About the Authors

Franziska Kretzschmar

Affiliation Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Dominique Pleimling

Affiliation Institute of Book and Media Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Jana Hosemann

Affiliation Department of German Philology, Georg August-University, Göttingen, Germany

Stephan Füssel

Affiliation Institute of Book and Media Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky

Affiliation Department of Germanic Linguistics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

Matthias Schlesewsky

schlesew@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors confirm that their commercial funder Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH did not influence the study reported here in any way and that this source of funding does not compromise the authors‚ adherence to PLOS ONE policies. All data and materials are accessible in accordance with the journal's sharing policy. This does not alter the authors‚ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FK DP SF MS. Performed the experiments: FK JH DP MS. Analyzed the data: FK IBS MS. Wrote the paper: FK JH DP SF IBS MS.