Research Interests:

• Moral, emotional, and figurative language comprehension in L1 and L2

Short CV:

• since 08/2022: Ph.D. in Psychology at the department of Biological Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany (supervisor: Hartmut Leuthold) in collaboration with the Language Research Lab, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (supervisor: Ruth Filik)
• 02/2022 – 07/2022: Research Internship at the Psychology of Language department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (supervisors: Laurel Brehm, Birgit Knudsen, Antje Meyer)
• 10/2018 – 05/2022: M.A. in German Studies in Cultural Comparison at the University of Heidelberg, Germany

• 09/2016 – 06/2018: DAAD Language Assistant in Timișoara, Romania

• 10/2013 – 09/2016: B.A. in German as a Second and as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Communication at the University of Augsburg, Germany

Publications:

• Ruhrmann, C., Brackhane, F., & Arnold, D. (2021): Reduction, assimilation or variation? Observations on [nja] in German spontaneous speech. In A. Holtz, I. Kovač, R. Puggaard-Rode, J. Wall (Eds.), ConSOLE XXIX: Proceedings of the 29^th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe, 279-297. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. PDF

• Brackhane, F. & Ruhrmann, C. (2022). Beobachtungen zu [nja] in deutscher Spontansprache. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik, 77, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2022-2088

• Zeschel, A., Knöbl, R., Fellert, C., Müller, N., & Brackhane, F. (2025). Pragmatische Marker mit “sagen”: Funktion - Verfestigung - Phonetik.