Mutual Intelligibility and Surprisal in Slavic Intercomprehension (INCOMSLAV-3) (C04)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074

C4 continues the research on Slavic intercomprehension by (1) extending the range of the studied phenomena beyond lexical similarity and mere word-order-based predictability, e.g., by including constructional similarity, cross-lingual correspondences of multi-component units, transparency of prefabricated language, intelligibility of formulaic and idiomatic expressions; (2) integrating rational, literal or automatic intercomprehension routines observable on both speaker and listener sides, e.g., by extending the empirical base toward a dialogue setup in order to observe the dynamic exchange of information as well as related convergence effects; (3) modelling the interplay of linguistic encoding strategies detectable with regard to vocabulary selection, choice of constructions, paraphrasing preferences, and use of prosody.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
• Applicant Institution: Universität des Saarlandes
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Tania Avgustinova, since 11/2017; Professor Dr. Dietrich Klakow; Professor Dr. Roland Walter Marti, until 6/2018; Professor Dr. Bernd Möbius