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Members of SSLAC are centrally involved in the following projects that have points of contact with SSLAC’s research agenda.

Please find an overview of select projects of the past five years below.

Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt „Taking Spoken Language Seriously / Gesprochene Sprache ernst nehmen“ (2024-2028)
DFG, Reinhart Koselleck Program
Principal investigator: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Communication electrified - towards a natural investigation of real-time language processing (2020-2027) 
Volkswagen Foundation, Momentum Funding
Principal investigator: Petra Schumacher

Comicforschung.nrw – Comics: Geschichte, Analyse, Forschung und Didaktik (2023-) 
Land NRW, OERContent.nrw
Consortium leader of the four locations Cologne, Essen, Bonn and Düsseldorf: Stephan Packard

Language in psychosis: Broaching a new frontier (2023-2025) 
Excellent Research Support Programme UoC, FORUM
Principal Investigators: Kai Vogeley, Klaus von Heusinger, Derya Çokal and Joseph Kambeitz

ViCom: Visual Communication (2022-2025)
DFG Priority Program 2329

  • Anastasia Bauer: Gestures or signs? Comparing manual and non-manual constructions sharing the same form in co-speech gesture and sign language: A corpus-driven approach.
  • Pamela Perniss, Petra Schumacher: The Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory: Phonological Parameters in Production and Real-Time Comprehension.

From icon to abstraction in sign language: How iconicity shapes the lexicon in the visual modality (2020-2023) 
DFG-AHRC Cooperation: Joint German-UK Project Proposals in the Humanities
Principal Investigators: Pamela Perniss, Gerardo Ortega

VIRTUALTIMES Exploring and Modifying the Sense of Time in Virtual Environments (2019-2023)
EU Horizon 2020
Speaker (2019-2022) & Principal Investigator: Kai Vogeley

Recent projects

Language Documentation and Psycholinguistics (2014-2022)
Volkswagen Foundation, Lichtenberg
Birgit Hellwig

XPrag.de: New pragmatic theories based on experimental evidence (2014-2022)
DFG Priority Program 1727
Petra Schumacher (co-speaker)

  • Manfred Krifka, Sophie Repp: Affirmative and rejective responses to negative assertions and questions .
  • Sophie Repp: Affirmative and rejective responses to negative assertions and questions .
  • Petra Schumacher: Processing speaker’s meaning: Informativeness and perspective .
  • Petra Schumacher: Processing speaker’s meaning: Epistemic state, cooperation, commitment .

A corpus study of mouthing and fingerspelling in Russian Sign Language: description and implications for cross-modal contact (2017-2022)
DFG
Anastasia Bauer

Conversational priming in language change (2021-2022)
Excellent Research Support Programme UoC, Forum
Eugen Hill, Martin Becker, Sonja Gipper

Putting Critical Thinking in Its Place: A New Defense of Epistemic Authority (2021-2022)
Volkswagen Foundation, Opus Magnum
Thomas Grundmann

Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen (2014-2021)
DFG-Graduiertenkolleg (Research Training Group) 1767, Universität Freiburg
Co-speaker 2014–2017: Stephan Packard

Composing events in Romance causative constructions and the semantics of causation (2018-2021)
DFG
Klaus von Heusinger, Martin Becker

Leo-Spitzer Prize , University of Cologne

  • Martine Grice, 2020, Details
  • Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, 2017, Details

Disagreement in Philosophy. Semantic and epistemological Foundations (2015-2019) 
University of Cologne & University of Bonn
DFG
Thomas Grundmann

Deutsch-Französische Hochschule, Joint Workshops

  • The 4th Nuba Mountain Languages Conference (2023), Birgit Hellwig, Gertrud Schneider-Blum & Nicolas Quint
  • Quantifying and interpreting variability in speech (2020-2021), Martine Grice & Iona Chitoran
  • Language and Dynamic Representations: Articulatory Phonology and Prosody (2018-2019), Martine Grice, Iona Chitoran & Anne Hermes

Grimme-Forschungskolleg

  • Fragmentierte Öffentlichkeit (2021-2022), Stephan Packard
  • Bildung für eine digitale Souveränität (2020), Stephan Packard

TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences) - DFG Cooperation Visits

  • Intonation of Kenyan English and Swahili (2021-2022), Martine Grice & Billian Otundo
  • Super-Scoring? Data-driven societal technologies in China and Western-style democracies as a new challenge for education (2019), Stephan Packard