![Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_1_A01_C07_C09_Z_Petra_Schumacher_SFB_1252_Universitaet_Koeln_01_a5fa46ba5d_3b0768217552d6c69ed7625c46396e89.jpg)
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
![Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_1_A01_C07_C09_Z_Petra_Schumacher_SFB_1252_Universitaet_Koeln_01_a5fa46ba5d_3b0768217552d6c69ed7625c46396e89.jpg)
![Dr. Clare Patterson](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_2_Patterson_Clare_SFB_Uni_Koeln1140_d3b892b886_04224a3b728ae0d34493ef7c083662f4.jpg)
Dr. Clare Patterson
Postdoc C07
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.05E-Mail: cpatters(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89918
![Magdalena Repp](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_test4_Repp_Magdalena_SFB_Uni_Koeln_C07_6a7bebfa82_1c0c1f925810572a927ce2b56cf81458.jpg)
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](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_4_C07_Anne_Luetzeler_SFB_1252_Universitaet_Koeln_2538a4d7f3_6bfa82e75b7b07fa9500d6cc09029579.jpg)
Anne Lützeler
Student assistant C07
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.125E-Mail: anne.luetzeler(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5391
![Clarissa Selegrad](/typo3temp/assets/images/____csm_4_C07_Clarissa_Selegrad_SFB_1252_Universitaet_Koeln_bc50237971_e44a5496dad17c30ae9dc9ca1454b9d3.jpg)
Clarissa Selegrad
Student assistant C07
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.125E-Mail: cselegr2(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-5391
Publications
To appear
- Patterson, Clare, Umesh Patil, Caterina Ventura, Maria Lialiou, Petra Schumacher & Stefan Hinterwimmer. To appear. Why register might be more important than modality for the choice of demonstrative pronouns. Linguistische Berichte.
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. In Terrence C. Stewart (ed.), Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 216–221. 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.