Papers

Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu. (2025). “Less formal and more rebellious — An experiment on the social meaning of negative concord in American English”. Negative Concord: A Hundred Years On, edited by Johan van der Auwera and Chiara Gianollo, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, pp.303-332. 10.1515/9783111202273-012. Link to the paper.

Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu. (2024). A register approach to negative concord vs. negative polarity items in English. Linguistics. 10.1515/ling-2023-0016. Link to the paper.

Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu. (2024). Counterfactual language, emotion and perspective: a sentence-completion study during the Covid-19 pandemic. Linguistic Vanguard. 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0139. Link to the paper.

Mingya Liu and Stephanie Rotter. (2023). Modal concord in American and British English: A register-based experimental study. Proceedings of the 58th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS58), University of Chicago. pp.277-288. Link to the paper.

Stephanie Rotter and Mingya Liu. (2023). Interlocutor relation predicts the formality of the conversation: an experiment in American and British English. REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation. 2(2). 10.18452/26192. Link to the paper.

Valentina Nicole Pescuma, Dina Serova, Julia Lukassek, Antje Sauermann, Roland Schäfer, Aria Adli, Felix Bildhauer, Markus Egg, Kristina Hülk, Aine Ito, Stefanie Jannedy, Valia Kordoni, Milena Kühnast, Silvia Kutscher, Robert Lange, Nico Lehmann, Mingya Liu, Beate Lütke, Katja Maquate, Christine Mooshammer, Vahid Mortezapour, Stefan Müller, Muriel Norde, Elizabeth Pankratz, Angela Giovanna Patarroyo, Ana-Maria Plesca, Camilo R. Ronderos, Stephanie Rotter, Uli Sauerland, Britta Schulte, Gediminas Schüppenhauer, Bianca Maria Sell, Stephanie Solt, Megumi Terada, Dimitra Tsiapou, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Melanie Weirich, Heike Wiese, Kathy Zaruba, Lars Erik Zeige, Anke Lüdeling, Pia Knoeferle, and Gohar Schnelle. (2023). Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology. 13-2022. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658. Link to the paper.

Mingya Liu, Stephanie Rotter, and Anastasia Giannakidou. (2021). Bias and modality in conditionals: experimental evidence and theoretical implications. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 50:1369–1399. 10.1007/s10936-021-09813-z. Link to the paper.