Forschung und Lehre

Forschungsinteressen

• Zweitspracherwerb und Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sprachverarbeitung, insb. Eyetracking
• Syntax und ihre Schnittstellen

Projekte

• Director of LingLabTU
• Principal Investigator (with Sarah Schimke): "Learning to Process and Processing to Learn: How linguistic and cognitive processing shapes grammar acquisition”, funded by DFG (2020-2023)
• Principal Investigator: "SILPAC – Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change”, a research unit funded by DFG (2022-2026)
• Principal Investigator (with Katie Von Holzen): "Ini-Seg - Initial foreign speech segmentation in school-aged children”, funded by DFG (2022-2025)
• Principal Investigator (with Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke): " BILDEV – Modelling bottom-up and top-down linguistic knowledge across different contexts of bilingual development”, funded by DFG (2023-2026), ANR and ESRC
• Principal Investigator: "MEG-SKoRe - Sprachliche und kognitive Ressourcen der Mehrsprachigkeit im Englischerwerb in der Grundschule", funded by BMBF (2014-2020)

Internationale Kooperationen

• since 09.2013: Associate member of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism at the University of Reading, UK
• since 06.2013: International Partner, PIRE Project "PIRE: Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience", National Science Foundation.
• 2019-2020: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (CAS), Project: “MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender”

• Quantitative Research in Linguistics
• First Language Acquisition
• Second Language Acquisition
• Child Multilingualism
• Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
• Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism
• Interfaces in Language Development
• Language Across the Lifespan: Acquisition, Aging and Attrition
• Multilingualism Across the Lifespan
• Cross-Linguistic Syntax
• Minimalist Syntax
• Semantics and Pragmatics of English
• Academic English
• Psycholinguistics
• Seeing Language: Eye Tracking in Linguistic Research
• Grammatical Processing in L1 and L2 Acquisition
• Topics in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics