Tobias Ungerer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3431646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Ungerer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Ungerer |
| SIGNATURE | UNGERER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6879-7584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bringing the Reading Sciences Into the Classroom: Insights for Phonics Instruction
Teaching phonics—that is, systematic mappings between letters and sounds—plays a foundational role in how children learn to read in alphabetical writing systems. Although the reading sciences yield important insights into the factors underlying effective phonics instruction, these findings have not been sufficiently linked to key decisions that teachers must make in the classroom—for instance, which spelling-sound regularities to teach, in what o…
Vertical and horizontal links in constructional networks: Two sides of the same coin
Recent models of constructional networks combine vertical links between schemas and their subtypes with horizontal links between constructions at the same level of abstraction. It remains unclear, however, whether vertical and horizontal analyses express distinct information about the network, or whether one can be reformulated in terms of the other. In this paper, it is argued that vertical and horizontal links do not encode distinct cognitive m…
Contrastivo es el nuevo negro: Un estudio translingüístico de un “snowclone” en inglés, alemán y español
La investigación construccionista reciente ha experimentado un creciente interés en el contacto lingüístico y el cambio inducido por el contacto. En este artículo presentamos un análisis contrastivo basado en corpus del “snowclone” [X BE the new Y] y sus equivalentes en alemán y español. Nuestros resultados muestran que la construcción es más frecuente en inglés, pero productiva en los tres idiomas. Las técnicas de análisis colostruccional revela…
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns
The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and in studies of extravagance and expressiveness in language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established, and detailed corpus-based investigations of the phenomenon are still lacking. This paper addresses this research gap in a twofold way. On the one hand, we develop an operational definition of snowclones, arguing th…
Constructionist Approaches: Past, Present, Future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the…
Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This "element" gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of "constructions", while at t…
Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other
Cognitive-linguistic theories commonly model speakers’ grammatical knowledge as a network of constructions related by a variety of associative links. The present study proposes that structural priming can provide psycholinguistic evidence of such links, and crucially, that the method can be extended to non-alternating constructions (i.e., constructions that differ in both form and meaning). In a comprehension priming experiment using the “maze” v…
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns
The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and in studies of extravagance and expressiveness in language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established, and detailed corpus-based investigations of the phenomenon are still lacking. This paper addresses this research gap in a twofold way. On the one hand, we develop an operational definition of snowclones, arguing th…
Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This "element" gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of "constructions", while at t…
Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other
Cognitive-linguistic theories commonly model speakers’ grammatical knowledge as a network of constructions related by a variety of associative links. The present study proposes that structural priming can provide psycholinguistic evidence of such links, and crucially, that the method can be extended to non-alternating constructions (i.e., constructions that differ in both form and meaning). In a comprehension priming experiment using the “maze” v…
Constructionist Approaches: Past, Present, Future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the…
Using structural priming to test links between constructions: English caused-motion and resultative sentences inhibit each other
Cognitive-linguistic theories commonly model speakers’ grammatical knowledge as a network of constructions related by a variety of associative links. The present study proposes that structural priming can provide psycholinguistic evidence of such links, and crucially, that the method can be extended to non-alternating constructions (i.e., constructions that differ in both form and meaning). In a comprehension priming experiment using the “maze” v…
Attack of the snowclones: A corpus-based analysis of extravagant formulaic patterns
The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and in studies of extravagance and expressiveness in language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established, and detailed corpus-based investigations of the phenomenon are still lacking. This paper addresses this research gap in a twofold way. On the one hand, we develop an operational definition of snowclones, arguing th…
Constructionist Approaches: Past, Present, Future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the…
Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This "element" gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of "constructions", while at t…
Vertical and horizontal links in constructional networks: Two sides of the same coin
Recent models of constructional networks combine vertical links between schemas and their subtypes with horizontal links between constructions at the same level of abstraction. It remains unclear, however, whether vertical and horizontal analyses express distinct information about the network, or whether one can be reformulated in terms of the other. In this paper, it is argued that vertical and horizontal links do not encode distinct cognitive m…
Contrastivo es el nuevo negro: Un estudio translingüístico de un “snowclone” en inglés, alemán y español
La investigación construccionista reciente ha experimentado un creciente interés en el contacto lingüístico y el cambio inducido por el contacto. En este artículo presentamos un análisis contrastivo basado en corpus del “snowclone” [X BE the new Y] y sus equivalentes en alemán y español. Nuestros resultados muestran que la construcción es más frecuente en inglés, pero productiva en los tres idiomas. Las técnicas de análisis colostruccional revela…
Bringing the Reading Sciences Into the Classroom: Insights for Phonics Instruction
Teaching phonics—that is, systematic mappings between letters and sounds—plays a foundational role in how children learn to read in alphabetical writing systems. Although the reading sciences yield important insights into the factors underlying effective phonics instruction, these findings have not been sufficiently linked to key decisions that teachers must make in the classroom—for instance, which spelling-sound regularities to teach, in what o…
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Abstraction (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Construction Grammar (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (2 works) · Realisation (2 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (2 works)