Sophie Repp

Biographic Data

ID790946
NAMESophie Repp
GIVEN NAMESSophie
FAMILY NAMERepp
SIGNATUREREPP S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cologne
ORCID0000-0003-1575-4553
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS28
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Individual differences in discourse management

    Open AccessDerya Çokal, Jason Bishop et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2025

    Every utterance in discourse we produce arises from the interaction of numerous cognitive functions, such as semantic memory, where we store the meanings of words, executive function and working memory as required for maintenance of a discourse goal, and social cognitive abilities, such as mind-reading capacity as required for tuning what we say to what others know or believe. In this way, a single utterance potentially integrates very different …

  • Polar response strategies across modalities

    Open AccessCornelia Loos, Marilyn Steinbach et al.ARTICLELanguage2024

    Research on spoken languages has shown that response particles may indicate the truth of a previous utterance or the polarity of the response. In responses to negative antecedents, the two functions come apart and particles become ambiguous. We present the first quantitative study on response strategies in sign languages by discussing data from a production experiment in German Sign Language ( Deutsche Gebärdensprache ; DGS). The results indicate…

  • Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish

    Max Bonke, Sophie ReppARTICLEThe Linguistic Review2022

    Gapping in embedded environments may occur in two configurations: (i) the whole coordination containing both conjuncts is embedded (= embedded gapping, EG), (ii) the second (i.e. elliptical) clause is embedded within its own conjunct (= single conjunct embedded gapping, SCEG). Languages seem to differ in their restrictions on these two structures: EG in some languages does not allow for a complementizer in the elliptical conjunct, while it does i…

  • The Role of Alternatives in Language

    Open AccessSophie Repp, Krzysztof SpałekARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2021

    In this review we provide a discussion of the concept of alternatives and its role in linguistic and psycholinguistic theorizing in the context of the contributions that have appeared in the Frontiers Research Topic The Role of Alternatives in Language . We are discussing the linguistic phenomena for which alternatives have been argued to play a paramount role: negation, counterfactual sentences, scalar implicatures and exhaustivity, focus, contr…

  • The Diverse Landscape of Negative Polarity Items

    Open AccessKatharina Schaebbicke, Heiko Seeliger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psycholinguistic…2021Cited by: 1References: 18

    The goal of this study is to provide better empirical insight into the licensing conditions of a large set of NPIs in German so that they can be used as reliable diagnostics in future research on negation-related phenomena. Experiment 1 tests the acceptability of 60 NPIs under semantic operators that are expected to license superstrong, strong, weak, and nonveridicality-licensed NPIs, respectively: antimorphic (not), anti-additive (no), downward …

  • Syntax

    Open AccessSophie Repp, Volker StruckmeierBOOKSyntax2020

    Diese Einführung (textbook) in die Syntax des Deutschen verfährt im Rahmen des Minimalismus, dem international verbreitetsten Syntaxmodell; hierarchisches Syntaxmodell; grundlegende lexikalische und funktionale Kategorien, Operationen, Verkettung und Adjunktion.

  • Syntax

    Sophie Repp, Volker StruckmeierBOOKSyntax2020

  • Prosodic Prominence in Polar Questions and Exclamatives

    Open AccessSophie Repp, Heiko SeeligerARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2020

    This study investigates prosodic prominence in string-identical verb-first exclamatives and questions in German. It presents results from three production experiments comparing polar exclamatives/ questions with different finite verbs (auxiliary, lexical verb) and/or subjects (d-pronoun, full phrase) in order to explore the prominence-lending characteristics of different lexical, syntactic and semantic factors, which in other speech acts than exc…

  • The Prosody of Wh -exclamatives and Wh -questions in German

    Open AccessSophie ReppARTICLELanguage and Speech2020Cited by: 2References: 47

    The prosody of non-assertive speech acts other than questions is rather underexplored. Very little is known about the role of information structure in non-assertive speech acts in general. The present study presents two production experiments examining the prosody of string-identical verb-second (experiment 1) and verb-final (experiment 2) wh-exclamatives and wh-questions in German in relation to their status as different speech acts, in relation…

  • The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure

    Sophia Döring, Sophie ReppCHAPTERExperiments in Focus2019

  • Puzzling response particles

    Open AccessBerry Claus, A Marlijn Meijer et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2017

    This paper addresses the use and interpretation of the German response particles ja, nein, and doch. In four experiments, we collected acceptability-judgement data for the full paradigm of standard German particles in responses to positive and negative assertions. The experiments were designed to test the empirical validity of two recent accounts of response particles, Roelofsen & Farkas (2015) and Krifka (2013), which view response particles as …

  • Structural topic marking

    Open AccessSophie ReppARTICLELingua2016References: 10

  • Defining 'contrast' as an information-structural notion in grammar

    Open AccessSophie ReppARTICLELingua2010Cited by: 25References: 13