Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp
Professor of German Linguistics
Institute for German Language and Literature I
Albertus Magnus Platz
D-50923 Cologne
Office: Philosophikum, Room 2.119
Tel: +49 221 470-5235
Fax: +49 221 470- 5107
E-Mail: sophie.repp[xxx]uni-koeln.de
Office assistant: Lisa Barz, M.A.
Mail: lbarz1[xxx]uni-koeln.de
Tel.: +49 221 470-5226
Office: Philosophikum, Room 2.221
Main research topics
- Semantics & pragmatics: non-assertive speech acts, ellipsis, negation, information structure, particles
- Syntax: ellipsis, negation
- Prosody:non-assertive speech acts, information structure, prominence
- Quantitative data (experimental, corpus)
Recent Publications
- Geist, Ljudmila & Sophie Repp (In Press). Responding to negative biased questions in Russian. Proceedings Formal Description of Slavic Languages 14.
- Repp, Sophie & Ljudmila Geist (To Appear). Negative polar questions in Russian: Question bias and question concern. In A. Benz, M. Krifka, T. Trinh & K. Yatsuhiro (Eds.) Perspectives on Biased Questions. Language Science Press.
- Repp, Sophie, Lara Muhtz & Johannes Heim (2023). Alignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German. Interspeech 2023.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2023). Contrast and givenness in biased declarative questions. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1543–1547). Guarant International.
- Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2023). Reject?! On the prosody of non-acceptance. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1355–1359). Guarant International.
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2023). Contrast, givenness, and (the lack of) accent shift and deaccentuation in non-assertive speech acts. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 14(1), 1–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6451
- Gutzmann, Daniel & Sophie Repp, editors (2022). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. University of Cologne.
- Repp, Sophie & Tue Trinh, editors (2022): Für | For Manfred from his Students. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.
- Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Sophie Repp (2022). Referentiality in German left dislocation. In: Gianollo, Chiara, Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann (Eds.) Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln. S. 106-109.
- Bonke, Max & Sophie Repp (2022). Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish. The Linguistic Review 39(3), 525-555.