Martina Penke
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3077088 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Martina Penke |
| PRENOMES | Martina |
| SOBRENOME | Penke |
| ASSINATURA | PENKE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4686-7673 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The interplay of prominence-lending factors and language production in children
Several factors influence how adult speakers produce an utterance and which element they choose to start with. For example, German-speaking adults are more likely to begin an utterance with an element if it is (a) in their focus of attention, (b) animate rather than inanimate, and (c) on the left side of a picture rather than the right. However, while such prominence-lending factors affect adult language production, little is known about their ef…
Effects of event participant preview and patient animacy in sentence production
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Attention vs. accessibility
Introduction There is evidence of close links between the allocation of attention and the production of language. For instance, while speakers commonly produce active sentences when they describe an event with an agent acting on a patient, this preference can shift once the patient is in the spotlight of attention (e.g., by means of a brief attentional cue preceding the patient). In this case, speakers are more prone to produce non-canonical sent…
Mental State Verb Production as a Measure of Perspective Taking in Narrations of Individuals With Down Syndrome
Introduction: Perspective taking is an important ability to enrich narrations by empathizing with a real or fictional character. Mental state verbs (MSV) are a good indicator for this ability as they serve to reflect the mindset that the narrator attributes to a protagonist. Especially syntactic abilities have been argued to be relevant for MSV use. Investigating persons with Down Syndrome (DS) is likely to provide important insights into the rel…
The Alignment of Agent-First Preferences with Visual Event Representations
How does non-linguistic, visual experience affect language production? A series of experiments addressed this question by examining linguistic and visual preferences for agent positions in transitive action scenarios. In Experiment 1, 30 native German speakers described event scenes where agents were positioned either to the right or to the left of patients. Produced utterances had longer speech onset times for scenes with right- rather than left…
Verbal short-term memory and sentence comprehension in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome
In individuals with Down syndrome (DS) deficits in verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and deficits in sentence comprehension co-occur, suggesting that deficits in VSTM might be causal for the deficits in sentence comprehension. The present study aims to explore the presumed relationship between VSTM and sentence comprehension in individuals with DS by specifically targeting the influence of task demands. The authors assessed VSTM skills in 18 German…
The role of phonology in visual word recognition
The goal of this paper is to investigate the role phonology plays for visual word recognition and the change this role undergoes in the course of reading acquisition by providing data on German readers at different stages of reading proficiency. Erroneous responses in a semantic decision task, which employs words that are either homophonous or graphemically similar to a word of a previously introduced semantic field, were compared at different st…
Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition
In his article, Meisel targets one of the central questions in the research on second language (L2) acquisition: why is it that the acquisition of a second language differs from first language (L1) acquisition when this second language acquisition takes place after a certain critical age? Meisel sets out to answer this question by referring to maturational changes in the developing brain that affect both, UG and the processing mechanisms necessar…
Flexion im mentalen Lexikon
The issue of how inflection morphology is to be adequately dealt with in theoretical terms and how inflected words are to be represented has triggered almost unparalleled controversy both in theoretical linguistics and in psycho/neurolinguistics and the cognitive sciences in general. The aim of this study is to integrate morphological theories and psycho- and neurolinguistic findings to form an overall picture of the mental and neuronal represent…
What counts as evidence in linguistics
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Word Order in Sentence Processing
Word Order in Sentence Processing
What counts as evidence in linguistics
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Flexion im mentalen Lexikon
The issue of how inflection morphology is to be adequately dealt with in theoretical terms and how inflected words are to be represented has triggered almost unparalleled controversy both in theoretical linguistics and in psycho/neurolinguistics and the cognitive sciences in general. The aim of this study is to integrate morphological theories and psycho- and neurolinguistic findings to form an overall picture of the mental and neuronal represent…
The role of phonology in visual word recognition
The goal of this paper is to investigate the role phonology plays for visual word recognition and the change this role undergoes in the course of reading acquisition by providing data on German readers at different stages of reading proficiency. Erroneous responses in a semantic decision task, which employs words that are either homophonous or graphemically similar to a word of a previously introduced semantic field, were compared at different st…
Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition
In his article, Meisel targets one of the central questions in the research on second language (L2) acquisition: why is it that the acquisition of a second language differs from first language (L1) acquisition when this second language acquisition takes place after a certain critical age? Meisel sets out to answer this question by referring to maturational changes in the developing brain that affect both, UG and the processing mechanisms necessar…
Verbal short-term memory and sentence comprehension in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome
In individuals with Down syndrome (DS) deficits in verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and deficits in sentence comprehension co-occur, suggesting that deficits in VSTM might be causal for the deficits in sentence comprehension. The present study aims to explore the presumed relationship between VSTM and sentence comprehension in individuals with DS by specifically targeting the influence of task demands. The authors assessed VSTM skills in 18 German…
Mental State Verb Production as a Measure of Perspective Taking in Narrations of Individuals With Down Syndrome
Introduction: Perspective taking is an important ability to enrich narrations by empathizing with a real or fictional character. Mental state verbs (MSV) are a good indicator for this ability as they serve to reflect the mindset that the narrator attributes to a protagonist. Especially syntactic abilities have been argued to be relevant for MSV use. Investigating persons with Down Syndrome (DS) is likely to provide important insights into the rel…
The Alignment of Agent-First Preferences with Visual Event Representations
How does non-linguistic, visual experience affect language production? A series of experiments addressed this question by examining linguistic and visual preferences for agent positions in transitive action scenarios. In Experiment 1, 30 native German speakers described event scenes where agents were positioned either to the right or to the left of patients. Produced utterances had longer speech onset times for scenes with right- rather than left…
Attention vs. accessibility
Introduction There is evidence of close links between the allocation of attention and the production of language. For instance, while speakers commonly produce active sentences when they describe an event with an agent acting on a patient, this preference can shift once the patient is in the spotlight of attention (e.g., by means of a brief attentional cue preceding the patient). In this case, speakers are more prone to produce non-canonical sent…
Effects of event participant preview and patient animacy in sentence production
Open Access via the T&F Agreement
The interplay of prominence-lending factors and language production in children
Several factors influence how adult speakers produce an utterance and which element they choose to start with. For example, German-speaking adults are more likely to begin an utterance with an element if it is (a) in their focus of attention, (b) animate rather than inanimate, and (c) on the left side of a picture rather than the right. However, while such prominence-lending factors affect adult language production, little is known about their ef…
Linguistics (9 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Sentence (6 obras) · Cognition (5 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · German (5 obras) · Natural language processing (5 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 obras) · Language Development and Disorders (4 obras)