PD Dr. Gerrit Kentner

Institut für Linguistik — Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Tel: 069-798-32393 — E-Mail: kentner[AT]lingua.uni-frankfurt.de

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Main research areas

• Kentner, G. and Féry, C. (2013). A new approach to prosodic grouping. The Linguistic Review 30(2), 277-311.
• Kentner, G. & Franz, I. (2019). No evidence for prosodic effects on the syntactic encoding of complement clauses in German. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 4(1), 18, 1-29.
• Kentner, G., & Kremers, J. (Eds.). (2020). Prosody in Syntactic Encoding. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. [Introduction]

• Kentner, G. (2012). Linguistic rhythm guides parsing decisions in written sentence comprehension. Cognition 123(1), 1-20.
• Kentner, G. and Vasishth, S. (2016). Prosodic focus marking in silent reading: effects of discourse context and rhythm. Frontiers in Language Sciences 7(319).
• Kentner, G. and Steinhauer, K. (Eds.) (2016). Prosody in written language — acquisition, processing, emergence of norms. Research Topic in Frontiers in Language Sciences.

• Kentner, G. (2017). On the emergence of reduplication in German morphophonology. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36(2), 233-277.
• Kentner, G. (2018). 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. De Gruyter.
• Kentner, G. (2022). DO NOT REPEAT: repetition and reduplication in German revisited. In: Eitelmann, M. Haumann, D. (Hgg): Extravagant Morphology. John Benjamins.

• Kentner, G. (2015). Rhythmic segmentation in auditory illusions — evidence from cross-linguistic mondegreens. Proceedings of 18th ICPhS, Glasgow.
• Kentner, G., Franz, I., and Menninghaus, W. (2022). Poetics of reduplicative word formation: evidence from a rating and recall experiment. Language & Cognition.