[HTML][HTML] Surprisal from language models can predict ERPs in processing predicate-argument structures only if enriched by an Agent Preference principle

E Huber, S Sauppe, A Isasi-Isasmendi… - Neurobiology of …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Language models based on artificial neural networks increasingly capture key
aspects of how humans process sentences. Most notably, model-based surprisals predict …

Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic

S Dolscheid, J Schlenter, M Penke - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans
process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable …

[HTML][HTML] What eye and hand movements tell us about expectations towards argument order: An eye-and mouse-tracking study in German

J Schlenter, M Westergaard - Acta Psychologica, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous research on real-time sentence processing in German has shown that listeners use
the morphological marking of accusative case on a sentence-initial noun phrase to not only …

[HTML][HTML] (How) Visual properties affect the perception and description of transitive events

J Schlenter, M Penke, J Schlenter… - Glossa …, 2022 - escholarship.org
In a non-verbal aesthetic judgement task and a pre-registered production task, we tested
how the orientation of the patient relative to the agent in a visual scene affects the perception …

Ambiguity in case marking does not affect the description of transitive events in German: evidence from sentence production and eye-tracking

J Schlenter, Y Esaulova, S Dolscheid… - Language, cognition …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The current study examined how German speakers described a scene where an agent acts
upon a patient when the patient of the event was cued (a red dot preceding the patient …

Language and social cognition

A Maass, C Cervone, I Ozdemir - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of …, 2022 - oxfordre.com
Language and social cognition are closely intertwined, as originally predicted by Whorf. On
the one side, social cognition is affected by structural differences between languages in …

Word order flexibility: a typometric study

S Kahane, Z Peng, K Gerdes - Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023, 2023 - hal.parisnanterre.fr
This paper introduces a typometric measure of flexibility, which quantifies the variability of
head-dependent word order on the whole set of treebanks of a language or on specific …

[HTML][HTML] КЛИШЕ КАК ГЕШТАЛЬТ-СТРУКТУРЫ

МВ Решетняк - Russian Linguistic Bulletin, 2023 - cyberleninka.ru
Предметом исследования данной статья являются прецедентные феномены или
клишированные фразы делового языка в международных документах, таких как устав …

[HTML][HTML] Clichés as Gestalt Structures

MV Reshetnyak - Russian Linguistic Bulletin, 2023 - rulb.org
The subject of this research is precedent phenomena or clichéd business language phrases
in international documents, such as the United Nations Charter, the UNESCO Charter and …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of agent position and orientation on perception and production

J Schlenter, Y Esaulova, B Zeyer, M Penke - ExLing 2021, 2021 - exlingsociety.com
In a series of aesthetic judgement tasks, we found that speakers of German display a spatial
agency bias if, and only if, a scene shows an agent performing an action in the direction of a …