SFB 1760:  SiNoSi: Silence, Noise and Signal in Language

• Subject Area: Social and Behavioural Sciences ; Humanities ; Computer Science, Systems and Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 551281144

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• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres

Current projects

• A01 - Silent Subjects without (Silent) Agreement (Project Head Walkden, George )
• A02 - Null Subjects in Slavic Heritage Languages (Project Head Brehmer, Bernhard )
• A03 - Pronominal Realization in Indo-Aryan (Project Head Butt, Miriam )
• A04 - Silent Moves (Project Heads Eckardt, Regine ;  Romero, Ph.D., Maribel )
• B01 - Noise and New Grammar: Stages of Semantic Change (Project Head Eckardt, Regine )
• B02 - Expletive Negation (Project Head Romero, Ph.D., Maribel )
• B03 - The Prosody of Pronouns, Prepositions, and Prefixes in West Germanic Languages (Project Heads Bögel, Tina ;  Walkden, George )
• B04 - Determiner Phrases with French in Contact: Studies on Language Change (Project Heads Kaiser, Georg A. ;  Kupisch, Tanja )
• B05 - Children’s Tuning in to Word Recognition (Project Head Braun, Bettina )
• B06 - Noise in the Canon of Features and the Formation of Underspecified Mental Representations of Categories (Project Head Eulitz, Carsten )
• C01 - Interindividual Variation at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface (Project Head Czypionka, Anna )
• C02 - Intonation and Sociolinguistic Factors in Regionally Accented Speech (Project Heads Einfeldt, Marieke ;  Zahner-Ritter, Katharina )
• C03 - Acquisition of Expletive Elements (Project Head Marinis, Theodoros )
• C05 - Investigating Noise and Silence in Large Language Models (Project Head Keim, Daniel )
• D01 - Memetic Noise and Silence (Project Head Garcia, David )
• D02 - Ambiguous Signals: Exploring Noise and Silence in Gaming Situations (Project Heads Ochsner, Beate ;  Otto, Isabell )
• D03 - Interactional Noise and Silence in Multilingual Institutional Settings (Project Head Meyer, Christian )
• Z - Central Task of the Collaborative Research Center (Project Head Butt, Miriam )

• Applicant Institution: Universität Konstanz
• Participating University: Lunds Universitet; Universität St. Gallen; Universität Trier
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Miriam Butt