Curriculum Vitae

 
Education

Free University Berlin, Habilitation 2003

Monograph on "Bootstrapping into Grammar: The role of the phonology/syntax interface in language processing and language acquisition"

Free University Berlin, Ph.D. 1992

Thesis "Morphosyntactic deficits in aphasia: A study on the production of inflected word forms in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasics"

Technical University Berlin, M.A. 1986

Theoretical Linguistics, Psychology, Social Sciences; Thesis "Lexical deficits in aphasia: A study on cueing techniques for word finding"

 
Professional Employment

2004

C3-Professor for Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam

2004

C3-Professor for Clinical Linguistics, Department for German Language, University of Marburg

2002 – 2004

taking the functions of the C4-Professor for Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam

1995 – 2004

Assistant Professor Language Acquisition, Director of the Infant Laboratory, Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam

1995

Research Assistant in the Project "Rule Knowledge and Rule Acquisition" (Principal Investigator: Dr. Jürgen Weissenborn), Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science

1994 – 1995

Research Assistant, Department for Psychology, Free University Berlin (Prof. Dr. Angela Friederici)

1989 – 1996

Lecturer at the School for Speech and Language Disorders, Free University Berlin

1987 – 1993

Lecturer and Reserach Assistant, Department for German Language, Free University Berlin (Prof. Dr. Peter Eisenberg)

1985 – 1987

Reseach Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (Project: Aphasia in Adults, Principal Investigator: Dr. Claus Heeschen)

 
Grants and Research Support

Awarded

Means of focus marking in normal and disordered language acquisition (with Jürgen Weissenborn), 2003-2006. DFG.

The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children (with Jürgen Weissenborn), 2003. DFG.

Form and function of grammatical morphemes in early language acquisition, 2001-2003. DFG.

Support Grant for Habilitation, 2001-2003. DFG.

The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children (with Jürgen Weissenborn), 2000-2003. DFG.

Grammatical Morphology in Language Acquisition (with Jürgen Weissenborn), 2000-2003. DFG.

Prosodic information in early language acquisition, 1997. Research support grant from the University of Potsdam.

Phonological information in normal and disordered language processing, 1993. Research support grant from the Free University Berlin.