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Publications

On this page, you can find the publications by ZAS employees. Furthermore, you will find our own publications such as annual reports and the ZASPiL (ZAS Papers in Linguistics).

⇒ For our annual reports and ZASPiL please select the field 'ZAS Series' in the filter.

Dynamic formant trajectories in German read speech: Impact of predictability and prominence

Brandt, Erika, Bernd Möbius & Bistra Andreeva. 2021. Dynamic formant trajectories in German read speech: Impact of predictability and prominence. Frontiers in Communication.

Compound Figures. A Multi-Channel View of Communication and Psychological Plausibility

Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela. 2021. Compound Figures. A Multi-Channel View of Communication and Psychological Plausibility. Topoi.

Birds and places: What the lexicon reveals about multilingualism

Döhler, Christian. 2021. Birds and places: What the lexicon reveals about multilingualism. In Dobrushina, Nina, Brigitte Pakendorf & Olesya Khanina (eds.), International Journal of Bilingualism 25(4). Special Issue: Typology of Small-Scale Multilingualism, 1142-1157.

Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition in the Spanish of Gran Canaria

Bros, Karolina, Marzena Żygis, Adam Sikorski & Jan Wollejko. 2021. Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition in the Spanish of Gran Canaria. Phonology 38, 1-40.

Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) - Ein Verfahren zur Erfassung der Erzählkompetenz von Kindern

Gagarina, Natalia. 2021. Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) - Ein Verfahren zur Erfassung der Erzählkompetenz von Kindern. Logos : die Fachzeitschrift für Logopädie und Sprachtherapie 29(2), 96-105.

Individuating matter over time

Krifka, Manfred. 2021. Individuating matter over time. In Filip, Hana (ed.). Countability in Natural Language, 121-144. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Counting possible configurations

Krifka, Manfred. 2021. Counting possible configurations. In Löbner, Sebastian, Thomas Gamerschlag, Tobias Kalenscher, Markus Schrenk & Henk Zeevat (eds.). Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. Language, Cognition, and Mind 7, 43-63. Cham: Springer.

Grading similarity

Umbach, Carla & Helmar Gust. 2021. Grading similarity. In Löbner, Sebastian, Thomas Gamerschlag, Tobias Kalenscher, Markus Schrenk & Henk Zeevat (eds.). Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology. Language, Cognition, and Mind 7, 365-386. Cham: Springer.

Rethinking the nature of Nominative Case

Alexidaou, Artemis & Elena Anagnostopoulou. 2021. Rethinking the nature of Nominative Case. Syntactic architecture and its consequences III: inside syntax, 69-93.

Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures

Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Susanne Fuchs, Christoph Draxler, Eva Liina Asu, Dan Dediu, ..., Manfred Krifka, et al.. 2021. Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures. Scientific Reports.

A cross-linguistic study of individual differences in speech planning

Swets, Benjamin, Susanne Fuchs, Jelena Krivokapic & Caterina Petrone. 2021. A cross-linguistic study of individual differences in speech planning. Frontiers in Psychology.

Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?

Tomlinson, John Michael Jr. & Camilo R. Ronderos. 2021. Does intonation automatically strengthen scalar implicatures?. Semantics and Pragmatics 14, Article 4: 1-30.

Grammatical gender reversals: A morphosyntactic and sociopragmatic analysis

Steriopolo, Olga. 2021. Grammatical gender reversals: A morphosyntactic and sociopragmatic analysis. Open Linguistics 6.

Phonetics and phonology of Idi

Shokkin, Dineke, Volker Gast, Nicholas Evans & Christian Döhler. 2021. Phonetics and phonology of Idi. Language Documentation & Conservation - Special Issue #24: Phonology in Southern New Guinea, 76-107.

From the origins of Government and Binding to the current state of Minimalism.

Alexiadou, Artemis & Terje Lohndal. 2021. From the origins of Government and Binding to the current state of Minimalism.. In Allott, Nicholas, Terje Lohndal & Georges Rey. Blackwell Companion to Chomsky, 23-51. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.

Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws

Stave, Matthew, Ludger Paschen, François Pellegrino & Frank Seifart. 2021. Optimization of morpheme length: a cross-linguistic assessment of Zipf’s and Menzerath’s laws. In Levshina, Natalia & Steven Moran (eds.), Linguistics Vanguard 7(s3). Efficiency in human languages: corpus evidence for universal principles, Article 20190076.

The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from face-threatening potential

Mazzarella, Diana & Nicole Gotzner. 2021. The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from face-threatening potential. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1), Art. 47, pp. 1-17.

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test reveals a monitoring advantage but not a switching advantage in multilingual children

Czapka, Sophia & Julia Festman. 2021. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test reveals a monitoring advantage but not a switching advantage in multilingual children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences

van Tiel, Bob & Elizabeth Pankratz. 2021. Adjectival polarity and the processing of scalar inferences. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1), Art. 32, pp. 1-21.

Verum accent IS VERUM, but not always focus

Bill, Cory & Todor Koev. 2021. Verum accent IS VERUM, but not always focus. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1), 188-202.