Refine
Year of publication
- 2020 (36) (remove)
Document Type
- Article (36) (remove)
Has Fulltext
- yes (36)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (36) (remove)
Keywords
- COVID-19 (10)
- Sprachgebrauch (6)
- Deutsch (5)
- Bedeutung (3)
- Interaktion (3)
- Psycholinguistik (3)
- Qualität (3)
- Bevölkerung (2)
- Bewertung (2)
- Diskursanalyse (2)
Publicationstate
- Veröffentlichungsversion (30)
- Zweitveröffentlichung (4)
- Postprint (2)
- Ahead of Print (1)
Reviewstate
- (Verlags)-Lektorat (15)
- Peer-Review (15)
Publisher
- Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) (22)
- Erich Schmidt (4)
- De Gruyter (2)
- Elsevier (1)
- Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici (1)
- Litauischer Deutschlehrerverband (1)
- MDPI (1)
- Routledge (1)
- SAGE (1)
- Sage Publications (1)
Repeating the movements associated with activities such as drawing or sports typically leads to improvements in kinematic behavior: these movements become faster, smoother, and exhibit less variation. Likewise, practice has also been shown to lead to faster and smoother movement trajectories in speech articulation. However, little is known about its effect on articulatory variability. To address this, we investigate the extent to which repetition and predictability influence the articulation of the frequent German word “sie” [zi] (they). We find that articulatory variability is proportional to speaking rate and the duration of [zi], and that overall variability decreases as [zi] is repeated during the experiment. Lower variability is also observed as the conditional probability of [zi] increases, and the greatest reduction in variability occurs during the execution of the vocalic target of [i]. These results indicate that practice can produce observable differences in the articulation of even the most common gestures used in speech.
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage; its poetic genres impose unique combinatory constraints on linguistic elements. How does the constrained poetic structure facilitate speech segmentation when common linguistic and statistical cues are unreliable to listeners in poems? We generated artificial Jueju, which arguably has the most constrained structure in ancient Chinese poetry, and presented each poem twice as an isochronous sequence of syllables to native Mandarin speakers while conducting magnetoencephalography (MEG) recording. We found that listeners deployed their prior knowledge of Jueju to build the line structure and to establish the conceptual flow of Jueju. Unprecedentedly, we found a phase precession phenomenon indicating predictive processes of speech segmentation—the neural phase advanced faster after listeners acquired knowledge of incoming speech. The statistical co-occurrence of monosyllabic words in Jueju negatively correlated with speech segmentation, which provides an alternative perspective on how statistical cues facilitate speech segmentation. Our findings suggest that constrained poetic structures serve as a temporal map for listeners to group speech contents and to predict incoming speech signals. Listeners can parse speech streams by using not only grammatical and statistical cues but also their prior knowledge of the form of language.
Der Beitrag beschreibt einen Ansatz zur Qualitätsbewertung multimodaler Hypertexte und internetbasierter Interaktion. Das Modell fußt auf Ansätzen zur Bewertung von Textqualität in linear organisierten Schrifttexten, insbesondere dem Zürcher Textqualitätenraster, das bereits im prädigitalen Zeitalter für eine große empirische Untersuchung zum Schreibgebrauch in Aufsatztexten genutzt wurde. Der Beitrag beschreibt und begründet, welche Erweiterungen für multimodale Hypertexte und internetbasierte Interaktion erforderlich sind. Vertiefend wird dabei das Konzept der Kohärenz behandelt, das für lineare Texte und für Hypertexte gleichermaßen relevant ist. An Beispielen wird gezeigt, wie Hyperlinks als digitale Kohärenzbildungshilfen bei der Hypertextproduktion und beim interaktionsorientierten Schreiben eingesetzt werden. Die Kohärenzanalyse wird erweitert um zwei neue Aspekte: 1) die interaktionale Kohärenz zwischen Beiträgen verschiedener Personen in der digitalen Interaktion (z. B. beim Chatten oder in Online-Diskussionen) und 2) die multimodale Kohärenz zwischen Text-, Bild-, Audio- und Videoelementen.
Nonnative-accented speakers face prevalent discrimination. The assumption that people freely express negative sentiments toward nonnative speakers has also guided common research methods. However, recent studies did not consistently find downgrading, so that prejudice against nonnative accents might even be questioned at first sight. The present theoretical article will bridge these contradictory findings in three ways: (a) We illustrate that nonnative speakers with foreign accents frequently may not be downgraded in commonly used first-impression and employment scenario paradigms. It appears that relatively controlled responding may be influenced by norms and motivations to respond without prejudice, whereas negative biases emerge in spontaneous responding. (b) We present an integrative view based on knowledge on modern forms of prejudice to develop modern notions of accent-ism, which allow for predictions when accent biases are (not) likely to surface. (c) We conclude with implications for interventions and a tailored research agenda.
In the present article we argue that all communication is medial in the sense that every human sign-based interaction is shaped by medial aspects from the outset. We propose a dynamic, semiotic concept of media that focuses on the process-related aspect of mediality, and we test the applicability of this concept using as an example the second presidential debate between Clinton and Trump in 2016. The analysis shows in detail how the sign processing during the debate is continuously shaped by structural aspects of television and specific traits of political communication in television. This includes how the camerawork creates meaning and how the protagonists both use the affordances of this special mediality. Therefore, it is not adequate in our view to separate the technical aspects of the medium, the ‘hardware’, from the processual aspects and the structural conditions of communication. While some aspects of the interaction are directly constituted by the medium, others are more indirectly shaped and influenced by it, especially by its institutional dimension – we understand them as second-order media effects. The whole medial procedure with its specific mediality is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition of meaning-making. We distinguish the medial procedure from the semiotic modes employed, the language games played and the competence of the players involved.