Dr. Merle Weicker

Publikationen

(*peer-reviewed)

Journal papers

Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (to appear). The role of negation position in German: Developmental patterns in children's comprehension. In R. Hill, X. Jiang, D. Worapipat & A. Yedetore (eds.), Proceedings of the 50th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 50) (pp. XXX–YYY). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

*Weicker, M., Heßler-Reusch, L. & Schulz, P. (2024). Wipe the table clean – German speakers construe telicity differently in adjectival resultatives and transitives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1) (Special Collection “Change of state expressions"). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.10105

*Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2024). Children and adults privilege linguistic over visual information when creating comparison classes for prenominal gradable adjectives. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 9(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9912

*Schütt, E., Weicker, M., Dudschig, C. (2023). Multimodal aspects of sentence comprehension: Do facial and color cues interact with processing negated and affirmative sentences? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001302


Papers in edited volumes

*Weicker, M. (2024). Teaching and learning the comparative in German: the role of semantic notions. In K. Zaychenko & H. Härtl (eds.), Grammatical Categories in Linguistics and Education (pp. 273-292) (Trends in Applied Linguistics series). Berlin: De Gruyter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140803-012

*Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2019). Red train, big train, broken train - semantic and syntactic aspects of adjectives in child language. In M. Rispoli & T. Ionin (eds.), Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research (pp. 203–221) (Language Acquisition and Linguistic Disorders Series). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. Publishing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.63.11wei


Papers in conference proceedings

*Portele, Y., Boila, C., Grimm, A., Torregrossa, J., Weicker, M. & Kaup, B. (2025). Pragmatic reasoning in context: Anticipating negation for adjectives. In F. Longo & D. Panizza (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 29 (pp. 1306-1317). Noto: University of Messina, C.U.M.O. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2024.v29.1277  

*Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2020). Not all gradable adjectives are vague – Experimental evidence from adults and children. In M. Franke, N. Kompa, M. Liu, J. L. Mueller & J. Schwab (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24 (pp. 406–422). Osnabrück University. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/sub/2020.v24i2.905

*Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2020). Not everything needs to be big or small: evidence from children's interpretation of vague adjectives. In M. M. Brown & A. Kohut (eds.), BUCLD 44: Proceedings of the 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 724–737). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

*Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2018). Is clean the same as not dirty? On the understanding of absolute gradable adjectives. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (eds.), Proceedings of the 42th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 790–802). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Edited volumes

Weicker, M., Lemmer, R., Listanti, A. & Grimm, A. (Eds.). (2024). Empirical and theoretical approaches to language acquisition: a generative perspective. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Monographs

Weicker, M. (2019). The role of semantic complexity for the acquisition of adjectives. Dissertation Goethe Universität Frankfurt.


Wörterbucheintrage

Weicker, M. & Schulz, P. (2025). Bedeutungserwerb. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) OnlineBerlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_id3e8806ce-2b0b-43d0-b4dd-3e07a621ee96/html

Weicker, M. & Reinert, C. (2025). Adjektiv. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) OnlineBerlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_id01692731-94a0-4fac-8730-0678df583483/html

Weicker, M. (2025). Dimensionsadjektiv. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_id31ec57bd-16a9-48fc-bb31-1c199e073090/html

Weicker, M. (2025). Graduierung. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk_ida381cff6-8e4e-4021-8d0b-134301e80dd3/html

Weicker, M. (2025). Modifikation. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk__38064204/html

Weicker, M. (2025). relatives Adjektiv. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk__36909826/html

Weicker, M. (2025). Gradadjektiv. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/database/WSK/entry/wsk__32770051/html




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