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
Principle Investigator 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, Principle Investigator 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
Publications
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
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.