“Information structure and neurocognitive foundations:
Inferences and word order variation”
The Emmy Noether Research Group studies language comprehension in discourse from a neurocognitive and typological perspective. The individual team members investigate referential porcesses at the interface of syntax, semantics and information structure. We use electrophysiological measures (event related brain potentials, ERPs) to sketch the time course of interpretation in discourse. Our main languages of interest are German, Chinese, and Japanese. The project aims at developing a neurocognitive model of language processing in discourse and to identify and rank those factors that are relevant for reference resolution, both in the particular languages under investigation and also from a universal point of view.
Members of the Emmy Noether Research Group
Petra B. Schumacher (Head of Research Group)
Phone.: +49-(0)6131-39-23859 | Philosophicum, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, Room 03-536
Manuel Dangl
Hung Yu-Chen
Hanna Weiland
Phone: +49-(0)6131-39-36248 / -35781 | BKM-Gebäude, Kantstr. 2, Room 02-130
Student Members:
Elyesa Uzun
Former Members:
Flora Bastian
Hosakawa Kyoko
Koyanagi Maiko
Sun Linlin
Wang Lingran
Wang Luming
Wanted: German participants !
Funded by the Emmy Noether-Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
