Congratulations to Laura Ciaccio, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 4 November 2020!
The PRIM is hosting Prof. Michael T. Ullmann as a Visiting Professor from September to December 2020. Prof. Ullman is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Georgetown University, Director of the Brain and Language Lab, and Director of the Georgetown EEG/ERP Laboratory. He is an expert in the neurocognition of language, specifically morphology and syntax. For more information on his work, see Prof. Ullman’s homepage: neuro.georgetown.edu/directory/ullman/
PRIM @ AMLaP 2020: Serkan Uygun and Harald Clahsen presented a poster on "Morphological priming in Turkish: Evidence from heritage speakers", and Claudia Felser and Janna Drummer presented a poster on "Binding out of relative clauses in L1 and L2 comprehension".
Sina Bosch, Ilaria De Cesare, Ulrike Demske and Claudia Felser are editing a special issue on "New Empirical Approaches to Grammatical Variation and Change" for the journal Languages. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 July 2020, and full manuscripts should by submitted by 30 November 2020. For more information see
www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/GrammaticalVariation_Change
Congratulations to former PRIM members Sol Lago, Anna Stutter Garcia and Michela Mosca on publishing a conceptual review article on "The Role of Crosslinguistic Influence in Multilingual Processing: Lexicon Versus Syntax" in Language Learning in May 2020.
Congratulations to Dr. João Veríssimo on being offered an Assistant Professorship at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, starting in October 2020!
On Wednesday Jan, 29th Yael Fahry defended her PhD thesis on the topic "Universals and Particulars in Morphology: Processing and Generalization in Native and Non-native Speakers in Hebrew". Congratulations and all the best wishes for her career!
From October 25th to October 26th 2019, the workshop "Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation" will take place at the University of Potsdam, organized by Project A02 of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1287.
The workshop will bring together researchers who share a common interest in studying synchronic and/or diachronic variation using a combination of different methods. The workshop's aim is to provide a forum for a fruitful exchange of ideas and experiences using multi-methodological approaches, for critical discussion, and for the development of future research directions.
Speakers:
When: October 25-26, 2019.
The detailed programme is available here.
Where: University of Potsdam, Campus Am Neuen Palais, Haus 9, R. 1.03
On the 7th of August 2019, Judith Schlenter defended her thesis on "Predictive language processing in late bilinguals: Evidence from visual-world eye-tracking".
Since October 2019, Dr. Schlenter obtained a postdoctoral research position in the project "Attention and prominence in language production and acquisition" as part of the SFB 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University of Cologne. Her information is now available at https://www.hf.uni-koeln.de/40769
PRIM members organize a workshop on "Modelling Gradient Variability in Grammar" at the DGfS 2020 "Linguistic Diversity: Theories, Methods, Resources"; deadline for abstract submission: 15 July 2019
For more information, see linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2337.html
On the 11th of May, PRIM members took part in this year's Potsdam Science Day: https://www.potsdamertagderwissenschaften.de/
The impact of focus on pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension
Clare Patterson, Yulia Esaulova, Claudia Felser
First Published March 21, 2017; pp. 403–429
made it on the short list for the biennial Mike Sharwood Smith Award for the best article published in Second Language Research in the previous two years.
18.11.2017 Warum wir einander verstehen (Why we understand each other) - short report about the new SFB "Limits of Variability in Language" [PDF]
New grant for the University of Potsdam: "Innovative Hochschule"