Publications of Kai Alter

Journal Article (30)

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

Book Chapter (13)

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