Psycholinguistic research on Chinese
The main focus of this research group is on the interaction of information structure, event structure, and syntax in Mandarin Chinese.
'Serial-verb-constructions' in motion event encoding - morphological, syntactic, and contextual aspects
In this project we investigate whether Mandarin Chinese can indeed be classified as belonging to the "equipollently-framed" type.
Read more...Ditransitive constructions in Mandarin Chinese
This project investigates syntactic and morphological properties of Mandarin Chinese ditransitive constructions.
Read more...Neural correlates of language processing in Chinese
This project is a cooperation between neurologists, physicists (Dept. of Neurology) and linguists (IDF). It investigates how vowels with different tonal distinctions are processed in the brain.
Read more...Predicting object states in Mandarin Chinese - insights from the bǎ-construction
This project focuses on the resultative meaning of the Mandarin marker bǎ.
Read more...Processing discourse referents in Mandarin active and passive SOV sentences
In this project we ask, in how far information derived from the markers bèi and bǎ affect the interpretation of referents preceding and the prediction of referents following the markers.
Read more...The interaction of discourse salience, visual information uptake, and syntactic encoding in Mandarin Chinese
In this project we contrast Chinese and German with respect to how linguistic "givenness" affects speaker's lexical and syntactic choices.
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Motion-Event conceptualization and encoding by Chinese-German bilingual children
The focus of this project is motion event encoding in early bilingual language acquisition.
Read more...Top-down influences on event apprehension
To broaden our understanding of apprehension, the earliest stage of information processing in elicited language production studies, we analyze landing positions and onset latencies of first fixations on visual stimuli given short stimulus presentation times.
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