SFB 1287:  Limits of Variability in Language: Cognitive, Grammatical, and Social 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 - (In)Variability in prosodic cues and their incremental use in perception, production, and interaction (Project Heads Hanne, Sandra ;  Tuomainen, Outi ;  Wartenburger, Isabell )
• B02 - The link between production and comprehension. Insights from aphasia (Project Heads Burchert, Frank ;  Stadie, Nicole H. ;  Vasishth, Shravan )
• B03 - Modelling the connection between eye-movement control, sentence processing, and brain signals (Project Heads Engbert, Ralf ;  Rabovsky, Milena ;  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 )
• C02 - Limits of cross-linguistic variability in the interpretation of underspecified structures (Project Heads Koller, Alexander ;  Zimmermann, Malte )
• C03 - Effects of variable input on word learning and word recognition in infants (Project Heads Gafos, Adamantios ;  Höhle, Barbara )
• C04 - Phonetic indices of syllabic organization: The crucial role of variability (Project Head Gafos, Adamantios )
• C05 - Hidden variability in sharing constructions (Project Head Georgi, Doreen )
• C06 - Grammatical processing and syntactic change (Project Heads Demske, Ulrike ;  Felser, Claudia )
• C07 - Limits of variability in phonotactic acquisition due to universal biases (Project Head Boll-Avetisyan, Ph.D., Natalie )
• D01 - Predicting the limits of variability in discourse using neural models (Project Heads Schlangen, David ;  Stede, Manfred )
• D02 - Consequences of head argument order for syntax (Project Heads Fanselow, Gisbert ;  Salzmann, Martin ;  Zimmermann, Malte )
• D03 - Limits of variability in Spanish relative complementation (Project Head Uth, Melanie )
• D04 - Dialect-standard variability in early childhood: A longitudinal corpus study of phonological development (Project Head Pfeiffer, Martin )
• MGK - Integrated Research Training Group (Project Heads Georgi, Doreen ;  Scheffler, Tatjana )
• Q - Scientific service and infrastructure project (Project Heads Engbert, Ralf ;  Vasishth, Shravan )
• T01 - Transforming text across media (Project Heads Scheffler, Tatjana ;  Stede, Manfred )
• Z - Central Administrative Project (Project Heads Georgi, Doreen ;  Wartenburger, Isabell )

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 )
• C01 - Shift of borders in syntactic variability: A training approach (Project Heads Fanselow, Gisbert ;  Kliegl, Ph.D., Reinhold )

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