@conference {6412, title = {Discourse conditions on Verb Phrase Ellipsis and the question of syntactic identity: new evidence from acceptability experiments}, year = {2019}, month = {09/2019}, address = {Moscou, Russie}, author = {Philip Miller and Barbara Hemforth} } @article {5547, title = {Don{\textquoteright}t underestimate the benefits of being misunderstood}, journal = {Psychological Science}, year = {2017}, abstract = {

Being a non-native speaker of a language poses challenges. Individuals often feel embarrassed by the errors they make when talking in their second language (L2). However, here we report an advantage of being an L2 speaker: native speakers give foreign-accented speakers the benefit of the doubt when interpreting their utterances, such that apparently implausible utterances delivered in a foreign accent are more likely to be interpreted in a plausible way. Across three replicated experiments, we demonstrate that native English speakers are more likely to interpret implausible utterances such as \“the mother gave the candle the daughter\” as similar plausible utterances (\“the mother gave the candle to the daughter\”) when those utterances are produced with a foreign accent. This result follows from the general model of language interpretation in a noisy channel (Gibson et al., 2013), under the hypothesis that listeners assume a higher error rate in foreign-accented speech.

}, url = {http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/5IResZSFhWjyHkAk4a8n/full}, author = {Gibson, Edward and Tana, Caitlin and Futrella, Richard and Mahowalda, Kyle and Lars Konieczny and Barbara Hemforth and Fedorenko, Evelina} } @article {4542, title = {Different effects of focus in intra- and intersentential pronoun resolution in German.}, journal = {Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience}, year = {2015}, month = {08/2015}, abstract = {

It is widely assumed that focused entities are more salient than non-focused ones and consequently, that an antecedent should be particularly available for a pronoun when it is foregrounded in a cleft construction. Contrary to this assumption, however, some studies observed that an antecedent focused by a cleft was less accessible than a non-focused one. We claim that the influence of clefting depends on the position of the ambiguous pronoun: clefted antecedents are only preferred as antecedents of a pronoun when the pronoun and its antecedent are in different discourse units. In order to test this hypothesis, we conducted a questionnaire and a visual world experiment in German in which we manipulated inter- vs. intra-sentential pronoun resolution. Results showed that clefting had different effects depending on the position of the pronoun. We will discuss why these results are consistent with the claim that pronouns preferentially co-refer with the sentence topic.

}, keywords = {eye-tracking, focus, information structure, language comprehension, pronoun resolution, visual world paradigm}, doi = {10.1080/23273798.2015.1066510}, author = {Colonna, Saveria and Schimke, Sarah and Barbara Hemforth} } @article {4541, title = {Dislocation clitique de l{\textquoteright}objet {\`a} gauche en fran{\c c}ais {\'e}crit}, journal = {Discours}, volume = {16}, year = {2015}, month = {09/2015}, abstract = {

Cet article porte sur l\’acceptabilit\é des constructions syntaxiques \à la lumi\ère de la distinction entre fran\çais oral et fran\çais \écrit. Nous pr\ésentons cette distinction comme un facteur appartenant \à une approche multifactorielle. Ladite approche inclut les contraintes pragmatiques, stylistiques, et syntaxiques qui influencent l\’acceptabilit\é d\’un \énonc\é. Nous argumentons qu\’il est possible d\’am\éliorer l\’acceptabilit\é d\’une construction associ\ée au fran\çais oral, la dislocation clitique de l\’objet \à gauche, dans un contexte \écrit en modifiant la structure informationnelle du discours. Nous pr\ésentons une s\érie d\’exp\ériences testant l\’acceptabilit\é de la construction \à l\’\écrit sous diverses contraintes informationnelles. Nous proposerons un mod\èle incluant les m\êmes contraintes pour le fran\çais parl\é et \écrit en int\égrant la modalit\é comme pr\édicteur.

}, keywords = {dislocation clitique {\`a} gauche, fran{\c c}ais {\'e}crit, jugement d{\textquoteright}acceptabilit{\'e}, linguistique exp{\'e}rimentale, structure informationnelle}, doi = {DOI : 10.4000/discours.9037}, author = {Etienne Riou and Barbara Hemforth} } @inproceedings {4809, title = {The Disfluency, Exclamation and Laughter in Dialogue (DUEL) Project}, year = {2014}, pages = {176{\textendash}178}, author = {Jonathan Ginzburg and Ye Tian and Pascal Amsili and Claire Beyssade and Barbara Hemforth and Yvette Yannick Mathieu and Saillard, Claire and Julian Hough and Kousidis, Spyridon and David Schlangen} } @inproceedings {4438, title = {Distributive and collective readings of plural DPs}, year = {2014}, address = {Edinburgh, Ecosse}, doi = {10.13140/2.1.4623.2965}, author = {Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin and Emilia Ellsiepen and Barbara Hemforth} } @conference {1087, title = {Different effects of focus in intra- and inter-sentential pronoun resolution in German and French}, volume = {25}, year = {2012}, month = {03/2012}, pages = {113}, address = {NewYork}, url = {http://cuny2012.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2012/03/cuny2012_113.pdf}, author = {Colonna, Saveria and Schimke, Sarah and Medam, Tiphaine and Barbara Hemforth}, editor = {Bradley, Dianne and Fernandez, Eva and Fodor, Janet} } @inproceedings {1067, title = {Do animate arguments come first ? the case of French ditransitive verbs}, year = {2011}, address = {Paris}, author = {Juliette Thuilier and Anne Abeill{\'e} and Beno{\^\i}t Crabb{\'e}}, editor = {Barbara Hemforth} }