Research

Research projects (third-party funding)

Research project financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the German Sciende Foundation (DFG)
QuBisM - Questions, Bias, Multimodality: Negotiating Meaning in Interaction.
Cooperation with Johannes Heim, Aberdeen, and Rebecca Woods, Newcastle
2025-2027

Research project financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
(De)-linking prosodic and discourse prominence: The case of non-assertive speech acts
CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language"
Principal investigator: Sophie Repp
Researcher: Dr- Heiko Seeliger
January 2021 - December 2024

Research project financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Affirmative and rejecting responses to assertions and polar questions 2
DFG Priority Program "XPrag: New Pragmatic Theories"
Principal investigator: Sophie Repp
Researchers: Dr. des. Marlijn Meijer (until 2019); PD Dr. Ljudmila Geist and Dr. Cornelia Loos (2020-2022)
January 2018 - March 2022

Research project financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Prosodic prominence in non-assertive speech acts
CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language"
Principal investigator: Sophie Repp
Researcher: Dr. Heiko Seeliger
November 2018 - December 2020

Research project financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Affirmative and rejecting responses to assertions and polar questions
DFG Priority Program "XPrag: New Pragmatic Theories"
Principal investigators: Manfred Krifka& Sophie Repp
Researchers: Dr. Berry Claus; Marlijn Meijer, M.A.
September 2014 - December 2017

Research project financed by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Information structure in non-assertive speech acts
Project A2 of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 632 Informations structure
Principal investigators: Manfred Krifka & Sophie Repp
Researchers: Dr. Andreas Haida; Tue Trinh, PhD (2011-2013); Imke Driemel M.A., (2013-2015)
July 2011 - June 2015

 

Research interests

Theoretical Linguistics. I conduct research in semantics, pragmatics, phonetics and phonology, syntax and their interfaces for the following phenomena.

• non-assertive speech acts: biased and unbiased questions, exclamatives
• negation (propositional, non-propositional)
• ellipsis, coordination
• left periphery including verb-second phenomena
• common ground management, discourse particles, VERUM (focus)
• information structure (contrast, topic)
• prominence

Quantitative data methods. I use the following empirical methods.

• acceptability judgement experiments
• free and forced-choice production experiments
• audio and video recording experiments for multi-modal communication
• picture verification task experiments
• reaction time studies
• corpus analyses

Psycholinguistic interests

• Repair
• Memory
• Prominence