Isabell Wartenburger

Biographic Data

ID1453864
NAMEIsabell Wartenburger
GIVEN NAMESIsabell
FAMILY NAMEWartenburger
SIGNATUREWARTENBURGER I
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Potsdam
ORCID0000-0001-5116-4441
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Auditory-perceptual acuity impacts prosodic boundary prediction in a gating task

    Open AccessAndrea Hofmann, A W von Hofmann et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2026

    Processing of prosodic phrasing requires listeners to integrate acoustic cues that unfold incrementally during speech comprehension, yet substantial individual differences exist in how listeners use unfolding prosodic information. This study investigated whether individual differences in auditory-perceptual discrimination abilities for prosodic boundary cues are related to processing of prosodic phrasing, and, more specifically, the ability to us…

  • Prosodic cue use for identifying interrogative and declarative structures with wide and narrow focus in individuals with and without aphasia

    Open AccessKathleen Schneider, Outi Tuomainen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    Introduction Prosody plays a critical role in linguistic processing at both sentential and information-structural levels, while prosodic impairments in individuals with aphasia can lead to difficulties in sentence comprehension and everyday communication. Despite its importance, prosodic processing in aphasia and its relationship to inter-individual variability within this highly heterogeneous population remain underexplored. This study examined …

  • Variability, Its Limits, and the Performance–Competence Debate

    Open AccessMalte Zimmermann, Isabell Wartenburger et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Linguistics2025References: 14

    This article provides an overview of variability in natural language by looking at the limits of intraindividual, interindividual, and cross-linguistic variability at all levels of grammar. We review evidence for the hypothesis that variability forms an integral part of natural language and often provides valuable insights into speakers’ linguistic competence. We discuss in turn ( a ) different subtypes of variability; ( b ) the difference betwee…

  • Individual Differences in Early Disambiguation of Prosodic Grouping

    Open AccessMarie Hansen, Clara Huttenlauch et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2023References: 48

    Prosodic cues help to disambiguate incoming information in spoken language perception. In structurally ambiguous coordinate utterances, such as three-name sequences, the intended grouping is marked by three prosodic cues: F0-range, final lengthening, and pause. To indicate that the first two names are grouped together, speakers typically weaken the durational and tonal cues on the first name whereas they are strengthened on the second name, compa…

  • Infants’ Processing of Prosodic Cues

    Open AccessJulia Holzgrefe-Lang, Caroline Wellmann et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2018References: 42

    Infants as young as six months are sensitive to prosodic phrase boundaries marked by three acoustic cues: pitch change, final lengthening, and pause. Behavioral studies suggest that a language-specific weighting of these cues develops during the first year of life; recent work on German revealed that eight-month-olds, unlike six-month-olds, are capable of perceiving a prosodic boundary on the basis of pitch change and final lengthening only. The …

  • On the interplay of object animacy and verb type during sentence comprehension in German

    Open AccessAnna Czypionka, Krzysztof Spałek et al.ARTICLELinguistics2017References: 38

    Comprehension of transitive sentences relies on different kinds of information, like word order, case marking, and animacy contrasts between arguments. When no formal cues like case marking or number congruency are available, a contrast in animacy helps the parser to decide which argument is the grammatical subject and which the object. Processing costs are enhanced when neither formal cues nor animacy contrasts are available in a transitive sent…

  • Prosodic boundary cues in German

    Open AccessCaterina Petrone, Hubert Truckenbrodt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2017Cited by: 9References: 43

  • Development of attentional control of verbal auditory perception from middle to late childhood

    Susanne Passow, Maike Müller et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2013References: 3

    Multitalker situations confront listeners with a plethora of competing auditory inputs, and hence require selective attention to relevant information, especially when the perceptual saliency of distracting inputs is high. This study augmented the classical forced-attention dichotic listening paradigm by adding an interaural intensity manipulation to investigate developmental differences in the interplay between perceptual saliency and attentional…

  • Show your hands — Are you really clever? Reasoning, gesture production, and intelligence

    Open AccessUta Sassenberg, Manja Foth et al.ARTICLELinguistics2011References: 1

    This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively