Dr. Katie Von Holzen

Research Assistant

Academic Qualification

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (2010 – 2013)
Dr. rer. nat. Psychology, magna cum laude
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA (2006-2009)
B.S. Psychology, summa cum laude

Previous Positions

International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) (2023 – present)
Media Coordinator
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany (2022-2026)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer and Researcher) in English Linguistics
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany (2019 – 2022)
Akademische Rätin (Senior Postdoc) at the Lehrstuhl Linguistik des Deutschen, Schwerpunkt Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache

University of Maryland, USA (2017-2019)
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Université Paris Descartes, France (2014-2017)
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Speech Group, Laboratorire Psychologie de la Perception

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany (2010-2013)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (PhD student) in the Junior Research Group “Language Acquisition” (Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie)

First, second and foreign-language acquisition
Individual learner variation
Accessibility and diversity
Open and reproducible approaches
Large-scale collaborations (Many Babies)
Cross-linguistic similarity algorithms
Developmental language outcomes

Publications

2024 (w. Tamari Berulava) Bare plurals in articleless languages are weak definites, Proceedings of SALT 34
2024 (w. Viola Schmitt) Non-de dicto construals as a unified phenomenon, Proceedings of SALT 34
accpt. Alternative questions in a trivalent semantics, Journal of Semantics
2023 (w. Ekaterina Vostrikova) Everyone except possibly Ann, Proceedings of SALT 33, Juhyae Kim, Burak Öney, Yao Zhang, and Fengyue Zhao (eds.), 131–150
2023 (w. Ekaterina Vostrikova) A unified semantics for exceptive-additive besides, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková and Radek Šimík (eds.), 399-416
2023 (w. Petra Augurzky, Marion Bonnet, Richard Breheny, Alexandre Cremers, Cornelia Ebert, Jacopo Romoli, Markus Steinbach, Yasutada Sudo) Putting plural definites into context, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27, Maria Onoeva, Anna Staňková and Radek Šimík, 19-32
2021 Intervention Effects: "How many books did you not read?", Companion to Semantics, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, T.E. Zimmermann, Wiley
2020 Intervention effects with negation, The Oxford Handbook of Negation, V. Déprez, M.T. Espinal, Oxford: Oxford University Press
2019 Triviality and interrogative embedding: context-sensitivity, factivity, neg-raising, Natural Language Semantics, 27/3, 227-278
2019 On a seemingly nonexistent cumulative reading, Snippets 37, 65-66
2018 Predicting polar question embedding, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21(2), 863-880. 21. R. Truswell (ed.). University of Edinburgh
2017 (w. Edwin Williams). 11-11-17. Festschrift für Martin Prinzhorn. Vienna: Wiener Linguistische Gazette
2017 (w. Viola Schmitt) Asymmetric coordination , The Wiley companion to syntax, second edition, M. Everaert and H. v. Riemsdijk, 392-423, John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ
2016 (w. Jacopo Romoli) A puzzle for theories of redundancy: exhaustification, incrementality, and the notion of local context, Semantics & Pragmatics 9/7, 1-48
2016 (w. Jacopo Romoli) Satisfied or exhaustifed: An ambiguity account of the proviso-problem. Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 26. M. Moroney, C.-R. Little, J. Collard & D. Burgdorf (eds.). Ithaca, NY: CLS Publications
2015 (w. Uli Sauerland) Accommodation and the Strongest Meaning Hypothesis. Proceedings of the 20th Amsterdam Colloquium, T. Brochhagen, F. Roelofsen & Nadine Theiler (eds.), 276-285. Amsterdam: ILLC
2015 Plural definite NPs presuppose multiplicity via embedded exhaustification, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 25, S. D'Antonio & M. Wiegand (eds.), 204-224. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications
2015 (w. Karolina Zuchewicz) Exhaustification of Polish disjunctive questions, Proceedings of NELS 45, T. Bui & Ozıldız (eds.), 179-192. Amherst, MA: GLSA
2014 Intervention effects and additivity, Journal of Semantics 31, 513-554
2013 On the consequences of an alternative semantics for the analysis of intervention effects, Alternatives in Semantics, A. Falaus (ed.), 123-149, Houndsville: Palgrave Macmillan
2013 Implicatures of modified numerals, From Grammar to Meaning: the spontaneous logicality of language, I. Caponigro and C. Cecchetto (eds.), 139-171, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
2013 Downward monotonicity in questions, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17, E. Chemla, V. Homer & Grégoire Winterstein (eds.), 345-362. Paris: ENS
2012 Focusing bound pronouns, Natural Language Semantics, 20/3, 299-348
2011 Licensing focus on pronouns and the correct formulation of AvoidF, Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 8, O. Bonami and P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), 359-381
2011 (w. Benjamin Spector) Not Too Strong! Generalizing the Scope Economy condition, Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 14, M. Prinzhorn, V. Schmitt & S. Zobel (eds.), 305-321
2010 On the Necessity of phi-features: The Case of Bavarian Subject Extraction, in Phoevos Panagiotidis (ed.) The Complementizer Phase: Subjects and wh-dependencies, 117-142, Oxford University Press, Oxford
2010 Contrastive salient alternatives: focus on bound pronouns, Semantics and Linguistic Theory 20, N. Li and D. Lutz (eds.), 161-178. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications
2009 Stylistic Inversion, Symmetry, and In-situ Subjects, in Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 43/2 2007, 185-199
2008 (with Viola Schmitt) On Extending the Application Domain of the CSC, in Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, eds. Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 318-325
2008 On the lack of subject-object asymmetries, in Proceedings of PLC 31, eds. Josh Tauberer, Aviad Eilam, and Laurel MacKenzie, 283-296