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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.

Child vs. machine language learning: Can the logical structure of human language unleash LLMs?

Sauerland, Uli, Celia Mathaei & Felix Salfner. 2025. Child vs. machine language learning: Can the logical structure of human language unleash LLMs?. ISCA/ITG Workshop on Diversity in Large Speech and Language Models.

Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension

Huff, Markus, Natalia Gagarina, Ekaterina Varkentin & Irina R. Brich. 2025. Education, not age, linked to narrative comprehension. Learning and Instruction 97, Article 102102, pp. 1-14.

PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age

Bohn, Manuel, Julia Prein, Jonas Engicht, Daniel Haun, Natalia Gagarina & Tobias Koch. 2025. PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age. Behavior Research Methods 57(3), Article 95, pp. 1-12.

Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in Preschool Children: Evidence from Intonation and Quantifier Scope

Sauerland, Uli, Ayaka Sugawara & Kazuko Yatsushiro. 2025. Higher-Order Logical Reasoning in Preschool Children: Evidence from Intonation and Quantifier Scope. Open Research Europe, Article 5:34, pp. 1-13.

Le régime de vérité des nabol. L'emploi des noms propres dans les narrations nisvaies en fonction de la classe d'âge de l'orateur (Malekula, Vanuatu)

Aznar, Jocelyn. 2025. Le régime de vérité des nabol. L'emploi des noms propres dans les narrations nisvaies en fonction de la classe d'âge de l'orateur (Malekula, Vanuatu). In Greco, Luca (eds.). La narration : du discours à la multimodalité. Études linguistiques et textuelles (collection du Crem), 74-95. Limoges: Lambert Lucas.

Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision

Solt, Stephanie, Roland Mühlenbernd & Mariya Burbelko. 2025. Social meaning and pragmatic reasoning: The case of (im)precision. Proceedings of ELM 3, 371-382.

A conceptual analysis of verbs of pushing and pulling

Benz, Anton, Torgrim Solstad, Oliver Bott, Martin Kahnberg & Andrea C. Schalley. 2025. A conceptual analysis of verbs of pushing and pulling. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 3), 43-52.

A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Andreea Nicolae, Mara Panaitescu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz & Lyn Tieu. 2025. A nonce investigation of a possible conjunctive default for disjunction. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 3), 53-64.

Coloring disjunction in child Romanian

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Mara Panaitescu, Anton Benz, Andreea Nicolae, Gabriela Bîlbîie & Lyn Tieu. 2025. Coloring disjunction in child Romanian. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 3), 65-74.

On O-Constructions in Jarawara

Adamson, Luke & Ruth Kramer. 2025. On O-Constructions in Jarawara. In Clemens, Lauren, Vera Gribanova & Gregory Scontras (eds.). Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky, pp. 1-21. Irvine, CA: University of California, Department of Language Science.

On the relation between distributivity and maximality

Haslinger, Nina, Emil Eva Rosina, Viola Schmitt & Valerie Wurm. 2025. On the relation between distributivity and maximality. Semantics & Pragmatics 18(1), pp. 1-23.

Pragmatics: two decades of theory and experiment growing together

Sauerland, Uli & Petra Schumacher. 2025. Pragmatics: two decades of theory and experiment growing together. In Meister, Nina-Kristin & Markus Steinbach (eds.), Linguistische Berichte, Sonderhefte 35. Aktuelle Entwicklungen in der linguistischen Forschung, 247-268.

Paradigm gaps: the case of Greek diminutive genitives

Alexiadou, Artemis. 2024. Paradigm gaps: the case of Greek diminutive genitives. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte (LAB 97), pp. 1-10.

Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts

Keskin, Cem, Kateryna Iefremenko, Jaklin Kornfilt & Christoph Schroeder. 2024. Hybrid Clause Combining Strategies in Turkish Language Contacts. Studia Linguistica, pp. 1-44.

Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L2

Tselekidou, Freideriki, Elizabeth Stadtmiller, Assunta Suess, Katrin Lindner & Natalia Gagarina. 2024. Cognitive skills differentially influence narrative macrostructure in bilinguals’ L1 and L2. Journal of Child Language 52(6), 1437-1447.

On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie...fie in child Romanian

Bleotu, Adina Camelia, Lyn Tieu, Gabriela Bîlbîie, Anton Benz, Mara Panaitescu, Rodica Ivan & Andreea Cristina Nicolae. 2024. On the conjunctive interpretation of the disjunction fie...fie in child Romanian. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28, 190-199.