Publications

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Patterson C, Patil U, Ventura C, Lialiou M, Schumacher PB & Hinterwimmer S (2025). Why register might be more important than modality for the choice of demonstrative pronouns. Linguistische Berichte 281: 11-39. https://doi.org/10.46771/9783967699456_2

**Çokal D, Bishop J, Torregrossa J, Patterson C, Grice M, Wehrle S, Lialiou M, Repp S, Seeliger H, Eisenbeiß S, von Heusinger K, Vogeley K and Schumacher PB (2025). Individual differences in discourse management. Frontiers in Communication 10: 1448463. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1448463

**Schumacher PB, Patterson C & Repp M (2024). Famous protagonists interfere with discourse topicality during pronoun resolution. Glossa Psycholinguistics 3(1):9, 1. https://doi.org/10.5070/G60111226

**Patterson C & Schumacher PB (2023). How focus and position affect the interpretation of demonstrative pronouns. Collabra: Psychology 9(1): 75350. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.75350

**Schumacher PB, Patterson C & Repp M (2022). Die diskursstrukturierende Funktion von Demonstrativpronomen [“The discourse-structuring function of demonstrative pronouns”]. In: G Chiara, L Jędrzejowski & SI Lindemann. Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Cologne: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln. Link to full text (open access)

**Patterson C, Schumacher PB, Nicenboim B, Hagen J & Kehler A (2022). A Bayesian approach to German personal and demonstrative pronouns. Frontiers in Psychology 12: 672927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.672927

Puebla C, Patterson C & Felser C (2021). The timing of interference effects during native and non-native pronoun resolution. In: V Torrens. Syntax processing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Link to book page

**Patterson C & Schumacher PB (2021). Interpretation preferences in contexts with three antecedents: examining the role of prominence in German pronouns. Applied Psycholinguistics 42(6): 1427. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000291

Patterson C & Felser C (2021). Cleft focus and antecedent accessibility: the emergence of the anti-focus effect. In: Holler A, Suckow K & de la Fuente I. Information Structuring in Discourse. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004436725_004

**Patterson C & Schumacher PB (2020). The timing of prominence information during the resolution of German personal and demonstrative pronouns. Dialogue & Discourse 11: 1. https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2020.101

Patterson C & Felser C (2019). Delayed application of binding Condition C during cataphoric pronoun resolution. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 48: 453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-018-9613-4

Patterson C, Esaulova Y & Felser C (2017). The impact of focus realization on pronoun resolution in native and non-native speakers. Second Language Research 33: 403. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317697786

Jacob G, Lago S & Patterson C (2017). L2 processing and memory retrieval: Some empirical and conceptual challenges. (Commentary). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20: 691. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000948

**Cunnings I, Patterson C & Felser C (2015). Structural constraints on pronoun binding and coreference: evidence from eye movements during reading. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 840. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00840

**Patterson C (2014). The role of structural and discourse-level cues during pronoun resolution. Doctoral thesis, University of Potsdam. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/7128/

**Patterson C, Trompelt H & Felser C (2014). The online application of binding condition B in native and non-native pronoun resolution. Frontiers in Psychology 5: 147. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00147

**Cunnings I, Patterson C & Felser C (2014). Variable binding and coreference in sentence comprehension: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Memory and Language 71: 39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2013.10.001

**Patterson C (2013). Discourse coherence in pronoun resolution. Discours [Online], 12. https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.8820

**Patterson C (2012). The effect of local discourse coherence on pronoun resolution: an eye-tracking study. In: C. Gkonou and M. Alharbi (eds). Essex Graduate Student Papers in Language and Linguistics Online 13: 96. https://www1.essex.ac.uk/langling/documents/research/egspll_vol13.pdf