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Prominence in Language

Linguistic research at the University of Cologne

CRC "Prominence in Language"

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Welcome to "Prominence in Language"

In this Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1252) more than sixty researchers are working together in an interdisciplinary team with the goal of providing a comprehensive characterization of prominence in language.

We investigate how prominence structures language with respect to prosody (Area A), morphosyntax and semantics (Area B) as well as text and discourse structure (Area C) in a large variety of languages from more than a dozen major language families and linguistic areas world wide. Our research on prominence contributes to a better understanding of language as a system between communication and cognition.

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Research Data and Methods series

Research Data and Methods series

Job Schepens and Luke Günther from Project S are organising a new series of talks and tutorials on research data and methods with a focus on best practices and open science principles. All the members of the CRC and visiting guests are invited to join these talks at the Spitzboden in the HoP, every other Wednesday afternoon, starting on May 7th. For further information and the complete program of the series please click here.
DAAD Procope Program: Kick off event

DAAD Procope Program: Kick off event

Tabea Thies (T01) is pleased to announce the kick-off event of the DAAD-funded Procope program exchange between Paris and Cologne, taking place on April 16th. The event will feature two exciting sessions; the talk "Investigating Speech Breathing with E/M Articulography" and the workshop "Introduction to the Articulatory Data Analysis Tool". For more information please click here.
47. DGfS Annual Conference 2025

47. DGfS Annual Conference 2025

This year's annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) took place from March 4 to 7 at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Members of the CRC were involved in the organization of the workshop: AG 3 "Attractors in language variation, processing and change", Matthias Schlesewsky & Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (University of South Australia), Petra Schumacher (A01, C07, C09). For more information click here.
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