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Vom 14. bis 16. März fand im Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim die 53. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) statt, die sich in diesem Jahr mit dem Lexikon und dessen Komplexität und Dynamik beschäftigte. Im Mittelpunkt standen neue Perspektiven auf das Lexikon und die Lexikonforschung nach der empirischen Wende, die das Bild vom Wortschatz deutlich verändert und den Blick darauf erweitert hat. Lexikontheoretiker und Lexikografen arbeiten heute u.a. mit quantitativen korpuslinguistischen Methoden und berücksichtigen Forschungsergebnisse und -methoden angrenzender Disziplinen wie der Psycholinguistik, wodurch auch neuartige Konzepte ins Blickfeld rücken. Das Inventar lexikalischer Einheiten beschränkt sich nicht mehr nur auf Wörter, sondern wurde durch konstruktionsartige Einheiten und semiabstrakte lexikalische Muster ergänzt.
This article explores how close one can come to a cultural-scientific perspective on the basis of a constitution-analytical methodology. We do this on the basis of a comparison of the celebration of Totensonntag in Zotzenbach (Southern Hesse) and Sarepta (Wolgograd). In both places, there are protestant churches that perform this ritual to commemorate the dead on this “Sunday of the Dead” as a part of their church service. Our scientific interest lies in the reconstruction of the rituality produced during the in situ execution. In both services, the names of the deceased are read out and a candle is lit for each deceased person. In Zotzenbach the priest reads out the names and an assistant ignites the candles for the deceased, whereas in Sarepta the bereaved are responsible for this. Since the ritual is organised in very different ways in terms of architecture-for-interaction (statically in Zotzenbach, spatially dynamic in Sarepta), we can reconstruct two completely different models of rituality: a demonstrative one (Zotzenbach) and a participative one (Sarepta). The demonstrative model works on the basis of a finely tuned coordination between the two church representatives and is aimed at a dignified execution. The model in Sarepta is not suitable for the production of formality due to its participatory structure. Here, however, the focus is also on the aspect of socialization, which goes beyond the church service and offers the Russian-German worshipers the opportunity to situationally constitute as a culturally homogeneous group.
In this article, we investigate the semantics of causal modifiers headed by vor (‘with’, ‘from’) in adjectival copular sentences with sein (‘to be’). We distinguish two readings of the causal vor-phrases: a pure causal reading as in rot vor Wut (‘red with rage’), sprachlos vor Freude (‘speechless with joy’), and a causal-local reading as in rot vor Blut (‘red from blood’) or schwarz vor Menschen (‘black with people’). Based on corpus data, we provide descriptive generalisations for the use and meaning of vor and its two readings. A uniform formal semantics analysis is presented to account for both readings, according to which the meaning of vor can be captured with a cause relation between two tropes. In the case of the causal-local reading, the causing trope is interpolated via coercion from the compositionally provided concrete object. Finally, we compare vor and von (‚from‘).
Este artículo expone a partir de una serie de ejemplos diferentes situaciones de uso del diccionario bilingüe que evidencian la importancia de llevar a cabo una adecuada adquisición y desarrollo de las competencias lexicográficas en el contexto de enseñanza-aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras y, en este caso en concreto, del alemán como lengua extranjera. Con este propósito se parte de tres competencias básicas: la selección de la obra lexicográfica adecuada según la situación comunicativa, la desambiguación pertinente en el contexto de la recepción en L2 y traducción de L2 a L1 y la selección y uso del equivalente en el contexto de la producción y traducción en la L2. El objetivo de esta aportación es poner de manifiesto la necesidad de identificar adecuadamente por parte del usuario de un recurso lexicográfico bilingüe la información lexicológica pertinente a la forma, contenido y uso de los lemas consultados tanto en la situación de recepción y producción en L2 como en el contexto de la traducción de y a L2.
Die kontinental-westgermanischen Sprachen und Dialekte zeichnen sich durch das Vorkommen von mehrteiligen Verbformen in einem satzfinalen Verbalkomplex (im Folgenden VK) aus. Charakteristisch für diesen VK ist sein hohes Maß an Stellungsvariation, wie sie sich bei drei oder mehr Verben bereits innerhalb des Standarddeutschen zeigt (vgl. Duden 2005, 481-482, § 684). Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Aspekte des VKs im Ostpommerschen untersucht, jenem ostniederdeutschen Dialekt, der bis 1945 östlich der Oder im heutigen Polen gesprochen wurde. Dies geschieht anhand spontansprachlicher Aufnahmen aus der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts; der Beitrag ist also als eine sprachhistorische Untersuchung zu verstehen.
Sound units play a pivotal role in cognitive models of auditory comprehension. The general consensus is that during perception listeners break down speech into auditory words and subsequently phones. Indeed, cognitive speech recognition is typically taken to be computationally intractable without phones. Here we present a computational model trained on 20 hours of conversational speech that recognizes word meanings within the range of human performance (model 25%, native speakers 20–44%), without making use of phone or word form representations. Our model also generates successfully predictions about the speed and accuracy of human auditory comprehension. At the heart of the model is a ‘wide’ yet sparse two-layer artificial neural network with some hundred thousand input units representing summaries of changes in acoustic frequency bands, and proxies for lexical meanings as output units. We believe that our model holds promise for resolving longstanding theoretical problems surrounding the notion of the phone in linguistic theory.
When appearance does not match accent: neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations
(2017)
Most research on ethnicity in neuroscience and social psychology has focused on visual cues. However, accents are central social markers of ethnicity and strongly influence evaluations of others. Here, we examine how varying auditory (vocal accent) and visual (facial appearance) information about others affects neural correlates of ethnicity-related expectancy violations. Participants listened to standard German and Turkish-accented speakers and were subsequently presented with faces whose ethnic appearance was either congruent or incongruent to these voices. We expected that incongruent targets (e.g. German accent/Turkish face) would be paralleled by a more negative N2 event-related brain potential (ERP) component. Results confirmed this, suggesting that incongruence was related to more effortful processing of both Turkish and German target faces. These targets were also subjectively judged as surprising. Additionally, varying lateralization of ERP responses for Turkish and German faces suggests that the underlying neural generators differ, potentially reflecting different emotional reactions to these targets. Behavioral responses showed an effect of violated expectations: German-accented Turkish-looking targets were evaluated as most competent of all targets. We suggest that bringing together neural and behavioral measures of expectancy violations, and using both visual and auditory information, yields a more complete picture of the processes underlying impression formation.
We propose a new type of subword embedding designed to provide more information about unknown compounds, a major source for OOV words in German. We present an extrinsic evaluation where we use the compound embeddings as input to a neural dependency parser and compare the results to the ones obtained with other types of embeddings. Our evaluation shows that adding compound embeddings yields a significant improvement of 2% LAS over using word embeddings when no POS information is available. When adding POS embeddings to the input, however, the effect levels out. This suggests that it is not the missing information about the semantics of the unknown words that causes problems for parsing German, but the lack of morphological information for unknown words. To augment our evaluation, we also test the new embeddings in a language modelling task that requires both syntactic and semantic information.