My publications

Multilingual Language Experience and Heschl’s Gyrus Structure

July 01, 2020

Using TASH, a toolbox for the automated segmentation of the Heschl's gyrus, we explored relationships between anatomical measures, such as volume, surface area, thickness, and curvature, and language-experience measures like number and proficiency of spoken languages, age of acquisition, and duration of exposure.

Authors: Anna Palmann, Narly Golestani

Published in: MEi: CogSci Conference Proceedings

Publication Date: 2020


What's in a pun?

January 01, 2021

In this study, we quantified and compared phonological and semantic features in a punning joke and assessed their influence on perceived funniness.

Authors: Anna Palmann

Published in: MEi: CogSci Conference Proceedings

Publication Date: 2021


What’s in a pun? Assessing the relationship between phonological distance and perceived humorousness of punning jokes

January 21, 2024

In this study, we quantified the phonological distance between pun and target words and assessed possible correlations with humorousness ratings of the subsuming joke. Our statistical analyses on a large dataset of puns revealed a significant negative correlation between phonological distance and perceived humorousness for two of the four phonological distance measures applied.

Authors: Anna Palmann, Tristan Miller

Status: Submitted to HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research

Review Status: Under review.


Lokal- und Direktionalangaben im Südtiroler Dialekt des Raumes Überetsch - Eine syntaktische Bestandsaufnahme unter Berücksichtigung der semantischen Ebene

July 11, 2024

I investigated local and directional phrases used in South Tyrolean dialect, taking into consideration syntactic and semantic aspects.

Authors: Anna Palmann, Andreas Raffeiner, others

Published in: Eppaner Geschichten & Gschichtlen. Festgabe für Bürgermeister a. D. Dr. Franz Lintner zum 80. Geburtstag