Gerrit Kentner

Institut für Linguistik
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Tel: 0049-69-798-32401
eMail: kentner[AT]lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

[ Prosodic Syntax Project ] [ research interests ] [ publications ] [ talks and presentations ] [ dissertation ]

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Brief CV:

2015- : Principal investigator of project Prosodische Syntax des Deutschen - Sprachproduktion und Grammatik [Prosodic syntax of German - language production and grammar] funded by DFG
2014- : Associate researcher at DFG graduate school on Nominal Modification, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
2009- : Researcher and lecturer at the chair of Caroline Féry, Institut für Linguistik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
2006-2009: Research associate in the project "Prosody in Parsing" at the Linguistics Department at Universität Potsdam
2001-2006: Studied general linguistics and patholinguistics in Potsdam and Newcastle upon Tyne/UK
1998-2001: Professional education in speech and language therapy, Münster

research interests

Grammar, esp. syntax-phonology interface
Human language processing (production and perception)
Written language, literacy and orality, esp. implicit prosody
Prosodic Morphology, Prosodic Syntax

publications

Kentner, G. (eingereicht). Phonetik und Phonologie. In: Dipper, S., Klabunde, R., Mihatsch W. (Hgg): Linguistik. Eine Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten. Heidelberg: Springer.

Kentner, G. (to appear). Schwa optionality and the prosodic shape of words and phrases. In: Ulbrich, C., Werth, A., Wiese, R. (eds.). Empirical approaches to the phonological structure of words.

Kentner, G. (2017). On the emergence of reduplication in German morphophonology. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36(2), 233-277.

Kentner, G. (2017). Rhythmic parsing. The Linguistic Review 34(1), 123-155. pre-final version available on lingBuzz.

Kentner, G. and Steinhauer, K. (2016). Prosody in written language - acquisition, processing, emergence of norms. Research Topic in Frontiers in Language Sciences.

Kentner, G. and Vasishth, S. (2016). Prosodic focus marking in silent reading: effects of discourse context and rhythm. Frontiers in Language Sciences 7(319).

Féry, C., Pandey, P., Kentner, G. (2016). The prosody of Focus and Givenness in Hindi and Indian English. Studies in Language 40(2). 302-339.

Kentner, G. (2015). Problems of prosodic parallelism. A reply to Wiese & Speyer 2015. Linguistics 53(3), 1233-1241.

Kentner, G. (2015). Rhythmic segmentation in auditory illusions - evidence from cross-linguistic mondegreens. Proceedings of 18th ICPhS, Glasgow. [PDF].

Kentner, G. (2015). Stress clash hampers processing of noncanonical structures in reading. In: Vogel, R. and van de Vijver, R. (Eds.). Rhythm in Cognition and Grammar. A Germanic Perspective. Berlin: De Gruyter. 111-135.

McCurdy, K., Kentner, G., Vasishth, S. (2013). Implicit prosody and contextual bias in silent reading. Journal of Eye Movement Research 6(2):4, 1-17.

Kentner, G. and Féry, C. (2013). A new approach to prosodic grouping. The Linguistic Review 30(2), 277-311.

Kentner, G. (2012). Lingusitic rhyhtm and sentence comprehension in reading. Dissertation, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Kentner, G. (2012). Linguistic rhythm guides parsing decisions in written sentence comprehension. Cognition 123(1), 1-20.

Kentner, G. (2011). Rhythmus-Syntax-Interaktion beim Lesen. In S. Hanne et al. (Eds.), Spektrum Patholinguistik Bd. 4. Potsdam, Universitätsverlag.

Kentner, G. (2011). Kurzrezension von Christina Noack: Phonologie. Linguistische Berichte 226.

Féry, C. and Kentner, G. (2010). The prosody of embedded coordinations in German and Hindi. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 5th International Conference 2010, Chicago

Patil, U., Kentner, G., Gollrad, A., Kügler, F., Féry, C. and Vasishth, S. (2008). Focus, word order, and intonation in Hindi. Journal of South Asian Linguistics 1, 53-70.

Kentner, G., Féry, C., and Alter, K. (2008). Prosody in Speech Production and Perception: The Case of Right Node Raising in English. In A. Steube (Ed.), The Discourse Potential of Underspecified Structures: Event Structures and Information Structures. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Kentner, G. (2007). Prosodic Phrasing in Elliptic and Non-elliptic Coordinations. Proceedings of the XVI. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences; Saarbrücken.

Kentner, G. (2007). Length, Ordering Preference and Intonational Phrasing: Evidence from Pauses. Proceedings of Interspeech 2007; Antwerp.

selected talks and presentations

15 January 2018. From the phrase level down to the segmental tier: reduplication and repetition is pervasive in German. Oral presentation at workshop on Patterns of repetition in language use, Leipzig.

9 September 2017. Prosodic constraints on grammatical encoding in written but not spoken production. Poster presentation at AMLaP 2017, Lancaster, GB.

21 February 2017. Supra-lexical Prosodic Morphology in German. Oral presentation at OCP14, Düsseldorf.

16 February 2017. Prosodic Syntax in German - evidence from language production and reading. Invited talk at ZAS, Berlin.

12 January 2017. "Rhythmic alternation and parallelism in the morphophonology of German". Invited talk at Forschergruppe "Spoken Morphology", Düsseldorf.

22 October 2016. "Zur prosodischen Syntax des Deutschen". Presentation at GGS, Leipzig.

13/14 October 2016. "New evidence for prosodic parallelism affecting German morphophonology". Presentation at Phonetik und Phonologie, München.

13/14 October 2016 (with Isabelle Franz und Frank Domahs). "The impact of animacy and rhythm on the linear order of conjuncts in child language". Presentation at Phonetik und Phonologie, München.

13/14 October 2016 (with Isabelle Franz und Christian Dück). "Der optionale Komplementierer im Deutschen - ein Fall prosodischer Syntax". Presentation at Phonetik und Phonologie, München.

23 March 2016. "Prosodic realization of conflicting information structures". Presentation at Prosody and Information Structure, Stuttgart.

21 January 2016. "Patterns of prosodic prominence". Invited talk at IfL Phonetik, Cologne.

11 December 2015. "On being led up the rhythmic garden path: misheard lyrics and misread sentences." Invited talk at workshop on Rhythm in Language, Stuttgart.

9 October 2015 (with Michael Wagner): "Prosodie und Informationsstruktur bei der Wiedergabe der Figurenrede in narrativen Texten." Oral presentation at Phonetik & Phonologie 11, Marburg.

14 August 2015: "Rhythmic segmentation in auditory illusions - the case of cross-linguistic mondegreens." Oral presentation at ICPhS Glasgow.

25 November 2014: "Eye tracking research on the role of prosody in language comprehension." Invited talk at IfLA Uni Stuttgart.

30 October 2014: "Prosodic Parallelism and Rhythmic Alternation in the Morphophonology of German." Oral presentation at Empirical approaches to the phonological structure of words, Marburg.

15 September 2014: "Prosodie und Satzstruktur - vom Sprachproduktionsprozess zum narrativen Text"; talk given at Max Planck Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt.

16 July 2014: "The interactive formulator: Strong prosodic effects on syntactic choice"; Presentation at International Workshop on Language Production, Geneva.

16 April 2014: "Metrical segmentation in song perception - evidence from cross-linguistic mondegreens"; oral presentation at Miniconference on Metrical Structure, Utrecht.

13 March 2014 (with Mara Breen): "Sentence completion to the beat: Effects of implicit prosodic rhythm in English and German"; Poster at CUNY 2014, OSU, Columbus.

10 November 2013: "Reduplication in German"; Poster at Phonology 2013, UMASS, Amherst.

8 November 2013: "Prosody in language production and reading"; invited talk at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.

4 September 2013 (with Shravan Vasishth): "Implicit rhythm co-determines contextual integration in reading"; Poster at AMLaP 2013, Marseille.

21 March 2013 (with Kate McCurdy and Shravan Vasishth): "Implicit prosody and contextual bias in silent reading"; Poster at 26th Cuny Conference on Human Sentence Processing 2013, Columbia, SC.

2 November 2012: "Supralexikalische Prosodie und Satzverstehen beim Lesen"; Interdisziplinäres sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Marburg.

28 July 2012: "Computing rhythm in reading affects sentence comprehension"; Poster presented at LabPhon 13, Stuttgart.

7 October 2011: "Mischmasch, Schickimicki, balla-balla. Neues zur Reduplikation im Deutschen"; oral presentation at P&P7, Osnabrück.

23 September 2011: "Effects of syntactic embedding and branching direction on prosodic boundary strength in production and comprehension" (with Caroline Féry); Poster presentation at ETAP 2, Montreal.

28 April 2011: "Linguistic rhythm guides syntactic structure building - reading data and an OT-style processing model"; oral presentation at GLOW 34, Vienna.

30 March 2011: "Rhythm-syntax interaction in silent reading"; Poster presented at QITL 4, Berlin.

20 Nov 2010: "Rhythm is it"; invited talk at 4. Herbsttreffen Patholinguistik, Potsdam.

11 May 2010: "The prosody of embedded coordinations in German and Hindi" (with Caroline Fery); Poster presentation at SpeechProsody2010, Chicago.

05 March 2009: "Rhythm is crucial for incremental structure building in reading"; invited talk at DGfS 2009, Osnabrück.

teaching

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

WiSe 2016/17: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I; Prosodic Syntax
SoSe 2016: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II; Phänomene der Phonologie
WiSe 2015/16: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I; Prosodische Morphologie
SoSe 2015: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II; Phonologie II
WiSe 2014/15: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I; Phänomene der Phonologie
SoSe 2014: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II; Grammatik der Lyrik - lyrische Elemente in der Grammatik
SoSe 2013: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II; Prosodie in der Satzverarbeitung
WiSe 2012/13: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I; Prosodie in der Sprachproduktion
SoSe 2012: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II; Prosodische Prozesse in der Wortbildung
WiSe 2011/12: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I
SoSe 2011: Einführung in die Phonologie; Die Phonologie-Morphologie-Schnittstelle; Prosodische Prozesse in der Wortbildung
WiSe 2010/11: Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft II, Prosodie und Satzverarbeitung
SoSe 2010: Übung Phonologie I; Einführung in die Sprachwissenschaft I
WiSe 2009/10: Übung Phonologie I; Rhythmusphonologie

Universität Potsdam

WiSe 2008/09 (mit Caroline Féry): Prosodie in der Satzverarbeitung
SoSe 2008: Rhythmusphonologie

service

Conferences / workshops (co-)organized

Prosody in syntactic encoding (theme session at the annual conference of the DGfS, 8-10 March 2017, Saarbrücken)
Prosody and Information Structure (10 January 2014, Frankfurt)
Phonetik und Phonologie 6 (15-16 October 2010, Frankfurt)
Experimental studies on Intonation (5-7 January 2009, Potsdam)

Ad hoc reviews for

Glossa (2016,2017)
Journal of Memory and Language (2016)
rannís - Icelandic Center for Research (2014)
Oxford University Press (book chapter, 2014)
Frontiers in Psychology / Language Sciences (2014)
Journal of Phonetics (2013/2014)
Linguistics (2012/2013)
Lingua (2011/2012)

Reviews for conferences: ETAP2 2012, AMLaP 2012, PundP9 2013, ETI 2014, ETAP3 2015, ICPhS 2015, Speech Prosody 2016, Grammar and Corpora 2016, Going Romance 2017, PaPE 2017 (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe)