Publications

Books

• Repp, Sophie & Volker Struckmeier (2020) Syntax. Eine Einführung. (An Introduction). J.B. Metzler.
• Repp, Sophie (2009). Negation in Gapping. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Volumes

• Gutzmann, Daniel & Sophie Repp (2022): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 26. University of Cologne.
• Repp, Sophie & Tue Trinh (2022): Für | For Manfred from his Students. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.
• Repp, Sophie & Katharina Spalek (2021): The Role of Alternatives in Language. Research Topic in Frontiers in Psychology / Communication.
• Mursell, Johannes & Sophie Repp (2020/21): Contrastive, given, new - encoding varieties of topic and focus. Special Collection in Glossa.
• Repp, Sophie (2019-) Introductions to linguistics. Metzler (text book series, 6 volumes)
• Repp, Sophie & Philippa Cook (2010). Contrast as an Information-Structural Notion in Grammar. Lingua 120(6), Special Issue, Pages 1333-1457.

Articles

• Canes-Nápoles, Amalia & Sophie Repp (2026). Object realisation in spoken Guadeloupean French: Evaluating NLP models for an under-resourced variety. Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2026.
• Lau, Emily, Judith Schlenter, Johannes, Heim & Sophie Repp (2026). The interpretation of prenuclear accents in English (biased) questions.  Speech Prosody 2026.
• Ulbrich, Christiane, Jörn Krantz, Heiko  Seeliger & Sophie Repp (2026). Beyond F0: Voice-quality bundles as prominence cues in German.  Speech Prosody 2026.
• Gipper, Sonja, T. Mark Ellison, Tobias-Alexander Herrmann, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Petra B. Schumacher & Sophie Repp (2026). Why ellipsis? Interactional function predicts choice of syntactic form in conversation. Discourse and Dialogue 17(1) 54–88. https://doi.org/10.5210/dad.2026.102
• Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2025). Modal particle meets prosody: Speech act modification in declarative questions. Proceedings of Tone and Intonation 3.
• Heim, Johannes, Judith Schlenter & Sophie Repp (2025). Prosodic variation in negative and positive polarity questions in English. Proceedings of Tone and Intonation 3.
• Loos, Cornelia & Sophie Repp (2025). Beyond yes and no: Multimodal multilexical polar responses in German. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29. pp. 899-916.
• Repp, Sophie & Ljudmila Geist (2025). Negative polar questions in Russian: Question bias and question concern. In Tue Trinh, Anton Benz, Daniel Goodhue, Kazuko Yatsushiro & Manfred Krifka (eds.) Biased Questions. Experimental Results and Theoretical Modelling. Language Science Press. pp. 101-140.
• Repp, Sophie & Ljudmila Geist (2024). 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.
• 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), pp. 1–46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6451.
• Repp, Sophie (2022). Was ist das nicht nicht flatterhaft! In: Sophie Repp & Tue Trinh (Eds.) Für | For Manfred from his Students. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln. pp. 97-104.
• 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. pp. 106-109.
• Bonke, Max & Sophie Repp (2022). Complementizer deletion in embedded gapping in Spanish. The Linguistic Review 39(3), 525-555.
• Schaebbicke, Katharina, Heiko Seeliger & Sophie Repp (2021). The diverse landscape of negative polarity items: On the use of German NPIs as experimental diagnostics. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 50, 1461–148.
• Repp, Sophie & Katharina Spalek (2021). The role of alternatives in language. Frontiers in Communication. 6:682009. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.682009.
• Repp, Sophie & Heiko Seeliger (2020). Prosodic prominence in polar questions and exclamatives. Frontiers in Communication 5, Article 53, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00053
• Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2020). Competing prominence requirements in verb-first exclamatives with contrastive and given information. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2020.
• Loos, Cornelia, Markus Steinbach & Sophie Repp (2020). Affirming and rejecting assertions in German Sign Language (DGS). In: M. Franke et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24. Vol. 2. Osnabrück University & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1–19.
• Repp, Sophie (2020). The prosody of wh-exlamatives and wh-questions in German: speech act differences, information structure and sex of speaker. Language and Speech,63(2) 306 –361; https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919846147
• Repp, Sophie, A. Marlijn Meijer & Nathalie Scherf (2019). Responding to negative assertions in Germanic: On yes and no in English, Dutch and Swedish. In: M.Teresa Espinal et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 23, vol. 2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès). 267–285.
• Döring, Sophia & Sophie Repp (2019). The modal particles ja and doch and their interaction with discourse structure: Corpus and experimental evidence. In: S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (eds.), Information Structure and Semantic Processing. Berlin: De Gruyter. 17-56.
• Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2018). Biased declarative questions in Swedish and German: Negation meets modal particles (väl, and doch wohl). In Dimroth, Christine & Stefan Sudhoff (Hrsg.): The grammatical realization of polarity contrast. Theoretical, empirical and typological approaches. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 129-172. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/la.249.05see
• Meijer, A. Marlijn & Sophie Repp (2018). Modal subordination of propositional anaphora: On the role of tense and the modal particle ook in contextual counterfactuals in Dutch. In Robert Truswell, Chris Cummins, Caroline Heycock, Brian Rabern, and Hannah Rohde (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21. 881-898.
• Claus, Berry, A. Marlijn Meijer, Sophie Repp & Manfred Krifka (2017). Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system. Semantics and Pragmatics. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.10.19
• Seeliger, Heiko & Sophie Repp (2017). On the intonation of Swedish rejections and rejecting questions. In Wim A. van Dommelen and Jacques Koreman (Hrsf.) Nordic Prosody. Proceedings of the XXIIth Conference, Trondheim 2016. Peter Lang. S. 135-146.
• Repp, Sophie (2017). Structural topic marking: Evidence from the processing of grammatical and ungrammatical sentences with adverbs. Lingua 188, 53–90.
• Repp, Sophie (2016). Contrast: Dissecting an elusive information-structural notion and its role in grammar. In Caroline Féry & Shinichiro Ishihara (eds.), OUP Handbook of Information Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Meijer, A. Marlijn, Berry Claus, Sophie Repp & Manfred Krifka (2015). Particle responses to negated assertions: Preference patterns for German ja and nein. In Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium. University of Amsterdam.
• Repp, Sophie (2015). On the acoustics of wh-exclamatives and wh-interrogatives: Effects of information structure and sex of speaker. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: the University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4. Paper number 319. p. 1-5.
• Repp, Sophie & Lena Rosin (2015). The intonation of echo wh-questions. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015). ISSN 2308-457X. International Speech Communication Association. S. 938-942.
• Repp, Sophie & Heiner Drenhaus (2015). Intonation influences processing and recall of left-dislocation sentences by indicating topic vs. focus status of dislocated referent. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 324-346.
  This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of the article. The original can be found online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ [Article doi 10.1080/23273798.2014.923104].
• Repp, Sophie (2014). Englisch. In: M.Krifka, J. Blaszczak, A. Leßmöllmann, A. Meinunger, B. Stiebels, R. Tracy & H. Truckenbrodt (Hrsg.), Das mehrsprachige Klassenzimmer. (The multilingual class room). Springer. pp. 93-114.
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2013). Intervention effects: focus alternatives or indefinite alternatives? Experimental evidence. In Maria Aloni, Michael Franke & Floris Roelofsen (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium. Universität Amsterdam. pp. 131-138.
• Repp, Sophie (2013). D-Linking vs. degrees: Inflected and uninflected 'welch' in exclamatives and rhetorical questions. In Holden Härtl (ed.), Interfaces of Morphology. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 59-90.
• Repp, Sophie (2013). Common ground management: Modal particles, illocutionary negation and VERUM. In Daniel Gutzmann & Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), Beyond Expressives - Explorations in Use-conditional Meaning. Leiden, Boston: Emerald. CRISPI Series. pp. 231-274.
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2013). Disjunction in wh-questions. In: Seda Kan, Claire Moore-Cantwell, Robert Staubs (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 40. Amherst, M.A.: GLSA Publications. pp. 259-272.
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2012). 'Only' in imperatives. In: Ana Aguilar, Anna Chernilovskaya & Rick Nouwen (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 16. Volume 1. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. pp. 307-320.
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2011). Locality restrictions on sideward movement: An investigation of parasitic gaps, ATB constructions and question word coordinations. Ms.
• Repp, Sophie (2011). Relevance topics. In: Ingo Reich et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15. Universaar - Saarland University Press: Saarbrücken. pp. 483-498.
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2011). Monoclausal question word coordinations across languages. Proceedings of NELS 39. Edited by Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin and Brian Smith. pp. 373-386
• Haida, Andreas & Sophie Repp (2010). Local and global implicatures in wh-question disjunctions. In: Maria Aloni, Harald Bastiaanse, Tikitu de Jager and Katrin Schulz (eds.), Logic, Language and Meaning. 17th Amsterdam Colloquium. Revised Selected Papers Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 6042. Springer. pp. 63-73.
  This is a short version of the NELS 40 paper, see above.
• Repp, Sophie (2010). Defining 'contrast' as an information-structural notion in grammar. Lingua 120(6), 1333-1345, Special Issue on Contrast as an Information-Structural Notion in Grammar, edited by Sophie Repp & Philippa Cook.
  The original paper is available at ScienceDirect
• Repp, Sophie (2010). Review of: Renate Musan (2010). Informationsstruktur. Heidelberg: Winter. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 77(3).
• Repp, Sophie (2009). Koordination, Subordination und Ellipse. Linguistische Berichte. Special Issue Nb. 16 on coordination and subordination in German, edited by Veronika Ehrich, Christian Fortmann, Ingo Reich & Marga Reis, pp. 245-265.
• Repp, Sophie (2009). Topics and corrections. In Riester, Arndt & Torgrim Solstad (eds.): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 13, SinSpeC. Working Papers of the SFB 732. Stuttgart: University of Stuttgart, 399-414.
• Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Sophie Repp (2009). Fixed abode. What topical indefinites and wh-terms have in common. In Schardl, Anisa, Martin Walkow & Muhammad Abdurrahman (eds.): Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 38. University of Massachusetts Amherst: GLSA. Vol. 1, 259-370.
• Repp, Sophie (2008). When the negative goes missing: the role of the information structure in gapping coordinations with but. In: Anita Steube (ed.), The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures: Event Structure and Information Structure. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 359-388.
• Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Sophie Repp (2008). Different alternatives for topics and foci: Evidence from indefinites and multiple wh. In Grønn, Atle (ed.): Proceedings of SuB12. Oslo: ILOS 2008, 241-255.
• Repp, Sophie (2006). ¬(A&B). Gapping, Negation and Speech Act Operators. Research on Language and Computation. 4(4), 397-423. Special Issue on Ellipsis edited by Jennifer Spenader & Petra Hendriks.
  The original publication is available at springerlink.com.
• Repp, Sophie (2005). The discourse characteristics of gapping: When the negative takes widest scope. In: Jennifer Spenader & Petra Hendriks (eds.), Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis. Workshop Proceedings ESSLLI 2005. Edinburgh, Scotland August 2005. pp. 63-70. | Link

Other

• Repp, Sophie (2005). Interpreting Ellipsis. The Changeable Presence of Negation in Gapping. PhD Thesis. Humboldt University Berlin | Summary
• Repp, Sophie & Kathrin Sommer (2004). Verb coding in complex sentences: Evidence from eye-movements in the production of coordinations with and without ellipsis. Ms. Humboldt University Berlin.