UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN

Current Research Projects

• "Communication electrified - towards a natural investigation of real-time language processing" (Momentum-Funding of the VolkswagenStiftung)
• "XPrag.de: New pragmatic theories based on experimental evidence" (Coordination of the DFG priority programme SPP 1727, with Uli Sauerland, ZAS) 

                         Video on the Priority Program

• Project in the DFG priority program XPrag.de "Processing speaker's meaning: Epistemic state, cooperation and commitment" 
• Project int he Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language "Intonation and attention orienting: Neurophysiological and behavioral correlates" (with Martine Grice)
• Project in the Collaborative Research Center 1252 Prominence in Language "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora"  

 

   

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

• Rebekka Wanka (Universität zu Köln): Numerusmarkierung im Spracherwerb

• Maria Lialiou (Universität zu Köln): The processing of rises and falls

• Magdalena Repp (Universität zu Köln): Interplay of prominence-lending cues and referential expressions in narrative texts

• Guendalina Reul (Universität zu Köln): The conventionalization process of ad hoc metonymies in naturalistic discourse contexts