Employment and Education
since 2016 | W3 professor of German Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen |
2010-16 | W1 junior professor (tenure track W3) of German Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen |
2004 | Ph.D. in Linguistics, Leipzig University Committee: Anita Steube, Angela D. Friederici und Lyn Frazier |
2000-2004 | Ph.D. in Neuropsychology (directed by Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig |
| | Associated Member of the Graduate School "Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes", Leipzig University |
1999 | Magister Artium in Linguistics, Philosophy and Psychology, FU Berlin Advisor: Gisela Klann-Delius |
1990-1999 | studied German, Scandinavian Studies, Dramatics, Philosophy and Psychology, FU Berlin |
Research activities
04/2010-09/2010 | Temporary W1 junior professor of German Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen |
08/2009-03/2010 | Researcher in Project A1 (PI: Claudia Maienborn) of SFB 833 "The Construction of Meaning", University of Tübingen |
10/2008-07/2009 | Assistant professor, Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Tübingen |
10/2006-09/2008 | Researcher in Project B18 (PI: Claudia Maienborn) of SFB 441 "Linguistic Data Structures", University of Tübingen |
01/2006-09/2006 | Researcher (DAAD return fellowship) affiliated to the Institute of Linguistics (Psycholinguistics Chair, Thomas Pechmann), Leipzig University |
01/2005-12/2005 | Visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics und Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
05/2002-12/2004 | Doctoral researcher in Project "Temporal Segmentation of Acoustic Inputs" (PIs: Angela D. Friederici, Anita Steube, Kai Alter) in DFG Research Centre "Zeitgebundene Informationsverarbeitung im zentralen auditorischen System" MPI Leipzig for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Leipzig University |
Research interests
Linguistics: Syntax, semantics and pragmatics, linearization of arguments and adjuncts; Psycholinguistics: Processing of arguments and adjuncts, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic processes, information structural and prosodic factors
Methods
Acceptability ratings, reaction time measurement, self-paced reading, event related potentials (ERPs), eye-tracking
Awards and Scholarships
DAAD postdoc scholarship for a one-year research visit at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (2005)
Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award (16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, MA, 2003)
Academic self-administration (selection)
| Since 10/2022 | Deputy member of the Doctoral Committee and Habilitation Commission |
| 10/2018-10/2020 | Dean of Studies for Modern Philology (Teacher Education) |
| 04/2017-03/2018 | Dean of Studies for Modern Philology (Teacher Education) |
| 04/2017-10/2019 | Member of the Ethics Committee for Psychological Research |
Miscellaneous
2021-2024 Member of the Executive Committee as Secretary of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
2009/2010, 2014 Member of the Program Committee of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
Review and Editorial Activities:
2019 | Neuropsychologica |
| | Studies in Second Language Acquisition |
| | Topics in Cognitive Science |
| | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
2017 | Glossa |
| | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
| | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds |
2016 | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience |
2015 | Language, Cognition & Neuroscience |
| | Lingua |
| | Psychophysiology |
2013 | Brain Research |
| | Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung |
| | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
2013 | Lingua |
2012 | Language |
| | Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| | National Science Foundation |
2011 | Language and Cognitive Processes |
| | Language Learning |
| | Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation |
| | National Science Foundation |
2010 | Lingua |
| | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience |
2009 | Syntax |
| | Language and Cognitive Processes |
| | National Science Foundation (NSF) |
Conference Organisation:
2022 2020 | 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society Workshop "Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Modification" TExMod2020 |
2020 | Workshop "Event semantics 2020"
in Kooperation mit A1 und A5, SFB 833 Universität Tübingen |
2016 | Workshop "Position und Interpretation. Syntax, Semantik und Informationsstruktur adverbialer Modifikatoren " |
2015 | Workshop "The Division of Labor: A View from Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure and Processing" (in Kooperation mit den Projekten A1, A4, A7, B1, C6, Z2, SFB 833) |
2014 | Workshop "Modifikatoren in Korpora des Deutschen" von Dr. Hagen Hirschmann (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) |
2012 | AG "Information Structure and its Role in Non-Typical Environments"
committee of the 34. annual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Frankfurt am Main (with Sebastian Bücking, University of Tübingen, and Tatjana Heyde-Zybatow, University of Flensburg) |
2010 | Workshop "Zugänglichkeit impliziter Ereignisse"
University of Tübingen / SFB 833 "The Construction of Meaning" (with Sebastian Bücking, Helga Gese, and Claudia Maienborn) |
| Linguistic Evidence 2010 – Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives, Tübingen. |
2008 | Linguistic Evidence 2008 – Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives, Tübingen. |
2003 | Syntax and Beyond - International Workshop On Syntactic Processing and its Relation to the Processing of Discourse, Information Structure, Semantics and Prosody (SaB), Leipzig. |
2000 | Cognitive Processing and its Functional Representation in the Brain (Language, Memory, and Executive Functions): 2nd Tutorials in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (TuBBS), Wörlitz. |
Public events
| 28.03.2016 | Linguistic student laboratory on the topic "Wie verstehen wir sprachliche Äußerungen? Ein psycholinguistisches Experiment" (im Rahmen des 'Geisteswissenschaftlichen Schülerlabors'), Britta Stolterfoht & Holger Gauza |
| 28.05.2015 | Contribution at the Tübinger Fenster für Forschung (TÜFFF): „Facetten der Sprachverarbeitung“, Prof. Dr. Britta Stolterfoht, Holger Gauza & Melanie Störze |
| 28.03.2012 | Linguistic student laboratory on the topic "Wie verstehen wir sprachliche Äußerungen? Ein psycholinguistisches Experiment" (im Rahmen des 'Geisteswissenschaftlichen Schülerlabors'), Britta Stolterfoht |
