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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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Interspeech 2023

Interspeech 2023

On Thursday 24th August, Martine Grice (A01, A02, C09) will be in Dublin to give a keynote talk at Interspeech 2023 the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Her talk is entitled "What’s in a Rise? The Relevance of Intonation for Attention Orienting". Find more info on the conference here.
Call for Papers AG12 - DGfS 2024

Call for Papers AG12 - DGfS 2024

AG 12 'Naturalistic approaches to reference' at the next annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (Bochum, February 28 to March 1, 2024) is organized by Magdalena Repp, Clare Patterson (C07) and Ingmar Brilmayer. The call for papers is open until August 15. Please find the full call here.
Reinhart Koselleck-Project

Reinhart Koselleck-Project

We congratulate Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (A03, B05, C09, INF), who has been granted a Reinhart Koselleck-project of one million euros by the DFG. ‘Taking Spoken Language Seriously’ will address the question of the relevance of properties of spoken language for grammatical analysis for five years. Reinhart Kosseleck-projects provide funding for particularly innovative and, in a positive sense, higher-risk research and are only awarded to researchers with a proven scientific track record.
Videos on Methods in Experimental Linguistics

Videos on Methods in Experimental Linguistics

Various experimental methods are used in linguistic research to study language processing. A series of videos (in German) now provides a brief introduction into each method. Click here to access the YouTube playlist. The videos were produced as part of the DFG-funded Priority Program SPP 1727 'XPrag.de' and were recorded in the Laboratory for Experimental Linguistics in Cologne (XLinC).
Call for Papers AG6 - DGfS 2024

Call for Papers AG6 - DGfS 2024

AG 6 'Attitudinal meaning in prosody' at the next annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (Bochum, February 28 to March 1, 2024) is organized by Timo Buchholz (C04), Heiko Seeliger (A06) and Katharina Zahner-Ritter (University Trier). The call for papers is open until September 1. Please find the full call here.
5th SFB Networking Workshop

5th SFB Networking Workshop

We're looking forward to the next SFB Networking Event on August 25 in Potsdam. In this series of events, members of the four linguistic SFBs in Berlin, Potsdam, Saarbrücken and Köln meet regularly. Click here for more information!
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