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
   

Project management / Grants

• 2011-2017 Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme, IDEALAB (International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain with Macquarie University, University of Groningen, University of Newcastle, Universitàdegli Studi di Trento)

• 2011-2014 Principle Investigator (with Flavia Adani), Means of focusmarking in normal and disordered language acquisition, Collaborative Research Group Information Structure, DFG SFB 632, C3

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

• 2010-2013 Principle investigator (with Hubert Truckenbrodt, Isabelle Wartenburger), Development of prosodic competence in early first language acquisition: Behavioral and neurophysiological investigations, DFG, SPP 1234, HO 1960/13-1

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

• 2006-2009 Principle Investigator Project Characterizing human language by structural complexity, ERC, NEST 028395 CHLaSC

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

• 2005-2008 Principle investigator (with Elisabeth Walch, Hospital for Pediatrics, Charite Berlin) Speech perception in preterm infants, DFG, HO 1960/10-2 and 10-4

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

• 2003-2004 Principle investigator (with Jürgen Weissenborn), The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children, DFG, HO 1960/7-1

• 2000-2003 Principle investigator (with Jürgen Weissenborn) The development of language processing in normal developing and language impaired children, DFG, FOR 381/1-1 and 1-2

• 2001-2003 Principle investigator, Form and function of grammatical morphemes in early language acquisition, DFG, HO1960/6-2

• 2000-2003 Principle investigator (with Jürgen Weissenborn) Grammatical morphology in language acquisition, DFG, HO1960/5-1 and 5-2
   

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

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

• University of 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)

• Macquarie University Sydney, AU (Prof. Dr. Katharine Demuth, Prof. Dr. Lyndsey Nickels)

• University of Groningen, NL (Prof. Dr. Roelien Bastianse)
   

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

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

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