Research Topics
- Reference
- Information structure
- Discourse processes
- Syntax-semantics interface
- Experimental pragmatics
- Speaker-hearer interaction
- Psycholinguistics
- Speech disorders
Current Research Projects
- "Communication electrified - towards a natural investigation of real-time language processing" (Momentum-Funding of the VolkswagenStiftung)
- Project in the DFG Special Priority Program ViCom: "The gesture-to-sign trajectory: Phonological parameters in production and real-time comprehension" (with Pamela Perniss)
- Project in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language "Intonation and attention orienting: Neurophysiological and behavioral correlates" (with Martine Grice)
- Project in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora" (with Ingmar Brilmayer)
- Project in the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language "Predictive modelling" (with Martine Grice & Nikolaus Himmelmann)
- “Basal-Ganglia-Cortex interaction in motor speech” (UoC Forum Funding; with Michael Barbe & Doris Mücke)
Betreute Dissertationsprojekte
- Yu-Chen Hung (2011, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Topic matters - impact of information structure on referential processing: Evidence from Chinese and German
- Stefanie Reitz (2013, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Context-dependent interpretation of the conjunction 'und' in different age-groups
- Hanna Weiland (2014, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Experimental research into non-literal language: ERP studies on metaphors and metonymies
- Janina Kalbertodt (2019, Universität zu Köln): Right dislocation and afterthought in German - Investigations on mulitple levels
- Florian Bogner (2020, Universität zu Köln): The morphosyntactic parser – Developing and testing a sentence prrocessor that uses underspecified morphosyntactic features
- Lena Straßburger (2020, Universität zu Köln): It's a matter of life and death: Incongruity in humor and horror
- Caterina Ventura (2020, Universität zu Köln): Production, perception and online processing of prominence in the post-focal domain
- Melanie Fuchs (2021, Universität zu Köln): Interpretation and shift functions of emonstrative pronouns
- Paul Compensis (2022, Universität zu Köln): Processing and representation of clitic doubling and scrambling
- Christina Rath (2024, Universität zu Köln): The grammar-pagmatics interface in learners of German: Insights into the acquisition of speech act modification
- Maria Lialiou (2024, Universität zu Köln): Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing
- Magdalena Repp (2024, Universität zu Köln): D-pronouns in narrative texts: Examining referential behavior and neural processing
- Guendalina Reul (2025, Universität zu Köln): The conventionalization of ad hoc metonymy in naturalistic contexts: Investigating meaning shift and meaning adaptation in the brain
- Fabian Eckert (Universität zu Köln): Temporal alignment and processing of kinematic and acoustic prominence
- Robert Voigt (Universität zu Köln): Effects of referential competition on the resolution of German personal and demonstrative pronouns
- Ariana Acosta Araujo (Universität zu Köln): Stereotypes, argument structure and affective language in pronominal processing