Cosima Schneider
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Cosima Schneider has a total of 7 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Markus Janczyk
University of Bremen
3 shared publications - Michael Franke
University of Tübingen
2 shared publications - Carolin Schonard
Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
1 shared publication Gerhard Jäger
Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
1 shared publicationMarkus Janczyk
Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1 shared publicationNadine Bade
Department of Cognitive Studies, Ècole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- 1 November 2020
- Published by Elsevier in Acta Psychologica
- Vol. 211, 103159
Capacity limitations of processing presuppositions triggered by determiners
- 1 November 2020
- Published by Elsevier in Acta Psychologica
- Vol. 211, 103159
Capacity limitations of processing presuppositions triggered by determiners
- Open Access
- 4 April 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychological Research
- Vol. 85 (3) , 1348-1366
Presuppositions of determiners are immediately used to disambiguate utterance meaning: A mouse-tracking study on the German language
The present study investigated how listeners understand and process the definite and the indefinite determiner. While the definite determiner clearly conveys a uniqueness presupposition, the status of the anti-uniqueness inference associated with the indefinite determiner is less clear. In a forced choice production task, we observed that participants make use of the information about number usually associated with the two determiners to convey a message. In a subsequent mouse-tracking task, participants had to select one of two potential referents presented on screen according to an auditorily presented stimulus sentence. The data revealed that participants use the information about uniqueness or anti-uniqueness encoded in determiners to disambiguate sentence meaning as early as possible, but only when they are exclusively faced with felicitous uses of determiners.
- 4 April 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychological Research
- Vol. 85 (3) , 1348-1366
Open AccessPresuppositions of determiners are immediately used to disambiguate utterance meaning: A mouse-tracking study on the German language
The present study investigated how listeners understand and process the definite and the indefinite determiner. While the definite determiner clearly conveys a uniqueness presupposition, the status of the anti-uniqueness inference associated with the indefinite determiner is less clear. In a forced choice production task, we observed that participants make use of the information about number usually associated with the two determiners to convey a message. In a subsequent mouse-tracking task, participants had to select one of two potential referents presented on screen according to an auditorily presented stimulus sentence. The data revealed that participants use the information about uniqueness or anti-uniqueness encoded in determiners to disambiguate sentence meaning as early as possible, but only when they are exclusively faced with felicitous uses of determiners.
- Open Access
- 6 February 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Vol. 49 (2) , 247-273
Is Immediate Processing of Presupposition Triggers Automatic or Capacity-Limited? A Combination of the PRP Approach with a Self-Paced Reading Task
Informally speaking, presuppositions are meaning components which are part of the common ground for speakers in a conversation, that is, background information which is taken for granted by interlocutors. The current literature suggests an immediate processing of presuppositions, starting directly on the word triggering the presupposition. In the present paper, we focused on two presupposition triggers in German, the definite determinerthe(Germander) and the iterative particleagain(Germanwieder). Experiment 1 replicates the immediate effects which were previously observed in a self-paced reading study. Experiment 2 then investigates whether this immediate processing of presuppositions is automatic or capacity-limited by employing the psychological refractory period approach and the locus of slack-logic, which have been successfully employed for this reason in various fields of cognitive psychology. The results argue against automatic processing, but rather suggest that the immediate processing of presuppositions is capacity-limited. This potentially helps specifying the nature of the involved processes; for example, a memory search for a potential referent.
- 6 February 2020
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
- Vol. 49 (2) , 247-273
Open AccessIs Immediate Processing of Presupposition Triggers Automatic or Capacity-Limited? A Combination of the PRP Approach with a Self-Paced Reading Task
Informally speaking, presuppositions are meaning components which are part of the common ground for speakers in a conversation, that is, background information which is taken for granted by interlocutors. The current literature suggests an immediate processing of presuppositions, starting directly on the word triggering the presupposition. In the present paper, we focused on two presupposition triggers in German, the definite determinerthe(Germander) and the iterative particleagain(Germanwieder). Experiment 1 replicates the immediate effects which were previously observed in a self-paced reading study. Experiment 2 then investigates whether this immediate processing of presuppositions is automatic or capacity-limited by employing the psychological refractory period approach and the locus of slack-logic, which have been successfully employed for this reason in various fields of cognitive psychology. The results argue against automatic processing, but rather suggest that the immediate processing of presuppositions is capacity-limited. This potentially helps specifying the nature of the involved processes; for example, a memory search for a potential referent.