Ina D. Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

Publications

Monographs / edited volumes

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2009). Processing syntax and morphology: A neurocognitive perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., Friederici, A.D., & Comrie, B., Eds. (2006). Semantic role universals and argument linking: Theoretical, typological and psycholinguistic perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Bornkessel, I. (2002). The Argument Dependency Model: A Neurocognitive Approach to Incremental Interpretation. MPI-Series in Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, Leipzig.

Peer-reviewed journal articles / book chapters

Manuscripts accepted for publication / in press

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Grewe, T., & Schlesewsky, M. (in press). Prominence vs. aboutness in sequencing: A functional distinction within the left inferior frontal gyrus. Brain and Language. doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2010.06.004.

2012 (in press)

Kretzschmar, F., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Staub, A., Roehm, D., & Schlesewsky, M. (2012). Prominence facilitates ambiguity resolution: On the interaction between referentiality, thematic roles and word order in syntactic reanalysis. In P. de Swart & M. Lamers (Eds.), Case, word order, and prominence. Interacting cues in language production and comprehension (pp. 239-271). Berlin: Springer.

Wang, L., Schlesewsky, M., Philipp, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2012). The role of animacy in online argument interpretation in Chinese. In P. de Swart & M. Lamers (Eds.), Case, word order, and prominence. Interacting cues in language production and comprehension (pp. 91-119). Berlin: Springer.

2011

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Kretzschmar, F., Tune, S., Wang, L., Genç, S., Philipp, M., Roehm, D., & Schlesewsky, M. (2011). Think globally: Cross-linguistic variation in electrophysiological activity during sentence comprehension. Brain and Language, 117, 133-152.

Frenzel, S., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2011). Conflicts in language processing: A new perspective on the N400–P600 distinction. Neuropsychologia, 49, 574-579.

Lotze, N., Tune, S., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2011). Meaningful physical changes mediate lexical-semantic integration: Top-down and form-based bottom-up information sources interact in the N400. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3573-3582.

2010

Lohmann, G., Hoehl, S., Brauer, J., Danielmeier, C., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Bahlmann, J., Turner, R., & Friederici, A.D. (2010). Setting the frame: the human brain activates a basic low-frequency network for language processing. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1286-1292.

Schlesewsky, M., Choudhary, K. K., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2010). Grammatical transitivity vs. interpretive distinctness: The case for a separation of two levels of representation that are often conflated. In P. Brandt, & M. García García (Eds.), Transitivity. Form, Meaning, Acquisition, and Processing (pp. 161-186). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2009

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2009). Minimality as vacuous distinctness: Evidence from cross-linguistic sentence comprehension. Lingua, 119, 1541-1559.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2009). The role of prominence information in the real time comprehension of transitive constructions: A cross-linguistic approach. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 19-58.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., & von Cramon, D.Y. (2009). Word order and Broca's region: Evidence for a supra-syntactic perspective. Brain and Language, 111, 125-139.

Choudhary, K. K., Schlesewsky, M., Roehm, D., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). The N400 as a correlate of interpretively-relevant linguistic rules: Evidence from Hindi. Neuropsychologia, 47, 3012-3022.

Kretzschmar, F., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2009). Parafoveal versus foveal N400s dissociate spreading activation from contextual fit. NeuroReport, 20, 1613-1618.

Wang, L., Schlesewsky, M., Bickel, B., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). Exploring the nature of the "subject" preference: Evidence from Mandarin Chinese. Language and Cognitive Processes, 7/8, 1180-1226.

2008

Bai, C., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Wang, L., Hung, Y.-C., Schlesewsky, M., & Burkhardt, P. (2008). Semantic composition engenders an N400: Evidence from Chinese compounds. NeuroReport, 19, 695-699.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2008). An alternative perspective on "semantic P600" effects in language comprehension. Brain Research Reviews, 59, 55-73.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2008). Unmarked transitivity: A processing constraint on linking. In R. D. Van Valin (Ed.), Investigations of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface (pp. 413-434). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Demiral, Ş.B., Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2008). On the universality of language comprehension strategies: Evidence from Turkish. Cognition, 106, 484-500.

Domahs, U., Wiese, R., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2008). The processing of German word stress: Evidence for the prosodic hierarchy. Phonology, 25, 1-36.

Haupt, F.S., Schlesewsky, M., Roehm, D., Friederici, A.F., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2008). The status of subject-object reanalysis in the language comprehension architecture. Journal of Memory and Language, 59, 54-96.

Philipp, M, Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Bisang, W., & Schlesewsky, M. (2008). The role of animacy in the real time comprehension of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from auditory event-related brain potentials. Brain and Language, 105, 112-133.

Wolff, S., Schlesewsky, M., Hirotani, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2008). The neural mechanisms of word order processing revisited: Electrophysiological evidence from Japanese. Brain and Language, 107, 133-157.

2007

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Friederici, A.D. (2007). Neuroimaging studies of sentence and discourse comprehension. In G. Gaskell (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 407-424). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2007). The wolf in sheep’s clothing: Against a new data-driven imperialism. Theoretical Linguistics, 33, 319-333.

Grewe, T., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Zysset, S., Wiese, R., von Cramon, D.Y., & Schlesewsky, M. (2007). The role of the posterior superior temporal sulcus in the processing of unmarked transitivity . Neuroimage, 35, 343-352.

Marx, K., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2007). Resolving complex anaphors: An ERP study. In: M. Schwarz-Friesel, M. Consten, M. Knees (Eds.), Anaphors in text - Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference (pp. 259-277). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Roehm, D., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Rösler, F., & Schlesewsky, M. (2007). To predict or not to predict: Influences of task and strategy on the processing of semantic relations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1-16.

Roehm, D., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2007). The internal structure of the N400: Frequency characteristics of a language-related ERP component. Chaos and Complexity Letters 2, 365-395.

2006

Bornkessel, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2006). The extended Argument Dependency Model: A neurocognitive approach to sentence comprehension across languages. Psychological Review 113, 787-821.

Bornkessel, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2006). The role of contrast in the local licensing of scrambling in German: Evidence from online comprehension. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 18, 1-43.

Bornkessel, I., & Schlesewsky, M. (2006). Generalised semantic roles and syntactic templates: A new framework for language comprehension. In I. Bornkessel, M. Schlesewsky, B. Comrie & A.D. Friederici (Eds.): Semantic Role Universals and Argument Linking: Theoretical, Typological and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (pp. 327-353). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Friederici, A.D., Fiebach, C.J., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel, I., & von Cramon, D.Y. (2006). Processing linguistic complexity and grammaticality in the left frontal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 16, 1709-1717.

Grewe, T., Bornkessel, I., Zysset, S., Wiese, R., von Cramon, D.Y., & Schlesewsky, M. (2006). Linguistic prominence and Broca’s area: The influence of animacy as a linearization principle . Neuroimage 32, 1395-1402.

Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel, I. (2006). Context-sensitive neural responses to conflict resolution: Electrophysiological evidence from subject-object ambiguities in language comprehension. Brain Research 1098, 139-152.

Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel, I., & McElree, B. (2006). Decomposing gradience: Qualitative and quantitative distinctions. In G. Fanselow, C. Fery, R. Vogel & M. Schlesewsky (Eds.): Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives (pp. 124-142). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2005

Bornkessel, I., Zysset, S., von Cramon, D.Y., Friederici, A.D., & Schlesewsky, M. (2005). Who did what to whom? The neural basis of argument hierarchies during language comprehension. Neuroimage 26, 221-233.

Grewe, T., Bornkessel, I., Zysset, S., Wiese, R., von Cramon, D.Y., & Schlesewsky, M. (2005). The emergence of the unmarked: A new perspective on the language-specific function of Broca's area. Human Brain Mapping 26, 178-190.

Roehm, D., Bornkessel, I., Haider, H., & Schlesewsky, M. (2005). When case meets agreement: ERP effects for morphology-based conflict resolution in human language processing. Neuroreport 16, 875-878.

2004

Bornkessel, I., McElree, B., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2004). Multidimensional contributions to garden-path strength: Dissociating phrase structure from case marking. Journal of Memory and Language, 51, 495-522.

Bornkessel, I., Fiebach, C.J., & Friederici, A.D. (2004). On the cost of syntactic ambiguity in human language comprehension: An individual differences approach. Cognitive Brain Research, 21, 11-21.

Bornkessel, I., Fiebach, C.J., Friederici, A.D., & Schlesewsky, M. (2004). "Capacity" reconsidered: Interindividual differences in language comprehension and individual alpha frequency. Experimental Psychology, 51, 279-289.

Fiebach, C.J., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel, I., & Friederici, A.D. (2004). Distinct neural correlates of legal and illegal word order variations in German: How can fMRI inform cognitive models of sentence processing? In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton (Eds.), The on-line study of sentence comprehension (pp. 357-370). Hove: Psychology Press.

Roehm, D., Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel, I., Frisch, S., & Haider, H. (2004). Fractionating language comprehension via frequency characteristics of the human EEG. NeuroReport, 15, 409-412.

Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel, I. (2004). On incremental interpretation: Degrees of meaning accessed during sentence comprehension. Lingua, 114, 1213-1234.

2003

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Eliciting thematic reanalysis effects: The role of syntax-independent information during parsing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 268-298.

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2003). Contextual information modulates initial processes of syntactic integration: The role of inter- vs. intra-sentential predictions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 29, 871-882.

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2003)."And yet it moves" or why grammar overrides frequency: A reply to Kempen & Harbusch. Cognition, 90, 211-213.

Friederici, A.D. & Bornkessel, I. (2003). Missing the syntactic piece. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26, 735-736.

Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel, I. (2003). Ungrammaticality detection and garden path strength: A commentary on Meng and Bader’s (2000) evidence for serial parsing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 299-311.

Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel., I., & Frisch, S. (2003). The neurophysiological basis of word order variations in German. Brain and Language, 86, 116-128.

< 2003

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2002). Beyond syntax: Language-related positivities reflect the revision of hierarchies. NeuroReport, 13, 361-364.

Bornkessel, I., Schlesewsky, M., & Friederici, A.D. (2002). Grammar overrides frequency: Evidence from the online processing of flexible word order. Cognition, 85, B21-B30.

Schlesewsky, M., Bornkessel., I., & Meyer, M. (2002). Why a "word order difference" is not always a "word order" difference: A Reply to Weyerts, Penke, Münte, Heinze, and Clahsen. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31, 437-445.

Schlesewsky, M., Frisch, S., & Bornkessel, I. (2002). Sprachverstehen im Spannungsfeld der Geschlechterforschung: Eine neurophysiologische Perspektive. Germanistische Linguistik, 167-168, 154-176.

Schlesewsky, M., Frisch, S., & Bornkessel, I. (2001). Das Problem mit syntaktischen Funktionsambiguitäten: Eine kritische Betrachtung zu einem Überblick von Bader/Meng/Bayer/Hopf. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 20, 251-265.

Proceedings / Working papers

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Choudhary, K. K., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Bickel, B. (2008). Bridging the gap between processing preferences and typological distributions: Initial evidence from the online comprehension of control constructions in Hindi. In M. Richards & A. L. Malchukov (Eds.), Scales (Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, pp. 397-436). Leipzig: Institute for Linguistics, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Schlesewsky, M., & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2009). When semantic P600s turn into N400s: On cross-linguistic differences in online verb-argument linking. In K. Alter, M. Horne, M. Lindgren, M. Roll, & J. V. K. Torkildsen (Eds.), Papers from Brain Talk. The 1st Birgit Rausing Language Program Conference in Linguistics (pp. 75-97). Lund: Lund University, Media Tryck.

Popular science

Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Schlesewsky (2011) GuG

Schlesewsky, M. & Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I. (2008). Minimalität und Unterscheidbarkeit: Eine sprachübergreifende neurocognitive Perspektive auf zwei fundamentale Prinzipien des Sprachverstehens. In R.Rosenzweig, & H. Fink (Eds.), Neuronen im Gespräch. Paderborn: mentis-Verlag.