C04 - Conceptual and referential activation in discourse
As a basis for the current project, we propose that prominence relations are among the core features contributing to referent management - at the level of comprehension and at the level of discourse planning. We suggest that, in referent management, prominence-lending features affect two related processes: activation of a concept and activation of a referent. The overall goal of the project is to develop a discourse model that can account for some key features in discourse processing, in particular for those features that are associated with concept activation and referent activation.
Team

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger
Speaker of the CRC, Principal Investigator B04, C04 and Z
Office: Philosophikum, room 2.116 and CRC, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.09 E-mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-4884 (Philosophikum) and -89900 (CRC) Web: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Frederike Weeber
Doctoral student C04 (on parental leave)
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.05 E-mail: fweeber1(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-89902 Web: Frederike Weeber

Antonia Dietrich
Student assistant C04
Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 1.05 E-Mail: adietri7(at)uni-koeln.de Phone: (+49) 221 470-89902
Publications
To appear
- Hoek, Jet, Merel C. J. Scholman & Ted J. M. Sanders. To appear. Is there less agreement when the discourse is underspecified? Annotation of coherence relations in TED talks. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.
- Konuk, Gökben & Klaus von Heusinger. To appear. Discourse prominence in Turkish: The interaction of grammatical function and semantic role. In Irina Khomchenkova, Yulia Sinitsyna & Sergei Tatevosov (eds.), Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 15). Cambridge, MA: MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. preprint: pdf
- Riester, Arndt, Amalia Canes Nápoles & Jet Hoek. To appear. Combined discourse representations: Coherence relations and questions under discussion. Proceedings of the DiscAnn Workshop.
2021
- von Heusinger, Klaus & Umut Özge. 2021. Inferable and partitive indefinites in topic position. In Anke Holler, Katja Suckow & Israel de la Fuente (eds.), Information structuring in discourse, 112–140. Leiden: Brill.
2020
- Brocher, Andreas, Frederike Weeber, Jet Hoek & Klaus von Heusinger. 2020. Referent management in discourse: The accessibility of weak definites. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2829–2835. Toronto: Cognitive Science Society. pdf
- von Heusinger, Klaus & Roya Sadeghpoor. 2020. The specificity marker -e with indefinite noun phrases in Modern Colloquial Persian. In Kata Balogh, Anja Latrouite & Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (eds.), Nominal anchoring: Specificity, definiteness and article systems across languages, 115–147. Berlin: Language Science Press. pdf
- Hinterwimmer, Stefan, Andreas Brocher & Umesh Patil. 2020. Demonstrative Pronouns as Anti-Logophoric Pronouns: An Experimental Investigation. Dialogue & Discourse 11(2). 110–127. preprint: pdf
2019
- von Heusinger, Klaus. 2019. Indefiniteness and specificity. In Barbara Abbott & Janet Gundel (eds.), Oxford Handbook of References, 146-167. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 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
- Brocher, Andreas & Klaus von Heusinger. 2018. A Dual-Process Activation Model: Processing definiteness and information status. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 3(1): 108. 1-34. pdf
- Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Andreas Brocher. 2018. An experimental investigation of the binding options of demonstrative pronouns in German. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 3(1): 77. 1-25. pdf
2017
- Brocher, Andreas & Tim Graf. 2017. Decision-related factors in pupil old/new effects: attention, response execution, and false memory. Neuropsychologia 102. 124-134.
- Brocher, Andreas & Tim Graf. 2017. Response: Commentary: Pupil old/new effects reflect stimulus encoding and decoding in short-term memory. Frontiers in Psychology 8:539.
- Weiland-Breckle, Hanna, Sam Featherstone & Klaus von Heusinger. 2017. Conditions on systematic polysemy: An empirical investigation on the pragmatics of predicate transfer. Linguistische Berichte 252. 459-491.