• 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

• 2013 – to date Honorary Professor Macquarie University Sydney

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

Fellowships and Personal Grants

• 2001.2003 Habilitation Grant, German Science Foundation (DFG)

• 2001 Visiting Scholar Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US

• 2009 Elizabeth and Robert Knight Distinguished Visiting Lecturer.
  University of Manitoba, Canada

• 2018 Labex EFL International Chair, Université Sorbonne Paris
   
  

Project management / grants

• 2017-2021 PI (co PI Adamantios Gafos, Univ. Potsdam) Effects of variable input on
  word learning and word recognition in infants. Collaborative Research
  Group SFB 1287 C03; http://www.uni-potsdam.de/sfb1287/index.html

• 2015-2019 Coordinator Marie Sklodowska-Curie International Training Network PredictAble, European Commission Horizon 2020; https://predictable.eu/index.php/en/

• 2015-2018 Coordinator DFG Research Unit Crossing the borders: Language cognition and the brain in early human development (FOR 2253)
  https://crossing-project.de/research/

• 2015-2018 PI (co PI Angela Friederici, MPI Leipzig, Isabell Wartenburger Univ. Potsdam) The sensitive period for associative learning of non-adjacent dependencies in verbal and non-verbal material. P1 in DFG FOR 2253.

• 2015-2018 PI (co PI Gudrun Schwarzer, Univ. Gießen) Perceptual narrowing in speech and face processing. P6 in DFG FOR 2253

• 2014-2017 PI (co PI Isabell Wartenburger Univ. Potsdam) Ich sehe was was du nicht siehst: Common ground and contrastive information in children’s and adult’s reference resolution. DFG Priority Programme “XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence” HO 1960/16-1

• 2014-2017 PI (co PI Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Univ Paris Descartes) Multilevel prosodic processing in a crosslinguistic perspective Jointly funded by DFG and ANR, HO 1960/15-1

• 2012-2019 Coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Joint International Doctorate Language and Brain Funded by European Commission, http://www.em-idealab.com/

• 2011-2015 PI (co PI Flavia Adani, Univ Potsdam) L1 acquisition of linguistic means for marking information structure: prosodic, syntactic and lexical aspects, Collaborative Research Group Information Structure, DFG SFB 632, C3

• 2010-2013 PI (co PI Thierry Nazzi, Univ Paris Descartes), Crosslinguistic vestigations on the development of rhythmic preferences in German and French infants, Jointly funded by DFG and ANR, DFG HO 1960/14-1,

• 2010-2013 PI (co PIs Hubert Truckenbrodt,ZAS Berlin; Isabelle Wartenburger Univ. Potsdam), Development of prosodic competence in early first language acquisition: Behavioral and neurophysiological investigations, DFG, SPP 1234, HO 1960/13-1

• 2007-2011 PI, Means of focus marking in normal and disordered language cquisition, Collaborative Research Group Information Structure, DFG SFB 632, C3

• 2006-2009 PI Characterizing human language by structural complexity, EU FP7, ERC, NEST 028395 CHLaSC

• 2003-2007 PI (co PI Jürgen Weissenborn), Means of focus marking in normal and disordered language acquisition, Collaborative Research Group Information Structure, DFG SFB 632, C3

• 2005-2008 PI (co PI Elisabeth Walch, Hospital for Pediatrics, Charité Berlin) Speech perception in preterm infants, DFG, HO 1960/10-2 and 10-4

• 2005-2007 PI, The development of word segmentation skills in Turkish and German learning infants, DFG, HO 1960/8-1

• 2003.2004 PI (co PI Jürgen Weissenborn), The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children, DFG, HO 1960/7-1

• 2000.2003 PI (co PI Jürgen Weissenborn) The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children, DFG, FOR 381/1-1 and 1-2

• 2001.2003 PI, Form and function of grammatical morphemes in early language acquisition, DFG, HO1960/6-2

• 2000.2003.1.1 PI (co PI Jürgen Weissenborn) Grammatical morphology in language acquisition, DFG, HO1960/5-1 and 5-2
   
  

Other scientific services

Member of editorial board:            Infancy, Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition and Language Disorders (Benjamins), Forschung Sprache

Ad-hoc Reviewer Journals:        Applied Psycholinguistics, Biolinguistics, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, Child Development, Cognition, Cortex, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Science, Ear and Hearing, Frontiers in Psychological Science, Infancy, Infant Behavior and Development, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Communication Disorders, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Neurolinguistics, Journal of Semantics, Language Acquisition, Language Learning and Development, Language and Speech, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics, PlosOne, 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, US National Science Foundation, Spanish Government.

Organisation of Conferences, Summerschools and Workshops:

• 4^th Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD), University of Potsdam, June 13 – 15, 2019.

• International Conference Crossing the Borders: Development of Language, Cognition and the Brain, University of Potsdam, September 27-29, 2018.

• 3rd Summerschool ISOLDE: Infant Studies and Language Development in Europe, University of Potsdam, June 15 – 18, 2018.

• 1st Summerschool ISOLDE: Infant Studies and Language Development in Europe, University of Potsdam, 1^st: June 2014; 2^nd: June-July 2016.

• The Attentive Listener in the Visual World Workshop. University of Potsdam, March 2016.

• Trends in Infant Studies, Workshop to initiate the European Infant Language Network, Berlin July 2014.

• 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 President for Science, Young Researchers and Equal Opportunities (since 2021)

• Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences (2015-2020)

• Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences (2011-2015)

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

• Head of the Committee of Strategic Planning, Faculty of Human Sciences (2011-2015)

• 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
   
  

Supervised PhD-students (completed)

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, 2012

• Brandt-Kobele, Oda: Subject-Verb-Agreement in German language acquisition, 2012

• Herrmann, Heike: Zum Erwerb syntaktischer Aspekte von positiven und negativen W-Fragen im unauffälligen und auffälligen Spracherwerb des Deutschen, 2013.

• Geckin, Vasfiye: The interpretation of logical connectors by monolingual and bilingual children, 2015 (Cotutelle supervision with Stephen Crain and Rozz Thornton, Macquarie University, Sydney)

• Antje Sauermann: Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation, 2015.

• Leigh Fernandez: Investigating word order processing using pupillometry and event-related potentials, 2016

• Katalin Tamasi: Measuring children’s sensitivity to phonological detail using eye tracking and pupillometry, 2016

• Nenad Jovanovich

• Rowena Garcia

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

• Elisabeth Fleischhauer: Morphological processing in children: An experimental study of German past participles, 2014.

Member of examination committee PhD-projects:

• 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 rhythmisch-musikalischen Unterstützung des Schriftspracherwerbs in multilingualen Lerngruppen, 2009

• Hogrefe, Katharina: Aphasie, Apraxie und Gestik: Zur Produktion von Handgesten bei Patienten mit linkshemiphärischer 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)

• Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli: Acquisition of non-adjacent phonological dependencies: From speech perception to lexical acquisition, Université Paris Descartes, 2012

• Qin, Rui: Neurophysiological Studies of Reading Fluency, IDEALAB, University of Groningen, 2016
   
  

Supervised international M.A. Students

• 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

• Jovanovich, Nenad: Rattling the A-chains: The effects of structural priming on the comprehension of passives in Serbian-speaking children, 2014

• Farhy, Yael: Hebrew reading acquisition in early and late bilingual children, 2014

• Rowena, Garcia: Thematic role assignment in the L1 acquisition of Tagalog, 2015

• Chiara Boila: Understanding of focus particles in Italian learning children. 2016
   
  

Collaborations

International collaborations:

• Johns-Hopkins-University, US (Prof. Dr. Peter Jusczyk+)

• University of Manitoba, CN (Prof. Dr. Melanie Soderstrom)

• University of Barcelona, ES (Prof. Dr. Laura Bosch)

• University of Southern California at Los Angeles, US (Dr. Thoben Mintz)

• University Paris Descartes, FR (Dr. Thierry Nazzi, Dr. Judit Gervain)

• Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; NL (Prof. Dr. Paula Fikkert)

• Portland State University, US (Prof. Dr. Lynn Santelmann)

• Middle East Technical University Ankara, TR (Prof. Dr. Annette Hohenberger)

• University Pompeu Fabre, Barcelona, ES (Prof. Dr. Nuria Sebastián-Gallès; Prof. Dr. Lucca Bonnatti)

• University of Jyväskylää, FI (Prof. Dr. Paavo Leppänen)

National collaborations:

• University of Göttingen (Prof. Dr. Nivedita Mani)

• University of Frankfurt (Prof. Dr. Petra Schulz)

• Center of General Linguistics, Berlin (Dr. Hubert Truckenbrodt)

• University of Munich (Prof. Dr. Beate Sodian; Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus)