SFB 1287:  Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Computational, and Grammatical Aspects

• Subject Area: Humanities ; Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Term: since 2017
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• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317633480

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• B01 - Can individual differences in auditory-motor synchronization explain individual differences in language processing across the lifespan? (Project Heads Ladanyi, Ph.D., Eniko ;  Tuomainen, Outi ;  Wartenburger, Isabell )
• B03 - Modeling the control of eye movements and sentence processing (Project Heads Engbert, Ralf ;  Rabe, Maximilian ;  Vasishth, Shravan )
• B07 - Variability in infants’ gaze dynamics during word recognition: Insights from experiments and computational modeling (Project Heads Boll-Avetisyan, Ph.D., Natalie ;  Engbert, Ralf )
• B08 - Shifting the limits of domain-specificity: Correlational and causal approaches to the P600-as-P3 hypothesis (Project Heads Rabovsky, Milena ;  Wartenburger, Isabell ;  Weymar, Mathias )
• B09 - How different aspects of language processing depend on attention: Variability and its Limits (Project Heads Rabovsky, Milena ;  Schad, Daniel )
• C02 - Hidden variability and its limits in expressing meaning. A view from West African languages (Project Head Zimmermann, Malte )
• C04 - A dynamical basis for the flexibility of intersegmental coordination across languages and segment types (Project Head Gafos, Adamantios )
• C05 - (In)variability in locality constraints. Evidence from resumption (Project Heads Georgi, Doreen ;  Salzmann, Martin )
• C07 - (Hidden) Variability in Vowel Phonotactic Systems (Project Heads Boll-Avetisyan, Ph.D., Natalie ;  Gafos, Adamantios )
• C11 - Disagreements and their limits in discourse structure annotation: From insights to machine learning (Project Heads Scheffler, Tatjana ;  Stede, Manfred )
• D01 - Probing and Mitigating the Limits of Variability Prompt Variability in Large Language Models (Project Head Schlangen, David )
• D02 - Relatively (un)limited. The typology and comparative syntax of relative clauses revisited: Correlatives, word order correlations, and accessibility (Project Head Salzmann, Martin )
• D03 - (In)variable resumption in relative clauses: Spanish compared to other Romance languages (Project Heads Fliessbach, Jan ;  Uth, Melanie )
• D04 - Dialect acquisition in different sociolinguistic contexts: Limits of variability in Alemannic and Pomerano (Project Head Pfeiffer, Martin )
• D05 - Limits of variability in the complexity of valency class systems (Project Head Serzant, Ilja )
• MGK - Integrated Research Training Group (Project Head Tuomainen, Outi )
• Q - Scientific service and infrastructure project (Project Heads Haaf, Ph.D., Julia M. ;  Vasishth, Shravan )
• T02 - Predicting treatment outcomes for language impairments from variability in linguistic behavior and exploring the impact of language specific working memory (Project Heads Hanne, Sandra ;  Stadie, Nicole H. )
• T03 - Specific variability in the speech input as a tool in language support and language therapy for young children (Project Heads Gafos, Adamantios ;  Höhle, Barbara ;  Lonnemann, Jan )
• WIKO - Variability in present-day Brandenburgian (Project Heads Pfeiffer, Martin ;  Zimmermann, Malte )
• Z - Central Administrative Project (Project Head Georgi, Doreen )

Completed projects

• A01 - Integration of linguistic resources in highly diverse urban settings: Stretching the limits of variability (Project Heads Freywald, Ulrike ;  Wiese, Heike )
• A03 - Discourse Strategies across Social Media: Variability in Individuals, Groups, and Channels (Project Heads Scheffler, Tatjana ;  Stede, Manfred )
• B02 - The link between production and comprehension. Insights from aphasia (Project Heads Burchert, Frank ;  Stadie, Nicole H. ;  Vasishth, Shravan )
• B04 - Bilingual processing ability as a predictor for language learning (Project Heads Clahsen, Harald ;  Felser, Claudia )
• B05 - (Limits of) variability in speech planning (Project Head Wartenburger, Isabell )
• C01 - Shift of borders in syntactic variability: A training approach (Project Heads Fanselow, Gisbert ;  Kliegl, Ph.D., Reinhold )
• C03 - Effects of variable input on word learning and word recognition in infants (Project Heads Gafos, Adamantios ;  Höhle, Barbara )
• C06 - Grammatical processing and syntactic change (Project Heads Demske, Ulrike ;  Felser, Claudia )
• T01 - Transforming text across media (Project Heads Scheffler, Tatjana ;  Stede, Manfred )

• Applicant Institution: Universität Potsdam
• Participating University: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Spokespersons: Professorin Dr. Doreen Georgi, since 10/2022; Professorin Dr. Isabell Wartenburger, until 10/2022