The research project of the interdisciplinary EPPP-certified Graduate Centre "Sprachbeherrschung" deals with the theory-based apprehension, description and promotion of linguistic competence in both monolingual and multilingual constellations. By that, all lingustic modalities (reading, listening, writing, speaking) in language use, language processing and language acquisition (first and second language acquisition) are taken into account. Working groups from the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Philosophy are involved in the Graduate Centre. The Graduate Centre „Sprachbeherrschung“ is actively involved in the development of the research focus Education, School, and Behaviour at the University of Erfurt. The participating researchers have already worked on numerously relevant scientific questionings from the perspective of their respective disciplines and are renowend by multiple successful third-party fundings and publications.
We wish you all a wonderful lecture-free period!
Our writing days will take place again in Neudietendorf from 25.03. until 27.03.2026.
Before admission to the university's own funded Graduate Centre can take place, acceptance as a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy or Faculty of Education is required in accordance with the respective doctorate-degree regulations.
Subsequently, admission to the university's own funded Graduate Centre is possible in a two-stage procedure at the beginning of each semester.
1st stage
The applicant submits written application documents (application for admission to the doctoral programme, supervision agreement, exposé, CV, thesis, etc.) to the speaker with the request to be admitted to the programme.
At least two professors or habilitated lecturers who are members of the EPPP and who are closely related to the applicant's field of interest will review the documents and conduct an interview lasting approximately half an hour.
After an assessment, a person from the ranks of the EPPP lecturers is jointly sought who can take over the supervision of the dissertation, unless a supervisory relationship already exists. Once this person has agreed to take on the supervision, the second stage of the selection process takes place.
2nd stage
The professors or lecturers of the Graduate Centre are informed by the speaker about the procedure, the assessment and the willingness to supervise and they make the final decision on the admission of the candidate to the university's own funded Graduate Centre.
As soon as a semester programme for the summer semester 2026 has been determined, it will be published here.
All lectures will take place as face-to-face events (C03-LG1/214), unless otherwise indicated. The face-to-face events will be broadcast online in parallel via Cisco Webex. Information on the links to the respective events is available to members in the corresponding Moodle room, interested guests should contact the EPPP speaker.
Date - Lecturer - Topic WiSe 2025/26
21.10.2025 - Lecture - Dr habil. Markus Hartmann - Grammaticalisation of past tenses in German and before
04.11.2025 - Colloquium - Pauline Credo - Non-linguistic and linguistic rhythm processing at pre-school age
- Colloquium: Konstantin Mrosk - Preschool training of morphological awareness: Domain-specific effectiveness & transfer to other written language precursor skills
11/11/2025 - Colloquium - Stefan Maier - Integration of quantitative and qualitative results
18.11.2025 - Colloquium - Xi Ying - German-Chinese couples' views and talk on bilingual child-rearing: Just language(s)?
- from 17:00: Seminar council meeting (non-public)
25.11.2025 - Guest lecture - Jennifer Keller (Uni Düsseldorf) - Number prediction of German pseudo-nouns using discriminative learning
- Lecture - Dr Jana Hasenäcker - TRUST Network and German Lexicon Project (GLP)
09.12.2025 120 minutes! 16:00-18:00 s.t.!
- Guest lecture - Dr Olivia Afonso (Oxford Brookes University, UK) - The interaction between spelling and handwriting across the lifespan
- Guest lecture - Professor Dr Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin, USA) - How did 19th century Texas German sound?On the reconstruction of an emigrant dialect with the help of artificial intelligence.
16 Dec 2025 ONLINE ONLY - Colloquium - Ina Jessen-Gröschel - Project presentation: Repeated measurement study Palin-D study
06.01.2026 - Colloquium - Juline Hiltemann - Psychosocial abnormalities in children with stuttering symptoms aged 3-5 years: A systematic review
- Colloquium - Daban Jaff - Sentiment and Metaphor Density: A MIPVU Analysis
13.01.2026 - Guest lecture - Professor Dr Diana Maak & Marei Kölling (FU Berlin) - The minimally multilingual university and its maximally multilingual students - results from a survey of student teachers on language biographical information
20.01.2026 - Colloquium - Jasmin Wend - Project presentation: Writing weak syllables
- Lecture - Dr Nina Julich-Warpakowski - The MPI-EVA-Leipzig Corpus. Introducing a highly dense corpus as a publicly available resource to study early English-German bilingual language acquisition
27.01.2026 - Colloquium - Pia Liebert - Language of the Tutzinger Nachrichten - transtextual phenomena in the "Seehof discourse"
- Colloquium - Vadim Rodt - Project Presentation: Modalities and Cues in Sarcasm Detection - Human Judgements vs. Model Predictions
03.02.2026 - Lecture - Dr Sarah Thumbeck - ParKom: Survey on participatory research in speech language pathology
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