Publications

Peer-reviewed publications

1. Egurtzegi, A., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Martinez de la Hidalga, G., Bornkessel- Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., Laka, I., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., and Andrews, C. (accepted). The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque. Memory & Cognition.

2. Næss, Å. and Sauppe, S. (accepted). Bringing psycholinguistics to the field: Experiences from Solomon Islands. Language Documentation & Conservation.

3. Oderbolz, C., Stark, E., Sauppe, S.*, and Meyer, M.* (2024). Concurrent processing of the prosodic hierarchy is supported by cortical entrainment and phase-amplitude coupling. Cerebral Cortex, 34(12):bhae479. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhae479, bioRxiv preprint: 10.1101/2024.01.22.576636 — * joint senior authorship

4. Wilson, V. A. D., Sauppe, S., Brocard, S., Ringen, E., Daum, M. M., Wermelinger, S., Gu, N., Andrews, C., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bickel, B., and Zuberbühler, K. (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways. PLOS Biology, 22(11):e3002857. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857, bioRxiv preprint: 10.1101/2023.11.23.568086

5. Huber, E., Sauppe, S., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Merlo, P., and Bickel, B. (2024). Surprisal from language models can predict ERPs in processing predicate-argument structures only if enriched by an Agent Preference principle. Neurobiology of Language, 5(1):167–200. doi: 10.1162/nol_a_00121

6. Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Sauppe, S., Andrews, C., Laka, I., Meyer, M., and Bickel, B. (2024). Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(1):76–97. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023

7. Sauppe, S., Næss, Å., Roversi, G., Meyer, M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., and Bickel, B. (2023). An agent-first preference in a patient-first language during sentence comprehension. Cognitive Science, 47(9):e13340. doi: 10.1111/cogs.13340

8. Sauppe, S., Andrews, C., and Norcliffe, E. (2023). Experimental research in cross-linguistic psycholinguistics. In Zufferey, S. and Gygax, P., editors, Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics, chapter 10, pages 156–172. Routledge, London. doi: 10.4324/9781003392972-12

9. Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Flecken, M., Laka, I., Daum, M. M., Meyer, M., Bickel, B.*, and Sauppe, S.* (2023). The agent preference in visual event apprehension. Open Mind, 7:240–282. doi: 10.1162/opmi_a_00083 — * joint senior authorship

10. Egurtzegi, A. M., Blasi, D. E., Laka, I., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Meyer, M., Bickel, B., and Sauppe, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic differences in case marking shape neural power dynamics and gaze behavior during sentence planning. Brain and Language, 230:105127. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105127

11. Sauppe, S., Choudhary, K. K., Giroud, N., Blasi, D. E., Norcliffe, E., Bhattamishra, S., Gulati, M., Egurtzegi, A. M., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Meyer, M., and Bickel, B. (2021). Neural signatures of syntactic variation in speech planning. PLOS Biology, 19(1):e3001038. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001038

12. Sauppe, S. and Flecken, M. (2021). Speaking for seeing: Sentence structure guides visual event apprehension. Cognition, 206:104516. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104516

13. Barthel, M. and Sauppe, S. (2019). Speech planning at turn transitions in dialog is associated with increased processing load. Cognitive Science, 43(7):e12768. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12768

14. Sauppe, S. (2017). Word order and voice influence the timing of verb planning in German sentence production. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(1648). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01648

15. Sauppe, S. (2017). Symmetrical and asymmetrical voice systems and processing load: Pupillometric evidence from sentence production in Tagalog and German. Language, 93(2):288–313. doi: 10.1353/lan.2017.0015

16. Barthel, M., Sauppe, S., Levinson, S. C., and Meyer, A. S. (2016). The timing of utterance planning in task-oriented dialogue: Evidence from a novel list-completion paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(1858). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01858

17. Sauppe, S. (2016). Verbal semantics drives early anticipatory eye movements during the comprehension of verb-initial sentences. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(95). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00095

18. Holman, E. W., Brown, C. H., Wichmann, S., Müller, A., Velupillai, V., Hammarström, H., Sauppe, S., Jung, H., Bakker, D., Brown, P., Belyaev, O., Urban, M., Mailhammer, R., List, J.-M., and Egorov, D. (2011). Automated dating of the world’s language families based on lexical similarity. Current Anthropology, 52(6):841–875. doi: 10.1086/662127

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers

1. Torres, C., Morand, M.-A., Sauppe, S., and Bickel, B. (accepted). The effects of syntactic dependencies and speech tempo on macro-rhythm. In Proceedings of the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association.

2. Sauppe, S., Norcliffe, E. J., Konopka, A. E., Van Valin, R. D., and Levinson, S. C. (2013). Dependencies first: Eye tracking evidence from sentence production in Tagalog. In Knauff, M., Pauen, M., Sebanz, N., and Wachsmuth, I., editors, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 1265–1270, Austin, TX. Cognitive Science Society. 

Forthcoming work

1. Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Andrews, C., Huber, E., Meyer, M., Bickel, B.* and Sauppe, S.* (resubmitted). Neural correlates of processing case in adults and children. — * joint senior authorship

2. Egurtzegi, A., Blasi, D. E., Sauppe, S., Bickel, B., and Schnell, S. (under revision). Discourse ergativity and human reference in Basque.

Other

• Rai, N. K., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Schikowski, R., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., Gaenszle, M., Banjade, G., Rai, I. P., Batta, T. N., Sauppe, S., Rai, R. M., Rai, J. K., Rai, L. K., Rai, D. B., Rai, G., Rai, D., Rai, D. K., Rai, A., Rai, J. K., Rai, S. M., Rai, R. K., Pettigrew, J., and Dirksmeyer, T. (2011). छिन्ताङ शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण [Chintang Dictionary and Grammar]. Chintang Language Research Program, Tribhuvan University Kathmandu and University of Leipzig, Kathmandu.