C09 - Prominence and predictive modelling
This project develops and explores a Bayesian computational account of prominence that is based on the forward-modelling account of language cognition. The account will relate the cognitive prominence of discourse items with the prominence of their form of expression, and explore the question of whether such prominence phenomena are functionally motivated as mechanisms of communicative efficiency. Precise quantifications of the account will be tested in collaboration with other projects within the CRC.
Team
Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
Project Leader A03, B05, C09 and INF
Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7E-Mail: sprachwissenschaft(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-2323
Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher
Speaker of the CRC, Project Leader A01, C07, C09 and Z
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.124 and SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, raum 1.09E-Mail: petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-2696 (Philosophikum) and -89900 (SFB)
T. Mark Ellison
Postdoc C09
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.03E-Mail: t.m.ellison(at)uni-koeln.dePhone: (+49) 221 470-89912
Hauke Lindstädt
Student Assistant C09
Office: E-Mail: hlindst1(at)uni-koeln.dePhone:
Publications
To appear
- Grice, Martine, Michelina Savino, Petra B. Schumacher, Christine T. Röhr & T. Mark Ellison. To appear. Rises on Pitch Accents and Edge Tones Affect Serial Recall Performance at Item and Domain levels. Laboratory Phonology. pdf
2024
- Ellison, T. Mark & Fahime Same. 2024. Experimental versus in-corpus variation in referring expression choice. In Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti & Nianwen Xue (eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 6838–6848. Torino, Italia: ELRA & ICCL.
- Reinöhl, Uta & Mark Ellison. 2024. Metaphor forces argument overtness. Linguistics.
2023
- Kaland, Constantijn & T. Mark Ellison. 2023. Evaluating cluster analysis on f0 contours: An information theoretic approach on three languages. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3448–3452. Guarant International. pdf
- Patterson, Clare & Petra B Schumacher. 2023. How focus and position affect the interpretation of demonstrative pronouns [Registered Report]. Collabra: Psychology 9(1). 75350.
2022
- Ellison, T. Mark & Fahime Same. 2022. Constructing Distributions of Variation in Referring Expression Type from Corpora for Model Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2989–2997. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. pdf
- 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
- Röhr, Christine T., Michelina Savino & Martine Grice. 2022. The effect of intonational rises on serial recall in German. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022, 759–763. Lisbon, Portugal.
2021
- Kaland, Constantijn, Naomi Peck, T. Mark Ellison & Uta Reinöhl. 2021. An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), 132–136. Sønderborg, Denmark. pdf
- Winter, Bodo & Martine Grice. 2021. Independence and generalizability in linguistics. Linguistics 59(5). 1251–1277.