The emergence of attraction errors during sentence comprehension

Acknowledgments
It is said that it takes a village to raise a child, and I want to add that the same
holds for finishing a dissertation. This analogy can be extended: both raising a
child and writing a dissertation take a long time, both require a lot of effort, both
involve love or at least some sort of passion in the case of the dissertation, and
for both letting go is a hard step. Any case, I want to thank the inhabitants of
my dissertation village. My thanks explicitly include those not mentioned here by
name.
First, I want to acknowledge my supervisor Josef Bayer. I thank him for reading
what I wrote critically and comment on it extensively despite the demands
on his time. His comments and questions helped me to see things in a broader
perspective. I benefited from his references to past and recent discussions in linguistics
whether directly related to the topic of the thesis or further afield. I am
especially indebted to Markus Bader. His role as colleague and teacher has been
indispensable. Working with Markus is a great pleasure and a valuable learning
experience. He generously shared his insights and ideas and provided help in various
ways whether to design experiments, analyze data, interpret results or prepare
presentations. Robert Hartsuiker agreed to be the external examiner. But this was
not his only contribution. He generously offered his lab and support for running
an experiment in Dutch. I am grateful for this as well as for our discussions which
helped me to clarify my point of view. Thanks also to Baris Kabak, who was not
only the fourth member of my committee but contributed in various other ways
too, including valuable comments on the thesis that went into the present version.
Many other people have directly or indirectly contributed to the thesis, in the
form of discussions, correspondence, judgments, criticisms, data sharing, technical
assistance, help in creating experimental stimuli, running experiments, proofreading,
. . . (in alphabetical order): William Badecker, Ellen Brandner, Eigao Mimasho,
Sam Featherston, Janet Fodor, Lyn Frazier, Sascha Gaglia, Janet Grijzenhout,
Scott Grimm, Julia Henninger, Marc-Olivier Hinzelin, Melanie Hochstätter,
Aditi Lahiri, Monique Lamers, Julia Löffler, Uli Lutz, Thomas Mayer, Emily Peterson,
Roland Pfau, Colin Phillips, Martin Salzmann, Tanja Schmid, Marianne
Schmidt, Adrian Staub, Rebekka Studler, Susanne Trissler, Matt Wagers, Tom
Wasow, Mathias Weisgerber, Frank Zimmerer. Thanks to all of you!
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