Publications of Kai Alter

Journal Article (30)

2003
Journal Article
Herrmann, C. S.; Friederici, A. D.; Oertel, U.; Maess, B.; Hahne, A.; Alter, K.: The brain generates its own sentence melody: A Gestalt phenomenon in speech perception. Brain and Language 85 (3), pp. 396 - 401 (2003)
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Kotz, S. A.; Meyer, M.; Alter, K.; Besson, M.; von Cramon, D. Y.; Friederici, A. D.: On the lateralization of emotional prosody: an event-related functional MR investigation. Brain and Language 86 (3), pp. 366 - 376 (2003)
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Lattner, S.; Maess, B.; Wang, Y.; Schauer, M.; Alter, K.; Friederici, A. D.: Dissociation of human and computer voices in the brain: evidence for a preattentive gestalt-like perception. Human Brain Mapping 20 (1), pp. 13 - 21 (2003)
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Meyer, M.; Alter, K.; Friederici, A. D.: Functional MR imaging exposes differential brain responses to syntax and prosody during auditory sentence comprehension. Journal of Neurolinguistics 16 (4-5), pp. 277 - 300 (2003)
2002
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Alter, K.: Realisierung und Verarbeitung von KORREKTUR-Konstruktionen. Zum Zusammenhang von Bedeutung und Intonation. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte (Lab) 79, pp. 255 - 274 (2002)
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Meyer, M.; Alter, K.; Friederici, A. D.; Lohmann, G.; von Cramon, D. Y.: FMRI reveals brain regions mediating slow prosodic modulations in spoken sentences. Human Brain Mapping 17 (2), pp. 73 - 88 (2002)
2001
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Friedrich, C. K.; Alter, K.; Kotz, S. A.: An electrophysiological response to different pitch contours in words. NeuroReport 12 (15), pp. 3189 - 3191 (2001)
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Schirmer, A.; Alter, K.; Kotz, S. A.; Friederici, A. D.: Lateralization of prosody during language production: A lesion study. Brain and Language 76 (1), pp. 1 - 17 (2001)
2000
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Hruska, C.; Alter, K.; Steinhauer, K.; Steube, A.: Can wrong prosodic information be mistaken by the brain? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Suppl. S), p. 122 (2000)
1999
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Steinhauer, K.; Alter, K.; Friederici, A. D.: Brain potentials indicate immediate use of prosodic cues in natural speech processing. Nature Neuroscience 2 (2), pp. 191 - 196 (1999)

Book Chapter (13)

2004
Book Chapter
Alter, K.: Neurophysiologische Grundlagen der Sprachverarbeitung. In: Die Erforschung des letzten Kontinents: Aktuelle Ergebnisse der Hirnforschung, pp. 21 - 36 (Eds. Gmelin, B.; Weidinger, H.). Helmut Seubert, Nürnberg (2004)
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Alter, K.; Spaeth, A.: Information structure and modular grammar. In: Information structure: Theoretical and empirical aspects, Vol. Language, context, and cognition, pp. 15 - 40 (Ed. Steube, A.). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (2004)
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Hruska, C.; Alter, K.: How prosody can influence sentence perception. In: Information structure: Theoretical and empirical aspects, Vol. Language, context, and cognition, pp. 211 - 226 (Ed. Steube, A.). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (2004)
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Sudhoff, S.; Lenertova, D.; Alter, K.: Zur Charakterisierung von Bezugskonstituenten der betonten Fokuspartikel ‚auch’ im Deutschen. In: Grammatik und Kontext: Zur Interaktion von Syntax, Semantik und Prosodie bei der Informationsstrukturierung, Vol. Linguistische Arbeitsberichte, pp. 159 - 179 (Ed. Steube, A.). Institut für Linguistik der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig (2004)
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Toepel, U.; Alter, K.: On the independence of information structural processing from prosody. In: Information structure: Theoretical and empirical aspects, Vol. Language, Context and Cognition, pp. 227 - 240 (Ed. Steube, A.). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin (2004)
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Umbach, C.; Mleinek, I.; Lehmann, C.; Weskott, T.; Alter, K.: Intonational patterns in contrast and concession. In: Information structure: Theoretical and empirical aspects, Vol. Language, context, and cognition, pp. 277 - 305 (Ed. Steube, A.). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (2004)
2003
Book Chapter
Alter, K.: Prosodie. In: Psycholinguistik - Ein internationales Handbuch. Psycholinguistics - An International Handbook, pp. 339 - 346 (Eds. Rickheit, G.; Herrmann, T.; Deutsch, W.). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin (2003)
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Alter, K.: Sentence segmentation: On the influence of prosodic boundaries and accents. In: Fonctions et moyens d'expression de la focalisation. Memoires du XIIIe colloque de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, pp. 115 - 136 (Eds. Lacheret, A.; Wichert, A.). Bibliothèque de l'Information grammaticale, Paris [France] (2003)
2002
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Alter, K.: Suprasegmentale Merkmale und Prosodie. In: Arbeitsbuch Linguistik, pp. 148 - 169 (Ed. Müller, H. M.). UTB-Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn (2002)
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Alter, K.; Meyer, M.; Steinhauer, K.; Friederici, A. D.; von Cramon, D. Y.: Brain responses related to prosodic information in natural speech: An event-related fMRI study. In: Sprachwissenschaft auf dem Weg in das dritte Jahrtausend. Linguistics on the way into the third millenium, pp. 21 - 26 (Ed. Zybatow, G.). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [et al.] (2002)
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