Educational background

• 2004 Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin

• 1992 Dissertation, Dr. phil. Freie Universität Berlin (magna cum laude)

• 1986 Magister Artium, Linguistics, Psychology, Social Science, Technical University Berlin
   

Occupational Background

• 2004 – to date Full Professor for Psycholinguistics/Language Acquisition, University of Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Center of Excellence Cognitive Science

• 2004 Full Professor for Clinical Linguistics, University of Marburg

• 1995-2001 Assistant Professor Language Acquisition, University of Potsdam

• 1995 Post Doc Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science

• 1994 – 1995 Post-Doc, Department for Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

• 1989 – 1996 Lecturer, School for Speech and Language Disorders, Freie Universität Berlin

• 1987 – 1993 Lecturer and Research Assistant, Department for German Language, Freie Universität Berlin

• 1985-1987 Research Assistant. Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
    

Other scientific services

• Member of editorial board:
  Infancy

• Reviewer Journals:
  Applied Psycholinguistics, Biolinguistics, Child Development, Cognition, Cortex, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, Infancy, Infant Behavior and Development, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Learning and Development, Language and Speech, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics, Swiss Journal of Psychology

• Reviewer Grants:
  German Research Foundation (DFG), DAAD, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Schweizerischer Nationalfond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
   

Organisation of Conferences and Workshops

• X. International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) Berlin, July 2005.

• Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). University of Potsdam, September 1999.

• How to get into language: Approaches to bootstrapping in early language development. Workshop Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science. Berlin, 1996.
   

University Services

• Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences (since Jan 2011)

• Member of the Committee of Developmental Planning and Finances, University of Potsdam (since Oct 2010)

• Head of the Committee of Structure and Development, Faculty of Human Sciences

• Co-Director of the Center of Applied Patholinguistics, University of Potsdam (since 2004)

• Managing Director of the Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam (2006-2010)

• Head of the Board of Examinations, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam (2005-2008)

• Member of the Committee for the Bachelor and Master programmes in Linguistics, University of Potsdam
   

As first Supervisor

• Pelzer, Lydia: Die Rolle von Konkordanzmarkierungen für die Segmentierung von Phrasen aus dem Sprachstrom – Untersuchungen bei Säuglingen und Erwachsenen, 2006

• Siegmüller, Julia: Der Gebrauch lexikalischer Erwerbsbeschränkungen bei Kindern mit Williams-Beuren-Syndrom, 2007

• Schmitz, Michaela: The perception of clauses in 6- and 8-month-old German-learning infants: Influence of pause duration and the natural pause hierarchy, 2008

• Herold, Birgit: Prosodische Verarbeitung und lexikalische Entwicklung sehr untergewichtiger Frühgeborener während des ersten Lebensjahres, 2010

• Müller, Anja: Wie interpretieren Kinder nur? Experimentelle Untersuchungen zum Erwerb von Informationsstruktur, 2010

• Poltrock, Silvana: About the relation between implicit theory of mind and the comprehension of complement sentences, 2011

• Ott, Susan: Feld-fällt-fehlt: Untersuchungen zur Phonologie-Morphosyntax-Schnittstelle bei Kindern und Erwachsenen, 2011

As second Supervisor

• Leuckefeld, Kerstin: The development of argument processing mechanisms in German: An electrophysiological investigation with school-aged children and adults, 2005

• Oberrecker, Regine: Grammatikverarbeitung im Kindesalter: EKP-Studien zum auditorischen Satzverstehen, 2006

• Mahlstedt, Amelie: The acquisition of case marking information as a cue to argument interpretation in German: An electrophysiological investigation with pre-school children, 2007

• Lück, Monika: Die Verarbeitung morphologisch komplexer Wörter bei Kindern im Schulalter: Neurophysiologische Korrelate der Entwicklung, 2007
   

• Weber, Christiane: Rhythm is Gonna Get you: Electrophysiological Markers of Rhythmic Processing in Infants with and without Risk for Specific Language Impairment, 2004

• Schröder, Astrid: Semantische Kategorien und Merkmalswissen: eine experimentelle Studie zur semantischen Repräsentation konkreter Objektbegriffe, 2006

• Grimm, Angela: The Development of Early Prosodic Word Structure in Child German: Simplex Words and Compounds, 2008

• Fritz, Thomas: Emotion investigated with music of variable valence-neurophysiology and cultural influence, 2008

• Bossen, Anja: Das „BeLesen-Training“ – ein Förderkonzept zur rhythmischmusikalischen Unterstützung des Schriftspracherwerbs in multilingualen Lerngruppen, 2009

• Hogrefe, Katharina: Aphasie, Apraxie und Gestik: Zur Produktion von Handgesten bei Patienten mit linkshemisphärischer Hirnschädigung, 2009

• De Ruiter, Laura: Studies on intonation and information structure in child and adult German, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2010

• Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole: Do manners matter? Asymmetries in the acquisition of manner of articulation features, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2010

• Junge, Caroline: The relevance of early word recognition: Insights from the infant brain, Radbound Universiteit Nijmegen, 2011 (member of reading committee)
   

• Bion, Ricardo: Speech perception in German infants. 2006

• Canizzaro, Courtney: Verb-object order in two-word utterances: An analysis of German and English CHILDES data, 2007

• Koshchinyenko, Olha: Prosody acquisition in Ukrainian, 2008

• Schmidt, Daria: Processing of two artificial grammars by aphasic patients, 2008

• Oosthuizen, Helena: Production of prepositions and particle verbs as a dialectal marker in Afrikaans, 2009

• Liang, Sylvia: Use of lexical tone in early lexical acquisition of Mandarin, 2010