Presentations
2021
Variability in information structure marking in German questions and exclamatives
Talk together with Heiko Seeliger
Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2021. Workshop 'Creativity and Variability: Prosody and Information Structure', Barcelona, June 2021
Responding to negative (biased) questions: Russian vs. German
Talk together with Ljudmila Geist
14th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-14), Universität Leipzig, June 2021
'Yes' and 'no' in responses to negative (biased) quesions: Russian vs. German
Talk together with Ljudmila Geist
Workshop at the 41. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany 'Empirical approaches to canonical and non-canonical uses of negation', Universität Freiburg, February 2021
Yes- and No-Responses to Biased Questions in Russian in Comparison to German
Talk together with Ljudmila Geist
Slavic Colloquium, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, February 2021
Responses to biased questions: German vs. Russian
Invited Talk
Workshop 'Biased Questions: Experimental Results & Theoretical Modelling', Leibniz-Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, February 2021
2020
Responses to negative questions: question bias and the meaning of 'yes’ and ‘no’
Invited talk
Workshop 'The Processing of Negation and Polarity', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 2020
The landscape of German NPIs and their licensing conditions – a quantitative exploration
Talk: Katharina Schaebbicke, Heiko Seeliger & Sophie Repp
Workshop 'The Processing of Negation and Polarity', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, October 2020
Complementizer deletion and gapping in Spanish
Talk: Max Bonke & Sophie Repp
Experimental and Corpus-Based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE) (Florence, online), July 2020
Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information
Talk together with Heiko Seeliger
Speech Prosody (Tokyo, online), May 2020
Responding to positive and negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS)
Poster together with Cornelia Loos & Markus Steinbach.
GLOW 43 (Berlin, online), April 2020
2019
YesNo. Response elements in German Sign Language (DGS).
Poster together with Cornelia Loos & Markus Steinbach.
Xprag.de Jahrestagung, ZAS Berlin, November 2019
What does it take to be an exclamative? On the role of verb position, verb type, degree readings – and length.
Invited Talk
Workshop 'SPAGAD-1 Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse: Syntactic and Semantic Modeling', ZAS Berlin, Oktober 2019
How ambiguous are response particles? The role of prosody and type of antecedent clause.
Invited Talk
Workshop 'Information Structure and Ambiguity: The Process of Integrating Sentences into Discourse', Tübingen, Oktober 2019
Affirming and rejecting negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS).
Talk: Cornelia Loos, Marlijn Meijer, Markus Steinbach and Sophie Repp
Sinn und Bedeutung, Osnabrück, September 2019
Affirming and rejecting negative assertions in German Sign Language (DGS).
Poster (Alternate Talk): Cornelia Loos, A. Marlijn Meijer, Sophie Repp, Markus Steinbach
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Hamburg, September 2019
Acoustic prominence relations in verb-initial questions and exclamatives in German.
Poster together with Heiko Seeliger
Retreat Workshop of the CRC "Prominence in Language", Bad Honnef, June 2019
Yes/No, response particles are not trivial! German and German Sign Language in the multimethodical data lab and under the theoretical microscope.
Invited Talk
Universität Amsterdam, Institute für Language, Logic and Computation, Mai 2019
Multimodal responses: A typological perspective on yes and no in German Sign Language.
Poster: Cornelia Loos, Marlijn Meijer, Markus Steinbach, Sophie Repp
LingCologne, Köln, Juni 2019
Encoding varieties of topic and focus: The role of contrast and information status.
Talk together with Johannes Mursell - Introduction for the workshop on this topic
41st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany, Bremen, March 2019
Responding to negative assertions A typological perspective on yes and no in German Sign Language.
Talk: Cornelia Loos, Marlijn Meijer, Markus Steinbach, Sophie Repp
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, February 2019
2018
Towards an annotation scheme for acceptability judgment data.
Talk. TEI2018. The 18th Annual Conference and Members Meeting of the Text Encoding
Initiative Consortium. Special Interest Group 'TEI for linguists'. Tokio, September 2018
Responding to negative assertions in Germanic: On 'yes' and 'no' in English, Dutch and Swedish.
Talk. Sophie Repp, A. Marlijn Meijer and Natalie Scherf. Sinn und Bedeutung 23. Barcelona, September 2018
A prosodic production study of the German response particles 'ja', 'nein' and 'doch'.
Poster together with A. Marlijn Meijer. Annual meeting Xprag.de, Graz, June 2018
2017
Germanic Responses to negative assertions (English, Dutch, Swedish and German): more different than you think. Poster together with Anna Marlijn Meijer, Nathalie Scherf and Berry Claus. Annual meeting Xprag.de, Cologne, September 2017
Two response systems for German 'ja' and 'nein'? Evidence from usage preference data and interpretation data. Talk together with Felix Frühauf, Berry Claus, Manfred Krifka and Anna Marlijn Meijer. 7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference, Cologne, June 2017
Yes and No are trivial? Maybe not. A cross-linguistic view on speaker variation in the interpretation of response particles. Talk. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis. German Department, Cologne, May 2017
A cross-linguistic view on speaker variation in the interpretation of response particles.Talk together with Marlijn Meijer and Berry Claus
Workshop Cross-linguistic pragmatics. ZAS Berlin. January 2017.
2016
Disambiguating prosody: On differences between questions and exclamatives. Invited talk. Graduate School Ambiguity - Production and Perception. Tübingen University. November 2016.
Modal subordination of propositions: The Dutch and German modal particles ook and auch and the subjunctive. Poster together with A. Marlijn Meijer, Sinn und Bedeutung. Edinburgh. September 2016.
Intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions.Talk together with Heiko Seeliger, Nordic Prosody XII. Trondheim. August 2016.
Response particles: The case of English (in comparison to German). Poster, Annual Meeting Priority Program XPrag.de. June 2016
Referring to propositions ‘inside’ a negated one: The role of the subjunctive and of modal particles. Poster gemeinsam mit A. Marlijn Meijer, Annual Meeting Priority Program XPrag.de. June 2016
Particle responses to negative polar questions with high vs. low negation. Poster gemeinsam mit Berry Claus, Felix Frühauf, Marlijn Meijer, Manfred Krifka Annual Meeting Priority Program XPrag.de. June 2016
On the semantics and prosody of contrast -- with production data from questions and exclamatives Invited talk, PINS - Prosody and Information Structure in Stuttgart. Workshop. March 2016.
Semantic restrictions in verb-second vs. non-verb-second wh-exclamatives. Talk, 38th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS). Workshop 'Verb second in grammar and processing: its causes and its consequences. February 2016
Rejections and rejecting questions: Declaratives with clause-initial negation in Swedish. Talk together with Heiko Seeliger, 38th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS). Workshop 'The grammatical realization of polarity. Theoretical and experimental approaches'. February 2016.
Polarity particles in response to negated antecedents: Two groups of speakers for German ja and nein. Talk together with Berry Claus, A. Marlijn Meijer, Manfred Krifka 38th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS). Workshop 'The grammatical realization of polarity. Theoretical and experimental approaches'. February 2016.
Swedish rejections and rejecting questions with fronted negation. Talk together with Heiko Seeliger, Linguistic Evidence. Universität Tübingen. February 2016.
Questions, Answers and Negation. Introductory talk, Workshop, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. January 2016.
2015
Particle responses to negated assertions: Preference patterns for German ja and nein . Vortrag gemeinsam mit Meijer, A. Marlijn, Berry Claus, Manfred Krifka, 20. Amsterdam Colloquium. Universität Amsterdam. Dezember 2015.
The intonation of echo wh-questions. Poster together with Lena Rosin, Interspeech 2015. Dresden: September 2015
Causality and the influence of different modal particles on the mental representation of discourses. Poster together with Beate Bergmann, AmLAP 21. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Malta: September 2015
On the acoustics of wh-exclamatives and wh-interrogatives: Effects of information structure and sex of speaker.Talk, 18th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS. Glasgow. August 2015
Are response particles not well understood? Yes/No, they aren’t! An experimental study on German ja and nein. Poster together with Berry Claus, Marlijn Meijer & Manfred Krifka, SemDial 2015 - goDIAL. The 19th workshop on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. Gothenburg. August 2015
Puzzling response particles: an experimental study on German ja and nein. Talk together with Berry Claus, Marlijn Meijer & Manfred Krifka, Workshop of XPrag.de: New pragmatic theories based on experimental evidence. Göttingen: June 2015.
Acoustic reflexes of information structure and sex of speaker in verb-second and verb-final wh-exclamatives and wh-interrogatives. Poster, Third International Conference of the SFB 632 Information Structure. May 2015.
Filler complexity in filler-gap dependencies: Wh-extraction vs. topicalization. Poster together with Constantin Freitag, 28th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Southern California. March 2015.
2014
Modal particles and discourse coherence: Corpus and experimental evidence. Poster together with Sophia Döhring, Linguistic Evidence. Tübingen: February 2014.
Are intervention effects induced by focus alternatives or by indefinite alternatives? Experimental evidence from German. Poster together with Andreas Haida, Linguistic Evidence. Tübingen: February 2014.
2013
Intervention effects: focus alternatives or indefinite alternatives? Experimental evidence. Talk together with Andreas Haida, Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam: December 2013.
Repairing identity mismatches in ellipsis: The case of question word coordinations Talk, Identity in Ellipsis Conference. Leiden: September 2013.
Gradient acceptability of ungrammatical structures. Invited Talk, Workshop Understanding Acceptability Judgments. Potsdam: September 2013
Filler complexity in long-distance wh-extractions in German Poster together with Constantin Freitag, AmLAP 19. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Marseilles: September 2013.
Filler complexity in wh-extractions from islands and non-islands. Poster together with Constantin Freitag, 26th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of South Carolina. March 2013.
2012
Question word coordinations and the acceptability of ungrammatical ellipsis. Poster together with Heiner Drenhaus, AmLAP 18. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. University of Trento, Riva del Garda: September 2012.
Information structure in non-assertive speech acts. Introduction and a case study. Talk together with Andreas Haida, Information structure in non-assertive speech acts. Workshop at the 34. Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). Goethe University Frankfurt (Main): March 2012.
2011
Processing effects of syntactic and prosodic topic marking in German. Invited Talk, Department of Romance Languages, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg: November 2011.
Necessity = Possibility = Necessity. Authoritative Acts on the Common Ground. Talk together with Andreas Haida, Theoretical Pragmatics TPrag 2011. ZAS Berlin: October 2011.
Imperatives, modals and quantificational inhomogeneity. Talk together with Andreas Haida, Sinn und Bedeutung 16. Utrecht University: September 2011.
Working memory effects of information structure in German left dislocation (GLD). Poster together with Heiner Drenhaus, AmLAP 17. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Paris Descartes University: September 2011.
Ellipsis in question coordinations. Empirical and theoretical perspectives. Invited talk, Ellipsis in grammar and processing. Interdisciplinary Workshop. Giessen University: September 2011.
Relevance topics. Invited Talk, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück: January 2011.
2010
Relevance topics. Talk, Sinn und Bedeutung 15. University of Saarbrücken: September 2010.
Topics(?) in the left periphery. Talk together with Stefan Hinterwimmer, 2nd International Workshop of the SFB 632 'Information Structure'. University of Potsdam: July 2010.
2009
Local and global implicatures in wh-question disjunctions. Talk together with Andreas Haida, 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. University of Amsterdam: December 2009.
Disjunction in wh-questions. Talk together with Andreas Haida, NELS 40. MIT, Cambridge: November 2009.
Topic marking pays off. Corpus and experimental evidence. Invited talk,Empirical Semantics. Workshop. University of Stuttgart: October 2009.
Locality restrictions on sideward movement. Talk together with Andreas Haida, Minimalist Approaches to Syntaxtic Locality (MASL), Conference,Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest: August 2009.
Or in questions. Talk, Satzverknüpfung und Textstruktur. Tagung zu Ehren von Ewald Lang. (Clause linking and discourse structure - Workshop in honour of Ewald Lang). ZAS, Berlin: July 2009.
On the interplay of discourse particles and illocutionary negation.Talk, Expressives and other kinds of non-truth-conditional meaning.Workshop at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS), University of Osnabrück: March 2009.
Question Word Coordinations. Talk together with Andreas Haida, ZAS Syntax Circle, Berlin: January 2009.
2008
VP focus small, VP focus large.Talk, Predicate Focus, Verum Focus, Verb Focus: Similarities and Differences, Workshop, University of Potsdam, November 2008.
Monoclausal question word coordinations across languages. Talk together with Andreas Haida, NELS 39, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA, November 2008.
Topics and corrections. Talk, Sinn & Bedeutung 13, University of Stuttgart, September 2008.
Topicality. Talk together with Cornelia Endriss & Stefan Hinterwimmer, Topicality. Workshop at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS), University of Bamberg: February 2008.
2007
Ellipsis and the right kind of contrast. Invited talk, English department, Tübingen University, December 2007.
Fixed Abode. What Topical Indefinites and Wh-terms Have in Common Poster together with Stefan Hinterwimmer, NELS 38, Ottawa, Canada: October 2007.
Different Alternatives for Topics and Foci: Evidence from Indefinites and Multiple WH. Talk together with Stefan Hinterwimmer, Sinn & Bedeutung 12, Oslo, Norway: September 2007.
The interplay of topicality and specificity in German. Talk together with Cornelia Endriss & Stefan Hinterwimmer, Funny Indefinites. Workshop on Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages, Workshop, ZAS, Berlin: Juli 2007.
Die Syntax des Gapping: Für eine Kopieranalyse. (The Syntax of Gapping: For a Copying Analysis.) Talk, Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Februar 2007.
2006
Copygap? What Copying and ATB-Movement Can(Not) Do for Gapping. Talk, Syntax Colloquium, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: June 2006.
Fokus auf NICHT. ( Fokus on NICHT. ) Talk, Institut für Linguistik, Universität Potsdam: May 2006.
Schein und Sein in der Ellipse: Zur Interpretation von Lücken. (Illusiveness in Ellipsis: Interpreting Gaps). Talk (Viva), Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: April 2006.
The role of different conjunctions in the interpretation of ellipsis.
Talk, Linguistics and English Language Seminar Series, University of Manchester, England: March 2006.
2005
¬(A&B). How to apply wide scope negation in gapping. Talk, ZAS, Berlin: November 2005.
'Only' and 'even' in contrastive coordinations. Talk, Workshop on Contrast, Information Structure and Intonation, Stockholm, Sweden: October 2005.
The discourse characteristics of gapping: When the negation takes widest scope. Talk, Workshop on Cross-modular Approaches to Ellipsis, 17th ESSLLI 2005, Edinburgh, Scottland: August 2005.
Gapping, negation, and 'but'. Talk, Workshop on the (In)determinacy of Meaning: Issues in Formal Pragmatics, 27th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Germany (DGfS) ,Cologne: February 2005 | Abstract, Slides
2003
When the negative goes missing: Interpreting the second conjunct in gapping sentences. Talk, 2nd Student Workshop of the Graduate Schools Berlin & Leipzig, Leipzig.
Verb coding in complex sentences: Evidence from eye-movements in the production of coordination with and without ellipsis Poster together with Kathrin Sommer, AMLaP, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Glasgow, Schottland.
The processing of ellipsis. Evidence from production. Talk, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Berlin.
The early coding of verbs in complex sentences: Evidence from eye-movements in the production of ellipsis, full clauses and object naming - Poster together with Kathrin Sommer, The 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, MIT, Cambridge, USA.