Incrementality in Semantic Processing (B01)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

The project investigates the incremental composition of meaning. More specifically, we investigate context dependency and crosslinguistic variation as two potential triggers of variability in semantic processing strategies. Our empirical focus is the domain restriction of nominal and temporal quantifi-ers as well as related parameters of crosslinguistic variation. The dependent variables in our studies are electrophysiological and behavioral measures. The languages under investigation include German, English, Russian, Turkish and Samoan. Our results will inform a theory of the adaptivity and dynamics of on-line sentence comprehension.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Oliver Bott, until 11/2014; Dr. Vera Hohaus; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Sternefeld, until 6/2017; Professorin Dr. Britta Stolterfoht; Professor Dr. Rolf Ulrich