@article{FeryTruckenbrodt2005, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Truckenbrodt, Hubert}, title = {Sisterhood and tonal scaling}, issn = {0039-3193}, year = {2005}, abstract = {This paper discusses central aspects of the effects of hierarchical structure on tonal scaling in intonation. The core results of a number of phonetic studies on this topic, by Ladd, by van den Berg, Gussenhoven and Rietveld, as well as experimental results of our own, are reviewed. We review the suggestions of this earlier work and argue for an addition to the theory. The principle 'The deeper the steeper' says that downstep among sister nodes is relatively larger if these sister-nodes are relatively more deeply embedded in the prosodic representation}, language = {en} } @article{Carroll2005, author = {Carroll, Susanne E.}, title = {Input and SLA : Adults' sensitivity to different sorts of cues to French gender}, issn = {0023-8333}, year = {2005}, abstract = {All second language (L2) learning theories presuppose that learners learn the target language from the speech signal (or written material, when learners are reading), so an understanding of learners' ability to detect and represent novel patterns in linguistic stimuli will constitute a major building block in an adequate theory of second language acquisition (SLA) input. Pattern detection, a mainstay of current connectionist modeling of language learning, presupposes a sensitivity to particular properties of the signal. Learning abstract grammatical knowledge from the signal presupposes, as well, the capacity to map phonetic properties of the signal onto properties of another type (segments and syllables, morpheme categories, and so on). Thus, even seemingly "simple" grammatical phenomena may embody complex structural knowledge and be instantiated by a plethora of diverse cues. Moreover, cues have no a priori status; a phenomenon of a given sort takes on a value as a cue when acquisition of the grammatical system reveals it to be useful. My study deals with initial sensitivity to cues to gender attribution in French. Andersen (1984) asked: "What's gender good for anyway?" One answer comes from a number of studies, done mostly in the last 20 years, of gender processing by both monolingual and bilingual speakers (among many others, Bates, Devescovi, Hernandez, \& Pizzamiglio, 1996; Bates \& Liu, 1997; Friederici \& Jacobsen, 1990; Grosjean, Dommergues, Cornu, Guillemon, \& Besson, 1994; Guillemon \& Grosjean, 2001; Taft \& Meunier, 1998). These studies provide evidence that in monolinguals and early (but not late) L2 learners, prenominal morphosyntactic exponents of gender prime noun activation and speed up noun recognition. Over the same period, a growing number of studies detailing the course of L2 gender acquisition for a variety of different target languages and learner types (e.g., Bartning, 2000; Chini, 1995; Dewaele \& Veronique, 2000; Granfeldt, 2003; Hawkins \& Franceschina, 2004) have provided support for the hypothesis that developmental paths differ for early and later learners of gender. Yet despite its obvious importance to SLA theorizing, few studies have dealt directly with adult learners' ability to detect and analyze potential cues to gender at the initial stage of exposure to the L2 (and this despite considerable discussion in recent years of the nature of the "initial state" of L2 learning). The study reported on in this article, which was actually conducted in the late 1980s, was an attempt to shed some light on what the beginning learner can do with the gender attribution problem. This study was, at that time, and is even now, an anomaly; most research dealing with "input" provided descriptions of what people say to learners, not what learners can perceive and represent. Indeed, most studies that shed light on the initial analytical capacities of absolute beginners were concerned with "perceptual" learning, that is, with the acquisition of phonetic or phonological distinctions (e.g., Broselow, Hurtig, \& Ringen's [19871 study of tone learning or various studies on the perception of the /r/ vs. /l/ phonemes in American English by Ja}, language = {en} } @article{BurchertSwobodaMollDeBleser2005, author = {Burchert, Frank and Swoboda-Moll, Maria and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {Tense and Agreement dissociations in German agrammatic speakers : Underspecification vs. hierarchy}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The aim of the present paper was to investigate whether German agrammatic production data are compatible with the Tree-Pruning-Hypothesis (TPH; Friedmann \& Grodzinsky, 1997). The theory predicts unidirectional patterns of dissociation in agrammatic production data with respect to Tense and Agreement. However, there was evidence of a double dissociation between Tense and Agreement in our data. The presence of a bidirectional dissociation is incompatible with any theory which assumes a hierarchical order between these categories such as the TPH or other versions thereof (such as Lee's, 2003 top-down hypothesis). It will be argued that the data can better be accounted for by relying on newer linguistic theories such as the Minimalist Program (MP, Chomsky, 2000), which does not assume a hierarchical order between independent syntactic Tense and Agreement nodes but treats them as different features (semantically interpretable vs. uninterpretable) under a single node. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved}, language = {en} } @article{BurchertSwobodaMollDeBleser2005, author = {Burchert, Frank and Swoboda-Moll, Maria and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {The left periphery in agrammatic clausal representations : evidence from German}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Recently, neurolinguistic explanations informed by linguistic theory have been proposed to account for spontaneous and elicited agrammatic speech production. These are either formulated in terms of impaired representations or they refer to impaired processing. Both have in common that they assume severe disorders of question production due to vulnerability of the left periphery of sentence structures in the representational account, of verb movement in the processing account. We report the results of question elicitation and spontaneous speech analysis in eight chronic German agrammatic speakers. The results indicate that there is not one homogeneous agrammatic pattern, but that the data reveal double dissociations which cannot be accounted for by the unitary explanations of agrammatism which are presently available. An alternative explanation will be provided which-in contrast to the representational account not only refers to global hierarchically organized nodes but relies on linguistic differences within these nodes. The assumption that they can be differentially affected in agrammatism can account for the observed patterns. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved}, language = {en} } @article{BurchertWeldlichDeBleser2005, author = {Burchert, Frank and Weldlich, C. and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {Focus in the left periphery : a cue to agrammatic sentence comprehension?}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{DeBleserMarshall2005, author = {De Bleser, Ria and Marshall, J. C.}, title = {Egon Weigl and the concept of inner speech}, issn = {0010-9452}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{AllefeldFrischSchlesewsky2005, author = {Allefeld, Carsten and Frisch, Stefan and Schlesewsky, Matthias}, title = {Detection of early cognitive processing by event-related phase synchronization analysis}, issn = {0959-4965}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In order to investigate the temporal characteristics of cognitive processing, we apply multivariate phase synchronization analysis to event-related potentials. The experimental design combines a semantic incongruity in a sentence context with a physical mismatch (color change). In the ERP average, these result in an N400 component and a P300-like positivity, respectively. Synchronization analysis shows an effect of global desynchronization in the theta band around 288 ms after stimulus presentation for the semantic incongruity, while the physical mismatch elicits an increase of global synchronization in the alpha band around 204 ms. Both of these effects clearly precede those in the ERP aver-age. Moreover, the delay between synchronization effect and ERP component correlates with the complexity Of the cognitive processes. (C) 2005 Lippincott Williams Wilkins}, language = {en} } @article{PeraniAbutalebi2005, author = {Perani, Daniela and Abutalebi, Jubin}, title = {The neural basis of first and second language processing}, issn = {0959-4388}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1). The long-held assumption that L1 and L2 are necessarily represented in different brain regions in bilinguals has not been confirmed. On the contrary, the available evidence indicates that L1 and L2 are processed by the same neural devices. The neural differences in L1 and L2 representations are only related to the specific computational demands, which vary according to the age of acquisition, the degree of mastery and the level of exposure to each language. Finally, the acquisition of L2 could be considered as a dynamic process, requiring additional neural resources in specific circumstances}, language = {en} } @article{MarienAbutalebiEngelborghsetal.2005, author = {Mari{\"e}n, Peter and Abutalebi, Jubin and Engelborghs, Sebastian and De Deyn, Peter Paul}, title = {Pathophysiology of language switching and mixing in an early bilingual child with subcortical aphasia}, year = {2005}, abstract = {Acquired aphasia after circumscribed vascular subcortical lesions has not been reported in bilingual children. We report clinical and neuroimaging findings in an early bilingual boy who incurred equally severe transcortical sensory aphasia in his first language (L1) and second language (L2) after a posterior left thalamic hemorrhage. Following recurrent bleeding of the lesion the aphasic symptoms substantially aggravated. Spontaneous pathological language switching and mixing were found in both languages. Remission of these phenomena was reflected on brain perfusion SPECT revealing improved perfusion in the left frontal lobe and left caudate nucleus. The parallelism between the evolution of language symptoms and the SPECT findings may demonstrate that a subcortical left frontal lobe circuity is crucially involved in language switching and mixing}, language = {en} } @article{FrischSchlesewskyWegner2005, author = {Frisch, Stefan and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Wegner, H.}, title = {The interaction of morphological case and word order constraints : Cross-linguistic ERP evidence from German, Russian and Finnish}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{DrenhausBeimGrabenSaddyetal.2005, author = {Drenhaus, Heiner and Beim Graben, Peter and Saddy, Douglas and Frisch, Stefan}, title = {On the processing of negative polarity constructions revealed by the symbolic resonance analysis}, issn = {0898-929X}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{VitaliAbutalebiTettamantietal.2005, author = {Vitali, P. and Abutalebi, Jubin and Tettamanti, M. and Rowe, J. and Scifo, P. and Fazio, F. and Cappa, Stefano F. and Perani, Daniela}, title = {Generating animal and tool names : an fMRI study of effective connectivity}, issn = {0093-934X}, year = {2005}, abstract = {The present fMRI study of semantic fluency for animal and tool names provides further evidence for category- specific brain activations, and reports task-related changes in effective connectivity among defined cerebral regions. Two partially segregated systems of functional integration were highlighted: the tool condition was associated with an enhancement of connectivity within left hemispheric regions, including the inferior prefrontal and premotor cortex, the inferior parietal lobule and the temporo-occipital junction; the animal condition was associated with greater coupling among left visual associative regions. These category-specific functional differences extend the evidence for anatomical specialization to lexical search tasks, and provide for the first time evidence of category-specific patterns of functional integration in word-retrieval. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Stepanov2005, author = {Stepanov, Arthur}, title = {Recursion in natural language syntax: a minimalist perspective}, address = {Potsdam}, pages = {166 S.}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{SennemavandeVijverCarrolletal.2005, author = {Sennema, Anke and van de Vijver, Ruben and Carroll, Susanne E. and Zimmer-Stahl, Anne}, title = {Focus accent, word lenght and position as cues to L1 and L2 word recognition}, isbn = {3-937786-01-5}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Weskott2005, author = {Weskott, Thomas}, title = {Stopn bashing givenness! a note on Elke Kasimir's "Question-answer test and givenness"}, isbn = {3-937786-01-5}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Kasimir2005, author = {Kasimir, Elke}, title = {Question-answer test and givenness : some question marks}, isbn = {3-937786-01-5}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Toepel2005, author = {Toepel, Ulrike}, title = {Contrastive topic and focus information in discourse : prosodic realisation and electrophysiological brain correlates}, series = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, volume = {66}, journal = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, publisher = {MPI}, address = {Leipzig, M{\"u}nchen}, isbn = {3-936816-40-9}, pages = {III, 188 S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{SchroederStadiePostleretal.2005, author = {Schr{\"o}der, Astrid and Stadie, Nicole and Postler, Jenny and Lorenz, Antje and Swoboda-Moll, Maria and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {Does training-induced improvement of noncanonical sentence production in agrammatic aphasia generalize to comprehension? : a multiple single case study}, issn = {0093-934X}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Leuckefeld2005, author = {Leuckefeld, Kerstin}, title = {The development of argument processing mechanisms in German : an electrophysiological investigation with school- aged children and adults}, series = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, volume = {61}, journal = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, publisher = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften}, address = {Leipzig}, isbn = {3-936816-35-2}, pages = {149, xl S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{RauschBurchertDeBleser2005, author = {Rausch, P. and Burchert, Frank and De Bleser, Ria}, title = {Parallels in the breakdown of CP and DP-internal movement processes in agrammatism : a preliminary case study}, issn = {0093-934X}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @book{FanselowFerySchlesewskyetal.2006, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Schlesewsky, Matthias and Vogel, Ralf}, title = {Gradience in grammar : generative perspectives}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford, New York}, isbn = {0-19-927479-7}, pages = {416 S.}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2006, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Gradient Perception of Intonation}, isbn = {0-19-927479-7}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{WartenburgerKuehnSassenbergetal.2009, author = {Wartenburger, Isabell and K{\"u}hn, Esther and Sassenberg, Uta and Foth, Manja and Franz, Elizabeth A. and van derMeer, Elke}, title = {On the relationship between fluid intelligence, gesture production, and brain structure}, issn = {0160-2896}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{PelzerHoehle2006, author = {Pelzer, Lydia and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {The impact of morphological markers on infants' and adults' speech processing}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{HoehlevandeVijverBartelsetal.2006, author = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and van de Vijver, Ruben and Bartels, Sonja and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Phonological specificity of early lexical representations in German 19-month-olds at risk for SLI}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{HoehleSchmitzSantelmannetal.2006, author = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Schmitz, M. and Santelmann, L. M. and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {The recognition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month-olds : evidence for lexical and structural influences on childrens early processing capacities}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{MuellerHoehleSchmitzetal.2006, author = {M{\"u}ller, A. and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Schmitz, M. and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {Focus-to-stress alignment in 4- to 5-year-old German-learning children}, isbn = {1847180280}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{SchmitzHoehleMuelleretal.2006, author = {Schmitz, Michaela and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and M{\"u}ller, Anja and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {The recognition of the prosodic focus position in German-Learning Infants from 4 to 14 Months}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{PelzerHoehle2006, author = {Pelzer, Lydia and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {Processing of morphological markers as a cue to syntactic phrases by 10-month-olds German-learning infants}, isbn = {1847180280}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{OttvandeVijverHoehle2006, author = {Ott, Susan and van de Vijver, Ruben and H{\"o}hle, Barbara}, title = {The effect of phonotactic constraints in German-speaking children with delayed phonological acquisition : Evidence from production of word-initial consonant clusters}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{HoehlevandeVijverWeisenborn2006, author = {H{\"o}hle, Barbara and van de Vijver, Ruben and Weisenborn, J.}, title = {Word processing at 19 months at its relation to language performance at 30 months : a retrospective analysis of data from German learning children}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{VasishthSuckowLewisetal.2010, author = {Vasishth, Shravan and Suckow, Katja and Lewis, Richard L. and Kern, Sabine}, title = {Short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension : crosslinguistic evidence from verb-final structures}, issn = {0169-0965}, doi = {10.1080/01690960903310587}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Seven experiments using self-paced reading and eyetracking suggest that omitting the middle verb in a double centre embedding leads to easier processing in English but leads to greater difficulty in German. One commonly accepted explanation for the English pattern-based on data from offline acceptability ratings and due to Gibson and Thomas (1999)- is that working-memory overload leads the comprehender to forget the prediction of the upcoming verb phrase (VP), which reduces working-memory load. We show that this VP-forgetting hypothesis does an excellent job of explaining the English data, but cannot account for the German results. We argue that the English and German results can be explained by the parser's adaptation to the grammatical properties of the languages; in contrast to English, German subordinate clauses always have the verb in clause-final position, and this property of German may lead the German parser to maintain predictions of upcoming VPs more robustly compared to English. The evidence thus argues against language- independent forgetting effects in online sentence processing; working-memory constraints can be conditioned by countervailing influences deriving from grammatical properties of the language under study.}, language = {en} } @article{HazanSennemaFaulkneretal.2006, author = {Hazan, Valerie and Sennema, Anke and Faulkner, Andrew and Ortega-Llebaria, Marta and Iba, Midori and Chung, Hyunsong}, title = {The use of visual cues in the perception of non-native consonant contrasts}, issn = {0001-4966}, doi = {10.1121/1.2166611}, year = {2006}, abstract = {This study assessed the extent to which second-language learners are sensitive to phonetic information contained in visual cues when identifying a non-native phonemic contrast. In experiment 1, Spanish and Japanese learners of English were tested on their perception of a labial/labiodental consonant contrast in audio (A), visual (V), and audio-visual (AV) modalities. Spanish students showed better performance overall, and much greater sensitivity to visual cues than Japanese students. Both learner groups achieved higher scores in the A V than in the A test condition, thus showing evidence of audio-visual benefit. Experiment 2 examined the perception of the less visually-salient /1/-/r/ contrast in Japanese and Korean learners of English. Korean learners obtained much higher scores in auditory and audio- visual conditions than in the visual condition, while Japanese learners generally performed poorly in both modalities. Neither. group showed evidence of audio-visual benefit. These results show the impact of the language background of the learner and visual salience of the contrast on the use of visual cues for a non-native contrast. Significant correlations between scores in the auditory and visual conditions suggest that increasing auditory proficiency in identifying a non-native contrast is linked with an increasing proficiency in using visual cues to the contrast.}, language = {en} } @article{StadieRilling2006, author = {Stadie, Nicole and Rilling, Eva}, title = {Evaluation of lexically and nonlexically based reading treatment in a deep dyslexic}, doi = {10.1080/02643290500538364}, year = {2006}, abstract = {The aim of the single case study was to evaluate two different treatment procedures to improve reading skills with a German-speaking deep dyslexic. Generally, in treatment studies for deep dyslexia, retraining of grapheme-phoneme correspondences is described, but hardly any treatment focuses on reactivating residual functions of the semantic- lexical route. This strategy was explored here with an experimentally presented priming paradigm, to implicitly strengthen residual skills of lexical access with semantically/phonologically related primes (lexically based treatment). In contrast, grapheme-phoneme associations and blending were explicitly relearned during a nonlexically based treatment. Stimuli were controlled for part of speech, word length, and frequency. A cross-over design to identify item- and treatment-specific effects for both procedures was applied. Results indicate positive outcomes with respect to treatment-specific effects for both procedures, generalization to untrained items, and a transfer task after the nonlexically based procedure. All effects remained stable in the follow-up assessment. Implications for theoretically/ empirically generated expectations about treatment outcomes are discussed}, language = {en} } @article{Vicente2010, author = {Vicente, Luis}, title = {On the syntax of adversative coordination}, issn = {0167-806X}, doi = {10.1007/s11049-010-9094-0}, year = {2010}, abstract = {A series of studies have distinguished two types of but, namely, corrective and counterexpectational. The difference between these two types has been considered largely semantic/pragmatic. This article shows that the semantic difference also translates into a different syntax for each type of but. More precisely, corrective but always requires clause-level coordination, with apparent counterexamples being derived through ellipsis within the second conjunct. On the other hand, counterexpectational but is not restricted in this way, and offers the possibility of coordination of both clausal and subclausal constituents. From this difference, it is possible to derive a number of syntactic asymmetries between corrective and counterexpectational but.}, language = {en} } @article{GrabskiStede2006, author = {Grabski, Michael and Stede, Manfred}, title = {Bei : intraclausal coherence relations illustrated with a German preposition}, issn = {0163-853X}, doi = {10.1207/s15326950dp4102_5}, year = {2006}, abstract = {Coherence relations are typically taken to link two clauses or larger units and to be signaled at the text surface by conjunctions and certain adverbials. Relations, however, also can hold within clauses, indicated by prepositions like despite, due to, or in case of, when these have an internal argument denoting an eventuality. Although these prepositions act as reliable cues to indicate a specific relation, others are lexically more neutral. We investigated this situation for the German preposition bei, which turns out to be highly ambiguous. We demonstrate the range of readings in a corpus study, proposing 6 more specific prepositions as a comprehensive substitution set. All these uses of bei share a common kernel meaning, which is missed by the standard accounts that assume lexical polysemy. We examine the range of coherence relations that can be signaled by bei and provide some factors here supporting the disambiguation task in a framework of discourse interpretation}, language = {en} } @article{FerySamekLodovici2006, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Samek-Lodovici, Vieri}, title = {Focus projection and prosodic prominence in nested foci}, issn = {0097-8507}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{HeroldHoehleWalchetal.2008, author = {Herold, Birgit and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Walch, Elisabeth and Weber, Tanja and Obladen, Michael}, title = {Impaired word stress pattern discrimination in very-low-birthweight infants during the first 6 months of life}, issn = {0012-1622}, doi = {10.1111/j.1469-8749.2008.03055.x}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{DrenhausBeimGrabenSaddyetal.2006, author = {Drenhaus, Heiner and Beim Graben, Peter and Saddy, Douglas and Frisch, Stefan}, title = {Diagnosis and repair of negative polarity constructions in the light of symbolic resonance analysis}, issn = {0093-934X}, doi = {10.1016/j.bandl.2005.05.001}, year = {2006}, abstract = {in a post hoc analysis, we investigate differences in event-related potentials of two studies (Drenhaus et al., 2004, to appear; Saddy et al., 2004) by using the symbolic resonance analysis (Beim Graben \& Kurths, 2003). The studies under discussion, examined the failure to license a negative polarity item (NPI) in German: Saddy et al. (2004a) reported an N400 component when the NPI was not accurately licensed by negation; Drenhaus et al. (2004, to appear) considered additionally the influence of constituency of the licensor in NPI constructions. A biphasic N400-P600 response was found for the two induced violations (the lack of licensor and the inaccessibility of negation in a relative clause). The symbolic resonance analysis (SRA) revealed an effect in the P600 time window for the data in Saddy et al., which was not found by using the averaging technique. The SRA of the ERPs in Drenhaus et al., showed that the P600 components are distinguishable concerning the amplitude and latency. It was smaller and earlier in the condition where the licensor is inaccessible, compared to the condition without negation in the string. Our findings suggest that the failure in licensing NPIs is not exclusively related to semantic integration costs (N400). The elicited P600 components reflect differences in syntactic processing. Our results confirm and replicate the effects of the traditional voltage average analysis and show that the SRA is a useful tool to reveal and pull apart ERP differences which are not evident using the traditional voltage average analysis.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Paulmann2006, author = {Paulmann, Silke}, title = {Electrophysiological evidence on the processing of emotional prosody : insights from healthy and patient populations}, series = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, volume = {71}, journal = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, publisher = {MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences}, address = {Leipzig}, isbn = {3-936816-45-X}, pages = {iv, 281 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{EndrissHinterwimmer2007, author = {Endriss, Cornelia and Hinterwimmer, Stefan}, title = {Direct and indirect abountness topics}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {The prosodic basis of of Topicalization}, isbn = {978-90-272-3364-6}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Blaszczak2007, author = {Blaszczak, Joanna}, title = {Phase syntax : the polish genitive of negation}, pages = {x, 365 S.}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FerySkopeteas2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Skopeteas, Stavros}, title = {Contrastive Topics in Pairing Answers : a Cross-Linguistic Production Study}, isbn = {3-11-019315-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{vandeVijverHellmuthKuegleretal.2007, author = {van de Vijver, Ruben and Hellmuth, Sam and K{\"u}gler, Frank and Mayer, J{\"o}rg and Stoel, Ruben}, title = {Phonology and intonation}, isbn = {978-3-939469-66- 7}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FeryFanselowKrifka2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert and Krifka, Manfred}, title = {Introduction}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{FeryFanselowPaslawska2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Fanselow, Gisbert and Paslawska, Alla}, title = {Nominal Split Construction in Ukrainian}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {The fallacy of invariant phonological correlates of Information structural Notions}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{DeBleserSchwarzBurchert2006, author = {De Bleser, Ria and Schwarz, Wolfgang and Burchert, Frank}, title = {Quantitative neurosyntactic analyses : the final word?}, issn = {0093-934X}, doi = {10.1016/j.bandl.2005.06.010}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{BergerMuellerHoehleetal.2007, author = {Berger, Frauke and M{\"u}ller, Anja and H{\"o}hle, Barbara and Weissenborn, J{\"u}rgen}, title = {German 4-year-olds comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle "auch" (also) : evidence from eye- tracking}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fanselow2007, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert}, title = {The restricted access of Information Structure to syntax : a minority report}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Fery2007, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Information structural notions and the fallacy of invariant correlates}, isbn = {978-3-939469-88-9}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Kuegler2007, author = {K{\"u}gler, Frank}, title = {The intonational phonology of Swabian and Upper Saxon}, series = {Linguistische Arbeiten}, volume = {515}, journal = {Linguistische Arbeiten}, publisher = {Niemeyer}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-484-30515-1}, pages = {IX, 194 S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{SchmidtKassow2007, author = {Schmidt-Kassow, Maren}, title = {What? beat got to do with it? The influence of meter on syntactic processing: ERP evidence from healthy and patient populations}, series = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, volume = {89}, journal = {MPI series in human cognitive and brain sciences}, publisher = {MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences}, address = {Leipzig}, isbn = {978-3-936816-63-1}, pages = {iii, 190 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{KueglerSkopeteasVerhoeven2007, author = {K{\"u}gler, Frank and Skopeteas, Stavros and Verhoeven, Elisabeth}, title = {Encoding Information structure in Yucatec Maya: on the Interplay of Prosody and Syntax}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{HellmuthSkopeteas2007, author = {Hellmuth, Sam and Skopeteas, Stavros}, title = {Information Structure in Linguistic Theory and in Speech Production: Validation of a Cross-Linguistics Data Set}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{KibrikKhudyakovaDobrovetal.2016, author = {Kibrik, Andrej A. and Khudyakova, Mariya V. and Dobrov, Grigory B. and Linnik, Anastasia and Zalmanov, Dmitrij A.}, title = {Referential Choice}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {7}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01429}, year = {2016}, abstract = {We report a study of referential choice in discourse production, understood as the choice between various types of referential devices, such as pronouns and full noun phrases. Our goal is to predict referential choice, and to explore to what extent such prediction is possible. Our approach to referential choice includes a cognitively informed theoretical component, corpus analysis, machine learning methods and experimentation with human participants. Machine learning algorithms make use of 25 factors, including referent's properties (such as animacy and protagonism), the distance between a referential expression and its antecedent, the antecedent's syntactic role, and so on. Having found the predictions of our algorithm to coincide with the original almost 90\% of the time, we hypothesized that fully accurate prediction is not possible because, in many situations, more than one referential option is available. This hypothesis was supported by an experimental study, in which participants answered questions about either the original text in the corpus, or about a text modified in accordance with the algorithm's prediction. Proportions of correct answers to these questions, as well as participants' rating of the questions' difficulty, suggested that divergences between the algorithm's prediction and the original referential device in the corpus occur overwhelmingly in situations where the referential choice is not categorical.}, language = {en} } @book{BarthWeingarten2016, author = {Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar}, title = {Intonation Units Revisited}, series = {Studies in Language and Social Interaction ; 29}, journal = {Studies in Language and Social Interaction ; 29}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {978-90-272-6690-3}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {318}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Intonation units have been notoriously difficult to identify in natural talk. Problems include fuzzy boundaries, lack of exhaustivity, and the potential circularity involved when studying their interface with other language-organizational dimensions. This volume advocates a way to resolve such problems: the cesura approach. Cesuras, or breaks in the flow of talk, are created by discontinuities in the prosodic-phonetic parameters of speech that cluster to various extents at certain points in time. Using conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, the volume identifies the parameters creating cesuras in talk-in-interaction and proposes ways to notate them depending on the researcher s goal. It also offers a way to study the role of cesuras at the prosody-syntax interface non-circularly, which leads to new insights concerning language variation and change. The volume will thus be of major import to anyone working with natural spoken language, its chunks, its various dimensions, and its variation and change."}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Bosch2015, author = {Bosch, Sina}, title = {Morphosyntactic feature structure in the native and non-native mental lexicon}, pages = {VI, 166}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Trutkowski2016, author = {Trutkowski, Ewa}, title = {Topic Drop and Null Subjects in German}, series = {Linguistics \& Philosophy ; 6}, journal = {Linguistics \& Philosophy ; 6}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-044413-1}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {248}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This study presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic-dropped elements. Besides providing an empirical data survey, it offers explanations to well-known problems, e.g. syncretisms in the context of null-subject licensing or the marginality of dropping an element which carries oblique case. The book constitutes a valuable source for both empirically and theoretically interested (generative) linguists.}, language = {en} } @article{Paape2016, author = {Paape, Dario L. J. F.}, title = {Filling the Silence}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {7}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00027}, pages = {1 -- 18}, year = {2016}, abstract = {In a self-paced reading experiment, we investigated the processing of sluicing constructions ("sluices") whose antecedent contained a known garden-path structure in German. Results showed decreased processing times for sluices with garden-path antecedents as well as a disadvantage for antecedents with non-canonical word order downstream from the ellipsis site. A post-hoc analysis showed the garden-path advantage also to be present in the region right before the ellipsis site. While no existing account of ellipsis processing explicitly predicted the results, we argue that they are best captured by combining a local antecedent mismatch effect with memory trace reactivation through reanalysis.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Zaccarella2015, author = {Zaccarella, Emiliano}, title = {Breaking down complexity}, series = {MPI series human cognitive and brain sciences ; 175}, journal = {MPI series human cognitive and brain sciences ; 175}, publisher = {Max-Planck-Institute}, address = {Leipzig}, isbn = {978-3-941504-60-8}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {217}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The unbounded expressive capacity of human language cannot boil down to an infinite list of sentences stored in a finite brain. Our linguistic knowledge is rather grounded around a rule-based universal syntactic computation—called Merge—which takes categorized units in input (e.g. this and ship), and generates structures by binding words recursively into more complex hierarchies of any length (e.g. this ship; this ship sinks…). Here we present data from different fMRI datasets probing the cortical implementation of this fundamental process. We first pushed complexity down to a three-word level, to explore how Merge creates minimally hierarchical phrases and sentences. We then moved to the most fundamental two-word level, to directly assess the universal invariant nature of Merge, when no additive mechanisms are involved. Our most general finding is that Merge as the basic syntactic operation is primarily performed by confined area, namely BA 44 in the IFG. Activity reduces to its most ventral-anterior portion at the most fundamental level, following fine-grained sub-anatomical parcellation proposed for the region. The deep frontal operculum/anterior-dorsal insula (FOP/adINS), a phylogenetically older and less specialized region, rather appears to support word-accumulation processing in which the categorical information of the word is first accessed based on its lexical status, and then maintained on hold before further processing takes place. The present data confirm the general notion of BA 44 being activated as a function of complex structural hierarchy, but they go beyond this view by proposing that structural sensitivity in BA 44 is already appreciated at the lowest levels of complexity during which minimal phrase-structures are build up, and syntactic Merge is assessed. Further, they call for a redefinition of BA 44 from multimodal area to a macro-region with internal localizable functional profiles}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{BaerHenney2015, author = {Baer-Henney, Dinah}, title = {Learners' Little Helper}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {135}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @article{HaendlerKlieglAdani2015, author = {Haendler, Yair and Kliegl, Reinhold and Adani, Flavia}, title = {Discourse accessibility constraints in children´s processing of object relative clauses}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {860}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00860}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms. We conducted a visual-world study designed to test the off-line comprehension and on-line processing of object relatives in German-speaking 5-year-olds. Children were tested on three types of object relatives, all having a full DP head noun and differing with respect to the type of nominal phrase that appeared in the embedded subject position: another full DP, a 1st- or a 3rd-person pronoun. Grammatical skills and memory capacity were also assessed in order to see whether and how they affect children's performance. Most accurately processed were object relatives with 1st-person pronoun, independently of children's language and memory skills. Performance on object relatives with two full DPs was overall more accurate than on object relatives with 3rd-person pronoun. In the former condition, children with stronger grammatical skills accurately processed the structure and their memory abilities determined how fast they were; in the latter condition, children only processed accurately the structure if they were strong both in their grammatical skills and in their memory capacity. The results are discussed in the light of accounts that predict different pronoun effects like the ones we find, which depend on the referential properties of the pronouns. We then discuss which role language and memory abilities might have in processing object relatives with various embedded nominal phrases.}, language = {en} } @article{HaeusslerBader2015, author = {H{\"a}ussler, Jana and Bader, Markus}, title = {An interference account of the missing-VP effect}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {766}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00766}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Sentences with doubly center-embedded relative clauses in which a verb phrase (VP) is missing are sometimes perceived as grammatical, thus giving rise to an illusion of grammaticality. In this paper, we provide a new account of why missing-VP sentences, which are both complex and ungrammatical, lead to an illusion of grammaticality, the so-called missing-VP effect. We propose that the missing-VP effect in particular, and processing difficulties with multiply center-embedded clauses more generally, are best understood as resulting from interference during cue-based retrieval. When processing a sentence with double center-embedding, a retrieval error due to interference can cause the verb of an embedded clause to be erroneously attached into a higher clause. This can lead to an illusion of grammaticality in the case of missing-VP sentences and to processing complexity in the case of complete sentences with double center-embedding. Evidence for an interference account of the missing-VP effect comes from experiments that have investigated the missing-VP effect in German using a speeded grammaticality judgments procedure. We review this evidence and then present two new experiments that show that the missing-VP effect can be found in German also with less restricting procedures. One experiment was a questionnaire study which required grammaticality judgments from participants without imposing any time constraints. The second experiment used a self-paced reading procedure and did not require any judgments. Both experiments confirm the prior findings of missing-VP effects in German and also show that the missing-VP effect is subject to a primacy effect as known from the memory literature. Based on this evidence, we argue that an account of missing-VP effects in terms of interference during cue-based retrieval is superior to accounts in terms of limited memory resources or in terms of experience with embedded structures.}, language = {en} } @article{JaegerEngelmannVasishth2015, author = {J{\"a}ger, Lena Ann and Engelmann, Felix and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Retrieval interference in reflexive processing}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {617}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00617}, year = {2015}, abstract = {We conducted two eye-tracking experiments investigating the processing of the Mandarin reflexive ziji in order to tease apart structurally constrained accounts from standard cue-based accounts of memory retrieval. In both experiments, we tested whether structurally inaccessible distractors that fulfill the animacy requirement of ziji influence processing times at the reflexive. In Experiment 1, we manipulated animacy of the antecedent and a structurally inaccessible distractor intervening between the antecedent and the reflexive. In conditions where the accessible antecedent mismatched the animacy cue, we found inhibitory interference whereas in antecedent-match conditions, no effect of the distractor was observed. In Experiment 2, we tested only antecedent-match configurations and manipulated locality of the reflexive-antecedent binding (Mandarin allows non-local binding). Participants were asked to hold three distractors (animate vs. inanimate nouns) in memory while reading the target sentence. We found slower reading times when animate distractors were held in memory (inhibitory interference). Moreover, we replicated the locality effect reported in previous studies. These results are incompatible with structure-based accounts. However, the cue-based ACT-R model of Lewis and Vasishth (2005) cannot explain the observed pattern either. We therefore extend the original ACT-R model and show how this model not only explains the data presented in this article, but is also able to account for previously unexplained patterns in the literature on reflexive processing.}, language = {en} } @article{JaegerBenzRoeseretal.2015, author = {J{\"a}ger, Lena Ann and Benz, Lena and Roeser, Jens and Dillon, Brian W. and Vasishth, Shravan}, title = {Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in the processing of anaphors}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {506}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00506}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Two classes of account have been proposed to explain the memory processes subserving the processing of reflexive-antecedent dependencies. Structure-based accounts assume that the retrieval of the antecedent is guided by syntactic tree-configurational information without considering other kinds of information such as gender marking in the case of English reflexives. By contrast, unconstrained cue-based retrieval assumes that all available information is used for retrieving the antecedent. Similarity-based interference effects from structurally illicit distractors which match a non-structural retrieval cue have been interpreted as evidence favoring the unconstrained cue-based retrieval account since cue-based retrieval interference from structurally illicit distractors is incompatible with the structure-based account. However, it has been argued that the observed effects do not necessarily reflect interference occurring at the moment of retrieval but might equally well be accounted for by interference occurring already at the stage of encoding or maintaining the antecedent in memory, in which case they cannot be taken as evidence against the structure-based account. We present three experiments (self-paced reading and eye-tracking) on German reflexives and Swedish reflexive and pronominal possessives in which we pit the predictions of encoding interference and cue-based retrieval interference against each other. We could not find any indication that encoding interference affects the processing ease of the reflexive-antecedent dependency formation. Thus, there is no evidence that encoding interference might be the explanation for the interference effects observed in previous work. We therefore conclude that invoking encoding interference may not be a plausible way to reconcile interference effects with a structure-based account of reflexive processing.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Geckin2015, author = {Geckin, Vasfiye}, title = {The interpretation of logical connections by monolingual and bilingual children}, pages = {ix, 181}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @article{NicenboimVasishthGatteietal.2015, author = {Nicenboim, Bruno and Vasishth, Shravan and Gattei, Carolina and Sigman, Mariano and Kliegl, Reinhold}, title = {Working memory differences in long-distance dependency resolution}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {312}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00312}, pages = {16}, year = {2015}, abstract = {There is a wealth of evidence showing that increasing the distance between an argument and its head leads to more processing effort, namely, locality effects; these are usually associated with constraints in working memory (DLT: Gibson, 2000; activation-based model: Lewis and Vasishth, 2005). In SOV languages, however, the opposite effect has been found: antilocality (see discussion in Levy et al., 2013). Antilocality effects can be explained by the expectation-based approach as proposed by Levy (2008) or by the activation-based model of sentence processing as proposed by Lewis and Vasishth (2005). We report an eye-tracking and a self-paced reading study with sentences in Spanish together with measures of individual differences to examine the distinction between expectation- and memory-based accounts, and within memory-based accounts the further distinction between DLT and the activation-based model. The experiments show that (i) antilocality effects as predicted by the expectation account appear only for high-capacity readers; (ii) increasing dependency length by interposing material that modifies the head of the dependency (the verb) produces stronger facilitation than increasing dependency length with material that does not modify the head; this is in agreement with the activation-based model but not with the expectation account; and (iii) a possible outcome of memory load on low-capacity readers is the increase in regressive saccades (locality effects as predicted by memory-based accounts) or, surprisingly, a speedup in the self-paced reading task; the latter consistent with good-enough parsing (Ferreira et al., 2002). In sum, the study suggests that individual differences in working memory capacity play a role in dependency resolution, and that some of the aspects of dependency resolution can be best explained with the activation-based model together with a prediction component.}, language = {en} }