Temporal concepts are fundamental constructs of human cognition, but the trajectory of how
these concepts emerge and develop is not clear. Evidence of children's temporal concept …

We compare how humans retell stories to how ChatGPT retells stories in chains of three
retellings by different people or different accounts on ChatGPT. ChatGPT provides …

Negation is a fundamental component of human reasoning and language. Yet, current
neurocognitive models, conceived to account for the cortical representation of meanings (eg …

Although infants say “no” early, older children have difficulty understanding its truth‐
functional meaning. Two experiments investigate whether this difficulty stems from the …

Nach wie vor fehlt dem Ansatz „Leichte Sprache “weitgehend eine empirische Fundierung,
darauf wird in der Forschung und auch in diesem Band immer wieder hingewiesen. Es …

Pragmatics between artificial conversational partners in online discussions remain to this
day an under-developed field of research despite the rapidly increasing demand for artificial …

Spätestens seit der Ratifizierung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention durch die deutsche
Bundesregierung im Jahr 2009 wurde dem Phänomen „Leichte Sprache “in der …

Measuring the cognitive cost of interpreting the meaning of sentences in a conversation is a
complex task, but it is also at the core of Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory. In …

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of polarity-sensitive quantificational
strengthening. I claim that under certain conditions, specific expressions can strengthen from …

Adults find negative sentences difficult to process, but an informative context can facilitate
processing substantially, suggesting that much of this difficulty may come from the …