Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp
Professor of German Linguistics
Chair of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)
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 domain is: uni-koeln.de
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
- Co-speech gesture: Audiovisual prosodie (prominence), speech acts
- Quantitative data (experimental, corpus)
Recent Publications
- Repp, Sophie & Ljudmila Geist (in press). 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.
- Loos, Cornelia, Markus Steinbach & Sophie Repp (2024). Polar response strategies across modalities: Evidence from German Sign Language (DGS). Language 100(3), 433-467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2024.a937185
- Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2024). Givenness perception in German declaratives and exclamatives. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, 672-676. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-136
- Geist, Ljudmila & Sophie Repp (2023). Responding to negative biased questions in Russian. In: Petr Biskup, Marcel Börner, Olav Mueller-Reichau, Iuliia Shcherbina (Eds.) Advances in Formal Slavic Linguistics 2021. Language Science Press. 145–177. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10123641
- Repp, Sophie, Lara Muhtz & Johannes Heim (2023). Alignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2023, 107-111, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2116.
- 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.