Talks & Posters
Invited talks
2023
A cross-modal account of dynamic binding in gesture-speech interaction, Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, September 2023.
with Markus Steinbach: Ideophones in the visual modality, Sinn und Bedeutung 28, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, September 2023.
with Prince Asiedu, Mavis Boateng Asamoah, Kathryn Barnes, Reginald Duah, Josiah Nii Ashie Neequaye, Yvonne Portele and Theresa Sender: On the information status of ideophones in Akan, The 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), Storrs, CT, June 2023.
Iconicity in language - on gestures and ideophones, 73. StuTS, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Frankfurt/Main, May 2023.
with Markus Steinbach: Ideophones in the Visual Modality, Paper presented in the Arbeitsgruppe 15 (Ideophones and Lexical Iconicity in Language) of the DGfS-Jahrestagung, Köln, March 2023.
2022
with Markus Steinbach: Visual Communication - With a Closer Look at Perspective Taking, Paper presented at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg, December 2022.
with Markus Steinbach: Perspective in the Visual Modality, Paper presented at the Workshop Fiction & Narrative across Media, Groningen, September 2022.
with Clemens Steiner-Mayr and Markus Steinbach (2022): Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments, Paper presented in the Arbeitsgruppe 5 (Visual Communication) of the DGfS-Jahrestagung, Tübingen, February 2022.
Revisiting the Attributive-Referential Distinction with Gesture Semantics, DIP Colloquium, Amsterdam, January 2022.
with Markus Steinbach: Gestische Demonstration und Perspektivwechsel in Laut- und Gebärdensprachen, Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC), University of Trier, January 2022.
2021
Gesture-speech alignment and its semantic interpretation, Workshop ‘Visual communication’. University of Göttingen, February 2021.
On the interpretation of co- and post-speech gestures, Reading Club of the RTG Situated Cognition, University of Bochum, January 2021.
2020
The semantic contribution of gesture-speech alignment, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Cologne, November 2020.
Aligning gesture and speech: The semantic effects of NP vs. DP alignment, Institute for Linguistik, University of Potsdam, November 2020.
Semantic effects of gesture-speech alignment, interdisciplinary research colloquium, University of Bochum, November 2020.
(cancelled) Gesture, Workshop Speech-Accompanying Gestures – Current Empirical and Theoretical Advances, Crete Ling Summer School, July 2020. Cancelled because of the Corona pandemic.
2019
Pointing - and its meaning, Workshop Super Linguistics, 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, Amsterdam, December 2019.
Gesture and language - a case study in vocabulary learning, Workshop ‘The Cognitive Benefits of Language - an Evolutionary Perspective’, University of Osnabrück, October 2019.
Free indirect discourse meets character viewpoint gestures, Workshop Linguistic perspectives on perspective-taking in narrative discourse, University of Wuppertal, June 2019.
2018
Iconicity in gesture, sign, and speech, Workshop Super Linguistics, University of Oslo, December 2018.
Wie man mit Gesten Sprachen lernt, Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Berlin Lichtenberg, Langer Nachmittag der Wissenschaften, September 2018. (How to learn languages with gestures, Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium Berlin Lichtenberg, Long Night of Sciences)
Attributive vs. referential readings: a closer look at the interplay of gesture and speech, Linguistik Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, July 2018.
The attributive/referential distinction as a side effect of the interplay of gesture and speech, research seminar Theoretische Philosophie, University of Göttingen, June 2018.
Reden ist Silber, Zeigen ist Gold -- wie Gesten uns beim Sprechen helfen (Talking is silver, pointing is gold -- how gestures help us while speaking), Rotary Club, Leonberg-Weil der Stadt, January 2018.
Post-speech gestures: semantic effects of gesture-speech alignment, Linguistics Colloquium Series, Seminar for German philology, University of Göttingen, January 2018.
2017
Temporal sequence and the alignment of gesture and speech, Institut Jean-Nicod, Département d'Études Cognitives Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, December 2017.
Semantische und pragmatische Effekte des Sprach-Gesten-Alignments (Semanctic and pragmatic effects of the speech-gesture-alignments), Goethe-University Frankfurt, November 2017.
Handling information from different dimensions (with special attention on gesture vs. speech), Institute for Linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, October 2017.
Co-speech vs. post-speech gestures, Peter Bosch memorial workshop, Institute für Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, February 2017.
2016
The semantic behaviour of co-speech gestures and their role in demonstrative reference, Institut Jean-Nicod, Département d'Études Cognitives Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, December 2016.
Commentary on talks by Philippe Schlenker, Carlo Geraci, Valentina Aristodemo, Mirko Santoro, Jeremy Kuhn, and Brent Strickland in the workshop Iconicity in Formal Semantics: Signs vs. Gestures, ISGS, July 2016.
2014
Co-speech gestures, demonstratives, and the attributive/referential distinction, Institute for Linguistics, Goethe-University Frankfurt, November 2014.
The interplay of speech-accompanying gestures with demonstratives and their significance for the attributive/referential distinction, Abteilungskolloquium der germanistischen Linguistik, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, June 2014.
The non-at-issue status of speech-accompanying gestures, Linguistik Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, May 2014.
2013
(with Christian Ebert) Gestures, demonstratives, and multidimensional meanings, Oberseminar Neuere Literatur zu Syntax und Semantik, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, December 2013.
Gestures, demonstratives, and multidimensional meanings, LAK, University of Cologne, November 2013.
Speech-accompanying gestures and multidimensional meanings, ZAS, Berlin, September 2013.
Gesture in formal semantics & pragmatics, SFB-Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, July 2013.
2012
Speech-accompanying gestures and their information-structural contribution, LAK, University of Cologne, June 2012.
2011
(with Britta Stolterfoht) Experimental support for topicality-based approaches to exceptional wide scope, Oberseminar Neuere Literatur zu Syntax und Semantik, Seminar for Linguistics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, December 2011.
(with Britta Stolterfoht) An experimental investigation of long-distance indefinites in English and German, Euro-XPRAG workshop Pisa, September/October 2011.
Experimental evidence for exceptional wide and intermediate scope readings of indefinites, Workshop The Proper Use of Quantification in Ordinary Language (PUQOL), ESSLLI 2011, Ljubljana, August 2011.
(with Britta Stolterfoht) Studie zum Skopus von Indefinita im Deutschen und Englischen (study about the scope of indefinita in the German and English language), Psycholinguistik-Lunch, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, July 2011.
2010
Gestures in formal semantics and pragmatics, Englisches Seminar, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, October 2010.
2009
Topics as Speech Acts – An Analysis of Conditionals, DIP-Colloquium, Amsterdam, November 2009.
"Max meinte, der und der hätte das und das gesagt" – Maximising presuppositions with a weird determiner in German, Kolloquium Semantik und Syntax, Seminar for Linguistics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, May 2009.
Topiks als Sprechakte – eine topikale Behandlung verschiedener Konditionale (Topics as speech acts – a topical treatment of different conditionals), Workshop Topikalität, University of Stuttgart, February 2009.
2008
Sprachbegleitende ikonische Gesten als konventionelle Implikaturen (speech-accompanying iconic gestures as conventional implicatures)), Institute for Language und Communication Science, RWTH Aachen, November 2008.
Information Structure, Workshop 'Gesture and Information Structure' of the SFB 673 "Alignment in Communication", University of Bielefeld, April 2008.
2007
Eingebettete Topik-Kommentar-Strukturen (embedded topic-comment-structures), Linguistisches Forum, Bergische University Wuppertal, December 2007.
Introducing a topic and saying something about it – the semantic effects of (non)embedded topics, Talk in the Project B 17 of SFB 441, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, December 2007.
On intermediate scope readings and topic-comment structure embedding operators, DIP-Colloquium, Amsterdam, November 2007.
On intermediate scope readings and topic-comment structure embedding operators, LUSH-series (Leiden Utrecht Semantics Happenings), Utrecht, November 2007.
Exceptional wide scope is a scope phenomenon, Workshop Specificity and Scope, University of Stuttgart, January 2007.
2006
Yes! There are! An answer to (Kratzer 1998), Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, December 2006.
Semantische Effekte der Topikalität (Semanctic effects of topicality), Kolloquium Pragmatik, University of Bielefeld, July 2006.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantificational variability effects with singular indefinites and bare plurals, Workshop Tübinger Welten, Ereignisse, Situationen und Zeiten, University of Tübingen, June 2006.
2005
Quantificational topics – interpretation and semantic effects, LingLunch, UCONN, Connecticut, November 2005.
Quantificational topics – interpretation and semantic effects, LingLunch, MIT, Boston, November 2005.
2004
(with Hans-Martin Gärtner) Relativische Verbzweitsätze und Definitheit (Relative sentences with verb-second (V2) word order and definiteness), Symposium Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie, Göteborg, May 2004.
2003
Die informationsstrukturellen Grundlagen weiter Skopusphänomene (The information structural basis of wide scope phenomena), Logisch-semantisches Kolloquium, Frankfurt, December 2003.
The information structural basis of wide scope phenomena, DIP-Colloquium, Amsterdam, June 2003.
Talks at conferences and workshops
2020
(with Thomas Weskott & Andreas Konietzko) Recovering Gestured and Spoken Material in VP Ellipsis and Pro-forms, Special Session on Gesture at SuB 2020. London. September 2020.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Free indirect discourse meets character viewpoint gestures: A reconstruction of Davidson’s demonstration account with gesture semantics, Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, February 2020.
2019
(with Christian Ebert & Robin Hörnig) Demonstratives as Dimension Shifter, Sinn und Bedeutung 24, Osnabrück, September 2019.
(with Robin Hörnig) Experimental evidence on the non-at-issueness of co-speech gestures and demonstratives as dimension shifters, Workshop DEICTES, University of Rijeka, June 2019.
2014
(with Christian Ebert) Gestures, demonstratives, and the attributive/referential distinction, Semantics and Philosophy in Europe 7, ZAS, Berlin, June 2014.
2010
(with Katharina Wilmes): Focus marking via gestures, Sinn und Bedeutung 15, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, September 2010.
(with Maria Cieschinger, Judith Degen & Manuela Schütze) Are intermediate scope readings dependent on embedding operators?, Linguistic Evidence: Empiricial, Theoretical, and Computational Perspectives, University of Tübingen, February 2010.
2008
(with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Topics as speech acts – an analysis of conditionals, WCCFL 27, Los Angeles, May 2008.
2007
(with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Embedding topic-comment structures results in intermediate scope readings, NELS 38, Ottawa, October, 2007.
(with Christian Ebert & Stefan Hinterwimmer) Intermediate scope readings as embedded speech acts, Sinn und Bedeutung XII, Oslo, September 2007.
2006
(with Christian Ebert) Functional topics, Sinn und Bedeutung XI (11th annual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Semantik), Barcelona, September 2006.
2005
(with Christian Ebert) German integrated verb second clauses, relative clauses, and information structure, ESSLLI 17 Workshop: Empirical Challenges and Analytical Alternatives to Strict Compositionality, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Schottland, August 2005.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification over events: the case of bare plurals and plural definites, Brussels Conference on Indefinites and Weak Quantifiers, Brüssel, January 2005.
2004
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Time intervals and sum eventualities, Sinn und Bedeutung IX, Nijmegen, November 2004.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Tense and context variables in quantification, The 2004 Milan Meeting, June 2004.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) The influence of tense and number marking on quantificational variability effects, Workshop: Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation, Leipzig, March 2004.
2003
(with Christian Ebert) Wide scope indefinites as aboutness topics, Sinn und Bedeutung VIII, Frankfurt, October 2003.
2001
(with Christian Ebert) Generalized quantifiers and in situ interpretation, ESSLLI 13 Workshop: Choice Functions and Natural Language Semantics, Helsinki, August 2001.
2000
(with Andreas Haida) The double scope of quantifier phrases, Sinn & Bedeutung V, Amsterdam, December 2000.
Guest talks
2021
Speech is silver, gesture is golden – on the semantic contribution of speech-accompanying gestures, FKH Bad Homburg, February 2021.
2019
On the (non-)at-issueness of gestures and the role of demonstratives, Linguistics Oberseminar, Institute for England and America Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, June 2019.
2018
Experimental studies on co- and post-speech gestures and their role in perspective-taking, Workshop Iconicity in speech and gesture, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, May 2018.
2017
Temporal sequence and information status – with special attention on the interplay of gesture and speech, Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, November 2017.
2015
(with Qingfeng Schwaderer): Gestures, appositives and truth value judgements -- An experimental series, Workshop Perspectives in Gesture & Sign Language Research, University of Stuttgart, September 2015.
2014
The semantic impact of co-speech gestures, Workshop Embodied meaning goes public – gestures, signs, and other visible linguistic effects of simulation processes, University of Stuttgart, December 2014.
The non-at-issue contributions of gestures and speculations about their origin, Workshop Demonstration and Demonstratives, University of Stuttgart, April 2014.
2010
(with Christian Ebert und Stefan Hinterwimmer), The interpretation of the German specificity markers 'bestimmt' and 'gewiss', Workshop Reference and Discourse Structure, University of Stuttgart, January 2010.
(with Carla Umbach) Grading by "gewiss", Specificity from theoretical and empirical points of view, University of Stuttgart, August/September 2010.
2008
(with Maria Cieschinger) ’Der und der hat mir neulich das und das erzählt’: on the interpretation of DPs with article conjunction, Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium, University of Bielefeld, March 2008.
2007
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer und Sophie Repp) The interplay of topicality and specificity in German, Workshop Funny Indefinites – Different Kinds of Specificity Across Languages, ZAS, Berlin, July 2007.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) The interpretation of direct and indirect aboutness topics, Workshop What's the topic?, Nijmegen, January 2007.
2006
(mit Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification and topicality, 1st International Conference of the SFB 632: Information Structure between Linguistic Theory and Empirical Methods, University of Potsdam, June 2006.
2004
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Quantification over events: the Case of bare plurals and plural definites, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, December 2004.
(with Hans-Martin Gärtner) Relative-like verb second clauses and definiteness, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, October 2004.
2003
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Die Auswirkungen von Tempus bei adverbieller Quantifikation (The impact of tense on adverbial quantification), Semantikzirkel, ZAS Berlin, August 2003.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) “?Ihr seid doch meistens Tiermediziner” – Quantificational variability and individual level predicates, Student Workshop der GKs Leipzig und Berlin, Berlin, May 2003.
Die informationsstrukturellen Grundlagen weiter Skopusphänomene (The information structural basis of wide scope phenomena), Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, May 2003.
2002
(with Gerhard Jäger) Specific indefinites: in situ interpretation and partiality, Workshop: The Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poreba, March 2002.
2001
Wide Scope-Interpretation und Quantorenphrasen, Semantikzirkel, ZAS, Berlin, June 2001.
Posters
(with Sebastian Walter & Giovanna Pirillo), The role of gesture-speech alignment for gesture interpretation, Linguistic Evidence 2020, University of Tübingen, February 2020.
(with Robin Hörnig) Experimental Studies on Co-Speech Gestures and their (Non-)At-Issueness, LingCologne 2019, University of Cologne, June 2019.
(with Christian Ebert & Robin Hörnig) Vocabulary Learning Improves with Interactive Finger Gestures, KogWis 14, University of Technology Darmstadt, September 2018.
The Pragmatic Status of Iconic Meaning in Spoken Communication: Gestures, Ideophones, Prosodic Modulations, XPRAG.de annual meeting, Cologne, September 2017.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) A Comparison of the Modal Particles fei and aber, Sinn und Bedeutung 22, Berlin/Potsdam, September 2017.
(with Stefan Hinterwimmer) Topic Interpretation in Determiner and Adverbial Quantification, NELS 36, Amherst, October 2005.
(with Christian Ebert) Topic Interpretation and Wide Scope Indefinites, NELS 34, Stony Brook, November 2003.
The Double Scope of Quantifier Phrases, NELS 31, Georgetown University, Washington, October 2000.
Other Activities
Workshop on "Visual Communication. New Empirical and Theoretical Developments", Workshop at the 44. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Universität Tübingen, organized by Cornelia Ebert, Markus Steinbach and Clemens Steiner-Mayr, Tübingen, 23.-25. February 2022
HCI International 2023 Session: “Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies: Towards a Behavioromics of Multimodal Communication”, Session organizers Cornelia Ebert, Andy Lücking and Alexander Mehler 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, virtually, (23-28 July 2023)
Co-Chair session “Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies: Towards a Behavioromics of Multimodal Communication” at the virtual conference HCI International 2022, Special Session at the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2022), 26 June – 1 July 2022.