Linguistic research at the University of Cologne
Welcome to CRC 1252 "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.
News
CRC has a new project: A08!
We are very excited to share the news that Simon Roessig's supplementary proposal for a project within the CRC has been approved by the DFG. The new project A08 investigates “The Role of Pauses in Prominence Marking” and brings together multiple perspectives by exploring both speech production on the basis of corpora and TED talks and perception studies. It further includes a cross-linguistic component by comparing German (as a head-prominent language) and French (edge-prominent).
Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for Young Scientists
Christopher Saure has been awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for his doctoral dissertation, which he completed as part of the former C05 project of the CRC 1252. This work stands out for its outstanding combination of theoretical analysis, empirical experimental evidence, and well-founded, detailed reasoning. It is expected to become an indispensable reference for future research on perspective-taking.
Doris Mücke and Michael T. Barbe on "Research works..." series
Doris Mücke (A04 & T01) and Michael T. Barbe (T01) have been elected by the Transfer office (Prorektorat) to present their transfer activities concerning project T01 on an interview with the title "Research works for people with Parkinson's disease". This interview was part of the series "Forschung wirkt..."/"Research works..." by the University of Cologne. You can find more about the interview and the series by clicking here.
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Event calender
07May
Introduction to EEG analysis with MNE-Python Workshop with Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
14.00 - 17.00 | Spitzboden, HoP, Luxemburger Str. 299
08May
Introduction to EEG analysis with MNE-Python Workshop with Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky
09.00 - 12.00 & 13.00 - 15.00 | Spitzboden, HoP, Luxemburger Str. 299
19May
a.r.t.e.s. Class 8
10.00 - 11.30 | Spitzboden, HoP, Luxemburger Str. 299
20May
RDM: Version Control II: Collaboration Workflows with GitHub and gitlab.nrw
14.00 - 15.30 | Spitzboden, HoP, Luxemburger Str. 299
02Jun
a.r.t.e.s. Class 8
10.00 - 11.30 | Spitzboden, HoP, Luxemburger Str. 299