Focus alternatives are words/phrases that can substitute for the focused constituent of an utterance. In “Carsten has picked [CHERRIES]F from the tree.”, (marked by pitch focus on cherries), the speaker wants to not only ...

In this diary study with N = 348 employees, we examine whether the contagion effect of workplace incivility transfers beyond one work day that is whether the experience of workplace incivility is related to showing rude ...

The swinging lexical network proposal (Abdel Rahman & Melinger, 2009a this issue) incorporates three assumptions that are independently motivated and pre-existing in the literature. We claim that the combination of these ...

The ability to recognise the identity of others is a key requirement for successful communication. Brain regions that respond selectively to voices exist in humans from early infancy on. Currently, it is unclear whether ...

We present 4 experiments investigating dynamic and flexible aspects of semantic activation spread during speech planning. In a semantic blocking paradigm, pictures of objects were presented in categorically homogeneous ...

Die Fachdisziplin Künstliche Intelligenz erfreut sich derzeit einer beschleunigten Weiterentwicklung, der hier nachgegangen wird. Als Hauptursachen dafür gelten einerseits der beträchtliche Ausbau der Möglichkeiten der ...

Um den Skeptizismus zu kritisieren, hat Hilary Putnam für sprachphilosophischen Kontextualismus plädiert und behauptet, dass bestimmte Behauptungen wie z.B. "Die Kutsche verwandelte sich in einen Kürbis" unverständlich ...

Research competence (RC) as a key ability of students in the social sciences has thus far been conceptualized as consisting primarily of cognitive dispositions. However, owing to its highly complex and demanding nature, ...

Interdisziplinärität ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem wissenschaftspolitischen Desiderat geworden. Gleichzeitig besteht bisher kaum Einigkeit darüber, wie sich interdisziplinäre Forschung strukturieren oder ...