Judith SchlenterUiT The Arctic University of Norway · Department of Language and Culture
Judith Schlenter
PhD
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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Additional affiliations
March 2022 - February 2024
Position
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Description
- In March 2022, I started the project "Multilingual sentence processing in real-time (INSPIRE)", which is funded by the EU as part of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.
October 2019 - February 2022
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- From October 2019 until March 2022, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Attention and prominence in language production and acquisition” at the Collaborative Research Centre “Prominence in Language” in Cologne.
October 2014 - September 2019
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- In August 2019, I completed my PhD in Cognitive Science in the International Programme for Experimental and Clinical Linguistics (IECL) at the University of Potsdam. From October 2014 until September 2019 I worked as a research assistant at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM), where, from August 2017 onwards, I was responsible for the lab management.
Publications
Publications (10)
This review provides an update on what we know about differences in prediction in a first and second language after several years of extensive research. It shows when L1/L2 differences are most likely to occur and provides an explanation as to why they occur. For example, L2 speakers may capitalize more on semantic information for prediction than L...
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 scene affects the perception and description of the depicted transitive event. Previous research has shown that a visual property like the position of the patient relative to the agent can aff...
Poster presented at the 35th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing
The current study examined how German speakers described a scene where an agent acts upon a patient when the patient of the event was cued (a red dot preceding the patient, Experiment 1 vs. preview of the patient, Experiment 2). Prior research has shown that effects of attention manipulation on syntactic choice display cross-linguistic variation wi...
In a series of aesthetic judgement tasks, we found that speakers of German display a spatial agency bias if, and only if, a scene shows an agent performing an action in the direction of a patient. The experiments reported here replicate and extend previous findings, indicating that the position of the agent relative to the patient affects how speak...
This eye-tracking experiment investigated how morphological case affects German speakers’ descriptions of transitive events, specifically whether explicit case marking modulates speakers’ structural choices. To increase the production of non-canonical structures (passive, patient-initial active), we primed patients in event scenes with a red dot. S...
Eye-tracking during sentence production studies demonstrated that directing speakers’ atten-tion to one of the characters in an agentive event scene by means of a perceptual cue can affect speakers’ syntactic choice [e.g., 1-3]. In English, cueing of patients led to an increased number of passive voice utterances [1, 2]. In languages with flexible...
The current thesis examined how second language (L2) speakers of German predict upcoming input during language processing. Early research has shown that the predictive abilities of L2 speakers relative to L1 speakers are limited, resulting in the proposal of the Reduced Ability to Generate Expectations (RAGE) hypothesis. Considering that prediction...
Projects
Project (1)
The project INSPIRE (multilINgual Sentence Processing In Real-timE) will investigate two potential factors that influence multilingual sentence processing, cross-linguistic influence and language dominance, to shed light on the ongoing debate about how the language systems in a multilingual speaker's mind/brain interact.
This project has received funding from the European Union`s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101024414.
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101024414
