Sabrina Gerth Research Group: Diversity and Inclusion Human Sciences Faculty University of Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25 D-14476 Potsdam / Golm phone: ++49 (0)331-977-2758 email: sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de Web: www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~gerth Education: 10/2011-11/2014 Ph.D. student, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. Memory Limitations in Sentence Comprehension: A Structural-based Complexity Metric of Processing Difficulty Supervisors: Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam) and Gregory Kobele (University of Chicago) 10/2001-01/2007 M.A. Computational Linguistics and Computer Science, University of Potsdam. Parsing with minimalist, weighted grammars and their state space representation (Magister-Thesis in German) Professional Experience: since 10/2013 Research Assistant in the Research Group: Diversity and Inclusion, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam. 10/2011 09/2013 Research Assistant at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM) lead by Harald Clahsen and Claudia Felser. 07/2010-06/2011 Research Assistant, Project C1 Contextually licensed non-canonical word order in language comprehension, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 632), Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. (project end: 30.06.11) 10/2007-10/2008 Software Developer in Java, development of server-client computer applications for the German Weather Service & World Meteorological Organization, Ernst Basler + Partner GmbH, Potsdam. 06/2007-03/2008 Graduate Assistant, Administrator of anti-plagiarism software Ephoros, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam. 06/2004-06/2006 Student Assistant, Project D1 Linguistic Database for Information Structure: Annotation and Retrieval, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 632), Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam. Sabrina Gerth sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de 1/5
07/2003-12/2003 Student Assistant, USI Artificial Language as an universal access to key concepts of Computer Science, Institute for Computer Science, University of Potsdam. (project end: 31.12.03) Teaching: Summer 2010 Teaching Assistant for Statistical Methods (Master's Course) co-taught with Prof. Dr. Shravan Vasishth, Department of Linguistics, University of Potsdam. Advising: Constanze Otto Strength of Garden-Path Effects in Native and Non-native Speakers Processing of Subject-Object Ambiguities in German, 2014, University of Potsdam, master s thesis co-advised with Claudia Felser. Publications: Gerth S., Otto C., Nam Y. & Felser C. (2015) Strength of garden-path effects in native and nonnative speakers' processing of object-subject ambiguities. International Journal of Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1177/1367006915604401 Gerth S. (2015). Memory Limitations in Sentence Comprehension: A Structural-based Complexity Metric of Processing Difficulty. Potsdam Cognitive Science Series 6, Potsdam: Universitätsverlag. Clahsen H., Gerth S., Heyer V. & Schott E. (2015). Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways: Evidence from plurals inside compounds. The Mental Lexicon, 10(1), pp. 53-87. Silva R., Gerth S. & Clahsen H. (2013). Morphological Constraints in Children's Spoken Language Comprehension: A visual world study of plurals inside compounds in English. Cognition, 129, pp. 457-469. Kobele G. M., Gerth S. & Hale J. T. (2013). Memory Resource Allocation in Top-Down Minimalist Parsing. In Glyn Morrill and Mark-Jan Nederhof (editors) FG 2012/2013, volume 8036 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 32-51. Springer, Berlin. beim Graben P. & Gerth S. (2012). Geometric representations for minimalist grammars. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 21(4), pp. 393-432. through a connectionist minimalist parser. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 3(4), pp. 297-316. through a connectionist minimalist parser. In A. Howes, D. Peebles, R. Cooper (Eds.), 9th International Conference on Computational Modeling - ICCM2009, Manchester, UK. beim Graben P., Gerth S. & Vasishth S. (2008). Towards dynamical system models of languagerelated brain potentials. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2(3), pp. 229-255. Sabrina Gerth sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de 2/5
beim Graben P., Gerth S., Saddy D. & Potthast R. (2007). Fock space representations in neural field theories. In: N. Biggs et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Waves 2007. The 8th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves, pp. 120-122, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Reading. Talks: Gerth S., Dolk T., Fließer M., Nottbusch G., Fischer M. H., Klassert A. & Festman J. (2015) Handschrift auf dem Tablet oder auf Papier macht es einen Unterschied? Eine graphomotorische Studie mit Vorschülern, Zweitklässlern und Erwachsenen. Talk presented at Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), 11th-13th March, Bochum, Germany. Gerth S. & Kobele G. (2013). A structural complexity-based metric of sentence processing difficulty. Talk presented at the 18th AMLaP Conference, 2nd-4th September, Marseille, France. Gerth S. (2013). Constructing materials for examining children's morphological processing. Invited talk presented at the workshop organised by the CLARIN working group 5: Human Speech Processing and the dlexdb project, 6th April, Berlin, BBAW. Heyer V., Gerth S., Silva R. & Clahsen H. (2012). The Time-Course of the Compounding Constraints during Listening: New Evidence from Visual World Eye-Tracking. Talk presented by Vera Heyer at the 8th International conference on the Mental Lexicon, 24-26 October, Montreal (Canada). Gerth S., Heyer V. & Clahsen H. (2012). The plurals-in-compounds effect in L2 English: New Evidence from Visual World Eyetracking. Talk presented at the 31st Second Language Research Forum, 18-21 October, Pittsburgh (PA). Kobele G. M., Gerth S. & Hale J. T. (2012). Memory Resource Allocation in Top-Down Minimalist Parsing. Talk presented by Gregory Kobele at the 17th conference on Formal Grammar, 11-12th August, Opole, Poland. Gerth S. & beim Graben P. (2009). A unification of symbolic and connectionist computation - A minimalist connectionist parser. Invited talk presented at the Syntax circle of the ZAS Berlin, 19th November, Berlin. beim Graben P., Gerth S., Hale J.T. & Vasishth S. (2009). Modeling processing gradiences through harmonic minimalist grammars. Talk presented by Peter beim Graben at the 10th Szklarska Poreba Workshop, March 12-16, Srenica (Poland). Gerth S. (2008). Tensor product models for language-related brain potentials. Invited talk presented at the Dynamical Systems in Language Workshop, 08-09 September, University of Reading (UK). Sabrina Gerth sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de 3/5
Peer-reviewed Presentations: Gerth S., Dolk T., Fließer M., Nottbusch G., Fischer M. H., Klassert A. & Festman J. (2015). Schreibt man unterschiedlich mit der Hand auf einem Tablet oder auf dem Papier? Poster presented at BIEN Jahrestagung 2015, 17th-18th September, Berlin, Germany. Winner of the best poster price. Schott E., Gerth S. & Clahsen H. (2013). Morphological constraints in spoken language comprehension: Evidence from acceptability judgments and eye movements in native and nonnative listeners. Poster presented by Esther Schott at the International Conference on Multilingualism, 24-25 October, Montreal, Canada. Gerth S., Otto C. & Felser C. (2013). Strength of garden-path effects in native and non-native speakers' processing of subject-object ambiguities in German. Poster presented at the 18th AMLaP Conference, 2nd-4th September, Marseille, France. Schott E., Gerth S. & Clahsen H. (2013). The Plurals-in-Compounds Effect in Native and Non- Native Language Comprehension. Poster presented by Esther Schott at the 8th Morphological Processing Meeting, 20th-22nd June, Cambridge, UK. Kobele G. M., Lagrou E., Engelmann F., von der Malsburg T., Musa R., Gerth R., van de Vijver R. & Hale J. (2012). Incremental processing difficulty in Cross-serial and Nested verb clusters. Poster presented by John Hale at the 18th AMLaP Conference, 6th-8th September, Riva del Garda, Italy. Gerth S., Boston M. F., Hale J.T. & Vasishth S. (2010). Predicting differences in sentence processing difficulty with an implemented complexity metric. Poster presented at the 23rd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 18 20 March, New York University. Gerth S. (2009). Trees are not necessarily green - in search of syntactic trees in the brain. Poster presented at the 2nd interdisciplinary Ph.D. symposium of the University of Potsdam, 22nd September, Potsdam. through a connectionist minimalist parser. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference on Computational Modeling - ICCM2009, 24-26 July, Manchester (UK). Gerth S. & beim Graben P. (2009). Syntactic Theory and Sentence Processing Difficulty: A Unification. Poster presented at the 22nd CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 26-28 March, Davis (CA). Gerth S., beim Graben P. & Vasishth S. (2009). Tensor product models for language-related brain potentials. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 21-24 March, San Francisco (CA). Gerth S., beim Graben P. & Vasishth S. (2008). Tensor product models for language-related brain potentials. Poster presented at the 21st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 13-15 March, Chapel Hill (NC). beim Graben P., Gerth S. & Vasishth S. (2008). Modeling language-related brain potentials by dynamical recognizers. Poster presented by Peter beim Graben at the 21st CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, 13-15 March, Chapel Hill (NC). Sabrina Gerth sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de 4/5
Grants: 10/2008 06/2010 Scholarship (1,5 years) awarded by the Graduate Program for Experimental Clinical Linguistics, University of Potsdam. 06/2011 09/2011 Scholarship (3 months) awarded by the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 632), University of Potsdam. 07/2010 Scholarship (6 months) awarded by the Potsdam Graduate School, University of Potsdam. (denied) Skills: Languages Programming Native German, Fluent English, Fluent French, Advanced Italian Matlab, Java, R, Perl, C++, XML, Prolog, Lisp, Pascal 03. August 2015 Sabrina Gerth sabrina.gerth@uni-potsdam.de 5/5