Univ.Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins

Current Announcements

• If you need a certificate of achievement, please contact Johannes Hochmann. (Email: johannes.hochmann@tu-dortmund.de)
• Since winter semester 2018/19, a new, joint MA course in Empirical Multilingualism Research has been offered at TU Dortmund University and RUB. For information see EMF website.

Next office hours

Consultation hours take place digitally and by appointment only!

Scientific practices and academic career

Since Nov. 2014 to present
Chair of Empirical and Experimental Linguistics of German - Psycholinguistics at TU Dortmund University, Faculty 15

Sept. 2014
Rejection of call to the University of Marburg: W2 professorship for DaF/DaZ

Dec. 2012
Habilitation with the thesis “Investigation on language and cognition using the example of event conceptualization and text coherence in German and Czech at the Faculty of Modern Languages ​​at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg. Venia legendi for the subject German Linguistics with special emphasis on Psycholinguistics

Nov. 2004
PhD in psycholinguistics with the PhD thesis completed concurrently with the topic of “The expression of simultaneity in learner varieties” at Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistics & Radboud University Nijmegen

Dec. 1998
Master in linguistics, philosophy, and the recent German literature at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg in Breisgau with the research on “Context, Search Perspectives, and linguistic association activity”. An empirical work on the connection between schizophrenia and language processing.

Sept. 1993
- July 1998
Bachelor in German Studies ( specialization in neuro-linguistics), philosophy, the recent German literature at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg in Breisgau

Oct. 1992
- June 1993
Education in the German Studies and the Bohemian studies at Charles University in Prague

Awards/ Prizes / Scholarships

2023
Gerda Henkel Fellowship, Guest professor in the Visiting Professor Series in German Studies; Stanford University

2019
Nomination through the students of German studies of faculty 15 for the Ars-Legendi-Prize for the excellent and research-based lecturer

2017
IDE Award for outstanding inclusion teaching

2014
Erasmus-Mundus research scholarship for the university of Haifa, Israel

2010-2011
Annual research scholarship; Center of Advanced Study, Oslo

2010
Nomination through IDF student council for the Ars-Legendi Prize for excellent university teaching

2009 & 2010
Each is a one-week residency scholarship from Charles University Prague.

2008-2009
Participation in the management program on the way to a professorship in the Excellence Initiative at Heidelberg University

2007
Klaus-Georg und Sigrid Hengstberger-Prize for the promotion of the best young scientists at Heidelberg University  

1999-2004
MPG PhD scholarship at Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics

1995-1996
DAAD-Scholarship at the Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg

The website of the psycholinguistics laboratories under the direction of Prof. Dr. Mertins can be found here:

div.kuwi.tu-dortmund.de/forschung/psycholinguistics-laboratories/

Linguistic relativity

• bilingual first language acquisition of conceptual preferences
• grammatical gender
• movement events

Space and cognition

• Differences in spatial cognition between experts and non-experts (together with Chair of Building Construction, Faculty 10)
• The role of gender in spatial cognition
• The role of language-specific differences in spatial cognition

Speech pathology

• Language processing in Alzheimer's dementia
• Language and space in WBS and Down syndrome

Further projects

• Children's University at TU Dortmund University
• Adam's Corner
   

The project "Wrestling with Language" approaches the topic of language and multilingualism in a new interdisciplinary context. Three forms of expression meet here: Science, dance and choreography as well as the visual arts. The aim is to enable participants to express their thoughts, knowledge and feelings on the subject in an artistic/performative way. The resulting video can be found at the following link:

Wrestling with Language

Guidelines on the procedure for BLS examinations

Download the handout on BLS examinations

BA- and MA Dissertations

Suggested topics for BA- and MA Dissertations

Please discuss the selected or planned topics of your dissertations during my consultation hours. I aim to integrate all the BA- and MA dissertations into my current research projects.

From now on, students who are writing an empirically based qualification dissertation with Prof. Dr. Mertins have access to various recording devices (video and audio) and microphones.

Download the BA- und MA-Topics

Information sheet on the written concept as module completions

The students are supposed to take a module completion exam in the modules MLS 1 „ Transfer/Mediation perspectives in German Studies” and MLS2 “Research perspectives in German Studies” in Master of German studies, one of which should be in form of a written exam. Information on this can be found in the following document:

Download the information sheet

• research assistants
• non-scientific employees
• student and research assistants
• former employees

Editor (together with Tanja Rinker and Sung-Eun Lee) of COGNITIO: Cognitive and Neuroscientific Contributions to Natural Language Processing (published by Peter Lang Verlag).

Since 2023 Prof. Mertins has been co-editor of the magazine Schnittstelle Germanistik.

Since 2023 Prof. Mertins has been associate editor of the magazine Psychology of Language and Communication.

Since 2020 Prof. Mertins has been part of the editorial board of the journal Open Slavic Linguistics.

2024

• Mertins, B.: Rezension: Museum lyžování – Museum des Skifahrens. Dolní Branná, Podkrkonoší. Ausstellung über die Geschichte des weißen Sports im Riesengebirge. In: Schnittstelle Germanistik, 4 (2), 2024, S. 197–200.
• Mertins, B., Alipaß, J. & Odermann, K.: Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutschen Schule: Der Einfluss der eigenen Vorurteile von Lehrkräften auf den Schulerfolg der SchülerInnen mit dem sogenannten „Migrationshintergrund“. In: Journal of Elementary Education, 17, S. 81–100.
• Huang, H., Doebler, P & Mertins, B.: Short‑time AOIs‑based representative scanpath identification and scanpath aggregation. Behav Res.
• Andresen, H., Delucci, R. & Mertins, B.: Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events. In: International Journal of Bilingualism (Online first).​​​​​​​

2023

• Mertins, B.: Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, die in der Gegenwart immer noch wirkt. Die Lebensgeschichte von Emmerich Rath aus linguistisch-kultureller Perspektive. In: Schnittstelle Germanistik, 3 (2), 2023.
• Marklová, A. & Mertins, B.: Expression and Perception of Endpoints during Language Acquisition: Three Studies on Czech. In SALI, (14) 2, S. 7-29.
• Mertins, B: Mökke essen. Das tut nicht nur dem Großvater gut! Dialekte und sprachliche Varietäten im Spiegel der Mehrsprachigkeit. In: Leskau, L. & Nieberle, S. (Hgg.): Wiedersehen mit Heidi. Polyperspektivische Lektüren der Heidi-Romane von Johanna Spyri. Reihe: Diversity in Culture. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, S. 257-267. 
• Mertins, B. & Delucchi Dahnier, R.: Diversity in Cognition. Bern u.a.: Peter Lang Verlag.
• Marklová, A., Panfilova, E. & Mertins, B. Description of locomotion events: Language-specific patterns in child-directed speech. In WORD, 70, S. 339-361. DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2023.2269702.
• Mertins, B., Leimbrink, K.,  Lipavic Oštir,  A.: Mehrsprachigkeit in deutschsprachigen Kontexten. In: Schnittstelle Germanistik, 3 (1), 2023.
• Mertins, B.: Deutsch im Kontext im mitteleuropäischen und osteuropäischen Sprachraum: Soziolinguistische und historische Bedingungen des Sprachkontakts. In: Schnittstelle Germanistik, 3 (1), 2023, S. 95-120.
• Mertins, B.: Sprache und Identität. In: Höfer, H., Delere, M., Vogel-Lefèbre, T. (Hgg.): Bildung, Diversität und Medien. Erkundungen entlang aktueller Diskurslinien. München: Kopaed, S. 167-177.
• Welzel, Barbara & Kreutchen, Christopher: Kulturelle Teilhabe - Standortbestimmungen zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit und Inklusion, Raum und Verortung, Ort und Ortlosigkeit, Bildern und Objekten, Vulnerabilität und Würde. In: Hußmann, Stephan; Welzel, Barbara (Hgg.): DoProfil 2.0 - Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung (S. 55-131), 2023. Münster: Waxmann

2022

• Mertins, B. & Ronan, P. (Hgg.): ankommen//angekommen (verorten: Räume kultureller Teilhabe, hrsg. von Kreutchen, Ch. & Welzel, B.). Dortmund: Athena Verlag. Rezension
• Mertins, B. & Delucchi, R.: Warum Mehrsprachigkeit einfach mehr ist: Die Rolle von individuellen Überzeugungen im Mehrsprachigkeitsdiskurs. Mertins, B. & Ronan, P. (Hgg.): ankommen//angekommen. Dortmund: Athena Verlag, S. 41-55.
• Mertins, B.: Auf den Spuren zu sich selbst. In: Ballhorn, Egbert; Neuhäuser, Christian; Welzel, Barbara (Hgg.): Inkarnation // Dekarnation (S. 33 - 42), 2022. Reihe: Kreutchen, Christopher; Welzel, Barbara (Hgg.) (2022): verorten - Räume kultureller Teilhabe. Bielefeld: ATHENA wbv
• Mertins, B.: Diversitätsdialoge im Licht des Schwellenkonzepts. In: Gurdon, Alexander; Hübscher, Sarah; Kreutchen, Christopher (Hgg.): Resonanzen // Interventionen (S. 90-97), 2022. Reihe: Kreutchen, Christopher; Welzel, Barbara (Hgg.) (2022): verorten - Räume kultureller Teilhabe. Bielefeld: ATHENA wbv

2021

• Mertins, B.: Teilhabe. In Contactzone – Ein Prinzip der guten Nachbarschaft. Festschrift für Barbara Welzel. Hübscher, S. & Kreutchen, Ch. Dortmund: Kettler Verlag, S. 62-67.
• Mertins, B.: On the interpretation of possessives in Czech: An experimental approach. In: Fabricius-Hansen, C. (ed.): Resolving Possessive Puzzles, Oslo Studies in Language 12(2), 2021, p. 97-125
• Stadler, M., Doebler, P., Mertins, B. & Delucchi Danhier, R.: Statistical modeling of dynamic eye-tracking experiments: Relative importance of visual stimulus elements for gaze behavior in the multi-group case. In: Behavior Research methods (2021)
• Dröse, J., Prediger, S., Neugebauer, P., Delucchi Danhier, R., & Mertins, B.: Investigating Students’ Processes of Noticing and Interpreting Syntactic Language Features in Word Problem Solving through Eye-Tracking. In: International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 16(1)

2020

• Mertins, Barbara. Dvojjazyčnost prospívá výkonu mozku (Deutsch: Zweisprachigkeit kommt der Gehirnleistung zugute). In Vesmír 99, Okt. 2020, S. 584-585
• Mertins, Barbara: Der Geist des 17. November 1989. In Sudetenland, 4 2019, 61. Jahrgang, S. 441-444
• Mertins, H., Delucchi Danhier, R., Mertins, B., Schulz, A., Schulz, B.: The Role of Expertise in the Perception of Architectural Space. In Leopold, C., Robeller, C., Weber, U. (Hrsg.) Research Culture in Architecture. Basel: Birkhäuser. 279-288.
• Mertins, Barbara. Je myšlení závislé na jazyku? (Deutsch: Ist Denken abhängig von Sprache?). In Vesmír 99, S. 208-209

2019

• Vanek, N. & Mertins, B.: V. Defying chronology: : Crosslinguistic variation in reverse order reports. In Linguistics, S. 1-35.
• Delucchi Danhier, R., Neugebauer, J., Dröse, S., Prediger, S., Mertins, B.: Eye-Tracking Studie zum Erfassen von Referenzstrukturen in Textaufgaben der Klasse 5. In Frank, A., Krauss, S & Binder, K. (Hrsg.) Beiträge zum Mathematikunterricht 2019. Münster: WTM-Verlag. S. 1239-1242

2018

• Mertins, B., Delucchi Danhier, R., Wulf, J., Mertins, H. Gendertypische Raumwahrnehmung
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• Mertins, B. Sprache und Kognition. Ereigniskonzeptualisierung im Deutschen und Tschechischen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
• Ackermann, L., Delucchi Danhier, R., Heiderich, S., Hußmann, S. & Mertins, B. Begabung in Sprache und Mathematik relational testen (Be_SMart). Wahrnehmungsmuster und Strategien begabter Schülerinnen und Schüler aus psycholinguistischer und mathematikdidaktischer Perspektive. In Hußmann, S. & Welzel, B. (Hrsg.) DoProfiL - Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Münster: Waxmann, 141-159.
• Delucchi Danhier, R. & Mertins, B. Psycholinguistische Grundlagen der Inklusion. Schwerpunkt Bilingualismus. In Hußmann, S. & Welzel, B. (Hrsg.) DoProfiL - Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Münster: Waxmann, 161-178.
• Bartz, J., Delucchi Danhier, R., Mertins, B., Schüppel, K. C., Welzel, B. & Zimenkova, T. Auf dem Weg zur Neuverortung: Sprache, Objektkultur und Religion im transkulturellen Deutschland. In Hußmann, S. & Welzel, B. (Hrsg.) DoProfiL - Das Dortmunder Profil für inklusionsorientierte Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung. Münster: Waxmann, 179-194.

2017

• Mertins, H, Mertins, B, Delucchi Danhier, R, Schulz, A, Schulz, B. Architekten haben eine andere Wahrnehmung In Detail, 9/2017, S.80-81.

2016

• Mertins, B. The use of experimental methods in linguistic research: advantages, problems and possible pitfalls. In Anstatt, T., Clasmeier, C. & A. Gattnar (eds..): Slavic languages in Psycholinguistics. Chances and Challenges for Empirical and Experimental Research. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 15-33.

• Delucchi Danhier R. & Mertins, B. Language-specific information structure in German and Spanish route directions In International Journal of Applied Linguistics, VIAL, 13, 55-92.

2015

• Flanderková, E. & Mertins, B. Desatero úskalí při výzkumu afázie (Ten Pitfalls in the Investigation of Aphasia) In Časopis pro moderní filologie (Journal for Modern Philology), 97 (1), 81-86.

2014

• Klein, Ch., Betz, J., Hirschbuehl, M., Fuchs, C., Schmiedtova, B., Engelbrecht, M., Mueller-Paul, J., Rosenberg, R. Describing Art – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Effects of Speaking on Gaze Movements during the Beholding of Paintings. In Plos One, DOI:10.1371/ journal.pone. 0102439, 1-18.

• Behrens, B., Mertins, B., Fabricius-Hansen, C., Hemforth, B. Understanding coordinate clauses in Czech, English, German, and Norwegian. In Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., Fabricius-Hansen, C.(eds.) Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics, Cham u.a.: Springer Verlag, 1-22.

• Borthen, K., Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., Behrens, B., Fabricius-Hansen, C. Referring expressions in speech reports. In Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., Fabricius-Hansen, C.(eds.) Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics, Cham u.a.: Springer Verlag, 111-142.

• Hemforth, B., Mertins, B., Fabricius-Hansen, C.(eds.) Psycholinguistic approaches to meaning and understanding across language. Cham u.a.: Springer Verlag.

• Flanderková, E., Mertins. B., Bezdíček, O., Baborová, E., Černá, M. Posuzování gramatičnosti v Brocově afázii příklad dvou pacientů (Grammaticality Judgement in Broca’s Aphasia – Two Patients’s Study). In Česká a slovenská neurologie a neurochirurgie (Czech and Slovak Neurology and Neurosurgery) 77/ 110 (2), 202-209.

• Kadlecová, A., Nagy, M., Mertins, B., Donevská, S. Identifikace konstituentů kompozit u předškolních dětí (Identification of compound constituents in Czech preschool children). In Naše řeč, 97 (3), 146-165.

2013

• Schmiedtová, B. Traces of L1-patterns in the event construal of Czech advanced speakers of L2-English and L2- German. In IRAL (51), special issue, v. Stutterheim, Ch.,Flecken, M., Carroll, M. (eds.), 87-116.

• Schmiedtová, B. Zur Verwendung der perfektiven Präsensform im heutigen Tschechisch. In Journal for Central European Studies, special issue, Paliga, S. (ed.), Editura Universității București, 125-164.

• Schmiedtová, B. & Flanderková, E. Produkce řeči v afázii: kazuistika [Language production in aphasia: a Czech case study]. In Studie z aplikované lingvistiky (Studies in Applied Linguistics), 53-70.

• Schmiedtová, B. Zum Einfluss des Deutschen auf das Tschechische: Die Effekte des Zeitdrucks auf die Sprachproduktion. In M. Nekula, K. Šíchová & J. Valdrová (eds.). Bilingualer Sprachvergleich und Typologie. Tübingen: Julius Groos Verlag, 177-206.

2012

• v. Stutterheim, Ch., Andermann, M., Carroll, M., Flecken, M., Schmiedtová, B. How grammaticized concepts shape event conceptualization in language production: Insights from linguistic analysis, eye tracking data and memory performance In Linguistics, 4, 833-867.

• Schmiedtová, B. Fünf Einträge für den Bereich kognitive Linguistik (Aspekt, telisch, atelisch, perfektiv, imperfektiv). In H.B. Wiegand & S. Schierholz (eds.) Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft.

• Schmiedtová, B. Das tschechische enzyklopädische Wörterbuch – zwei Einträge: Methoden der Psycholinguistik; Zweitspracherwerb.

• Schmiedtová, B. & Sahonenko, N. Acquisition of L2 narrative competence: Tense switching by Russian L2 speakers of German, In Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 20, 1, 35-70.

• Schmiedtová, B. & Flanderková, E. Neurolingvistika: předmět, historie, metody [Neurolinguistics: subject, history, methods]. In Slovo a Slovesnost, 73, 46-62.

• Schmiedtová, B. Vergleich von deutschen und tschechischen kunsthistorischen Texten. In S. Höhne et al. (eds.). brücken. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Tschechien – Slowakei; thematischer Schwerpunkt – Sprachwissenschaft. Praha: Lidové Noviny, 221-240. 

2011

• Schmiedtová, B. Do L2 speakers think in the L1 when speaking in the L2?  In International Journal of Applied Linguistics, VIAL, 8, 97-122.

• Schmiedtová, B. Vidová morfologie českého slovesa (François Esvan - Rezension) [Aspect morphology in the Czech; Book review]. In Časopis pro moderní filologii, 125-126.

• Schmiedtová, B. Wie Sprache unser Denken formt - psycholinguistische Hintergründe. In S. Schulte (Ed.). Ohne Wort keine Vernunft – keine Welt. Bestimmt Sprache Denken? Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler im Wortwechsel mit Johann Georg Hamann. Münster et al.: Waxmann Verlag, 97-128.

• Schmiedtová, B., v. Stutterheim, Ch., Carroll, M. Implications of language-specificpatterns in event construal of advanced L2 speakers. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.). Thinking and Speaking in two languages. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters, 66-107.

2010

• Schmiedtová, B. Einflüsse des Deutschen auf das Tschechische: ein Sprachvergleich aus der Lernerperspektive In S. Höhne & L. Udolph (eds.). Prozesse kultureller Integration und Desintegration. Deutsche, Tschechen, Böhmen im 20. Jahrhundert. München: Oldenbourg, 91-117.

2008

• Schmiedtová, B. & Sahonenko, N. Die Rolle des grammatischen Aspekts in Ereignis-Enkodierung: Ein Vergleich zwischen Tschechischen und Russischen Lernern des Deutschen. In P. Gommes & M. Walter (eds.). Fortgeschrittene Lernervarietäten: Korpuslinguistik und Zweitspracherwerbforschung. Tübingen: Max-Niemeyer-Verlag, 45-71.

• Schmiedtová, B. & Flecken, M. Aspectual concepts across languages: Some considerations for second language learning In Pedagogical Grammar S. de Knop & T. de Rycker (eds.). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 357-384.

2007

• Flecken, M. & Schmiedtová, B. The expression of simultaneity in L1 Dutch. In Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 77 (1), 67-78.

2006

• Schmiedtová, V. & Schmiedtová, B. Určení jazykové základovosti barev v Českém národním korpusu. In Korpusová lingvistika: stav a modelové přístupy. F. Čermák & R. Blatná (eds.), Lidové noviny, Praha, 285-313.

2004

• Schmiedtová, B. At the same time: The Expression of simultaneity in learner varieties. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter. 

Multilingualism is a human right - a manifesto in 4 chapters:
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The link to the YouTube channel of psycholinguistics laboratories with videos on multilingualism and more:
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Language as gravitation - Trailer of the psycholinguistics laboratories - TU Dortmund University
Trailer der psycholinguistics laboratories auf YouTube
 

Wrestling with language- an interdisciplinary project about multilingualism
Wrestling with language on YouTube
 

Inaugural lecture on January 15, 2016
Inaugural lecture of Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins at TU Dortmund University on January 16, 2016, on YouTube

Introduction to the methods and approaches of linguistics

Lecture

This lecture will provide an initial insight into the various methods of empirical and experimental linguistics. In addition, principles of good scientific practice will be explained and repeatedly addressed during the lecture and their relevance will be illustrated using examples from research.

Qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis, as well as typical approaches to language production and reception research, will be discussed. The lecture will focus on psycho- and neurolinguistic methods.

The role of grammar in linguistic relativity

Seminar

This seminar deals with the theory of linguistic relativity. The focus is on how the grammar of a language influences human cognition and the perception associated with it. Several relevant publications on this topic will be discussed and related to each other. Data from the areas of spatial and color cognition, numerical cognition, grammatical gender, and locomotion are used.

The research results and their impact on human behavior will be brought together in a discussion room and discussed from multiple perspectives. New teaching methods such as cooperative learning and team teaching will be tested as part of this seminar. This takes place in collaboration with a BA seminar run by Prof. Mertins.

Research colloquium: Thinking outside the box

Seminar

The research colloquium aims to bring advanced students who are interested in new findings together in a discussion room in which the latest research topics are discussed from multiple perspectives. This semester, the colloquium once again offers participants the opportunity to look beyond their horizons, with colleagues from neighboring and distant disciplines enriching the round with lectures and subsequent discussions. The format of the colloquium is thus a mixture of intensive text work on selected psycholinguistic topics and guest lectures by invited experts from various disciplines.

Grammar and linguistic relativity

Seminar

This seminar will be dedicated to the theory of linguistic relativity. The application of this theoretical approach will be presented and discussed using many examples and empirical data from different areas of human cognition. In particular, we will look at the influence of language-specific grammatical features on spatial and color cognition as well as on numerical cognition. The research results presented will be embedded in an overall context and also discussed with regard to human behavior.

Taking a close look at multilingualism

Seminar

This project is connected to the workshops Wrestling with Language (February 2020) and The Babel Laboratory (February 2022). These two projects were carried out at the IBZ of TU Dortmund University with a very positive response from the participants. Thanks to support from TU Dortmund University's cultural affairs budget, pupils and students at TU Dortmund University were able to experience the topic of language and multilingualism in linguistics, dance, and visual representation as well as a music performance as part of a one-week block event.  In this final workshop, the topic of multilingualism will be scrutinized once again and examined from different perspectives.

Introduction to the methods and approaches of linguistics

Lecture

This lecture will provide an initial insight into the various methods of empirical and experimental linguistics. In addition, principles of good scientific practice will be explained and repeatedly addressed during the lecture and their relevance will be illustrated using examples from research.

Qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis, as well as typical approaches to language production and reception research, will be discussed. The lecture will focus on psycho- and neurolinguistic methods.

Research colloquium: Current research in psycholinguistics

Seminar

The research colloquium aims to bring together advanced students who are interested in new research findings in a discussion room in which current research topics from the field of psycholinguistics are presented and discussed from multiple perspectives. Once again this semester, the colloquium offers participants the opportunity to look beyond their horizons by enriching the discussion with studies and findings from neighboring and distant disciplines.

Grammar and psycholinguistics

Seminar

This seminar will deal with the interface between empirical-experimental linguistics and the study of grammatical phenomena and structures. The focus will be on the grammar of the German language, which we will also examine in contrast, i.e. in comparison with other languages. In addition, German spelling will be scrutinized at all linguistic levels, both linguistically and practically.

Understanding and using grammar

Seminar

Understanding and using grammar is an essential core skill for every teacher of German. This seminar will focus on the grammar of German. Selected grammatical phenomena and structures at all linguistic levels will be explained and their practical application practiced. German spelling will also be scrutinized in the form of written tasks.