Search Results - "Penke, Martina"

Literacy overrides effects of animacy: A picture-naming study with pre-literate German children and adult speakers of German and Arabic by Dolscheid, Sarah, Schlenter, Judith, Penke, Martina

“…Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing…”
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Quantifier comprehension is linked to linguistic rather than to numerical skills. Evidence from children with Down syndrome and Williams syndrome by Dolscheid, Sarah, Penke, Martina

“…Comprehending natural language quantifiers (like many, all, or some) involves linguistic and numerical abilities. However, the extent to which both factors…”
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Verbal short-term memory and sentence comprehension in German children and adolescents with Down syndrome: Beware of the task by Penke, Martina, Wimmer, Eva

“…In individuals with Down syndrome (DS) deficits in verbal short-term memory (VSTM) and deficits in sentence comprehension co-occur, suggesting that deficits in…”
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Morphosyntactic development in German-speaking individuals with Down syndrome-longitudinal data by Witecy, Bernadette, Wimmer, Eva, Neitzel, Isabel, Penke, Martina

“…The present study provides longitudinal data on the development of receptive and expressive grammar in children and adolescents with Down syndrome and…”
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Attention vs. accessibility: the role of different cue types for non-canonical sentence production in German by Dolscheid, Sarah, Penke, Martina

“…Introduction There is evidence of close links between the allocation of attention and the production of language. For instance, while speakers commonly produce…”
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The Alignment of Agent-First Preferences with Visual Event Representations: Contrasting German and Arabic by Esaulova, Yulia, Dolscheid, Sarah, Reuters, Sabine, Penke, Martina

“…How does non-linguistic, visual experience affect language production? A series of experiments addressed this question by examining linguistic and visual…”
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Mental State Verb Production as a Measure of Perspective Taking in Narrations of Individuals With Down Syndrome by Neitzel, Isabel, Penke, Martina

“…Introduction: Perspective taking is an important ability to enrich narrations by empathizing with a real or fictional character. Mental state verbs (MSV) are a…”
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Referent Cueing, Position, and Animacy as Accessibility Factors in Visually Situated Sentence Production by Esaulova, Yulia, Penke, Martina, Dolscheid, Sarah

“…Speakers’ readiness to describe event scenes using active or passive constructions has previously been attributed—among other factors—to the accessibility of…”
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Describing Events: Changes in Eye Movements and Language Production Due to Visual and Conceptual Properties of Scenes by Esaulova, Yulia, Penke, Martina, Dolscheid, Sarah

“…How can a visual environment shape our utterances? A variety of visual and conceptual factors appear to affect sentence production, such as the visual cueing…”
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When “one” can be “two”: Cross-linguistic differences affect children’s interpretation of the numeral one by Dolscheid, Sarah, Schleussinger, Franziska, Penke, Martina

“…In English, a lexical distinction is drawn between the indefinite determiner “a” and the numeral “one”. English-speaking children also interpret the two terms…”
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The Impact of Orthographic Consistency on German Spoken Word Identification by Beyermann, Sandra, Penke, Martina

“…An auditory lexical decision experiment was conducted to find out whether sound-to-spelling consistency has an impact on German spoken word processing, and…”
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Regular and irregular inflection in down syndrome – New evidence from German by Penke, Martina

“…The study aims to explore whether regular inflectional morphology is affected in children/adolescents with Down syndrome (DS). German past participle forms…”
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Theory of Mind in children and adolescents with Down syndrome by Neitzel, Isabel, Penke, Martina

“…To date, the evidence regarding False Belief (FB) abilities in individuals with Down syndrome (DS) has been both sparse and contradictory. Our study is the…”
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Language comprehension in children, adolescents, and adults with Down syndrome by Witecy, Bernadette, Penke, Martina

“…•Receptive language abilities in DS seem to plateau in adulthood.•Language comprehension is correlated with mental age and phonological working…”
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Verbal Agreement Inflection in German Children with Down Syndrome by Penke, Martina

“…Purpose: The study aims to explore whether finite verbal morphology is affected in children/adolescents with Down syndrome (DS), whether observed deficits in…”
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Prosodic prominence does not speed up word recognition in a word monitoring task with German adult speakers by Zeyer, Barbara, Penke, Martina

“…Prosodically prominent accent types have been proven to facilitate word recall as well as referent identification in eye-tracking studies. In the present…”
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Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition by Penke Martina

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(How) Visual properties affect the perception and description of transitive events by Schlenter, Judith, Penke, Martina

“…In a non-verbal aesthetic judgement task and a pre-registered production task, we tested how the orientation of the patient relative to the agent in a visual…”
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Deficits in comprehending wh-questions in children with hearing loss - the contribution of phonological short-term memory and syntactic complexity by Penke, Martina, Wimmer, Eva

“…The aim of the study is to investigate if German children with hearing loss (HL) display persisting problems in comprehending complex sentences and to find out…”
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Comparing Specific Language Impairment and Hearing Impairment: Different Profiles in German Verbal Agreement Morphology by Penke, Martina, Rothweiler, Monika

“…The study aims at identifying characteristic phenotypes for children with SLI and children with sensorineural hearing impairment (HI) in language and in…”
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