Real-time register comprehension in adolescent heritage speakers’ languages (C03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

C03 continues to investigate the real-time processing of register (mis)matches and semantic verb-argument / grammatical morphosyntactic (in)congruence by means of eye-tracking studies. A central project goal is to integrate C03’s observed findings of Phase I and Phase II into an extant language processing model. Additionally, we take into account comprehender background factors – such as age, Russian heritage language and proficiency – both in our experiments and by implementing them in the model.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Natalia Gagarina; Professorin Dr. Pia Knoeferle; Dr. Katja Maquate