Seminar für Deutsche Philologie (Alt)

Dr. Katja Suckow

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Germanistische Linguistik


General Information

Since 1.10.13 Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Germanistische Linguistik, Georg-August Universität Göttingen. 2010-2013 PhD: "Number interference in sentence processing" at the University of Dundee under the supervision of Dr. Roger van Gompel (funded by ESRC). 2009-2010 MSc "Psychological Research Method" at University of Dundee (funded by ESRC). 9.2008 - 12.2008 research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistic, Nijmegen with Prof. Andrea Weber in the junior research group "Foreign accented speech". 4.2007 - 9.2007 research assistant at the Department of German Language an Linguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin. 2006: M.A. American Studies, Philosophie, Computer Science Humboldt University, Berlin. M.A. Thesis under supervision of Prof. Shravan Vasishth. 2003 - 2006 student assistant at the Department of German Language and Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, Humboldt University, Berlin.


Interests

psycholinguistics, sentence processing, eye-tracking


peer-reviewed publications


  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R.P.G. (2018). Number attraction affects reanalysis processes in sentence processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33 (1), 1–18.
    doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1346812.


  • Nicenboim, B., Vasishth, S., Engelmann, F., & Suckow, K. (2018, in print). Exploratory and confirmatory analyses in sentence processing: A case study of number interference in German. Cognitive Science.


  • Holler, A. & Suckow, K. (eds.) (2016). Empirical Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution. Berlin: de Gruyter.


  • Holler, A., Suckow, K. (2016). How clausal linking affects noun phrase salience in pronoun resolution. In Holler, A. & Suckow, K. (eds.), Empirical perspectives on anaphora resolution. (p. 61-85) Berlin: de Gruyter.


  • Suckow, K. (2014). Number interference in sentence processing. Doctoral Thesis published at University of Dundee, School of Psychology.


  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2012). Does number interference occur during sentence processing? In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2357-2362). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.


  • Vasishth, S., Suckow, K., Lewis, R. L., & Kern, S. (2010). Short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension: Crosslinguistic evidence from head-final structures. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25 (4), 533-567.




Conference Posters and Presentations:


  • Suckow, K., Häussler, J. & Holler, A. (2019). Falling for the grammaticality illusion? Individual differences in the susceptibility to the missing-VP effect in German. Poster presented at CUNY 2019, Boulder, CO, USA.

  • Suckow, K. & Häussler, J. (2018). Individual parsing strategies in complex verb-final structures. Evidence from memory interference. Poster presented at AMLaP 2018, Berlin, Germany.

  • Suckow, K. & Häussler, J. (2018). How interference guides the missing VP effect in German. Poster presented at CUNY Sentence Processing Conference in Davis, CA, USA.

  • Suckow, K. & Häussler, J. (2018). How interference guides the missing VP effect in German. Talk presented at St Petersburg Winter Language Workshop 2018, St Petersburg, Russia.

  • Suckow, K., Gerle, S. & Holler, A. (2018). Discourse structuring and focus effects in complex sentences. Talk presented at LPTS 2018, Paris, France.

  • Suckow, K. & Patterson, C. (2017). Accessing illicit antecedents with morphological cues during anaphora resolution. Poster presented at AMLaP 2017, Lancaster, UK.

  • Suckow, K. & Gerle, S. (2017). Shifting focus within sentences in anaphora resolution. Poster presented at AMLaP 2017, Lancaster, UK.

  • Nicenboim, B., Engelmann, F., Suckow, K. & Vasishth, S. (2016). Number interference as predicted by cue-based retrieval. Poster presented at AMLaP 2016, Bilbao, Spain.

  • Suckow, K. (2015). How number attraction affects the comprehension of grammatical sentences. Talk Presented at St Petersburg Winter Language Workshop 2015, St Petersburg, Russia.

  • Nicenboim, B., Engelmann, F., Suckow, K. & Vasishth, S. (2015). Fail fast or succeed slowly: Good-enough processing can mask interference effects. Poster Presented at ICCM, Groningen, The Netherlands.

  • Nicenboim, B., Suckow, K. & Vasishth, S. (2015). Fail fast or succeed slowly: Good-enough processing can mask interference effects. Poster presented at CUNY 2015, University of Southern California, LA, USA.

  • Suckow, K. & van Gompel, R. P. G (2013). Distinguishing effects of number interference and number attraction in sentence processing. Poster presented at AMLaP 2013. Marseille, France.

  • Suckow, K. & van Gompel, R. P. G (2013). The time-course of cue-based interference effects. Poster presented at AMLaP 2013. Marseille, France.

  • Suckow, K. & van Gompel, R. P. G (2013). The time course of structural and number interference in sentence processing. Poster presented at 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Berlin, Germany.

  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2012). Does number interference occur during sentence processing? Poster presented at 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Sapporo, Japan.

  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2011). Does number interference occur during sentence processing? Poster presented at AMLaP 2011. Paris, France.

  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2011). Number interference in sentence processing. Poster presented at ECEM 2011. Marseille, France.

  • Suckow, K., & van Gompel, R. P. G. (2010). Similarity Based Interference is a Late Effect in Sentence Processing. Poster presented at AMLaP 2010. York, Great Britain.

  • Suckow, K., & Dietrich, R. (2007). Looking for the road most traveled by. A clustering approach to analyze saccades in online scene descriptions. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Eye Movements 2007. Potsdam,Germany: ECEM.

  • Suckow, K., Vasishth, S., Lewis, R. L. & Smith, M. (2006). Interference and memory overload during parsing of grammatical and ungrammatical embeddings. Poster presented at Cuny 2006. New York, USA.

  • Suckow, K., Vasishth, S., & Lewis, R. L. (2005). Interference and memory overload during parsing. Poster presented at AMLaP 2005. Ghent, Belgium.



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