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Skills and Structures in Language and Cognition (SSLAC)

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