Case Syncretism, Animacy, and Word Order in Continental West Germanic: Neurolinguistic Evidence from a Comparative Study on Standard German, Zurich German, and Fering (North Frisian)
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542719000199
Abstract: To understand a sentence, it is crucial to understand who is doing what. The interplay of morphological case marking, argument serialization, and animacy provides linguistic cues for the processing system to rapidly identify the thematic… read more here.
Keywords: animacy; german fering; case; fering north ... See more keywords
Syntactically Independent Exclamative zu-Infinitives in Modern Standard German: Diachrony and Cross-linguistic Comparison
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DOI: 10.1017/s1470542725000042
Abstract: Abstract In Modern Standard German both bare infinitives and those formed with the particle zu are used as independent main clause predicates, where they each have illocutionary force. While the former can be associated with… read more here.
Keywords: syntactically independent; standard german; linguistic comparison; modern standard ... See more keywords
Standard German vowel productions by monolingual and trilingual speakers
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DOI: 10.1177/1367006917711593
Abstract: Aims and Objectives: Studies on vowel productions of speakers from bilingual communities report not only interactions between the first and second language, but also monolingual-like realizations. The present study expands a prior acoustic investigation of… read more here.
Keywords: vowel productions; standard german; trilingual speakers; vowel ... See more keywords