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PhD Studentship available
The PRIM is offering a PhD Studentship starting in February 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. Funding is guaranteed until 30 September 2021, with the prospect of continuation funding.
The candidate will be
- working on sentence processing in bilingual speakers
- planning, setting up and conducting eye-movement monitoring and behavioural experiments with bilinguals
- involved in the writing-up and dissemination of the research
Essential qualifications:
- a Masters degree in linguistics, psycholinguistics or a related discipline
- a very good command of German
Desirable qualifications:
- good background knowledge of syntax
- background knowledge of second language acquisition or bilingualism
- experience with eye-movement monitoring during reading
- expertise in the statistical analysis of psycholinguistic data
Applications will be considered until the position is filled. For further information, contact Claudia Felser (felser@uni-potsdam.de)
On Wednesday, 16th of October 2019, Anna Stutter García defended her PhD thesis, entitled "The use of grammatical knowledge in an additional language: effects of native and non-native linguistic constraints", obtaining the grade summa cum laude.
Congratulations and best wishes for Anna's 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/
On the 9th of May 2019, Gloria-Mona Knospe defended her thesis on "Processing of pronouns and reflexives in Turkish-German Bilinguals".
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.
From the 19th to the 20th of November 2018, Cecilia Puebla Antunes, Marilena Tsopanidi (Student Assistant) and Yulia Kurennaia (Intern) visited the Langenscheidt Digital Workshop in Munich.
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"