Laura Reimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Reimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Reimer |
| SIGNATURE | REIMER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8074-8526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The acquisition path of expressing social meaning in the morphosyntax of requests
In this article, we present a study comparing the production of German requesting forms in adults and in children from 4 to 11 years, depending on different social scenarios that varied in social distance of the addressee and in the urgency of the request. We explored the variation of the elicited utterances along the two different dimensions of sentence type (declarative, imperative, and interrogative) and whether participants used a modal verb.…
Comprehending non-canonical and indirect speech acts in German
In this paper, we compare the comprehension of the speech act meaning of non-canonical speech acts (i.e., rhetorical questions and surprise-disapproval questions) with the comprehension of indirect speech acts (i.e., indirect requests). Both speech act types are ‘mixed’ in the sense that they involve secondary and primary illocutionary forces, but our hypothesis is that they differ in their degree of how salient their primary illocutionary force …
The landscape of non-canonical ‘only’ in German
This paper is part of a series of experimental studies that try to empirically chart the landscape of non-canonical uses of the particle nur ‘only’ in German, aiming at a comprehensive picture of how those uses can affect the interpretation of utterances in different clausal environments. While previous studies have focused on modal particle uses of German ‘only’ in wh -questions and imperatives, the present paper focuses on a non-canonical use i…
Unstressed versus stressed German additive auch – what determines a speaker’s choice
The German additive particle auch associates with a constituent (the associated constituent, AC) which is related to contextually relevant discourse alternative(s). There are two versions of auch in German: a stressed and an unstressed version. Although in most of the cases, speakers have the choice of using the unstressed or stressed version, there are clear preferences for using one version over the other. It is the aim of the present paper to …
Added Alternatives in Spoken Interaction
Particles such as German auch ('also') establish an additive relation between expressions in their scope (added constituent, AC) and context alternatives against the background of shared information (common denominator). In spoken interaction, however, explicit alternatives are not necessarily present and expressions can be construed as alternatives against different variants of a common denominator. It is the aim of the present paper to investig…
Added Alternatives in Spoken Interaction
Particles such as German auch ('also') establish an additive relation between expressions in their scope (added constituent, AC) and context alternatives against the background of shared information (common denominator). In spoken interaction, however, explicit alternatives are not necessarily present and expressions can be construed as alternatives against different variants of a common denominator. It is the aim of the present paper to investig…
Added Alternatives in Spoken Interaction
Particles such as German auch ('also') establish an additive relation between expressions in their scope (added constituent, AC) and context alternatives against the background of shared information (common denominator). In spoken interaction, however, explicit alternatives are not necessarily present and expressions can be construed as alternatives against different variants of a common denominator. It is the aim of the present paper to investig…
The landscape of non-canonical ‘only’ in German
This paper is part of a series of experimental studies that try to empirically chart the landscape of non-canonical uses of the particle nur ‘only’ in German, aiming at a comprehensive picture of how those uses can affect the interpretation of utterances in different clausal environments. While previous studies have focused on modal particle uses of German ‘only’ in wh -questions and imperatives, the present paper focuses on a non-canonical use i…
Unstressed versus stressed German additive auch – what determines a speaker’s choice
The German additive particle auch associates with a constituent (the associated constituent, AC) which is related to contextually relevant discourse alternative(s). There are two versions of auch in German: a stressed and an unstressed version. Although in most of the cases, speakers have the choice of using the unstressed or stressed version, there are clear preferences for using one version over the other. It is the aim of the present paper to …
Comprehending non-canonical and indirect speech acts in German
In this paper, we compare the comprehension of the speech act meaning of non-canonical speech acts (i.e., rhetorical questions and surprise-disapproval questions) with the comprehension of indirect speech acts (i.e., indirect requests). Both speech act types are ‘mixed’ in the sense that they involve secondary and primary illocutionary forces, but our hypothesis is that they differ in their degree of how salient their primary illocutionary force …
The acquisition path of expressing social meaning in the morphosyntax of requests
In this article, we present a study comparing the production of German requesting forms in adults and in children from 4 to 11 years, depending on different social scenarios that varied in social distance of the addressee and in the urgency of the request. We explored the variation of the elicited utterances along the two different dimensions of sentence type (declarative, imperative, and interrogative) and whether participants used a modal verb.…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · German (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)