Dr. Katja Maquate

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• SFB 1412/1: Situation-Register-Kongruenz, Morphosyntax und Verb-Argument-Verletzungen: Echtzeit- und Post-Sentence-Verstehen (TP C03)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2020 - 12/2023 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle, Dr. Katja Maquate

• SFB 1412/2: Registerverständnis in Echtzeit bei mehrsprachigen Jugendlichen (TP C03)

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  Förderer: DFG Sonderforschungsbereich Zeitraum: 01/2024 - 12/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle, Dr. Katja Maquate, PD Dr. Natalia Gagarina

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• Special Elementary School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing of Argyroupolis

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• Johannesstift Diakonie Proclusio gGmbH

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• Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

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• Interautomation Deutschland GmbH

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• EBRAINS

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• German-speaking children use sentence-initial case marking for predictive language processing at age four

  2021

  Cognition · 18 Zitationen · DOI

• Referential vs. Non-referential World-Language Relations: How Do They Modulate Language Comprehension in 4 to 5-Year-Olds, Younger, and Older Adults?

  2021

  Frontiers in Psychology · 9 Zitationen · DOI

  Age has been shown to influence language comprehension, with delays, for instance, in older adults' expectations about upcoming information. We examined to what extent expectations about upcoming event information (who-does-what-to-whom) change across the lifespan (in 4- to 5-year-old children, younger, and older adults) and as a function of different world-language relations. In a visual-world paradigm, participants in all three age groups inspected a speaker whose facial expression was either smiling or sad. Next they inspected two clipart agents (e.g., a smiling cat and a grumpy rat) depicted as acting upon a patient (e.g., a ladybug tickled by the cat and arrested by the rat). Control scenes featured the same three characters without the action depictions. While inspecting the depictions, comprehenders listened to a German sentence [e.g., <i>Den Marienkäfer kitzelt vergnügt der Kater</i>; literally: "The ladybug (object/patient) tickles happily the cat (subject/agent)"]. Referential verb-action relations (i.e., when the actions were present) could, in principle, cue the cat-agent and so could non-referential relations via links from the speaker's smile to "happily" and the cat's smile. We examined variation in participants' visual anticipation of the agent (the cat) before it was mentioned depending on (a) participant age and (b) whether the referentially mediated action depiction or the non-referentially associated speaker smile cued the agent. The action depictions rapidly boosted participants' visual anticipation of the agent, facilitating thematic role assignment in all age groups. By contrast, effects of the non-referentially cued speaker smile emerged in the younger adults only. We outline implications of these findings for processing accounts of the temporally coordinated interplay between listeners' age-dependent language comprehension, their interrogation of the visual context, and visual context influences.

• Speakers' emotional facial expressions modulate subsequent multi-modal language processing: ERP evidence

  2022

  Language Cognition and Neuroscience · 7 Zitationen · DOI

  We investigated the brain responses associated with the integration of speaker facial emotion into situations in which the speaker verbally describes an emotional event. In two EEG experiments, young adult participants were primed with a happy or sad speaker face. The target consisted of an emotionally positive or negative IAPS photo accompanied by a spoken emotional sentence describing that photo. The speaker's face either matched or mismatched the event-sentence valence. ERPs elicited by the adverb conveying sentence valence showed significantly larger negative mean amplitudes in the EPN and descriptively in the N400 time windows for positive speaker faces - negative event-sentences (vs. negatively matching prime-target trials). Our results suggest that young adults might allocate more processing resources to attend to and process negative (vs. positive) emotional situations when being primed with a positive (vs. negative) speaker face but not vice versa. Post-hoc analysis indicated that this interaction was driven by female participants. We extend previous eye-tracking findings with insights into the timing of the functional brain correlates implicated in integrating the valence of a speaker face into a multi-modal emotional situation.

• Register and morphosyntactic congruence during sentence processing in German: An eye-tracking study

  2024

  Acta Psychologica · 3 Zitationen · DOI

  In the present study, we used eye-tracking to investigate formality-register and morphosyntactic congruence during sentence reading. While research frequently covers participants' processing of lexical, (morpho-)syntactic, or semantic knowledge (e.g., operationalized by means of violations to which we can measure responses relative to felicitous stimuli), less attention has been devoted to the full breadth of pragmatic and context-related aspects. One such aspect is sensitivity to formality-register congruence, i.e., the match or mismatch between the register of a target word and the formality conveyed by the (linguistic) context. In particular, we investigated how congruence of linguistic register with context formality, as well as its interplay with morphosyntactic knowledge, may unfold during reading and be reflected in eye movements. In our study, 40 native German speakers read context sentences conveying a formal or informal situation, and a target sentence containing a high- or low-register verb (e.g., Engl. transl. The policeman detained the activist vs. The policeman nabbed the activist) which matched or mismatched the formality of the preceding context sentences. We additionally manipulated subject-verb agreement, with either a match (see examples above) or a mismatch thereof (e.g., Engl. transl. *The policeman detain the activist; *The policeman nab the activist). We predicted that a violation of formality-register congruence would be reflected in longer reading times at the verb and post-verbal object region, as this would be in line with previous research on context violations (e.g., Lüdtke & Kaup, 2006; Reali et al., 2015; Traxler & Pickering, 1996). We found effects of morphosyntactic congruence on late processing stages at the verb and on earlier processing stages at the post-verbal object region. As far as formality-register congruence is concerned, only late (in total reading time analysis, in the post-verbal object region) and subtle effects emerged. The results suggest that, compared to morphosyntactic violations, formality-register congruence effects emerge quite subtly and slowly during reading.

• Age differences in spoken language comprehension: verb-argument and formality-register congruence influence real-time sentence processing

  2024

  Discourse Processes · 3 Zitationen · DOI

• Integration of Social Context vs. Linguistic Reference During Situated Language Processing

  2021

  Frontiers in Psychology · 3 Zitationen · DOI

  Research findings on language comprehension suggest that many kinds of non-linguistic cues can rapidly affect language processing. Extant processing accounts of situated language comprehension model these rapid effects and are only beginning to accommodate the role of non-linguistic emotional, cues. To begin with a detailed characterization of distinct cues and their relative effects, three visual-world eye-tracking experiments assessed the relative importance of two cue types (action depictions vs. emotional facial expressions) as well as the effects of the degree of naturalness of social (facial) cues (smileys vs. natural faces). We predicted to replicate previously reported rapid effects of referentially mediated actions. In addition, we assessed distinct world-language relations. If how a cue is conveyed matters for its effect, then a verb referencing an action depiction should elicit a stronger immediate effect on visual attention and language comprehension than a speaker's emotional facial expression. The latter is mediated non-referentially <i>via</i> the emotional connotations of an adverb. The results replicated a pronounced facilitatory effect of action depiction (relative to no action depiction). By contrast, the facilitatory effect of a preceding speaker's emotional face was less pronounced. How the facial emotion was rendered mattered in that the emotional face effect was present with natural faces (Experiment 2) but not with smileys (Experiment 1). Experiment 3 suggests that contrast, i.e., strongly opposing emotional valence information vs. non-opposing valence information, might matter for the directionality of this effect. These results are the first step toward a more principled account of how distinct visual (social) cues modulate language processing, whereby the visual cues that are referenced by language (the depicted action), copresent (the depicted action), and more natural (the natural emotional prime face) tend to exert more pronounced effects.

• Eye-tracking context formality effects in German and Japanese sentence processing

  2025

  Scientific Reports · DOI

  Context information can rapidly affect language processing. Yet, whether this holds for social information like respect and formality (e.g., talking to a teacher vs. student), and across languages adhering differently to social hierarchy (German vs. Japanese) is unclear. We manipulated (in)congruence of formality (match vs. mismatch) in German and formality-style (matching or mismatching social respect) in Japanese. Participants encountered context-target sentence pairs (mis)matching in formality (German), or within-sentence formality-style (mis)match (Japanese). For Japanese, another factor 'style' (exalted vs. humble) created this mismatch (e.g., exalted style matches actions by a teacher but not student). For German, (in)congruence between subject and verb inflection served as a morphosyntactic baseline: we expected rapid effects. Longer first-pass times for mismatches than matches at the first mismatching word would indicate immediate formality processing. In German, formality mismatch effects emerged later, and in later measures, compared to first-pass morphosyntactic mismatch effects. In Japanese, formality-style effects emerged at the first mismatching word in a "late" measure (only for exalted style), in first fixation duration, post-verbally. Our results contribute to characterizing formality effects across languages that differ in their adherence to social hierarchy, and in which social markers in language are (Japanese) versus are not (German) part of grammar.

• Eye-tracking context formality effects in German and Japanese sentence processing

  2025

  edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin) · DOI

  Context information can rapidly affect language processing. Yet, whether this holds for social information like respect and formality (e.g., talking to a teacher vs. student), and across languages adhering differently to social hierarchy (German vs. Japanese) is unclear. We manipulated (in)congruence of formality (match vs. mismatch) in German and formality-style (matching or mismatching social respect) in Japanese. Participants encountered context-target sentence pairs (mis)matching in formality (German), or within-sentence formality-style (mis)match (Japanese). For Japanese, another factor ‘style’ (exalted vs. humble) created this mismatch (e.g., exalted style matches actions by a teacher but not student). For German, (in)congruence between subject and verb inflection served as a morphosyntactic baseline: we expected rapid effects. Longer first-pass times for mismatches than matches at the first mismatching word would indicate immediate formality processing. In German, formality mismatch effects emerged later, and in later measures, compared to first-pass morphosyntactic mismatch effects. In Japanese, formality-style effects emerged at the first mismatching word in a “late” measure (only for exalted style), in first fixation duration, post-verbally. Our results contribute to characterizing formality effects across languages that differ in their adherence to social hierarchy, and in which social markers in language are (Japanese) versus are not (German) part of grammar.

• Introduction to the special issue individual differences in language prediction

  2025

  Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science · DOI

  This editorial introduces the special issue Individual differences in language prediction. Prediction is regarded as an important mechanism of language processing, but there are large individual differences in prediction. The papers in this special issue are informative about how individual differences modulate prediction and incremental processing. We discuss how they help enrich existing psycholinguistic models, using the social Coordinated Interplay Account as an example.

• Speakers' emotional facial expressions modulate subsequent multi-modal language processing: ERP evidence

  2022

  Figshare · DOI

  We investigated the brain responses associated with the integration of speaker facial emotion into situations in which the speaker verbally describes an emotional event. In two EEG experiments, young adult participants were primed with a happy or sad speaker face. The target consisted of an emotionally positive or negative IAPS photo accompanied by a spoken emotional sentence describing that photo. The speaker's face either matched or mismatched the event-sentence valence. ERPs elicited by the adverb conveying sentence valence showed significantly larger negative mean amplitudes in the EPN and descriptively in the N400 time windows for positive speaker faces - negative event-sentences (vs. negatively matching prime-target trials). Our results suggest that young adults might allocate more processing resources to attend to and process negative (vs. positive) emotional situations when being primed with a positive (vs. negative) speaker face but not vice versa. Post-hoc analysis indicated that this interaction was driven by female participants. We extend previous eye-tracking findings with insights into the timing of the functional brain correlates implicated in integrating the valence of a speaker face into a multi-modal emotional situation.

• Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

  SFB 1412/2: Registerverständnis in Echtzeit bei mehrsprachigen Jugendlichen (TP C03)

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Name

Dr. Katja Maquate

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Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Institut

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

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