We invite our PhD students to participate in the Nacaps study („National Academics Panel Study“) - a nationwide longitudinal study of doctoral students and doctoral graduates. Click here for more information and for a link to the study.

Kedi Simpson (University of Oxford, Department of Education) will give a talk on April 13 at 10 a.m. in the HoP Spitzboden on "You say bouteille d’eau, I write potato: what do beginner learners of French really understand when they hear French?”.

Several projects of the CRC are once again involved in the KölnerKinderUni and offer engaging events on the topic of language for children grade 3-6. More information about the program can be found here (in German).

At the 45th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (March 7-10) in Cologne, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (A03, B05, C09, INF) gave a plenary talk titled "Creativity and routine at the prosody-syntax interface: playing with intonation unit boundaries."

From March 7 to 10, the 45th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society („Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft“) will take place at the University of Cologne. This year’s topic is "Linguistic Creativity and Routine". Find the full program here.

Nikolaus Himmelmann (PI of the projects A03, B05, C09 and INF) visited the Theory Neutral Podcast and spoke about ‚Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse‘. You can listen to the episode here.

Diego Romero Heredo (former PhD B04) was awarded the Offermann-Hergarten Prize for his PhD thesis this year. Congratulations!

This call has ended. | The CRC 1252 „Prominence in Language“ has opened applications for Junior (3-6 months) and Senior short-term (1-3 months) fellowships. The application deadline is January 15th, 2023. More information on the application process can be found here.

Marco García García (B04) participated in the "Homenaje al Hispanismo Alemán" (event in honor of Hispanic Studies in Germany), representing Spanish Linguistics in Germany. The event was held in the presence of the Queen of Spain in the framework of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Spain was the guest country this year.

On the occasion of Klaus von Heusinger's (B04, C04) 60th birthday a Festschrift was published by Chiara Gianollo, Lukasz Jedrzejowski and Sofiana I. Lindemann. Many members of the CRC wrote contributions. Click here to see the open access publication.

Runners from the CRC 1252 successfully completed the Köln-Marathon 2022: The picture shows the CRC relay team (who finished the full marathon in 03:38:19!) and Barbara Zeyer (B06), who finished the half marathon.

On November 18, 2022, a workshop on L2 Sentence and Discourse Processing took place, which was funded by the CRC. It was organised by Clare Patterson (C07), Jacopo Torregrossa (C03), and Sol Lago (Goethe University Frankfurt). Click here for more information!

Project A04, in collaboration with CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, has created an open source software (ema2wav) for the conversion of articulographic data. The software runs platform independent and allows the annotation and analysis of movement trajectories (lips, tongue, jaw) in the phonetics software Praat. Find the software here.

Given the current political situation, the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1252 “Prominence in Language” invites applications for short-term fellowships for refugee researchers from Ukraine or Russia to work in the CRC for a maximum duration of six months. Application for this program has closed!

Since 2017, researchers in the CRC have produced a total of over 300 publications! We are proud of our colleagues, because they contribute to a comprehensive description of prominence. Here you can find all publications of the CRC!

Members from projects A02, A04 and A07 gave talks at this year's LabPhon, which took place from June 23 to 25. Click here to see the full conference program!

The ‘Third Cologne Ankara Discourse Meeting (CADiM3)’ took place at the House of Prominence on July 1st, 2022. It was organized by Frederike Weeber and Klaus von Heusinger and focused on discourse topics such as reference production and comprehension. Click here for more information!

On June 20th, the hybrid and interdisciplinary workshop 'NeuroSpeech 22' took place. This workshop strengthened the cooperation between neurology and linguistics and was jointly organised by members of the University Hospital Cologne and the SFB 1252. You can find more information here!

Our 3rd International Conference "Prominence in Language" will take place June 2-3, 2022. Click here to see the program and to register until May 24!

Our 3rd International Conference on "Prominence in Language" will take place June 2-3, 2022. The deadline for the Call for Abstracts has now been extended to February 7, 2022. Click here for the full call.

The Center for Language, Information and Philosophy (CLIP) is organising a workshop on NP-deletion on February 9-10, 2022. Click here for more information!

The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" has opened applications for Junior (3-6 months) and Senior short-term (1-3 months) fellowships. Application deadline is January 25th, 2022. More information on the application process can be viewed here.

Martine Grice (PI of the projects A01, A02 & C09) and Bodo Winter (Mercator Fellow) were guests in the BecauseLanguage podcast. They spoke about the Replicability Crisis in Linguistics following their article in Linguistics. You can listen to the episode and find the transcript when you click here.

Simon Roessig from project A04 was awarded the Offermann-Hergarten Prize of the University of Cologne for his dissertation on 'Categoriality and continuity in prosodic prominence'! Congratulations!

On November 4-5 there was a workshop on DOM in Catalan (and Romance) and Language Contact with the guest researcher and Alexander von Humboldt scholarship holder Anna Pineda, who is affiliated to the CRC. The program can be found here.

On October 25 all members of the CRC came together to attend the 3rd virtual CRC Day. On this occasion, we followed up on project presentations and got together for bilateral meetings. The CRC Days are a great opportunity to welcome new members, share ideas and to foster further collaboration between the different projects.

We warmly welcome our two new coordinators, Britt Krukau (l.) and Cornelia Ehlen-Stein (r.) in Team Z and at the CRC! For more information about Team Z, click here.

We are pleased that apl. Prof. Dr. Andreas Trotzke will start as a professoral substitute in the CRC this semester. Andreas Trotzke's research interests include the syntax-pragmatics interface and he will give a talk on "Information structure and expressivity" in the Linguistischer Arbeitskreis on October 20, 4 pm.

Bachelor and Master theses relevant to the CRC 1252 are now collected in KUPS (Cologne University Publication Server). A link to the Series 'Papers on Prominence' can be found here!

We welcome Dr. Anna Pineda, who will be joining us as Humboldt Fellow from June 1, 2021 on. Further information on the SFB's broad national and international scientific network can be found here.

On March 25-26, the 19th STaPs will take place online. This year it is co-organized by Barbara Zeyer (PhD, B06). Petra Schumacher will give a keynote on "Referenzforschung im Spannungsfeld von Labor und Wirklichkeit“. Click here for more information!

The CRC 1252 was prominently represented at the virtual conference PaPE 2021, this time organized by upf Barcelona and the Universitat de Barcelona. Project A01, A02, A04, A06 and A07 participated. Click here for the Book of Abstracts!

Are you interested in the CRC research? With this booklet we share a prominent overview of the diverse ideas, results and developments from the first funding phase. Click here to have a look at the booklet.

Whether DGfS or CUNY- CRC researchers organize workshops, hold keynotes and present posters at many international conferences, of course always online. An overview of the activities can be found in the event calendar or in more detail on the website.

Announcement: Petra Schumacher (A01, C07, C09) will become associate editor of "Glossa Psycholinguistics", a new open access journal for psycholinguistic research.

Congratulations to our colleague Judith Schlenter (B06) who received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for her project at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT).

Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Martine Grice (A01, A02, C09), Tobias Schröer was awarded the Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for his Bachelor's thesis on "Investigating potential acoustic correlates of sonority: Intensity vs. periodic energy".

From February 22-23, 2021, the 6th International Workshop of the University of Cologne and the University of Tokyo will take place on the topic "From Event to Discourse". For more information, the programme and zoom access, follow the link.

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has approved a second funding period of the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language starting in 2021. We are looking forward to the next four years and the opportunity to continue our research on prominence in language.

The CRC 1252 is aware of the new challenges related to the corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) for research, teaching and administration. Here we bundle information on current measures and advice that we develop, implement and continually adapt to current trends in the CRC 1252.

On January 28, 2021, two more of our PhD students will present their completed dissertations, online via Zoom. You can find more information about all the presentations here.

Prof. Martine Grice (A01+A02) has received this year's Research Prize of the University of Cologne for outstanding research in arts and humanities. Here she explains her main research field in linguistics.

The introduction to a special issue in 'Language and Speech' on "Prosodic Prominence - A Cross-Linguistic Perspective" edited by Martine Grice and Frank Kügler is out now! Click on this box for the issue.