Katharina Zahner-Ritter
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View article: The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling in perception experiments
The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling in perception experiments Open
View article: ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time Open
Much of our basic understanding of cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures of looking time, and specifically on infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation of many…
View article: ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time
ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time Open
Much of our basic understanding of cognitive and social processes in infancy relies on measures of looking time, and specifically on infants’ visual preference for a novel or familiar stimulus. However, despite being the foundation of many…
View article: The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese
The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese Open
The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages, ISQs and RQs in Standard Chinese can have the same surface str…
View article: How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents
How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents Open
This paper tested the ability of Mandarin learners of German, whose native language has lexical tone, to imitate pitch accent contrasts in German, an intonation language. In intonation languages, pitch accents do not convey lexical informa…
View article: Three Kinds of Rising-Falling Contours in German wh-Questions: Evidence From Form and Function
Three Kinds of Rising-Falling Contours in German wh-Questions: Evidence From Form and Function Open
The intonational realization of utterances is generally characterized by regional as well as inter- and intra-speaker variability in f0. Category boundaries thus remain “fuzzy” and it is non-trivial how the (continuous) acoustic space maps…
View article: Remote Testing of the Familiar Word Effect With Non-dialectal and Dialectal German-Learning 1–2-Year-Olds
Remote Testing of the Familiar Word Effect With Non-dialectal and Dialectal German-Learning 1–2-Year-Olds Open
Variability is pervasive in spoken language, in particular if one is exposed to two varieties of the same language (e.g., the standard variety and a dialect). Unlike in bilingual settings, standard and dialectal forms are often phonologica…