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Dr. Mathias Barthel

Professorale Vertretung für Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen / Empirische Sprachwissenschaft

Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur I
Sprachwissenschaft

Philosophikum, Raum: 2.120
E-Mail: mathias.barthel(at)uni-koeln.de

Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Speech Production
  • Language Processing in Dialogue
  • Semiotics of Turn-Timing
  • Interactional Linguistics
  • Conversation Anlaysis
  • Language and (Non-)Cooperativity
  • Language Comprehension
  • Cognitive Effort in Language Processing
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Physiological Markers of Language Processing 

Publikationen

  • Barthel, M. (2025). Alexa, you are too slow! Invariant turn-transition times and conversational flow in natural human – voice agent interaction. Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers, 135-145. SemDial. (PDF)
  • Rühlemann, C. & Barthel, M. (2025). Speech planning depends on next-speaker selection: evidence from eye-tracking in question-answer sequences in naturalistic triadic conversation. Discourse Processes, 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2025.2544109 (PDF)
  • Blohm, S. & Barthel, M. (2025). Why so cold and distant? Effects of inter-turn gap durations on observers' attributions of interpersonal stance. Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - Full Papers. SemDial. (PDF)
  • Barthel, M. & Rühlemann, C. (2025). Pupil size indicates planning effort at turn transitions in natural conversation. Chapter 7 In: Zima, E. & Stukenbrock, A. (Eds). New Perspectives on Gaze in Social Interaction: Mobile Eye Tracking Studies. John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.351.07bar (PDF)
  • Rühlemann, C. & Barthel, M. (2024). Word frequency and cognitive effort in turns-at-talk: turn structure affects processing load in natural conversation. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1208029. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1208029 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., Tomasello, R., & Liu, M. (2024). Conditionals in context: Brain signatures of prediction in discourse processing. Cognition, 242, 105635. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105635 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., Helmer, H., & Reineke, S. (2023). First users’ interactions with voice-controlled virtual assistants: A micro-longitudinal corpus study. Proceedings of the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. SemDial. (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., Tomasello, R., & Liu, M. (2022). Online comprehension of conditionals in context: A self-paced reading study on wenn (‘if’) versus nur wenn (‘only if’) in German. Linguistics Vanguard. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0083 (PDF)
  • Liu, M., & Barthel, M. (2021). Semantics Processing of Conditional Connectives: German wenn ‘if’ Versus nur wenn ‘only if.’ Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50(6), 1337–1368. DOI: 10.1007/s10936-021-09812-0 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M. (2021). Speech planning interferes with language comprehension: Evidence from semantic illusions in question-response sequences. In Proceedings of the 25th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue – Full Papers. SemDial, Potsdam, Germany. (PDF)
  • Barthel, M. (2020). Speech planning in dialogue: Psycholinguistic studies of the timing of turn taking.MPI Series in Psycholinguistics, 150. Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen. (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., & Levinson, S. C. (2020). Next speakers plan word forms in overlap with the incoming turn: Evidence from gaze-contingent switch task performance. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 35(9), 1183-1202 . DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2020.1716030 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., & Sauppe, S. (2019). Speech planning at turn transitions in dialog is associated with increased processing load. Cognitive Science, 43(7), e12768. DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12768 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., Meyer, A.S., & Levinson, S.C. (2017). Next speakers plan their turn early and speak after turn-final `go-signals’. Frontiers in Psychology, 8: 393. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00393 (PDF)
  • Barthel, M., Sauppe, S, Levinson, S.C., & Meyer, A.S. (2016). The timing of utterance planning in task-oriented dialogue: Evidence from a novel list-completion paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 1858. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01858 (PDF) 

Biographisches

  • 2025 - 2026: substitute professor at University of Cologne (DFG CRC 1252: Prominence in Language)
  • 2023 - 2026: PI of research project InterTurn (DFG funded)
  • 2022 - ongoing: Research Staff, Pragmatics Department, Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany
  • 2021 - 2022: Academic Staff, Language Faculty, English Department (Linguistics), Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2020: PhD, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  • 2019 - 2021: Post-Doc Researcher, Language Faculty, English Department (Linguistics), XPRAG.de Project SPOCC (DFG funded); Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • 2012 - 2019: PreDoc Researcher, Language and Cognition Department, ERC Project INTERACT (Stephen Levinson), Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2012: Magister Artium in Linguistics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany 

Forschungsprojekte

Processing and Interpretation of Turn-Timing in Conversation (InterTurn)
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/497498146?contrast=0&findButton=historyCall&index=91820&language=en&nurProjekteMitAB=false&teilprojekte=false

Mitgliedschaften

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaften (DGfS)