W3 professor of German Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen
2010-2016
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
1990-1999
studied German, Scandinavian Studies, Dramatics, Philosophy and Psychology, FU Berlin
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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)
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)
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
