Theresa Matzinger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Theresa Matzinger is involved.
Articles
2026 Sound changes are selected by a bias against morphotactic ambiguity Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper hypothesises that there is a universal cognitively and semiotically grounded preference for word-form shapes that signal the morphotactic structure of the word forms they represent. By exploring three historical changes in English, we demonstrate how such a bias might plausibly… read more
2025 Structural alignment leads to lower cognitive load in a collaborative task Interaction Studies 26:1, pp. 102–129 | Article
One of the characteristics of dialogue is that interlocutors tend to converge on the same linguistic choices, called alignment. In this paper, we aim to investigate whether structural alignment — the tendency to use the same syntactic structures — has a positive effect on cognitive load and task… read more
2024 A cross-cultural approach to cognitive state attribution based on inter-turn speech pauses Interaction Studies 25:3, pp. 393–434 | Article
This study explores how inter-turn speech pauses influence the perception of cognitive states such as knowledge, confidence, and willingness to grant requests in conversational settings. Longer pauses are typically associated with lower competence and willingness, but Matzinger et al. (2023)… read more