Dietmar Roehm

Biographic Data

ID1453948
NAMEDietmar Roehm
GIVEN NAMESDietmar
FAMILY NAMERoehm
SIGNATUREROEHM D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Salzburg
ORCID0000-0002-2370-4348
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Grammatical control of sign language production

    Open AccessJ Krebs, Eric Harbour et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Language Sciences2025

    Introduction The manuscript presents an experimental investigation into the linguistic and motor control mechanisms underlying grammatical marker production in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). It focuses on the cross-linguistically attested phonological parameter of hand articulator tension and its role as a grammatical marker for adjective intensification. Method By combining advanced methods, including motion capture and electromyography (EMG), th…

  • The interaction of syntax, non-manuals, and prosodic cues as potential topic markers in Austrian Sign Language

    Open AccessJ Krebs, Ronnie Β Wilbur et al.ARTICLESign Language & Linguistics2025References: 88

    Topic is often marked only by prosody across languages. In sign languages, prosody is expressed by features similar to those in speech: i.e., sign duration, velocity and amplitude of movement (cf. slope and range of pitch). Topicalized signs usually occur sentence-initially, are followed by a pause, and may show longer duration than nontopics. We used pausing and duration characteristics to resolve a puzzle concerning the status of OSV sentences …

  • Working memory of young school-age learners acquiring L2 English morphology

    Open AccessDietmar Roehm, Tanja AngelovskaARTICLEAmpersand2024

    The aim of this pre-/posttest design lab case study is to find possible interactions between working memory (WM) effects and the effectiveness of structured input among 10-11-year-olds with first language (L1) German children. The target feature is the simple English past tense. The WM capacity was assessed via three span tasks: listening (LST), reading (RST), and a digit span task (DST). Second language (L2) learners' WM scores for all three spa…

  • Uncovering transfer effects of dominance and proficiency in L3 English acquisition using the visual moving window paradigm and grammaticality judgments

    Open AccessTanja Angelovska, Dietmar Roehm et al.ARTICLEApplied Linguistics Review2023

    Using a novel combination of visual moving window paradigm and timed grammaticality judgment task, this study examines how third language (L3) learners (beginners and intermediate) with L2 German and different non-verb-second L1s process violated and non-violated main declarative sentences with fronted adverbials in L3 English. It examines the extent to which so far less-explored predictors (language dominance and proficiency) modulate non-facili…

  • A Selective Review of Event-Related Potential Investigations in Second and Third Language Acquisition of Syntax

    Open AccessTanja Angelovska, Dietmar RoehmARTICLELanguages2023

    The aim of this contribution is to highlight the role and relevance of neurolinguistics accounts for second and third language syntactic acquisition/processing. This chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the field of experimental psychology and the birth of the EEG methodology. We then provide a general introduction of the ERP methodology and the language-related ERP components, explaining what they show and how they are to be interp…

  • Age of sign language acquisition has lifelong effect on syntactic preferences in sign language users

    Open AccessJ Krebs, Dietmar Roehm et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Acquisition of natural language has been shown to fundamentally impact both one’s ability to use the first language and the ability to learn subsequent languages later in life. Sign languages offer a unique perspective on this issue because Deaf signers receive access to signed input at varying ages. The majority acquires sign language in (early) childhood, but some learn sign language later—a situation that is drastically different from that of …

  • Age of acquisition effects differ across linguistic domains in sign language

    Open AccessEvie Malaia, Evie A Malaia et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2020

  • Distributional properties of an agreement marker in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

    Open AccessJ Krebs, Ronnie B Wilbur et al.ARTICLELinguistics2020Cited by: 1References: 23

    This study focuses on the distribution ofagrm-bc, one of two agreement markers used in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS; Krebs, Julia, Ronnie B. Wilbur & Dietmar Roehm. 2017. Two agreement markers in ÖGS.Sign Language and Linguistics20(1). 27-54), with respect to different "verb types". Using an online questionnaire, ÖGS signers rated ÖGS sentences involving different verb types that varied in whether they show agreement with their arguments ("agreein…

  • The Impact of Transitional Movements and Non-Manual Markings on the Disambiguation of Locally Ambiguous Argument Structures in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)

    Open AccessJ Krebs, Ronnie B Wilbur et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2019Cited by: 2References: 49

    Previous studies of Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) word-order variations have demonstrated the human processing system’s tendency to interpret a sentence-initial (case-) ambiguous argument as the subject of the clause (“subject preference”). The electroencephalogram study motivating the current report revealed earlier reanalysis effects for object-subject compared to subject-object sentences, in particular, before the start of the movement of the a…

  • Small is beautiful

    Open AccessDietmar Roehm, Hubert HaiderARTICLELingua2008References: 4