Ulrike Domahs
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrike Domahs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrike |
| FAMILY NAME | Domahs |
| SIGNATURE | DOMAHS U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philipps University of Marburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8248-9393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The acquisition of consonant clusters and word stress by early second language learners of German
This study compared word-prosodic abilities of early second language learners (eL2) and monolingual learners of German. We examined the production of word-initial and word-final clusters and the placement of stress and analyzed potential effects of cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Monolingual German-speaking children ( n = 38) and eL2-learners of German ( n = 26; age of onset to German 24 to 41 months) aged between 53 and 60 months completed a p…
Gender conflicts in German possessives
Although German, as a grammatical gender language, requires noun–pronoun agreement in anaphora, exceptions to the rule occur, e.g., in possessive constructions when the gender-incongruent possessive pronoun sein (masculine/neuter, his/its) refers to feminine antecedents instead of congruent ihr (feminine, her). While this violation is merely grammatical for inanimate referents, it can provoke semantic mismatches for human possessors (especially g…
Modelling German Word Stress
Standard linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to stress assignment argue that the position of word stress is determined on the basis of abstract information such as syllable weight and number of syllables in the word. In the present study, we contrasted this approach with a perspective based on learning analogies according to which speakers learn to associate basic word form cues to stress position. To do so, we use a simple two-layer neura…
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language
Information structure in language acquisition. Production and comprehension of (in)definite articles by German-speaking children
The present study investigates the production and comprehension of indefinite and definite articles as markers of givenness by typically-developing German-speaking children, from the perspective of information structure theory. The study involves 93 typically-developing children aged four to seven years old with normal language-skills and 20 adults. The results of a story-narration task and a truth-value judgment task reveal that children have mo…
Default stress assignment in Russian
This paper re-examines theoretical constructs used in the analysis of Russian word stress, employing data from speakers with acquired surface dyslexia, a symptom which is characterised by impaired lexical access and preserved grapheme–phoneme correspondence rules. Russian stems have been traditionally analysed as lexically accented or unaccented, with a default rule deriving surface stress in the latter case. In the study reported here, we found …
Structural Factors Affecting the Assignment of Word Stress in German
This paper aims to shed light on regularities underlying German stress assignment. The results of a pseudoword production task suggest that rhyme complexity of the final syllable is a strong predictor of main stress position in German. We also found that antepenult rhyme complexity and orthographic rhyme structure have significant effect on stress assignment. In general, the effects seem to be probabilistic rather than categorical. Our results su…
Event-related Potentials Reflecting the Processing of Phonological Constraint Violations
How are violations of phonological constraints processed in word comprehension? The present article reports the results of an event-related potentials (ERP) study on a phonological constraint of German that disallows identical segments within a syllable or word (CC i VC i ). We examined three types of monosyllabic CCVC words: (a) existing words ( p k), (b) wellformed novel words ( p f), and (c) illformed novel words ( p p) as instances of Obligat…
The processing of German word stress
The present paper explores whether the metrical foot is necessary for the description of prosodic systems. To this end, we present empirical findings on the perception of German word stress using event-related brain potentials as the dependent measure. A manipulation of the main stress position within three-syllable words revealed differential brain responses, which (a) correlated with the reorganisation of syllables into feet in stress violation…
Experimental evidence for optimal and minimal metrical structure of German word prosody
Experimental evidence for minimal structure
Event-related Potentials Reflecting the Processing of Phonological Constraint Violations
How are violations of phonological constraints processed in word comprehension? The present article reports the results of an event-related potentials (ERP) study on a phonological constraint of German that disallows identical segments within a syllable or word (CC i VC i ). We examined three types of monosyllabic CCVC words: (a) existing words ( p k), (b) wellformed novel words ( p f), and (c) illformed novel words ( p p) as instances of Obligat…
The processing of German word stress
The present paper explores whether the metrical foot is necessary for the description of prosodic systems. To this end, we present empirical findings on the perception of German word stress using event-related brain potentials as the dependent measure. A manipulation of the main stress position within three-syllable words revealed differential brain responses, which (a) correlated with the reorganisation of syllables into feet in stress violation…
Experimental evidence for optimal and minimal metrical structure of German word prosody
Experimental evidence for minimal structure
Event-related Potentials Reflecting the Processing of Phonological Constraint Violations
How are violations of phonological constraints processed in word comprehension? The present article reports the results of an event-related potentials (ERP) study on a phonological constraint of German that disallows identical segments within a syllable or word (CC i VC i ). We examined three types of monosyllabic CCVC words: (a) existing words ( p k), (b) wellformed novel words ( p f), and (c) illformed novel words ( p p) as instances of Obligat…
Structural Factors Affecting the Assignment of Word Stress in German
This paper aims to shed light on regularities underlying German stress assignment. The results of a pseudoword production task suggest that rhyme complexity of the final syllable is a strong predictor of main stress position in German. We also found that antepenult rhyme complexity and orthographic rhyme structure have significant effect on stress assignment. In general, the effects seem to be probabilistic rather than categorical. Our results su…
Default stress assignment in Russian
This paper re-examines theoretical constructs used in the analysis of Russian word stress, employing data from speakers with acquired surface dyslexia, a symptom which is characterised by impaired lexical access and preserved grapheme–phoneme correspondence rules. Russian stems have been traditionally analysed as lexically accented or unaccented, with a default rule deriving surface stress in the latter case. In the study reported here, we found …
Information structure in language acquisition. Production and comprehension of (in)definite articles by German-speaking children
The present study investigates the production and comprehension of indefinite and definite articles as markers of givenness by typically-developing German-speaking children, from the perspective of information structure theory. The study involves 93 typically-developing children aged four to seven years old with normal language-skills and 20 adults. The results of a story-narration task and a truth-value judgment task reveal that children have mo…
Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language
Modelling German Word Stress
Standard linguistic and psycholinguistic approaches to stress assignment argue that the position of word stress is determined on the basis of abstract information such as syllable weight and number of syllables in the word. In the present study, we contrasted this approach with a perspective based on learning analogies according to which speakers learn to associate basic word form cues to stress position. To do so, we use a simple two-layer neura…
The acquisition of consonant clusters and word stress by early second language learners of German
This study compared word-prosodic abilities of early second language learners (eL2) and monolingual learners of German. We examined the production of word-initial and word-final clusters and the placement of stress and analyzed potential effects of cross-linguistic influence (CLI). Monolingual German-speaking children ( n = 38) and eL2-learners of German ( n = 26; age of onset to German 24 to 41 months) aged between 53 and 60 months completed a p…
Gender conflicts in German possessives
Although German, as a grammatical gender language, requires noun–pronoun agreement in anaphora, exceptions to the rule occur, e.g., in possessive constructions when the gender-incongruent possessive pronoun sein (masculine/neuter, his/its) refers to feminine antecedents instead of congruent ihr (feminine, her). While this violation is merely grammatical for inanimate referents, it can provoke semantic mismatches for human possessors (especially g…
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · German (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Speech recognition (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works)