Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon


 Associate Professor of Linguistics

Head of the
Department of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
University of Klagenfurt

Universitätsstraße 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt

Visiting Card

 

Research Interests          Selected Publications      Presentations (since 1999)        Upcoming Conferences 

Current issues       Biographical Notes

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

*   Language Universals and Typology

*   Cognitive Linguistics

*   Morphology

*   Evolution of Language

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, a. (to appear 2009). Certains parallèles entre le langage et la musique, dans une perspective cognitive et évolutionaire. In O. Vitouch, I. Deliege  & O. Ladinig (eds.) Musique et Evolution. Liège : Editions Pierre Mardaga.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2009). Musical pitch in nonsense syllables: Correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives.  In: Jukka Louhivou et al. (eds.) Proceedings of 7th Triennal Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 2009), University of Jyväskyla, August 12-16, 2009. PDF of ms

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2009). Some Parallels between Language and Music from a Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective. Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue: Music and Evolution 2009-2010, 201-226.  PDF of ms 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2008). Scales and Cognitive Economy. In: V. Polyakov (ed.) Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies: Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics: Proceedings of the Xth International Conference, No 5, Vol. 2, 234-242. Kazan: Kazan State University Press. PDF of ms

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2008). Complexity trade-offs between the subsystems of language. In: M. Miestamo, K. Sinnemäki, F. Karlsson (eds.) Language Complexity: Typology, Contact, Change. “Studies in Language Companion Series”, 43-65. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. PDF of ms

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2007). Inference and Reference in Language Evolution. In: S. Vasniadou, D. Kayser & A. Protopapas (eds.) Proceedings of EuroCogsci07. The European Cognitive Science Conference, p. 889. Hove: Erlbaum.

Fenk-Oczlon,G. & Fenk, A. (2007). Linguistic complexity: conceptualizations and results. In: G. Smith & M. Jones (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, p. 1749. New York: Erlbaum.

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Word Classes and Word Order. In: R. Sun & N. Miyake (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in Vancouver, p. 2479. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. htm

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2006). Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate in Crosslinguistic Comparison.  In: R. Sun & N. Miyake (eds.) Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society in Vancouver, p. 2480. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. htm

Fenk, A.,  Fenk-Oczlon, G., & Fenk, L. (2006). Syllable Complexity as a Function of Word Complexity. (Menzerath’s Law)  In: V. Solovyev, V. Goldberg, V. Polyakov (eds.) The VIII th International Conference ‘Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics 2005’, Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies 11, 324-333. Kazan: Kazan State University.

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Crosslinguistic Computation and a Rhythm-based Classification of  Languages. In: M. Spiliopoulou, R. Kruse, C. Borgelt, A. Nürnberger, W. Gaul (eds.) From Data Information Analysis to Knowledge Engineering. Proceedings of the 29 th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, 350-357.  Berlin /Heidelberg: Springer. PDF of ms

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2006). Within-sentence distribution and retention of content words and function words. In: P. Grzybek (ed.) Contributions to the Science of Text and Language. Word Length Studies and Related Issues, 157-170. Dordrecht: Springer.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2005).Cognitive Constraints on the Organization of Language and Music. In: B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciareli (eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2476. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.  pdf: Cognitive Constraints on the Organization of  Language and Music. htm

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Winkler, Ch. (eds.), (2005). Sprache und Natürlichkeit. Gedenkband für Willi Mayerthaler. Tübingen: Gunther Narr.

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2005). Crosslinguistic correlations between size of syllables, number of cases, and adposition order. In: G. Fenk-Oczlon & Ch. Winkler (eds.) Sprache und Natürlichkeit. Gedenkband für Willi Mayerthaler, 75-86. Tübingen; Gunther Narr. pdf: Crosslinguistic correlations between size of syllables, number of cases, and adposition order. html

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2004). Systemic Typology and Crosslinguistic Regularities. In: V. Solovyev & V. Polyakov (eds.) Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies, 229-234.  Moscow: MISA. pdf: Systemic Typology and Crosslinguistic Regularities.  htm 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002). Zipf's Tool Analogy and Word Order. Glottometrics 5, 22-28.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002). The Clausal Structure of Linguistic and Pre-linguistic behavior.  In : T. Givon  & B.E. Malle (eds.) The Evolution of Language out of  Pre-Language. Typological Studies in Language 53, 215-229. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2002). Osvedomlennost', potok informacii i lingvistieskaja forma. In: V.D. Solovyev (ed.) Lekcii po kognitivnym naukam. Kazan: Otechestvo. http://www.ksu.ru/ss/cogsci04/education/fenk.rtf

Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2002). Kognitive Ökonomie - sprachliche Universalien. In: P.Anreiter, P.Ernst & I.Hausner (Hrsg.) Namen, Sprachen und Kulturen; Imena, Jeziki in Kulture. Festschrift für Heinz Dieter Pohl zum 60. Geburtstag, 203-220. Wien: Edition Praesens. pdf:  Kognitive Ökonomie - sprachliche Universalien. htm

Fenk-Oczlon, G. (2001). Familiarity, Information Flow, and Linguistic Form. In: J. Bybee and P. Hopper (eds.) Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure. Typological Studies in Language 45, 431-448. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pdf

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2001). Speech Segmentation and immediate memory span. Time or Chunks, or Time and Chunks. In: R.K. Potapova, V.D. Solovyev, V.N. Polyakov (eds.) Text Processing and Cognitive Technologies. Moscow: ZAO Metallurgizdat.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2001). What language tells us about immediate memory span. In: K.W. Kallus, N. Posthumus & P. Jimenez (eds.) Current psychological research in Austria. Proceedings of the 4th scientific conference of the Austrian Psychological Society, 175-179. Graz: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt. htm

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2000). The Magical Number Seven in Language and Cognition: Empirical Evidence and Prospects of Future Research. Papiere zur Linguistik, 2000, 62/63, 3-14. pdf htm

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. (1999). Symbolsystem Sprache. Denken & Glauben 99 (Themenheft Kommunikation), 19 - 23.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (1999). Cognition, Quantitative Linguistics, and Systemic Typology. Linguistic Typology, 3, 151 - 177. pdf

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (1995). Selbstorganisation und natürliche Typologie. Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung  (STUF), 48, 3, 223-238. pdf

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (1994). Psychische Präsenzzeit und Selbstorganisation von Sprache. In: K. H. Ramers, H. Vater & H. Wode (eds.) Universale phonologische Strukturen und Prozesse, 151-167. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. pdf

 

 

Ad ‘Frequency and Markedness’:

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1991. “Frequenz und Kognition - Frequenz und Markiertheit” Folia Linguistica 25: 361-394.

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1990b. “Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip. Am Beispiel russischer Aspekt- und Kasusbildungen” Papiere zur Linguistik  40: 46-69.

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1990a. “Ökonomieprinzipien in Kognition und Kommunikation“ In N. Boretzky, W.Enninger, T. Stolz (eds),  Spielarten der Natürlichkeit - Spielarten der Ökonomie, 37-50. Bochum: Brockmayer.

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1989b. “Geläufigkeit als Determinante von phonologischen Backgrounding-Prozessen“ Papiere zur Linguistik 40: 91-103.

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1989a. ”Word frequency and word order in freezes” Linguistics 27: 517-556.

 

 

PRESENTATIONS (since 1999)

9th Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Charles University, Prague, Oct 15-17, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G.: “Frequency versus iconicity revisited: Differential object marking and the length of aspect forms in Russian.” PowerPoint

Conference on “Monosyllabism: From Phonology to Typology, University of Bremen, Sept 28-30, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G.: “Monosyllabism from a systemic typological perspective” (invited speaker) PowerPoint

10th World Congress of Semiotics, A Coruna, Sept. 22-26, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Frequency effects on the development of polysemy and homonymy”

42nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Lisboa, Sept. 9-12, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Frequency Effects in Differential Object Marking”

7th Triennal Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, University of Jyväskyla, August 12-16, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Musical pitch in nonsense syllables: Correlations with the vowel system and evolutionary perspectives”

8th Biennal Conference of the Asociation of Linguistic Typology, University of California, Berkeley, July 23 –26, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Toward a typology of monosyllabic languages”

Workshop on Complexity, Typology and Acquisition (Ian Maddieson & Yvan Rose, org.), Collegium de Lyon, Institute for Advanced Studies, May 27-28, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G.: “Interactions of complexity among the subsystems of language” (invited contribution)

Int. Federation of Classification Societies 2009 Conference “Classification as a Tool for Research”, Dresden, University of Technology, March 13-18, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Measures of Semantic Complexity”

Int. Conference on “Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation”, Dubrovnik, Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2008. Fenk-Oczlon,G. & Fenk, A.: “Frequency and the emergence of polysemy”

10th  Int. Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, Becici, Montenegro, September 06-13, 2008. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: Scales and cognitive economy” (plenary talk) PowerPoint pdf

32nd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society, Hamburg, July 16-18, 2008. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Cross-linguistic regularities in the monosyllabic system” Abstract pdf

Conference on Music & Language II, Tufts University, Boston, July 10-13, 2008. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “Vowels, musical intervals, and Alpine yodeling” poster pdf

Workshop on Empirical Approaches to Speech Rhythm, University College London, 28 March 2008. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.: “A crosslinguistic measure of speech rate” poster pdf

Association for Linguistic Typology. 7th Biennal Meeting, Paris, September 25 - 28, 2007:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Typological differences in speech rate and rhythm: Different measures and new results”

 

10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow, July 15 - 20, 2007:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “What is semantic complexity?”

 

The Second European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, May 23 - 27, 2007:

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Inference and reference in language evolution”

 

Language and Music as Cognitive Systems, University of Cambridge, UK, May 11 - 13, 2007:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Syllables and clauses in language – notes and phrases in music” PowerPoint pdf

 

34. Österreichische Linguistiktagung,  Sektionen, Klagenfurt, 8.-10. Dezember 2006:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Komplexität im monosyllabischen System”

 

Second Biennial Conference on Cognitive Science, St. Petersburg, June 9-13, 2006:

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Information Processing Limitations and Linguistic Structure”

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “A Span of  Two Seconds and Seven Elements in the Segmentation of Language and Music?”

 

7. Tagung der österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Klagenfurt, 28.-30. April 2006:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Fundamental Patterns in the Rhythmic Organization of Language and Music”

 

The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, July 26-29, 2006:

Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Word classes and Word Order”

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate in Crosslinguistic Comparison”

 

International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”, Varna, Bulgarien, September 04-11, 2005:

Fenk, A., Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, L. “Syllable Complexity as a Function of Word Complexity” (plenary speaker)

 

Symposium “Approaches to Complexity in Language”, Helsinki, August 24-26, 2005:                                                                                                       

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Linguistic Complexity from a Systemic  Perspective”

Fenk, A., Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, L. “The Balance between Word Complexity and Syllable Complexity”

  

Association for . Linguistic Typology. 6th  Biennal Meeting, Padang, West Sumatra, July 21-25, 2005:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Systemic Typology – Systemic Optimality”

 

XXVII Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July 21-23, 2005:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Cognitive Constraints on the Organization of Language and Music”

 

9th Int. Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Seoul, Korea, July 17-22, 2005:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Frequency, Bleaching of Metaphors, and Polysemy”

Fenk-Oczlon, G. &  Fenk, A. “Parallels between Language and Music from a Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective”

 

The Science of Language: Structures of Frequencies and Relations. An International Symposium, University of Graz, July 1-3, 2005: Fotos

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Facets of Linguistic Complexity” (invited speaker)

 

29th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (GfKL 2005), Magdeburg, March 09-11, 2005:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Crosslinguistic Computation and a Rhythm-based Classification

 

32. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, 12.- 14. November 2004:

Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. „Intonationseinheiten in Sprache und Musik – kognitiv und evolutionär erklärbare Parallelen?

Fenk, A & Fenk-Oczlon, G. „ Zur Rolle sensorischer Speicher in der Evolution von Sprache“

 

University of Ljubljana, “Linguistischer Zirkel”, November 8, 2004:  Fenk-Oczlon, G. “Häufigkeit und sprachliche Struktur” (guest lecturer)

 

International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics 2004”, Varna, September 4-11, 2004: Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. “Systemic Typology and Crosslinguistic Regularities” (plenary speaker)

 

International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind, University of Portsmouth, July 18-20, 2004: Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A.

“Syllables and clauses in language – beats and phrases in music” University of Portsmouth | abstracts for oral presentations

 

Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of  Language. Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, March 30 - April 3, 2004:  Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Co-evolution of Language and Cognition" Index of /evolang2002/ABSTRACTS/TALKS

University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics, March 3rd, 2004. Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology" (guest lecturer)

University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of Linguistics, February 10th, 2004. Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology and Crosslinguistic Regularities" (guest lecturer)

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Department of Linguistics, November 21st, 2003. Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Systemic Typology" (guest lecturer)

DIATYPE Symposium on diachrony, dialectology and typological linguistics, University of Helsinki, October 16-18, 2003:
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "A view of English from a systemic-typological perspective" (paper accepted) Abstract

5th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT V), University of  Cagliari, September 15-18, 2003:
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "Crosslinguistic correlations between size of syllables, number of cases, and adposition order" Scientific Program, Abstract

8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of La Rioja, July 20-25, 2003:
Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. "The magical number seven in language processing"

30. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Universität Innsbruck, 6.-8. 12. 2002:                                                               FOTOS
Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G.: "Funktions-und Inhaltswörter in der statistischen Binnenstruktur von Sätzen"

Int.Tagung zur Quantitativen Textanalyse, Universität Graz, 21.-23.06. 2002:                                                             FOTOS
1) Fenk-Oczlon, G. "Häufigkeit, Länge und Variabilität von Kasusformen" (invited speaker)
2) Fenk, A. & Fenk-Oczlon, G. "The decay of function words in the recall of sentences of different size" (invited speaker)

Int. Symposium "Germanistik im Kontaktraum Europa II" Universität Maribor, 16.-20.04.2002. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Systemische Sprachtypologie" (plenary speaker)

29. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, 26.-28.10.2001. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Die magische Zahl 7 in Sprache und Kognition"

7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, July 22-27, 2001. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. : "What Speech Segmentation can Tell us about Memory Constraints"

Interdisciplinary Symposium "The Evolution of Language out of Pre-Language" Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, May 4-6, 2001. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. : "The Clausal Structure of Linguistic and Pre-Linguistic Behavior" (invited paper)

PRO SCIENTIA (Österreichisches Studienförderungswerk) Sommerakademie 2001, Rahmenthema „Sprache", Stift Michaelbeuern, 26.-30.08.2000. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Systemische Sprachtypologie" (invited speaker)

Universität Maribor, Institut für Germanistik, 27.03. 2001: "Geläufigkeit und sprachliche Form" (guest lecturer)

Akademija nauk Respubliki Tatarstan, Kazan, 20.10.2000: "Osvedomlennost', potok informacii i lingvistieskaja forma" (invited speaker)

International Conference on 'Cognitive Typology' University of Antwerp, April 12-14, 2000. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Cognitive Economy - Cognitive Typology"

Linguistische Konferenz "Princìpy stavby vyinu a fungovania jazyka" Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava 9.-10.3. 2000. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Geläufigkeit und sprachliche Form" (invited speaker)

International Conference "Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics 2000" Pereslavl'-Zalesskij, Russian Association of Artifical Intelligence, Computing Center of Russian Academy of Science, October 23-24, 2000. Fenk-Oczlon, G & Fenk, A. : "Speech Segmentation and Immediate Memory Span - Time or Chunks or Time and Chunks?" (plenary speaker)

Interdisziplinäres Symposium „Bewußtsein bei Mensch und Tier: systemtheoretische Betrachtungen" Wien 4.- 6. 5. 2000. Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. : "Gegenwartsdauer und sprachliche Segmentierung"

Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, 25.03.1999. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Natürliche Typologie" (guest lecturer)

Symposium on Frequency Effects & Emergent Grammar. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 28-30, 1999. Fenk-Oczlon, G. : "Familiarity and Linguistic Form" (invited paper)

 

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

9th Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Charles University, Prague, Oct 15-17, 2009. Fenk-Oczlon, G.: “Frequency versus iconicity revisited: Differential object marking and the length of aspect forms in Russian.”

CURRENT ISSUES

Sabbatical from October 1, 2003 to February 29, 2004

Visiting Colleague, Fulbright Research Grant, Dec 1/2003 – Feb 29/2004

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Linguistics,

 

University of New Mexico, Department of Linguistics,  Nov 17 – Dec 1, 2004

University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Linguistics,  March 1 – March 7, 2004

 

An abstract of Fenk-Oczlon, G. & Fenk, A. (2002) ‘The Clausal Structure of Linguistic and Pre-linguistic behavior’

has recently been published in the  CSA - Hot Topics  Series Language Origins of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

International Conference “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics”. Varna, Bulgaria 2004, 2005, Sofia 2007,  Becici Montengreo 2008, Constantza 2009, Program Committee

 

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

 

born in St.Johann im Pongau, Salzburg, Austria;

married to August Fenk; daughter Lisa (1981), son Lorenz (1985)

 

·         Studies at the University of Vienna (Ethnology, Russian)

·         Translator for Russian, University of Graz, Academic Diploma 1974

·         Linguistics, Slavic languages and literatures, and Psychology at the University of Klagenfurt. Mag. phil. 1978. Thesis title: “Ist der Informationsfluß in natürlichen Sprachen konstant?“

·         Dr. phil. (Linguistics), University of Klagenfurt 1981

 

Published version of the doctoral thesis:

 Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1983. "Bedeutungseinheiten und sprachliche Segmentierung. Eine sprachvergleichende Untersuchung über kognitive Determinanten der Kernsatzlänge."  Tübingen: G. Narr

 

·                     Habilitation. Venia docendi “General Linguistics” (1990). The Habilitation Thesis on “Geläufigkeit und sprachliche Form” (Familiarity and   Linguistic Form) includes the following articles:

 

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1989a. ”Word frequency and word order in freezes” pdf. Linguistics 27: 517-556.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1989b. “Geläufigkeit als Determinante von phonologischen Backgrounding-Prozessen“ pdf. Papiere zur Linguistik 40: 91-103.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1990a. “Ökonomieprinzipien in Kognition und Kommunikation“ pdf. In N. Boretzky, W.Enninger, T. Stolz (eds),  Spielarten der Natürlichkeit - Spielarten der Ökonomie, 37-50. Bochum: Brockmayer.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1990b. “Ikonismus versus Ökonomieprinzip. Am Beispiel russischer Aspekt- und Kasusbildungen” pdf. Papiere zur Linguistik  40: 46-69.

Fenk-Oczlon, G. 1991. “Frequenz und Kognition - Frequenz und Markiertheit” pdf. Folia Linguistica 25: 361-394.