Publications

Monograph

Voigtmann, Sophia. How information density influences extraposition in scientific texts of the 17th to 19th centuries. Heidelberg: Winter.

Article

Ortmann, Katrin, Sophia Voigtmann, Stefanie Dipper and Augustin Speyer. 2024. "An information-theoretic account of constituent order in the German middle field". In Information structure and information theory, edited by Robin Lemke, Lisa Schäfer and Ingo Reich, 55-86. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13383787

Voigtmann, Sophia, and Augustin Speyer. 2023. "Where to place a phrase? An informational and generative approach to phrasal extraposition". Journal of Historical Syntax. Proceedings of the 22nd Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference 7 (19): 1-48. https://doi.org/10.18148/HS/2023.V7I6-19.151.

Speyer, Augustin, and Sophia Voigtmann. 2023. "Factors for the integration of causal clauses in the history of German". In Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses: Synchronic and Diachronic Insights, edited by Lukasz Jedrzejowski and Constanze Fleczoreck, 311-45. John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi.org/10.1075/slcs.231.11spe.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2022. "Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses". In Language Change at the Interfaces. Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, edited by Marco Coniglio, Chiara de Bastiani, and Nicholas Catasso, 235-52. Amsterdam / Philadlphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi.org/10.1075/la.275.08voi.

Voigtmann, Sophia, and Augustin Speyer. 2022. "Information density as a factor for syntactic variation in Early New High German". In Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2020, 113-33. Tübingen, Germany. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-75912.

Voigtmann, Sophia, and Augustin Speyer. 2021. "Information density and the extraposition of German relative clauses". Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.650969.

Speyer, Augustin, and Sophia Voigtmann. 2021. "Informational conditions for the independence of causal sentence statements. A diachronic view". Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner. News on theindependence of sentences. Hamburg: Buske.

Lectures and poster presentations

2025

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, February. It's All in the Past. An Experimental and Rational Approach to the Influence of the Sentence Onset on Past Tense Choice in German. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken, Germany.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2025, February. The Object Order in the German Middle Field through the Lens of Information Theory: A Diachronic Study. Poster presentation. Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS), Saarbrücken, Germany.

2024

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. Information Theoretical Perspectives on German Word Order Variation since the^15th Century. AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh, UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia and Augustin Speyer. 2024. The Impact of Information Theory on Word Order in German since the 15th Century. DiGS25, Mannheim, Germany.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. The influence of orality on scientific writing in New High German. HiSoN 2024 Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2024. A corpus linguistic study on NP extraposition in German scientific writing from 1650 to 1900. Linguistic Evidence 2024, Potsdam, Germany.

2023

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2023. 2023. Where do all the NPs go? - A corpus linguistic study on NP extraposition in German scientific writing from 1650 to 1900. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26), Heidelberg.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2023. How information density influences NP extraposition in early New High German. Poster presentation. LingCologne2023, Cologne.

2022

Voigtmann, Sophia and Katrin Ortmann. 2022. Relative Clause Adjacency as a Characteristic of 18th Century German. Poster presentation. International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL25), Oxford UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2022. Information Density and the Extraposition of Relative Clauses. Guest Lecture SFB 1287. Potsdam, online.

Ortmann, Katrin, Voigtmann, Sophia, Dipper, Stefanie & Augustin Speyer. 2022. An Information-Theoretic Account of Constituent Order in the German Middle Field. Poster presentation. 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Tübingen, online.

2021

Voigtmann, Sophia & Augustin Speyer. 2021. where to place a phrase? An informational and generative approach to phrasal extraposition. DiGS 2020, Constance, online.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2021. Information Density as a Measurement of Processing Difficulties in Historical Data. Workshop "Cognitive Mechanisms driving language change". SLE 2021, Athens, online.

2020

Voigtmann, Sophia & Augustin Speyer. 2020. Information Density as a factor for syntactic variation in Early New High German. Poster presentation. LE 2020, Tübingen.

2019

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses. Poster presentation. RAILS 2019, Saarbrücken.

Voigtmann, Sophia, Richard Gebracht, Dietrich Klakow & Augustin Speyer. 2019. Extraposition and Information Density in Early New High German Corpora. SLE 2019, Leipzig.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Information Density and the Extraposition of German Relative Clauses. Poster presentation. International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL19, Cardiff, UK.

Voigtmann, Sophia. 2019. Informational aspects of the extraposition of relative clauses. 41st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Bremen.