C07 - Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora
This project investigates the fine-grained nature of prominence relations between referential expressions. It examines the interpretive preferences and the forward potential of different anaphoric expressions – with a particular focus on demonstratives – in contexts with more than two antecedents, using behavioural methods. It also assesses the temporal dynamics of the underlying processes by means of event-related potentials. It asks how backward and forward referential functions are influenced by potential prominence-lending cues from different linguistic levels (sentence, discourse and prosody).
Team
Dr. Clare Patterson
Postdoc representative, Postdoc C07
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.05E-Mail: cpatters(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89918
Magdalena Repp
Doctoral student C07
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.05E-Mail: mrepp1(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89918
Anne Lützeler
Student assistant C07
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.125E-Mail: anne.luetzeler(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5391
Clarissa Selegrad
Student assistant C07
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.125E-Mail: cselegr2(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5391
Publications
2024
- Lützeler, Anne & Robert Voigt. 2024. Effects of evaluation and prominence on the resolution of German demonstratives. In Iva Kovač, Paul Meisenbichler, Atefeh Shahbazi, Hadis Tamleh & Maximilian Wiesner (eds.), Proceedings of ConSOLE 31, 52–68. Leiden: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
- Schumacher, Petra B., Clare Patterson & Magdalena Repp. 2024. Famous protagonists interfere with discourse topicality during pronoun resolution. Glossa Psycholinguistics 3(1): 9. 1-30.
2023
- Patil, Umesh, Stefan Hinterwimmer & Petra B. Schumacher. 2023. Effect of evaluative expressions on two types of demonstrative pronouns in German. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 8(1). 1–29.
- Patterson, Clare & Petra B Schumacher. 2023. How focus and position affect the interpretation of demonstrative pronouns [Registered Report]. Collabra: Psychology 9(1). 75350.
- Repp, Magdalena, Petra B. Schumacher & Fahime Same. 2023. Multi-layered annotation of conversation-like narratives in German. In Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII), 61–72. Toronto: Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Repp, Magdalena & Petra B. Schumacher. 2023. What naturalistic stimuli tell us about pronoun resolution in real-time processing. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6. 1058554.
2022
- Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Umesh Patil. 2022. The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1).
- Patil, Umesh & Petra B. Schumacher. 2022. Modeling prominence constraints for German pronouns as weighted retrieval cues. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. preprint: pdf
- Patterson, Clare, Petra B. Schumacher, Bruno Nicenboim, Johannes Hagen & Andrew Kehler. 2022. A Bayesian Approach to German Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 672927.
- Schumacher, Petra B., Clare Patterson & Magdalena Repp. 2022. Die diskursstrukturierende Funktion von Demonstrativpronomen. In Chiara Gianollo, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann (eds.), Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 216–220. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.
- Tomaszewicz-Özakın, Barbara & Petra B. Schumacher. 2022. Anaphoric Pronouns and the Computation of Prominence Profiles. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
2021
- Brilmayer, Ingmar & Petra B. Schumacher. 2021. Referential Chains Reveal Predictive Processes and Form-to-Function Mapping: An EEG Study Using Naturalistic Story Stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 623648.
- Patterson, Clare & Claudia Felser. 2021. Cleft focus and antecedent accessibility: The emergence of the anti-focus effect. In Anke Holler, Katja Suckow & Israel de la Fuente (eds.), Information structuring in discourse, 56–85. Leiden: Brill.
- Patterson, Clare & Petra B. Schumacher. 2021. Interpretation Preferences in Contexts with three Antecedents: Examining the Role of Prominence in German Pronouns. Applied Psycholinguistics 1–35.
2020
- Fuchs, Melanie & Petra B. Schumacher. 2020. Referential shift potential of demonstrative pronouns - Evidence from text continuation. In Åshild Næss, Anna Margetts & Yvonne Treis (eds.), Demonstratives in Discourse, 185–213. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Patterson, Clare & Petra B. Schumacher. 2020. The timing of prominence information during the resolution of German personal and demonstrative pronouns. Dialogue & Discourse 11(1). 1-39.
2019
- von Heusinger, Klaus & Petra B. Schumacher. 2019. Discourse prominence: Definition and application. Journal of Pragmatics 154. 117-127.
- Schumacher, Petra B. & Klaus von Heusinger (eds.). 2019. Special Issue: Prominence in Discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 154.
2018
- Schumacher, Petra B. 2018. Experimentelle Pragmatik. In Frank Liedtke & Astrid Tuchen (eds.), Handbuch Pragmatik, 113–121. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
- Schumacher, Petra B. 2018. On type composition and agentivity. Theoretical Linguistics 44(1–2). 81–91. pdf
2017
- Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Petra B. Schumacher (eds.). 2017. Special Collection: Perspective Taking. Glossa 2. 1.
- Schumacher, Petra. B. 2017. Semantic-pragmatic processing. In Eva M. Fernández & Helen Smith Cairns. (eds.) The Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 392-410. Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Schumacher, Petra B., Leah Roberts & Juhani Järvikivi. 2017. Agentivity drives real-time pronoun resolution: Evidence from German "er" and "der". Lingua 185. 25-41.