Publications

Schimke, S. & Pappert, S. (2024). Priming of possessive constructions in German: A matter of preference effects? Languages, 9, 170. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050170.

Gerwien, J., Filip, M., & Smolík, F. (2023). Noun imageability and the processing of sensory-based information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(ja). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231216304

Stutterheim, C. v. & Gerwien, J. (2023). Die Bedeutung sprachspezifischer Ereignisschemata für die Argumentstruktur. Ein Vergleich zwischen dem Ausdruck von Bewegungsereignissen im Deutschen und im Französischen. In: Hartmann, J. & Wöllstein, A. (Eds). Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich | Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research. Theorie und Empirie | Theoretical and Empirical Issues (Studien zur deutschen Sprache 84). Narr Francke Attempto.

Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. & Rummel, J. (2022). What is the interference in "verbal interference"?. Acta Psychologica (230). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103774

Tao, L. & Gerwien, J. (2022). Eine empirische Untersuchung zu semantischen Interferenz-Effekten bei der Produktion von chinesischen Relativsätzen. In: Zhang, Y & Szurawitzki (ed.): Sprache, Technik und Kultur. Akten des internationalen Studierenden-Symposiums am Beijing Institute of Technology, June 2021. Germanistische Linguistik Volume 3. Königshausen & Neumann.

Lambert, M., Stutterheim, C. v., Carroll, M. & Gerwien, J. & (2022). Under the surface: A survey on principles of language use in advanced L2 speakers. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 13. https://doi.org/10.1075/lia.21014.lam

• Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks

Gerwien, J. & Stutterheim, C. v. (2022). Describing motion events. In: Jucker, A.H. & Hausendorf, H. (ed.) Handbook of Pragmatics (HOPS) 14: The Pragmatics of Space. De Gruyter Mouton, p.152-180. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693713-006

Gerwien, J. & von Stutterheim, Christiane (2022) Conceptual blending across ontological domains - References to Time and Space in motion events by Tunisian Arabic speakers of L2 German. Frontiers in Communication: Language Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.856805

• Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks
• Language and Cognition in Early Stages of Dementia

Fan, J. & Gerwien, J. (2021). Gibt es die DO/PO-Alternation im Mandarin Chinesischen?. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition 2 (2). https://doi.org/10.11588/huplc.2021.2.84636

• Ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese

Herweg, M. (2021). Dynamic Event Types in Frame Semantics: The Representation of Change in FAMEu. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition 2 (1).

• A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions

von Stutterheim, C. (2021). Coding semantic categories cross-linguistically - a challenge for typological research. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition 2 (1).

Mesch, B. & Pappert, S. (2021). Nominalkomposita und komplexe Nominalphrasen im Leseerwerb. Zeitschrift für Sprachlich-Literarisches Lernen und Deutschdidaktik, 1.

von Stutterheim, C., Lambert, M., & Gerwien, J. (2021). Limitations on the role of frequency in L2 acquisition. Language and Cognition, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2021.5

• Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks

Herweg, M. (2020) Motion verb constructions, frames, and profiling. Questions and Answers in Linguistics 6(1):1-30.

• A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions

Stutterheim, C. v., Gerwien, J., Bouhaous, A., Carroll, M., Lambert, M. (2020). What makes up a reportable event in a language? Motion events as an important test domain in linguistic typology. Linguisics (published online ahead of print 2020), 000010151520200212. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0212

• Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks

Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2020). Referential coherence: Children’s understanding of pronoun anaphora. Insights from mono- and bilingual language acquisition. In: Gagarina, N. & Musan, R. (Eds.) Referential and Relational Discourse Coherence in Adults and Children (SOLA53). De Gruyter. (pp.105-138). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501510151-006

Pappert, S. & Bock, B. M. (2020). Easy-to-read German put to test: Do adults with intellectual disability or functional illiteracy benefit from compound segmentation? Reading and Writing, 33, 1105-1131. [Read only:  https://rdcu.be/b3QOh]

Gerwien, J. (2019). The interpretation and prediction of event participants in Mandarin verb-final active and passive sentences. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-019-00049-x

• Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences

Loureda, Ó., Recio Fernández, I., Nadal, L. & Cruz, A. (Hgg.) (2019). Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Pragmatics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Nadal, L. & Recio Fernández, I. (2019). Processing implicit and explicit causality in Spanish. In Ó. Loureda, I. Recio Fernández, L. Nadal & A. Cruz (Hgg.), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Pragmatics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gerwien, J. & Rudka, M. (2019). Expectation changes over time: how long it takes to process focus imposed by German sogar. In Ó. Loureda, I. Recio Fernández, L. Nadal & A. Cruz (Hgg.), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Pragmatics and Beyond (S. 229-251). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Cruz, A. & Ó., Loureda (2019). Processing patterns of focusing in Spanish. In Ó. Loureda, I. Recio Fernández, L. Nadal & A. Cruz (Hgg.), Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse, Pragmatics and Beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2018). Event segmentation: Cross-linguistic differences in verbal and non-verbal tasks. Cognition 180, 225-237.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.07.008

• Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks

Parodi, G., Julio, C. & Recio, I. (2018). When words and graphs move the eyes: the processing of multimodal causal relations, Journal of Eye Movement Research, 11.1.

Loureda, Ó., Nadal, L. & Recio Fernández, I. (2018). Die Konnektoren des Spanischen: eine experimentelle Annäherung. In Eichinger, L. M. & Volodina, A.: Deutsche Sprache. Zeitschrift für Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation. 46, 1/18 (82-96). Berlin: Erich Schmidt.

Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2018). Die Interpretation anaphorischer Pronomina bei Kindern im L1- und frühen L2-Erwerb. In: Schimke, Sarah & Hopp, Holger (Hrsg.). Sprachverarbeitung in der Zweitsprache. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

• Referential coherence in first and second language learners

Recio, I., Nadal, L. & Loureda, Ó. (in press). On argumentative relations in Spanish: experimental evidence on the grammaticalization of cause-consequence discourse markers. In: Bordería Pons, S. & Loureda Ó. (ed.), Discourse Markers in Grammaticalization and Constructionalization: new Issues in the Study of Language Change, Leiden: Brill.

Nadal, L., Recio Fernández, I., Rudka, M. & Loureda, Ó. (2017). Processing additivity in Spanish: incluso vs. además. In A. De Cesare & C. Andorno (ed.), Focus on Additivity. Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages (137-154). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Gerwien, J. & Herweg, M. (2017). Aspectual Class (Under-)Specification in the Generation of Motion Event Representations – A Project Outline. Heidelberg University Papers on Language and Cognition (1). article

• A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions

Loureda, Ó., Nadal, L., & Recio, I. (2016). Partículas discursivas y cognición. 'Sin embargo’ y la conexión contraargumentativa. In Sainz González, M.E.; Solís García, I.; del Barrio de la Rosa, F. und Arroyo Hernández, I., Geométrica explosión. Estudios de lengua y literatura en homenaje a René Lenarduzzi, Biblioteca di Rassegna iberistica, 1, 175-186.

Loureda, Ó., & Nadal, L. (2016). Diskurspartikeln und Übersetzung. In E. Felder & L. Lieb (eds.), Texte seit 1386 (363-372). Heidelberg: Winter Verlag.

Nadal, L., Cruz, A., Recio, I. & Loureda, Ó., (2016). El significado procedimental y las partículas discursivas del español: una aproximación experimental. In: Revista Signos. Estudios de Lingüística, 49, 52-77.

Loureda, Ó., Nadal, L., & Recio Fernández, I. (2016). Partículas discursivas y cognición: por tanto y la conexión argumentativa. In:  Romanistisches Jahrbuch, Vol 67, 1, de Gruyter Mouton, 240-254.

Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (2016). First things first? Top-down influences on event apprehension. In:Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.) (2016). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. abstract and article.

• Top-down influences on event apprehension

Loureda, Ó., Cruz, A., Rudka, M., Nadal, L., Recio, I., & Borreguero, M. (2015). Focus Particles in Information Processing: An Experimental Study on Pragmatic Scales with Spanish incluso. In: De Cesare, A.M. & Andorno, C., Linguistik online 71, 2/15 Focus particles in the Romance and Germanic languages. Experimental and corpus-based approaches, 129-151.

Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (2015). There is no prime for time: The missing link between form and concept of progressive aspect in L2 production. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Vol. 18, Iss. 5.

Loureda, Ó., Cruz, A., & Forschungsgruppe DPKog (2014). En los márgenes del léxico: las partículas focales del español (incluso, también) y el análisis experimental. In: L. Luque Toro & R. Luque (eds.), Léxico Español Actual, Vol. IV, 85-104. Venedig: Cafoscarina.

Loureda, Ó., Cruz, A., Recio, I., & Villalba, C. (2014). El adverbio de foco incluso en posición pre- y postfocal: un análisis experimental de los costes de procesamiento de estructuras informativas con foco marcado. In: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística, 44, 95-129.

Flecken, M., Gerwien, J., Carroll, M. & v. Stutterheim, C. (2014). Analyzing gaze allocation during language production: a cross-linguistic study on dynamic events. Language and Cognition, 2014, 1-29.

Klages, H. & Gerwien, J. (2014). Verstehen anaphorischer Personalpronomina im DaZ- und DaM-Erwerb. In: Pagonis, G. & Klages, H. (Eds.), Linguistisch fundierte Sprachförderung und Sprachdidaktik - Grundlagen, Konzepte, Desiderate. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

• Referential coherence in first and second language learners

Loureda, Ó., Cruz, A., & Forschungsgruppe DPKog (2013). Aproximación experimental sobre los costes de procesamiento de las partículas focales del español también e incluso. In: Cuadernos AISPI. Estudios de lenguas y literaturas ibéricas e iberoamericanas, 2 - Nuevas tendencias en la lingüística del discurso, 75-98.

Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (2013). Grammatical aspect modulates event duration estimations: findings from Dutch. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society pp. 2309‐2314. Austin, TX:Cognitive Science Society. abstract and article.

• Event duration estimations are modulated by grammatical aspect

Loureda, Ó., & Nadal, L. (2011). Dime dónde miras, y te diré qué comprendes: experimentos sobre la comprensión de las partículas discursivas. In: Español Actual, 96, 131-157.

Gerwien, J. (2011). A psycholinguistic approach to AT-structure analysis. In: Sprachliche Variationen, Varietäten und Kontexte. Festschrift für Rainer Dietrich, Katharina Spalek, Juliane Domke (ed), Stauffenburg Festschriften.

Gerwien, J., Wang, Y., & Wu, F. (2019). Predictive processing is affected by linguistic complexity of cue-preceding input. Poster presented at the 32nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/JERP4

Martha Rudka & Adriana Cruz (2018) "An empirical approach to focussing with eyetracking: Spanish 'incluso' and German 'sogar'" - presentation at the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium Olinco, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Associated Projects:

    Research area "Focus Operators"

Bernales, Carolina and Iria Bello (2017). ¿Ayuda el significado procedimental de la partícula "even" al procesamiento de escalas pragmáticas en la lectura de inglés como lengua extranjera?: Un estudio experimental mediante. Paper delivered at XXII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Chilena de Lingüística,Universidad Católica del Maule (Chile), November 22-24, 2017.

Laura Nadal (2017) 'Un estudio experimental sobre la contraargumentacion en español marcada por el conector sin embargo' - presentation at the 5th conference Discourse Markers in Romance Languages, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium.

Associated Projects:

    Research area "Connectives"

Inés Recio (2017) 'Processing multimodal causal relations in Spanish' - presentation at the 5th conference Discourse Markers in Romance Languages, Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium.

Associated Projects:

    Discourse, Cognition and Linguistic Markers: Empirical Studies on Text Processing with Eye Tracking Technology

Adriana Cruz (2017) 'Patrones de procesamiento de foco: un análisis experimental' - presentation at the congress ¿Sin orden ni concierto? La estructura informativa en alemán, español y catalán, Valencia, Spain.

Associated Projects:

•     Research area: Focus Operators

Óscar Loureda (2017) 'El operador focal incluso en español: un estudio experimental' - presentation at the congress ¿Sin orden ni concierto? La estructura informativa en alemán, español y catalán, Valencia, Spain.

Associated Projects:

•     Discourse Particles and Cognition

Laura Nadal (2017) 'Una aproximación experimental a los imaginarios sobre la pobreza en Colombia' - presentation at the VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Semiótica, Bogotá, Colombia.

Associated Projects:

• The construction of multimodal discourse of poverty in the Colombian digital media

Inés Recio (2017) 'Partículas discursivas y cognición: el acercamiento experimental al análisis de los conectores argumentativos' - presentation at the VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Semiótica, Bogotá, Colombia.

Associated Projects:

• The construction of multimodal discourse of poverty in the Colombian digital media

Héctor Álvarez (2017) 'Marcos conceptuales y emociones en el discurso multimodal sobre la pobreza ' - presentation at the VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Semiótica, Bogotá, Colombia.

Associated Projects:

• The construction of multimodal discourse of poverty in the Colombian digital media

Oleksandra Gubina & Johannes Gerwien (2017). Gender representation and processing in Russian-German bilinguals, poster presentation at the 23rd AMLaP conference, Lancaster, UK.

• Gender processing and representation in the mental lexicon of bilinguals

Ines Marberg & Johannes Gerwien (2017) 'On the road to ... somewhere?' - Change blindness in event description tasks is informative about the interrelation between visual perception and language planning, poster presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK.

• VIPICOL - Visual Information Processing In the Context Of Language

Muqing Li, Johannes Gerwien and Monique Flecken. (oral presentation). First things first: Cross-linguistic analyses of event apprehension. Linguistic Diversity Meets The Brain: Future directions in the language sciences.Workshop at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich on 15th–17th May 2017.

• Top-down influences on event apprehension

Herweg, M. (2017). Dynamic Event Types and Profiling in Motion Frames. Towards a frame-semantic account of the diversity of motion expressions. (extended version of a) presentation at the HULC Open Lab Day, May 11th, 2017. PDF

• A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions

Ran Wang & Gerwien, J. (poster presentation). Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-April 1, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts. abstract and poster

• Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences

Gerwien, J. & Kexin Xi (poster presentation). Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese – insights from the bǎ-construction. 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 29-April 1, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts. abstract and poster

• Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese - insights from the bǎ-construction

Adrianan Cruz (2016) 'Processing of expected/unexpected focus in pragmatic scales in Spanish: experimental notes about the Spanish focus particle incluso' - presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Struturing, Valencia, Spain.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Inés Recio & Laura Nadal (2016) 'Processing causality in Spanish: the case of por tanto and por eso' - presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Approaches to Text Struturing, Valencia, Spain.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Connectives"

v. Stutterheim, C., Bouhous, A, & Gerwien, J. (poster presentation). The impact of aspectual categories on the construal of motion events: The case of Tunisian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. EXAL+ NYU, Abu Dhabi 2016. poster

Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. (oral presentation). Grammatical constraints on event packaging and potential effects on the segmentation of the perceptual stream: Motion events in language and cognition under a cross linguistic perspective. Pre-CUNY workshop: Events in Language and Cognition - 2016, Gainesville, Florida, March 2nd, 2016.

Kurucz, I. & Gerwien, J. (poster presentation). 'Save the date' - Eye movements during calendar date processing reflect pre-articulatory self-monitoring. 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 3-5, 2016, Gainesville, Florida. poster

Gerwien, J. & Rudka, M. (poster presentation). Using the visual world paradigm to study the online processing of the German scalar focus particle “sogar”. 3rd AttLis workshop, 10–11 March 2016, Potsdam, Germany. poster

Laura Nadal (2015) 'El comportamiento de los conectores argumentativos del español: un estudio experimental sobre sin embargo y por tanto' - presentation at the 4. International Symposium: Discourse markers in romance languages: a contrastive approach, Heidelberg, Germany.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Connectives"

Adriana Cruz & Martha Rudka (2015) 'Foco informativo y foco contrastivo: análisis comparativo de las partículas focales del español y el alemán incluso y sogar' - presentation at the 4. International Symposium: Discourse markers in romance languages: a contrastive approach, Heidelberg, Germany.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Adriana Cruz (2015) 'Processing of informative / contrastive focus in Spanish: experimental notes about the Spanish and German focus particles incluso and sogar' - presentation at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antverp, Belgium.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Inés Recio & Martha Rudka (2015) 'Processing multimodal causal relations in Spanish' - presentation at the International Exploratory Workshop (Follow-Up) on Additive and Restrictive Quantification in Discourse Comparative Perspectives, Basel, Switzerland.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Inés Recio & Laura Nadal (2015) 'An experimental study on the spanish connectives sin embargo and por tanto' - presentation at the 13th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Antverp, Belgium.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Connectives"

Gerwien, J., Bouhaous, A. & v. Stutterheim, C. (oral presentation). Typological differences in spatial and aspectual perspective taking in descriptions of dynamic scenes. DGFS Jahrestagung, 2015, Leipzig, Germany.

Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (poster presentation). Structural priming in the production of progressive aspect in Dutch. CUNY 2015, San Diego, USA.

Rudka, M. & Gerwien, J. (oral presentation). The focus sensitive element German "sogar" – Does the procedural meaning of sogar help speakers to accelerate the comprehension of a semantic scale?. 14th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association, 2015, Antverp, Belgium.

• The focus sensitive element "sogar"

Inés Recio & Adriana Cruz (2017) 'Focus shift and Information processing: the Spanish Focus particle incluso' - presentation at the XI International Conference on General Linguistics, Pamplona, Spain.

Associated Projects:

   Research area: "Focus Operators"

Gerwien, J. (invited talk). How to Get into People's Heads - Three psycholinguistic methods to investigate viewpoint aspect. Institute of English Philology (Prof. Joanna Blaszczak), University of Wroclaw, Poland (November 2014).

Laura Nadal & Inés Recio (2013) 'Fokuspartikeln und Informationsverarbeitung: eine experimentelle Untersuchung' - presentation at the LIMES IX, Heidelberg, Germany.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Inés Recio & Óscar Loureda (2013) 'Partículas discursivas y cognición: apuntes experimentales y contrastivos (español - alemán) a partir de variables del hablante' - presentation at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguisticae Europaea, Split, Croatia.

Associated Projects:

   Discourse Particles and Cognition

Inés Recio & Adriana Cruz (2013) 'The focus particle incluso: an experimental approach to marked and unmarked focus processing in spanish' - presentation at the International Workshop “Fachsprachlicher Diskurs und Diskursmarkierung in den romanischen Sprachen, Milano, Italy.

Associated Projects:

    Research area: "Focus Operators"

Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (oral presentation). Event duration estimations are modulated by grammatical aspect. AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France (September 2013).

Gerwien, J. & Flecken, M. (poster presentation). 'Progressive' priming in sentence production: conceptual and form-related features of progressive aspect in Dutch. AMLaP 2013, Marseille, France (September 2013). poster

Flecken, M., Gerwien, J. & v. Stutterheim, C. Typological constraints on event conceptualization: implications for L2 processing. Talk at ESF exploratory workshop, University of Reading (UK) (September 2012).

Flecken, M. & Gerwien, J. (poster presentation). Is Event Apprehension Language-Specific? A Comparison of Spanish and German. AMLaP 2012, Riva del Garda, Italy (September 2012). abstract and poster.

Laura Nadal & Óscar Loureda (2011) 'Partículas discursivas y cognición: apuntes experimentales y contrastivos (español-alemán) sobre focalizadores y reformuladores' - presentation at the Internationale Tagung zur kontrastiven Phraseologie Deusch-Spanisch/Galizisch, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Associated Projects:

    Discourse Particles and Cognition