article{Miklashevsky2017, author = {Miklashevsky, Alex A.}, title = {О высоком и низком: пространственная семантика абстрактных и конкретных существительных}, series = {Tomsk state university journal}, journal = {Tomsk state university journal}, number = {424}, publisher = {Tomsk Stata Univ}, address = {Tomsk}, issn = {1561-7793}, doi = {10.17223/15617793/424/4}, pages = {26 -- 34}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Aim and material: In the present study, the data of the rating study presented earlier, where participants estimated the position of an object or phenomenon in vertical space by using the seven-point Likert scale, are used in order to systematically describe spatial information included in language units of different semantic categories. Background: The role of spatial semantics in language understanding is assumed by modern cognition theories and confirmed in experimental studies. Hypotheses: Based on conceptual metaphor theory, a number of hypotheses are proposed in the present study: different semantic categories of nouns (e.g., tools vs. animals vs. emotions etc.) should significantly differ in their spatial semantics as well; different semantic categories of abstract nouns (e.g., mental states vs. emotions vs. physical sensations) should also differ in their spatial semantics, as the latter is included in their conceptual structure; mental states and phenomena (e.g., imagination, thought or memory) should have higher values (i.e., be located higher in the virtual subjective space) than any other abstract concepts; emotional concepts (e.g., love, disgust or happiness) should be located higher than physical sensations (e.g., pain or softness); positive emotions (like joy or euphoria) should be located higher than negative ones (like feeling of guilt or disappointment). Methods: Statistical methods (parametric and non-parametric ones) are used in order to test the hypotheses. As additional cross-testing methods corpora data and expert assessment are included. Results: The results of the study confirmed all the hypotheses. A number of additional regularities were revealed: in general, abstract concepts get higher values on a scale, i.e., are located higher in the virtual subjective space than concrete ones; tool concepts are related more to the lower space, unlike sound concepts that are related to higher space. No difference was found between action concepts (like attack or running) and physical sensations. Discussion: The results obtained can also be explained in terms of other theories within the embodied cognition framework, as it is discussed in the conclusion (words as social tools by A. Borghi and F. Binkofski; ideas by G. Vigliocco and neurosemantic approach by F. Pulvermuller). The need in an integrative model and larger studies with other semantic categories is underlined.}, language = {ru} } @article{MetznervonderMalsburgVasishthetal.2017, author = {Metzner, Paul and von der Malsburg, Titus Raban and Vasishth, Shravan and Roesler, Frank}, title = {The Importance of Reading Naturally: Evidence From Combined Recordings of Eye Movements and Electric Brain Potentials}, series = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, volume = {41}, journal = {Cognitive science : a multidisciplinary journal of anthropology, artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology ; journal of the Cognitive Science Society}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0364-0213}, doi = {10.1111/cogs.12384}, pages = {1232 -- 1263}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{MayrMorrisMennenetal.2017, author = {Mayr, Robert and Morris, Jonathan and Mennen, Ineke and Williams, Daniel}, title = {Disentangling the effects of long-term language contact and individual bilingualism: The case of monophthongs in Welsh and English}, series = {International journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior}, volume = {21}, journal = {International journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1367-0069}, doi = {10.1177/1367006915614921}, pages = {245 -- 267}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Aims and objectives: This study investigates the effects of individual bilingualism and long-term language contact on monophthongal vowel productions in English and Welsh. Design: To this end, we recorded the Welsh and English vowel productions of two sets of Welsh-English bilinguals differing in home language use, as well as the English vowel productions of English monolinguals. Data and analysis: The data were analysed acoustically, with a focus on spectral and temporal properties. Comparisons were then made within each language and cross-linguistically. Findings: The results of a cross-linguistic acoustic comparison revealed a high degree of convergence in the monophthong systems of Welsh and English, but also some language-specific categories. Interestingly, at the individual level we found no effect of linguistic experience on vowel production: the two sets of bilinguals and the English monolinguals did not differ in their realisation of English vowels, and the two sets of bilinguals did not differ in their realisation of Welsh vowels. Implications: The findings demonstrate pervasive phonetic convergence in a language contact situation with a historical substrate. They also indicate that a homogeneous peer group with shared values can override the effects of individual linguistic experience.}, language = {en} } @article{MatuschekKlieglVasishthetal.2017, author = {Matuschek, Hannes and Kliegl, Reinhold and Vasishth, Shravan and Baayen, Harald R. and Bates, Douglas}, title = {Balancing Type I error and power in linear mixed models}, series = {Journal of memory and language}, volume = {94}, journal = {Journal of memory and language}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {0749-596X}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2017.01.001}, pages = {305 -- 315}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Linear mixed-effects models have increasingly replaced mixed-model analyses of variance for statistical inference in factorial psycholinguistic experiments. Although LMMs have many advantages over ANOVA, like ANOVAs, setting them up for data analysis also requires some care. One simple option, when numerically possible, is to fit the full variance covariance structure of random effects (the maximal model; Barr, Levy, Scheepers \& Tily, 2013), presumably to keep Type I error down to the nominal a in the presence of random effects. Although it is true that fitting a model with only random intercepts may lead to higher Type I error, fitting a maximal model also has a cost: it can lead to a significant loss of power. We demonstrate this with simulations and suggest that for typical psychological and psycholinguistic data, higher power is achieved without inflating Type I error rate if a model selection criterion is used to select a random effect structure that is supported by the data. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc.}, language = {en} } @article{MartinezFerreiroReyesBastiaanse2017, author = {Martinez-Ferreiro, Silvia and Reyes, Andres Felipe and Bastiaanse, Roelien}, title = {Overcoming discourse-linking difficulties in aphasia}, series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, volume = {31}, journal = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, number = {6}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0269-9206}, doi = {10.1080/02699206.2017.1308015}, pages = {459 -- 477}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The present study aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the impact of discourse-linking deficits on the performance of individuals with aphasia by providing new data from a set of rarely investigated constructions: sentences in which a clitic pronoun coexists alongside with the full DP it agrees with. To do so, we use data of individuals with non-fluent aphasias who need to overcome the difficulties in direct object (accusative) clitic production. This results in overproduction of non-target clitic right dislocations (RDs) and clitic doubling (CD). Data from 15 individual's native speakers of Spanish and Catalan are discussed. Data complement the results of previous investigations on discourse-linking effects in these languages, allowing the interpretation of results across constructions.}, language = {en} } @article{LaurinavichyuteJagerAkininaetal.2017, author = {Laurinavichyute, Anna and Jager, Lena Ann and Akinina, Yulia and Roß, Jennifer and Dragoy, Olga V.}, title = {Retrieval and Encoding Interference: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Anaphor Processing}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {8}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00965}, pages = {18}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{LampeFiederKrajenbrinketal.2017, author = {Lampe, Leonie and Fieder, Nora and Krajenbrink, Trudy and Nickels, Lyndsey}, title = {Semantische Nachbarschaft in der Wortproduktion bei Aphasie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405102}, pages = {103 -- 114}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{KueglerFery2017, author = {Kuegler, Frank and Fery, Caroline}, title = {Postfocal Downstep in German}, series = {Language and speech}, volume = {60}, journal = {Language and speech}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0023-8309}, doi = {10.1177/0023830916647204}, pages = {260 -- 288}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article is a follow-up study of Fery and Kugler (2008. Pitch accent scaling on given, new and focused constituents in German. Journal of Phonetics, 36, 680-703). It reports on an experiment of the F0 height of potential pitch accents in the postfocal region of German sentences and addresses in this way an aspect of the influence of information structure on the intonation of sentences that was left open in the previous article. The results of the experiment showed that, when several constituents are located in this position, they are often in a downstep relation, but are rarely upstepped. In 37\% of the cases, the pitch accents are only realized dynamically and there is no down- or upstepping. We interpret these results as evidence that postfocal constituents are phrased independently. The data examined speak against a model of postfocal intonation in which postfocal phrasing is eliminated and all accents are reduced to zero. Instead, the pitch accents are often present, although reduced. Moreover, the facts support the existence of prosodic phrasing of the postfocal constituents; the postfocal position implies an extremely compressed register, but no dephrasing or systematic complete deaccentuation of all pitch accents. We propose adopting a model of German intonation in which prosodic phrasing is determined by syntactic structure and cannot be changed by information structure. The role of information structure in prosody is limited to changes in the register relationship of the different parts of the sentence. Prefocally, there is no or only little register compression because of givenness. Postfocally, register compression is the rule. A model of intonation must take this asymmetry into account.}, language = {en} } @article{KruegerLukowiakSonntagetal.2017, author = {Kr{\"u}ger, K. R. and Lukowiak, A. and Sonntag, J. and Warzecha, Saskia and Stede, Manfred}, title = {Classifying news versus opinions in newspapers}, series = {Natural language engineering}, volume = {23}, journal = {Natural language engineering}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1351-3249}, doi = {10.1017/S1351324917000043}, pages = {687 -- 707}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Newspaper text can be broadly divided in the classes 'opinion' (editorials, commentary, letters to the editor) and 'neutral' (reports). We describe a classification system for performing this separation, which uses a set of linguistically motivated features. Working with various English newspaper corpora, we demonstrate that it significantly outperforms bag-of-lemma and PoS-tag models. We conclude that the linguistic features constitute the best method for achieving robustness against change of newspaper or domain.}, language = {en} } @article{KapsFrankHuckabee2017, author = {Kaps, Hella and Frank, Ulrike and Huckabee, Maggie-Lee}, title = {Test of Masticating and Swallowing Solids (TOMASS)}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405223}, pages = {141 -- 156}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{JessenFleischhauerClahsen2017, author = {Jessen, Anna and Fleischhauer, Elisabeth and Clahsen, Harald}, title = {Morphological encoding in German children's language production}, series = {Journal of child language}, volume = {44}, journal = {Journal of child language}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {0305-0009}, doi = {10.1017/S0305000916000118}, pages = {427 -- 456}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This study reports developmental changes in morphological encoding across late childhood. We examined event-related brain potentials (ERPs) during the silent production of regularly vs. irregularly inflected verb forms (viz. -t vs. -n participles of German) in groups of eight- to ten-year-olds, eleven- to thirteen-year-olds, and adults. The adult data revealed an enhanced (right-frontal) negativity 300-450 ms after cue onset for the (silent) production of -t relative to -n past participle forms (e.g. geplant vs. gehauen 'planned' vs. 'hit'). For the eleven- to thirteen-year-olds, the same enhanced negativity was found, with a more posterior distribution and a longer duration (=300-550 ms). The eight- to ten-year-olds also showed this negativity, again with a posterior distribution, but with a considerably delayed onset (800-1,000 ms). We suggest that this negativity reflects combinatorial processing required for producing -t participles in both children and adults and that the spatial and temporal modulations of this ERP effect across the three participant groups are due to developmental changes of the brain networks involved in processing morphologically complex words.}, language = {en} } @article{JacobKatsikaFamilyetal.2017, author = {Jacob, Gunnar and Katsika, Kalliopi and Family, Neiloufar and Allen, Shanley E. M.}, title = {The role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming}, series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, volume = {20}, journal = {Bilingualism : language and cognition}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {1366-7289}, doi = {10.1017/S1366728916000717}, pages = {269 -- 282}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In two cross-linguistic priming experiments with native German speakers of L2 English, we investigated the role of constituent order and level of embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. In both experiments, significant priming effects emerged only if prime and target were similar with regard to constituent order and also situated on the same level of embedding. We discuss our results on the basis of two current theoretical accounts of cross-linguistic priming, and conclude that neither an account based on combinatorial nodes nor an account assuming that constituent order is directly responsible for the priming effect can fully explain our data pattern. We suggest an account that explains cross-linguistic priming through a hierarchical tree representation. This representation is computed during processing of the prime, and can influence the formulation of a target sentence only when the structural features specified in it are grammatically correct in the target sentence.}, language = {en} } @article{Heidler2017, author = {Heidler, Maria-Dorothea}, title = {Kognitive St{\"o}rungen bei Patienten mit Herzerkrankungen}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Neuropsychologie}, volume = {28}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Neuropsychologie}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hogrefe}, address = {Bern}, issn = {1016-264X}, doi = {10.1024/1016-264X/a000193}, pages = {33 -- 44}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Patienten mit Herzerkrankung leiden unter zahlreichen kognitiven Defiziten, die mit steigendem Alter und der Schwere der kardialen Erkrankung zunehmen. Die Genese kognitiver Defizite und ihre Wechselwirkung mit Herzerkrankungen ist multifaktoriell, potenziell sind sie jedoch durch eine ad{\"a}quate medizinische Behandlung der Herzerkrankung modifizierbar. Oft haben neuropsychologische St{\"o}rungen wie beeintr{\"a}chtigte Aufmerksamkeits-, Ged{\"a}chtnis- oder Exekutivfunktionen nachhaltige Auswirkungen auf die Lebensqualit{\"a}t und auf das Outcome kardiologischer Rehabilitationsmaßnahmen und k{\"o}nnen Herzerkrankungen verschlimmern (bspw. durch die Aufrechterhaltung eines ungesunden Lebensstils oder unzureichende Medikamentenadh{\"a}renz). Ein routinem{\"a}ßig angewandtes neuropsychologisches Screening k{\"o}nnte helfen, kognitiv beeintr{\"a}chtigte Patienten zu identifizieren, um medizinische und rehabilitative Maßnahmen optimieren zu k{\"o}nnen.}, language = {de} } @article{Heide2017, author = {Heide, Judith}, title = {Fehlerreduzierendes Lernen als Methode in der Aphasietherapie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405076}, pages = {51 -- 72}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{GianelliMarzocchiBorghi2017, author = {Gianelli, Claudia and Marzocchi, Michele and Borghi, Anna M.}, title = {Grasping the Agent's Perspective}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {8}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00042}, pages = {13}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{GerthOttoFelseretal.2017, author = {Gerth, Sabrina and Otto, Constanze and Felser, Claudia and Nam, Yunju}, title = {Strength of garden-path effects in native and non-native speakers' processing of object-subject ambiguities}, series = {International journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior}, volume = {21}, journal = {International journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {1367-0069}, doi = {10.1177/1367006915604401}, pages = {125 -- 144}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Aims and objectives: Our study addresses the following research questions: To what extent is L2 comprehenders' online sensitivity to morphosyntactic disambiguation cues affected by L1 background? Does noticing the error signal trigger successful reanalysis in both L1 and L2 comprehension? Can previous findings suggesting that case is a better reanalysis cue than agreement be replicated and extended to L2 processing when using closely matched materials? Design/methodology/approach: We carried out a self-paced reading study using temporarily ambiguous object-initial sentences in German. These were disambiguated either by number marking on the verb or by nominative case marking on the subject. End-of-trial comprehension questions probed whether or not our participants ultimately succeeded in computing the correct interpretation. Data and analysis: We tested a total of 121 participants (25 Italian, 32 Russian, 32 Korean and 32 native German speakers), measuring their word-by-word reading times and comprehension accuracy. The data were analysed using linear mixed-effects and logistic regression modelling. Findings/conclusions: All three learner groups showed online sensitivity to both case and agreement disambiguation cues. Noticing case disambiguations did not necessarily lead to a correct interpretation, whereas noticing agreement disambiguations did. We conclude that intermediate to advanced learners are sensitive to morphosyntactic interpretation cues during online processing regardless of whether or not corresponding grammatical distinctions exist in their L1. Our results also suggest that case is not generally a better reanalysis cue than agreement. Significance/implications: L1 influence on L2 processing is more limited than might be expected. Contra previous findings, even intermediate learners show sensitivity to both agreement and case information during processing.}, language = {en} } @article{FyndanisLindVarlokostaetal.2017, author = {Fyndanis, Valantis and Lind, Marianne and Varlokosta, Spyridoula and Kambanaros, Maria and Soroli, Efstathia and Ceder, Klaudia and Grohmann, Kleanthes K. and Rofes, Adri{\`a} and Simonsen, Hanne Gram and Bjekić, Jovana and Gavarr{\´o}, Anna and Kraljević, Jelena Kuvač and Mart{\´i}nez-Ferreiro, Silvia and Munarriz, Amaia and Pourquie, Marie and Vuksanović, Jasmina and Zakari{\´a}s, Lilla and Howard, David}, title = {Cross-linguistic adaptations of The Comprehensive Aphasia Test}, series = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, volume = {31}, journal = {Clinical linguistics \& phonetics}, number = {7-9}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Philadelphia}, issn = {0269-9206}, doi = {10.1080/02699206.2017.1310299}, pages = {697 -- 710}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Comparative research on aphasia and aphasia rehabilitation is challenged by the lack of comparable assessment tools across different languages. In English, a large array of tools is available, while in most other languages, the selection is more limited. Importantly, assessment tools are often simple translations and do not take into consideration specific linguistic and psycholinguistic parameters of the target languages. As a first step in meeting the needs for comparable assessment tools, the Comprehensive Aphasia Test is currently being adapted into a number of languages spoken in Europe. In this article, some key challenges encountered in the adaptation process and the solutions to ensure that the resulting assessment tools are linguistically and culturally equivalent, are proposed. Specifically, we focus on challenges and solutions related to the use of imageability, frequency, word length, spelling-to-sound regularity and sentence length and complexity as underlying properties in the selection of the testing material.}, language = {en} } @article{Frank2017, author = {Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Sehen hilft Lernen: sEMG Biofeedback in der Dysphagietherapie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405081}, pages = {73 -- 89}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{FerchlandBaatzHeideetal.2017, author = {Ferchland, Lisa and Baatz, Charlotte and Heide, Judith and Netzebandt, Jonka}, title = {Komplexit{\"a}t als wirksames Prinzip der Sprechapraxie-Therapie}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405279}, pages = {199 -- 202}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Netzebandt}, language = {de} } @article{FargierBuerkiFoschiniPinetetal.2017, author = {Fargier, Raphael and B{\"u}rki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris and Pinet, Svetlana and Alario, F. -Xavier and Laganaro, Marina}, title = {Word onset phonetic properties and motor artifacts in speech production EEG recordings}, series = {Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research}, volume = {55}, journal = {Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research}, number = {2}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0048-5772}, doi = {10.1111/psyp.12982}, pages = {10}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Electrophysiological research using verbal response paradigms faces the problem of muscle artifacts that occur during speech production or in the period preceding articulation. In this context, this paper has two related aims. The first is to show how the nature of the first phoneme influences the alignment of the ERPs. The second is to further characterize the EEG signal around the onset of articulation, both in temporal and frequency domains. Participants were asked to name aloud pictures of common objects. We applied microstate analyses and time-frequency transformations of ERPs locked to vocal onset to compare the EEG signal between voiced and unvoiced labial plosive word onset consonants. We found a delay of about 40 ms in the set of stable topographic patterns for /b/ relative to /p/ onset words. A similar shift was observed in the power increase of gamma oscillations (30-50 Hz), which had an earlier onset for /p/ trials (similar to 150 ms before vocal onset). This 40-ms shift is consistent with the length of the voiced proportion of the acoustic signal prior to the release of the closure in the vocal responses. These results demonstrate that phonetic features are an important parameter affecting response-locked ERPs, and hence that the onset of the acoustic energy may not be an optimal trigger for synchronizing the EEG activity to the response in vocal paradigms. The indexes explored in this study provide a step forward in the characterization of muscle-related artifacts in electrophysiological studies of speech and language production.}, language = {en} } @article{DiwokyBreitenstein2017, author = {Diwoky, Laura Cassandra and Breitenstein, Sarah}, title = {Evidenzbasiertes Arbeiten in der Kindersprachtherapie in Ausbildungspraktika}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405258}, pages = {169 -- 186}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{DasTaboada2017, author = {Das, Debopam and Taboada, Maite}, title = {Signalling of Coherence Relations in Discourse, Beyond Discourse Markers}, series = {Discourse processes : DP ; a multidisciplinary journal}, volume = {55}, journal = {Discourse processes : DP ; a multidisciplinary journal}, number = {8}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0163-853X}, doi = {10.1080/0163853X.2017.1379327}, pages = {743 -- 770}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We argue that coherence relations (relations between propositions, such as Concession or Purpose) are signalled more frequently and by more means than is generally believed. We examine how coherence relations in text are indicated by all possible textual signals, and whether every relation is signalled. To that end, we conducted a corpus study on the RST Discourse Treebank, a corpus of newspaper articles annotated for rhetorical (or coherence) relations. Results from our corpus study show that most relations in text (over 90\%) are signalled and also that most signalled relations (over 80\%) are indicated not only by discourse markers (and, but, if, since), but also by a wide variety of signals other than discourse markers, such as reference, lexical, semantic, syntactic and graphical features. These findings suggest that signalling of coherence relations is much more sophisticated than previously thought.}, language = {en} } @article{CuadrovonHagenCostaBall2017, author = {Cuadro, Ariel and von Hagen, Alexa and Costa Ball, Daniel}, title = {Procedural differences in the calculation of the prevalence of reading difficulties in Spanish-speaking school children}, series = {Studies in psychology}, volume = {38}, journal = {Studies in psychology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0210-9395}, doi = {10.1080/02109395.2016.1268388}, pages = {169 -- 197}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The prevalence of reading difficulties (RD) reflects controversial data ranging from 3.1-3.2\% to 17.5\%. Possible explanations are partly based on the incidence of orthography-specific factors influencing the reading process, but also on methodological differences that hinder comparison of the reported results. For this reason, the present study aims to analyse the prevalence of RD in a sample of 1,408 Spanish-speaking school children by comparing different ways of calculating the prevalence rate. The results reflect a prevalence of 2.2-5.3\%, consistent with data reported for predominantly transparent orthographies. Some of the procedures used to identify RD are more accurate in early school years than at more advanced moments of schooling. Furthermore, the consideration of students' sex when calculating the prevalence of RD seems to represent a more sensitive way of identifying students with RD.}, language = {es} } @article{ChladkovaHamannWilliamsetal.2017, author = {Chladkova, Katerina and Hamann, Silke and Williams, Daniel and Hellmuth, Sam}, title = {F2 slope as a Perceptual Cue for the Front-Back Contrast in Standard Southern British English}, series = {Language and speech}, volume = {60}, journal = {Language and speech}, publisher = {Sage Publ.}, address = {London}, issn = {0023-8309}, doi = {10.1177/0023830916650991}, pages = {377 -- 398}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [i.]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [u.]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Standard Southern British English (SSBE), where /u./ has shifted from the back to the front area of the vowel space and is now realized with higher midpoint F2 values than several decades ago. Subsequently, we test whether the direction of F2 slope also serves as a reliable cue to the /i.// u./ contrast in perception. The findings show that F2 slope direction is used as a cue (additional to midpoint formant values) to distinguish /i./ from /u./by both young and older Standard Southern British English listeners: an otherwise ambiguous token is identified as /i./if it has a rising F2 slope and as /u./if it has a falling F2 slope. Furthermore, our results indicate that listeners generalize their reliance on F2 slope to other contrasts, namely /epsilon/-/./and /ae/-/./, even though F2 slope is not employed to differentiate these vowels in production. This suggests that in Standard Southern British English, a rising F2 seems to be perceptually associated with an abstract feature such as [+ front], whereas a falling F2 with an abstract feature such as [-front].}, language = {en} } @article{BuerkiFoschini2017, author = {B{\"u}rki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris}, title = {Differences in processing times for distractors and pictures modulate the influence of distractors in picture-word interference tasks}, series = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, volume = {32}, journal = {Language, cognition and neuroscience}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {2327-3798}, doi = {10.1080/23273798.2016.1267783}, pages = {709 -- 723}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In the picture-word interference paradigm, participants name pictures while ignoring a distractor word. When targets and distractors share phonemic and/or graphemic content, naming latencies are shorter than when there is no overlap between the two words. This study examines the hypothesis that the facilitation effect is modulated by differences in the time it takes participants to encode the picture name and process the distractor. Participants named pictures while ignoring distractors that either shared a phonological/orthographical syllable with the target word or were unrelated to that word. Response latencies during the naming of the distractors were collected and used as a measure of distractor processing time. The facilitation effect in picture naming was modulated by differences in response times between the picture and word naming tasks. This finding complements previous studies in showing that picture naming processes in the picture-word interference paradigm are influenced by the time course of distractor processing.}, language = {en} } @article{BykovaFrank2017, author = {Bykova, Ksenia and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {Scale for an Assessment of Risk of Aspiration, oder SARA: Aspirationsscreening f{\"u}r Kinder mit Cerebralparese in Russland}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405160}, pages = {115 -- 121}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{BrunoLassottaAdani2017, author = {Bruno, Giulia and Lassotta, Romy and Adani, Flavia}, title = {Verarbeitung von komplexen S{\"a}tzen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen mit Autismus Spektrum St{\"o}rung}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405267}, pages = {187 -- 197}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{BoschKrauseLeminen2017, author = {Bosch, Sina and Krause, Helena and Leminen, Alina}, title = {The time-course of morphosyntactic and semantic priming in late bilinguals: A study of German adjectives}, series = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.}, volume = {20}, journal = {Bilingualism : language and cognition.}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {New York}, issn = {1366-7289}, doi = {10.1017/S1366728916000055}, pages = {435 -- 456}, year = {2017}, abstract = {How do late proficient bilinguals process morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic information in their non-native language (L2)? How is this information represented in the L2 mental lexicon? And what are the neural signatures of L2 morphosyntactic and lexical-semantic processing? We addressed these questions in one behavioral and two ERP priming experiments on inflected German adjectives testing a group of advanced late Russian learners of German in comparison to native speaker (L1) controls. While in the behavioral experiment, the L2 learners performed native-like, the ERP data revealed clear L1/L2 differences with respect to the temporal dynamics of grammatical processing. Specifically, our results show that L2 morphosyntactic processing yielded temporally and spatially extended brain responses relative to L1 processing, indicating that grammatical processing of inflected words in an L2 is more demanding and less automatic than in the L1. However, this group of advanced L2 learners showed native-like lexical-semantic processing.}, language = {en} } @article{BollAvetisyanBhataraHoehle2017, author = {Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie and Bhatara, Anjali and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Effects of musicality on the perception of rhythmic structure in speech}, series = {Laboratory phonology}, volume = {8}, journal = {Laboratory phonology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Ubiquity Press}, address = {London}, issn = {1868-6346}, doi = {10.5334/labphon.91}, pages = {16}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Language and music share many rhythmic properties, such as variations in intensity and duration leading to repeating patterns. Perception of rhythmic properties may rely on cognitive networks that are shared between the two domains. If so, then variability in speech rhythm perception may relate to individual differences in musicality. To examine this possibility, the present study focuses on rhythmic grouping, which is assumed to be guided by a domain-general principle, the Iambic/Trochaic law, stating that sounds alternating in intensity are grouped as strong-weak, and sounds alternating in duration are grouped as weak-strong. German listeners completed a grouping task: They heard streams of syllables alternating in intensity, duration, or neither, and had to indicate whether they perceived a strong-weak or weak-strong pattern. Moreover, their music perception abilities were measured, and they filled out a questionnaire reporting their productive musical experience. Results showed that better musical rhythm perception - ability was associated with more consistent rhythmic grouping of speech, while melody perception - ability and productive musical experience were not. This suggests shared cognitive procedures in the perception of rhythm in music and speech. Also, the results highlight the relevance of - considering individual differences in musicality when aiming to explain variability in prosody perception.}, language = {en} } @article{BalzerEbertFrank2017, author = {Balzer, Julia and Ebert, Susanne and Frank, Ulrike}, title = {When life gives you lemons... Der Einfluss visueller Stimuli auf Schluckfrequenz und Speichelproduktion}, series = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, journal = {Spektrum Patholinguistik (Band 10) - Schwerpunktthema: Panorama Patholinguistik: Sprachwissenschaft trifft Sprachtherapie}, number = {10}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-9085}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405204}, pages = {131 -- 140}, year = {2017}, language = {de} } @article{BaayenVasishthKliegletal.2017, author = {Baayen, Harald R. and Vasishth, Shravan and Kliegl, Reinhold and Bates, Douglas}, title = {The cave of shadows: Addressing the human factor with generalized additive mixed models}, series = {Journal of memory and language}, volume = {94}, journal = {Journal of memory and language}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {San Diego}, issn = {0749-596X}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2016.11.006}, pages = {206 -- 234}, year = {2017}, language = {en} }