Research Groups
Research carried out at the lab is mainly experimental psycholinguistic research. We focus on the interrelation between language and cognition in a broad sense. Our research is organized in six research groups. Please choose one of the following groups to learn more.
Language and Visual processing
Projects in this group:
- Event conceptualisation and linguistic realisation: The impact of semantic and lexical factors on sentence production
- Top-down influences on event apprehension
- Tracking gaze movement while construing and talking about events: a cross-linguistic approach
- VIPICOL - Visual Information Processing In the Context Of Language
- Visual attention as a window to cognitive processing – A new method to analyze eye tracking data elicited from dynamic scenes
Time and Space in Language and Cognition
Projects in this group:
- A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions
- Event duration estimations are modulated by grammatical aspect
- Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks
- LANG-ACROSS: Utterance structure in context - L1 & L2 acquisition in a cross-linguistic perspective
Discourse Particles and Cognition
Projects in this group:
Psycholinguistic research on Chinese
Projects in this group:
- 'Serial-verb-constructions' in motion event encoding - morphological, syntactic, and contextual aspects
- Ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese
- Neural correlates of language processing in Chinese
- Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese - insights from the bǎ-construction
- Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences
- The interaction of discourse salience, visual information uptake, and syntactic encoding in Mandarin Chinese
Bilingualism and L2-Acquisition
Projects in this group:
- Gender processing and representation in the mental lexicon of bilinguals
- Grammatical encoding in German as a second language
- Grammatical gender sensitivity and biological gender errors in processing German personal and possessive pronouns
- Motion-Event conceptualization and encoding by Chinese-German bilingual children
- Phonological co-activation in Portugese-German bilinguals
- Referential coherence in first and second language learners
- Translanguaging and the Bilingual Brain