Latest news from the Department of Linguistics

New publication by Juliane Wettmann, Jana Hasenäcker and Frank Domahs

Juliane Wettmann, Jana Hasenäcker, and Frank Domahs recently published the article "Can Easy Language Be Too Easy? A Target-Group-Oriented Study on the Effectiveness of Genitive Avoidance."

This publication is the result of Juliane Wettmann's final…

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New DFG research group investigates weak elements in language development

Over the next four years, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will provide a total of 4.1 million euros in funding for a new research group entitled ‘Weak Elements in Phonology: Development, Processing and Modality’. The group, which is led by the…

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We welcome Professor Dr Petra Knorr as a new member of the Department of Linguistics!

Professor Knorr has held the professorship for English didactics with a focus on language teaching and learning research since February. A warm welcome!

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New Publication by Sarah-Maria Thumbeck and Frank Domahs

Sarah Maria Thumbeck and Frank Domahs of the UE Psycholinguistics Lab have published a paper with the title "Efficacy of reading strategies on text-level reading comprehension in people with post-stroke chronic aphasia: A repeated measures study".

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Mourning for Professor Hans-Wolfgang Schaller

The University of Erfurt mourns the loss of Professor Dr Dr h.c. Hans-Wolfgang Schaller. The Americanist was the last rector of Erfurt's University of Education (Pädagogische Hochschule) and made a special contribution to its integration into the…

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Ina Jessen-Gröschel receives a doctoral scholarship

We congratulate Ina Jessen-Gröschel on her doctoral scholarship as part of the EPPP graduate centre for language proficiency!

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New publication by Jana Hasenäcker

Shorter embedded words such as Arbeit in Arbeiter facilitate our processing of the longer, more complex word (Arbeiter) if they are related in meaning. But how does the brain react when there is no meaning relationship, as in the case of Tal in…

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Jana Hasenäcker receives project funding

We congratulate Dr Jana Hasenäcker on the funding of her project "Prosodic Structure in Reading and Writing Words"!

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