TY - JOUR A1 - Seitz, Hanne T1 - An Anthropological Perspective on Technical, Phonetic and Figurative Gestures BT - On the Gradual Production of Speech while Walking JF - Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie N2 - The essay describes a primal scene, imagining how it might have been in the very beginning. Undoubtedly, it was a “homo ludens” who started the project of becoming human by using hand, eye, and the ability to imagine. Technical, phonetic, and figurative gestures gave way to the so-called second nature – cultural expressions that lead to technology, supported understanding, created pictures, music, theatre, or artistic legacies like the labyrinth that serves as a format for this essay. The “line of thoughts” (somewhere between fiction and reality) performs its own truth while one walks through: The text is constructed along the path of a labyrinth, the production of speech interrupted by its seven turns – allowing the experience of linear and cyclical time and creating rhythm and a motion of progression. It was written to be performed – not only to be read, but also to be seen and heard. Readers may imagine it as speech whose sound, rhythm and gestural elements inscribe themselves on the body. KW - Walking KW - Gespräch KW - Sprache KW - Phonetik KW - Zeitfaktor KW - Gestik Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-17095 SN - 2196-6885 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 156 EP - 168 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marimon, Mireia A1 - Hofmann, Andrea A1 - Veríssimo, João A1 - Männel, Claudia A1 - Friederici, Angela D. A1 - Höhle, Barbara A1 - Wartenburger, Isabell T1 - Children’s Learning of Non-adjacent Dependencies Using a Web-Based Computer Game Setting JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - Infants show impressive speech decoding abilities and detect acoustic regularities that highlight the syntactic relations of a language, often coded via non-adjacent dependencies (NADs, e.g., is singing). It has been claimed that infants learn NADs implicitly and associatively through passive listening and that there is a shift from effortless associative learning to a more controlled learning of NADs after the age of 2 years, potentially driven by the maturation of the prefrontal cortex. To investigate if older children are able to learn NADs, Lammertink et al. (2019) recently developed a word-monitoring serial reaction time (SRT) task and could show that 6–11-year-old children learned the NADs, as their reaction times (RTs) increased then they were presented with violated NADs. In the current study we adapted their experimental paradigm and tested NAD learning in a younger group of 52 children between the age of 4–8 years in a remote, web-based, game-like setting (whack-a-mole). Children were exposed to Italian phrases containing NADs and had to monitor the occurrence of a target syllable, which was the second element of the NAD. After exposure, children did a “Stem Completion” task in which they were presented with the first element of the NAD and had to choose the second element of the NAD to complete the stimuli. Our findings show that, despite large variability in the data, children aged 4–8 years are sensitive to NADs; they show the expected differences in r RTs in the SRT task and could transfer the NAD-rule in the Stem Completion task. We discuss these results with respect to the development of NAD dependency learning in childhood and the practical impact and limitations of collecting these data in a web-based setting. KW - Linguistik KW - Implizites Lernen KW - Regellernen Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877 SN - 1664-1078 VL - 12 PB - Frontiers Research Foundation CY - Lausanne ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Struß, Julia Maria A1 - Siegel, Melanie A1 - Ruppenhofer, Josef A1 - Wiegand, Michael A1 - Klenner, Manfred T1 - Overview of GermEval Task 2, 2019 shared task on the identification of offensive language T2 - Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2019) N2 - We present the second edition of the GermEval Shared Task on the Identification of Offensive Language. This shared task deals with the classification of German tweets from Twitter. Two subtasks were continued from the first edition, namely a coarse-grained binary classification task and a fine-grained multi-class classification task. As a novel subtask, we introduce the classification of offensive tweets as explicit or implicit. The shared task had 13 participating groups submitting 28 runs for the coarse-grained task, another 28 runs for the fine-grained task, and 17 runs for the implicit-explicit task. We evaluate the results of the systems submitted to the shared task. The shared task homepage can be found at https://projects.fzai.h-da.de/iggsa/ KW - Automatische Spracherkennung KW - Beleidigung KW - Deutsch KW - Social Media KW - Tweet KW - Twitter Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-26209 UR - https://corpora.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/data/konvens/proceedings/papers/germeval/GermEvalSharedTask2019Iggsa.pdf SP - 352 EP - 363 PB - German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology und Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Sortals, bodies, and variables : a critique of Quine’s theory of reference JF - Synthese N2 - Among the philosophical accounts of reference, Quine’s (1974) The Roots of Reference stands out in offering an integrated account of the acquisition of linguistic reference and object individuation. Based on a non-referential ability to distinguish bodies, the acquisition of sortals and quantification are crucial steps in learning to refer to objects. In this article, we critically re-assess Quine’s account of reference. Our critique will proceed in three steps with the aim of showing that Quine effectively presupposes what he sets out to explain, namely, reference to objects. We are going to argue (i) that sortals do not individuate, (ii) that bodies are already objects, and (iii) that the acquisition of variables presupposes a notion of identity. The result is diagnostic of a central desideratum for any theory of reference: an explanation of spatiotemporal object individuation. KW - Referenz KW - Individualisierung KW - Objekt KW - Sortaler Ausdruck Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03767-y SN - 1573-0964 VL - 200 IS - 4 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streubel, Berit A1 - Gunzenhauser, Catherine A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Saalbach, Henrik T1 - Emotion-specific vocabulary and its contribution to emotion understanding in 4- to 9-year-old children JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology N2 - Positive associations between children’s general language skills and emotion understanding are well documented. Concurrently, research from other domains highlights the importance of domain-specific language skills for conceptual development. The current study examined the relative contributions of emotion-specific and general vocabulary to individual differences in multiple early-acquired components of emotion understanding (e.g., facial emotion recognition) and later-acquired components (e.g., knowledge of emotion regulation strategies) in 4- to 9-year-old children (N = 86). Emotion-specific vocabulary was measured by size (i.e., number of emotion words children use) and depth (i.e., adult-like use of emotion words). Findings emphasize the role of children’s emotion-specific vocabulary rather than general vocabulary for early-acquired and later-acquired components of emotion understanding, especially when measured by expressive tasks. At preschool age, the size of emotion-specific vocabulary explains children’s knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. In primary school, however, the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary becomes relevant for individual differences in emotion understanding. KW - Sprachkompetenz KW - Kleinkind KW - Kind KW - Gefühlsempfindung Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104790 SN - 0022-0965 VL - 193 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -