Language and Cognition / Psycholinguistics
In order to understand how the complex system of language is stored and processed in the brain, we investigate the monolingual or multilingual development of children and adults, the acquisition of written language, the way in which we produce and understand mother tongue(s) and foreign language(s), or language disorders (e.g. language development disorders, dyslexia, aphasia). In psycholinguistics, we are therefore interested in the connection between cognition and language and the factors that influence this, for example age, the environment in which someone learns a language, linguistic experiences and other cognitive abilities. Knowledge about this in turn serves as the basis for language therapies, language teaching, language support, etc.
Svitlana Antonyuk (Institute for German Studies; Institute for Slavic Studies):
- Neurolinguistics
- Emotions and language
Anouschka Foltz (Institute for English Studies):
- Multilingualism
- First and second language acquisition
- (Ambiguities in) language processing
- priming
- Language and cognition
- Language development disorders
Antonia Gösweiner (Centre for Didactics of German as a Second Language & Language Education):
Influencing factors and effects of the use of gender-inclusive language among young people
Katharina Haslacher (Institute for English Studies):
- Multilingualism
- First and second language acquisition
- (Foreign) language identity
Gunther Kaltenböck (Institute for English Studies):
- Discourse Grammar
- Cooptation
- Aphasia
Lisa Kornder (Institute for English Studies):
- L1-L2 interaction in multilingual speakers
- Second language acquisition
- L1 language attrition (first language attrition) and its influencing factors
Veronika Mattes (Institute for Linguistics):
- later first language acquisition
- Acquisition and development of derivational morphology and lexicon
- Pragmatic acquisition (register variation in L1 acquisition)
Ineke Mennen (Institute for English Studies):
- Second language acquisition of language production
- L1 language attrition (first language attrition) and its influencing factors
Sergei Monakhov (Institute for Linguistics):
- Language and Cognition
- Language acquisition
- Lexical processing and semantic knowledge
Daphne Reitinger (Research Unit Plurilingualism; Institute of Linguistics):
- Multilingualism
- L2 Language competence in adulthood
Johann Ulrich Reubold (Institute for English Studies):
- Acquisition of (multilingual) language production and perception
- Language and dialect attrition, L1-L2 interaction
Ralf Vollmann (Institute for Linguistics):
- Early morphological acquisition
- narrative competence at pre-school age
- Language development with Rett syndrome