PSIMS Publications

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Theses:

Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2022. Iconicity in Language and Speech. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin dissertation.
Savin, Egor. 2018. Prosodie in sozialen Medien? - Ein effizientes Analysetool für die Untersuchung von Wiederholungen (bachelor thesis). Berlin: Humboldt University.

Articles:

Kilpatrick, Alexander James & Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Kawahara, Shigeto. 2023. Random forests, sound symbolism and Pokémon evolution. PLOS ONE 18(1). e0279350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279350
Ebert, Cornelia & Pirillo, Giovanna & Walter, Sebastian. 2022. The Role of Gesture-Speech Alignment for Gesture Interpretation. In Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data, 65–77. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15496/PUBLIKATION-75922
Ebert, Cornelia & Hinterwimmer, Stefan. 2022. Free Indirect Discourse Meets Character Viewpoint Gestures. In Robin Hörnig & Sophie von Wietersheim & Andreas Konietzko & Sam Featherston (eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data, 333–349. Tübingen: University of Tübingen. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15496/PUBLIKATION-75898
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Draxler, Christoph & Asu, Eva Liina & Dediu, Dan & Hiovain, Katri & … Winter, Bodo. 2021. The ‘bouba/kiki’ effect is robust across cultures and writing systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377(1841). 20200390. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0390
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Draxler, Christoph & Asu, Eva Liina & Dediu, Dan & Hiovain, Katri & … Perlman, Marcus. 2021. Novel vocalizations are understood across cultures. Scientific Reports 11(1). 10108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89445-4
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne. 2021. Hand-mouth coordination in a pointing task requiring manual precision. In Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), 222--225. New Haven, CT: Haskins Laboratories. Retrieved from https://issp2020.yale.edu/ProcISSP2020.pdf
Ebert, Christian & Ebert, Cornelia & Hörnig, Robin. 2020. Demonstratives as dimension shifters. In Michael Franke & Nikola Kompa & Mingya Liu & Jutta L. Mueller & Juliane Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Vol. 1, 161–178. Universität Osnabrück  and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i1.859
Fuchs, Susanne & Savin, Egor & Solt, Stephanie & Ebert, Cornelia & Krifka, Manfred. 2019. Antonym adjective pairs and prosodic iconicity: Evidence from letter replications in an English blogger corpus. Linguistics Vanguard 5(1). Retrieved from https://www.degruyter.tools/document/doi/10.1515/lingvan-2018-0017/html
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne. 2019. Iconic prosody is rooted in sensori-motor properties: Fundamental frequency and the vertical space. In CogSci 2019 Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1572--1578. Montreal, Canada: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2019/papers/0282/0282.pdf
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018. A comparison of sign language with speech plus gesture. Theoretical Linguistics 44(3–4). 239–249. Retrieved from https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/thli.2018.44.issue-3-4/tl-2018-0016/tl-2018-0016.xml?format=INT
Fuchs, Susanne & Savin, Egor & Reichel, Uwe D. & Ebert, Cornelia & Krifka, Manfred. 2018. Letter replication as prosodic amplification in social media. In Malte Belz & Christine Mooshammer & Stefanie Jannedy & Oksana Rasskazova & Marzena Żygis (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13), 65–68. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18452/18805
Hinterwimmer, Stefan & Ebert, Cornelia. 2018. A comparison of fei and aber. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 60. 469–486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.477
Fuchs, Susanne & Jannedy, Stefanie & Meinunger, André. 2018. Digitale soziale Medien und der Sprachwandel im Licht von Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit: Das Forschungsjahr 2017 (No. 11–17). ZAS. Retrieved from https://www.leibniz-zas.de/fileadmin/media/Dokumente/Jahresberichte/Reflexionen_2017-FB1.pdf

Talks:

Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, November. Sorting the Mischmasch of German Ideophones. Invited talk presented at the Semantik-Kolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, September. Are German Pokémon Names Sound-symbolic? Talk presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE 2021), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, online.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, April. Komm und schnapp sie dir!: Sound Symbolism in German Pokémon Names. Invited Talk presented at the Seminar “Warum klingt Orkisch böse? Zur Phonologie und Sprachästhetik von sogenannten Plansprachen”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, online.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, March. Iconicity in Everyday Communication. Talk presented at the BBL, ZAS Berlin.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, February. The Iconic Bits in Language. Invited talk presented at the GULP lab lunch, University of Glasgow, online.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Perlman, Marcus & Winter, Bodo. 2020, November. “Bouba” and “Kiki” across the Globe. Invited Talk presented at the Séminaires de Recherches en Phonétique et Phonologie, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (online).
Żygis, Marzena & Fuchs, Susanne. 2020, April. At the margins of speech: orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispering. Talk presented at the GLOW 43, Workshop: Prosody in Speech Signal Perception and Gestures, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, online.
Ebert, Cornelia & Hinterwimmer, Stefan. 2020, February. Free indirect discourse meets character viewpoint gestures: A reconstruction of Davidson’s demonstration account with gesture semantics. Talk presented at the Conference Linguistic Evidence 2020: Linguistic Theory Enriched by Experimental Data, University of Tübingen.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2019, December. Pointing – and its meaning. Invited talk presented at the Workshop Super Linguistics, 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Draxler, Christoph & Fuchs, Susanne & Winter, Bodo & Perlman, Marcus. 2019, November. Comprehension of Non-Linguistic Vocalizations across Cultures. Invited talk presented at the MAMPF Seminar, Ludwig Maximilian Universität München.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2019, October. Gesture and language - a case study in vocabulary learning. Invited talk, Universität Osnabrück.
Ebert, Cornelia & Ebert, Christian & Hörnig, Robin. 2019, September. Demonstratives as Dimension Shifters. Talk presented at the Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB) 24, Universität Osnabrück.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Draxler, Christoph & Fuchs, Susanne & Kawahara, Shigeto & Winter, Bodo & Perlman, Marcus. 2019, August. Comprehension of Non-Linguistic Vocalizations across Culture. Talk presented at the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Kwansen Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan.
Ebert, Cornelia & Hörnig, Robin. 2019, June. Experimental evidence on the non-at-issueness of co-speech gestures and demonstratives as dimension shifters. Talk presented at the Workshop DEICTES, University of Rijeka.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2019, June. Free indirect discourse meets character viewpoint gestures. Invited talk presented at the Workshop Linguistic perspectives on perspective-taking in narrative discourse, Universität Wuppertal.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Draxler, Christoph & Fuchs, Susanne & Winter, Bodo & Perlman, Marcus. 2019, March. Comprehension of Non-Linguistic Vocalizations across Cultures. Talk presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), AG 11, Bremen, Germany.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, December. Iconicity in gesture, sign, and speech. Invited talk presented at the Workshop Super Linguistics, Universität Oslo.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, September. Wie man mit Gesten Sprachen lernt. Invited talk presented at the Langer Nachmittag der Wissenschaften, Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Berlin Lichtenberg.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2018, July. Warum soll man dem Sprachinstinkt folgen? Invited talk presented at the Kolloquium Phonetik und Phonologie, Universität Bielefeld.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, July. Attributive vs. referential readings: a closer look at the interplay of gesture and speech. Invited talk presented at the Linguistik Kolloquium, Universität Bielefeld.
Zygis, Marzena & Fuchs, Susanne & Stoltmann, Katarzyna. 2018, June. Orofacial expressions and acoustic cues in whispered and normal speech. Talk presented at the LabPhon16: Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, June. Co-speech gestures, descriptions, and the attributive/referential distinction. Invited talk presented at the Forschungsseminar Theoretische Philosophie, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Krifka, Manfred & Fuchs, Susanne & Ebert, Cornelia & Savin, Egor. 2018, June. Prosodic amplification and prosodic iconicity: Evidence from a social media corpus. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2018, Graz, Austria.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, June. The attributive/referential distinction as a side effect of the interplay of gesture and speech. Invited talk presented at the Forschungsseminar, Theoretische Philosophie, Universität Göttingen.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Savin, Egor & Ebert, Cornelia & Krifka, Manfred. 2018, May. A tiny tiny abstract on a biiiiiig topic: An analysis of adjective re(du)plications in a social media corpus. Talk presented at the Workshop on ‘Iconicity in speech and gesture’, ZAS Berlin.
Ebert, Cornelia & Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Krifka, Manfred. 2018, May. Experimental studies on the semantic contribution of co- and post-speech gestures and their significance for perspective-taking. Talk presented at the Workshop on ‘Iconicity in speech and gesture’, ZAS Berlin.
Savin, Egor & Fuchs, Susanne. 2018, February. Letter replication and iconicity in language: Evidence from social media corpora. Talk presented at the Kolloquium Korpuslinguistik und Phonetik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Fuchs, Susanne & Savin, Egor & Krifka, Manfred & Solt, Stephanie & Ebert, Cornelia & Reichel, Uwe D. 2018, January. Iconicity in language: Evidence from social media corpora. Talk presented at the Brown Bag Lunch, ZAS Berlin.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, January. Reden ist Silber, Zeigen ist Gold -- wie Gesten uns beim Sprechen helfen. Invited talk presented at the Rotary Club, Leonberg-Weil der Stadt.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2018, January. Post-speech gestures: semantic effects of gesture-speech alignment. Invited talk presented at the Ling Colloquium Series, Seminar für Deutsche Philologie, Universität Göttingen.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2017, December. Temporal sequence and the alignment of gesture and speech. Invited talk presented at the Institut Jean-Nicod, Département d’Études Cognitives Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2017, November. Temporal sequence and information status – with special attention on the interplay of gesture and speech. Talk presented at the Semantikzirkel, ZAS Berlin.
Ebert, Cornelia. 2017, October. Handling information from different dimensions (with special attention on gesture vs. speech). Invited talk presented at the Semantikkolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Posters:

Ćwiek, Aleksandra. 2021, October. Was war vor Wörtern da? Eine Reise in die Abgründe der Sprache. Poster presented at the Tabula Rasa at Berlin Science Week, Urania Berlin.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne. 2020, December. Hand-Mouth Coordination in a Pointing Task Requiring Manual Precision. Poster presented at the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production conference, online.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Ebert, Cornelia & Krifka, Manfred & Draxler, Christoph & Winter, Bodo & Perlman, Marcus. 2019, November. Comprehension of Non-Linguistic Vocalizations across Cultures. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Barnes, Kathryn & Ebert, Cornelia. 2019, November. At-issue Status of Iconic Items in Gesture, Sign & Speech. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2019, ZAS Berlin.
Żygis, Marzena & Fuchs, Susanne & Stoltmann, Katarzyna. 2019, October. Orofacial expressions in German questions and statements in voiced and whispered speech. Poster presented at the Amazon Research Days ‘Probabilistic Methods in Deep Learning’, Berlin.
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne. 2019, July. Iconic Prosody is Rooted in Sensorimotor Properties: Fundamental Frequency and Vertical Space. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada.
Żygis, Marzena & Fuchs, Susanne & Stoltmann, Katarzyna. 2018, September. Orofacial Expressions And Acoustic Cues In Whispered And Normal Speech. Poster presented at the 24th AMLaP conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2018), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Retrieved from https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/AMLaP2018/Program_files/AMLaP2018_proceedings.pdf
Ebert, Cornelia & Ebert, Christian & Hörnig, Robin. 2018, September. Vocabulary Learning Improves with Interactive Finger Gestures. Poster presented at the KogWis 14, Technische Universität Darmstadt.
Fuchs, Susanne & Savin, Egor & Ebert, Cornelia & Reichel, Uwe D. & Krifka, Manfred. 2017, September. Orality in a blogger corpus: Letter replication as prosodic amplification. Poster presented at the Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P13), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Ebert, Cornelia & Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Fuchs, Susanne & Krifka, Manfred. 2017, September. The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication: Gestures, Ideophones, Prosodic Modulations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of XPrag.de 2017, Universität zu Köln.
Żygis, Marzena & Fuchs, Susanne & Stoltmann, Katarzyna. 2017, August. Orofacial expressions in German questions and statements in voiced and whispered speech. Poster presented at the 5th Gesture and Speech Conference (GESPIN), Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan.