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
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