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Prominence in Language

Board Coordination Principal Investigators Postdocs Doctoral students Communication and Laboratory Professoral Substitutes Associates Alumni
Board Coordination Principal Investigators Postdocs Doctoral students Communication and Laboratory Professoral Substitutes Associates Alumni

Board

Name

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Speaker of the CRC, Principal Investigator B04 "Differential Object Marking", C04 "Referential Activation" and Z "Central Services"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.116 and SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.09
E-mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4884 (Philosophikum) and -89900 (SFB)
Web: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Name

Prof. Dr. Martine Grice

Deputy Speaker of the CRC, Principal Investigator A01 "Intonation and Attention Orienting", A02 "Individual Specificity"and C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

E-mail: martine.grice(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5610
Web: Prof. Dr. Martine Grice

Name

PD Dr. Stefan Baumann

Principal Investigator A07 "Metrical prominence- Scales and Structures"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
E-mail: stefan.baumann(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4259
Homepage: PD Dr. Stefan Baumann

Name

Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Principal Investigator C02 "Tense and Aspect"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.313
E-mail: martin.becker1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2832
Web: Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Name

Prof. Dr. Daniel Bunčić

Principal Investigator B01 "Prominence in Slavic"

Office: Slavisches Seminar, Weyertal 137
E-mail: daniel.buncic(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-3355
Web: Prof. Dr. Daniel Bunčić

Name

Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig

Principal Investigator B02 "Split case marking and constituent order in East Africa"

Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-mail: bhellwig(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-3889
Web: Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig

Name

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Principal Investigator A03 "Prosodic Typology", B05 "Symmetrical Voice Languages", C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling" and INF "Infrastructure"

Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-mail: sprachwissenschaft(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2323
Web: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann

Name

Dr. Clare Patterson

Postdoc C07 "Forward and Backward Functions"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.05
E-mail: cpatters(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89918
Web: Dr. Clare Patterson

Name

Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Principal Investigator A01 "Intonation and Attention Orienting" , C07 "Forward and Backward Functions"and C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.124
E-mail: petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2696
Web: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Coordination

Name

Ana-Laura Lemke

Coordination Z "Central Services"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.06
E-mail: lemkea(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4376

Name

Michael Remmy

Coordination Z "Central Services"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.06
E-mail: mremmy(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89901

Principal Investigators

Name

PD Dr. Stefan Baumann

Principal Investigator A07 "Metrical prominence- Scales and Structures"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
E-Mail: stefan.baumann(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4259
Homepage: PD Dr. Stefan Baumann

Name

Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Principal Investigator C02 "Tense and Aspect"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.313
E-mail: martin.becker1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2832
Web: Prof. Dr. Martin Becker

Name

Prof. Dr. Christiane Bongartz

Principal Investigator C03 "Bilingual Narratives"

Office: Philosophikum, room 1.007
E-mail: chris.bongartz(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-6209
Web: Prof. Dr. Christiane Bongartz

Name

Prof. Dr. Daniel Bunčić

Principal Investigator B01 "Prominence in Slavic"

Office: Slavisches Seminar, Weyertal 137
E-mail: daniel.buncic(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-3355
Web: Prof. Dr. Daniel Bunčić

Name

Prof. Dr. Marco García García

Principal Investigator B04 "Differential Object Marking"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.310
E-mail: marco.garcia(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4821
Web: Prof. Dr. Marco García García

Name

Prof. Dr. Martine Grice

Principal Investigator A01 "Intonation and Attention Orienting", A02 "Individual Specificity"and C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
E-mail: martine.grice(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5610
Web: Prof. Dr. Martine Grice

Name

Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig

Principal Investigator B02 "Split case marking and constituent order in East Africa"

Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-mail: bhellwig(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-3889
Web: Prof. Dr. Birgit Hellwig

Name

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Speaker of the CRC, Principal Investigator B04 "Differential Object Marking", C04 "Referential Activation"and Z "Central Services"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.116 and SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.09
E-mail: klaus.vonheusinger(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4884 (Philosophikum) and -89900 (SFB)
Web: Prof. Dr. Klaus von Heusinger

Name

Prof. Dr. Eugen Hill

Principal Investigator B08 "Non-canonical alignment and agreement patterns in East Baltic"

Office: Historisch-Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7, 3rd floor
E-mail: eugen.hill(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2282
Web: Prof. Dr. Eugen Hill

Name

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus P. Himmelmann

Principal Investigator A03 "Prosodic Typology", B05 "Symmetrical Voice Languages", INF "Infrastructure"and C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

Office: Allg. Sprachwissenschaft, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-mail: sprachwissenschaft(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2323
Web: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Himmelmann

Name

PD Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer

Principal Investigator C05 "Perspective Taking"

Office: University of Wuppertal, Gaußstr. 20, room L 12.23
E-mail: hinterwimmer(at)uni-wuppertal.de
Phone: (+49) 202-439 5218
Web: PD Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer

Name

PD Dr. Katja Jasinskaja

Principal Investigator C06 "Rhetorical Relations"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 4.08
E-mail: katja.jasinskaja(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-6956 / -89922
Web: PD Dr. Katja Jasinskaja

Name

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Mitchell

Principal Investigator B02 "Split case marking and constituent order in East Africa"

Office: African Studies, Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 9
E-mail: alice.mitchell(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-6936
Web: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Mitchell

Name

PD Dr. Doris Mücke

Principal Investigator A04 "Dynamic Modelling"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
E-mail: doris.muecke(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4256
Web: PD Dr. Doris Mücke

Name

Prof. Dr. Martina Penke

Principal Investigator B06 "Attention and Prominence"

Office: Herbert-Lewin-Straße 10, room 307
E-mail: martina.penke(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5592
Web: Prof. Dr. Martina Penke

Name

Prof. Dr. Pamela Perniss

Principal Investigator B09 "Prominence in action: referent representation in German Sign Language (DGS)"

Office: Klosterstraße 79b, room 11
E-mail: pperniss(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-76342
Web: Prof. Dr. Pamela Perniss

Name

Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp

Principal Investigator A06 "Prosodic prominence in non-assertive speech acts"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.119
E-mail: sophie.repp(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5235
Web: Prof. Dr. Sophie Repp

Name

Dr. Sonja Riesberg

Principal Investigator B05 "Symmetrical Voice Languages"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.06
E-mail: sonja.riesberg(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89909
Web: Dr. Sonja Riesberg

Name

Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Principal Investigator A01 "Intonation and Attention Orienting", C07 "Forward and Backward Functions" and C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.124
E-mail: petra.schumacher(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-2696
Web: Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher

Name

Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa

Principal Investigator C03 "Bilingual narratives"

Office: Goethe University Frankfurt, Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen, IG 5.155
E-mail: Torregrossa(at)lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
Phone: (+49) 69 798-32186
Web: Prof. Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa

Name

Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley

Principal Investigator A02 "Individual Specificity"

Office: Kerpener Str. 62
E-mail: kai.vogeley(at)uk-koeln.de
Phone:
Web: Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley

Postdocs

Name

Dr. Maria Andreou

Postdoc C03 "Bilingual Narratives"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.06
E-mail: mandreou(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89917
Web: Dr. Maria Andreou

Name

Dr. Francesco Cangemi

Postdoc A02 "Individual Specificity"

Office: Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
E-mail: fcangemi(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4195
Web: Dr. Francesco Cangemi

Name

Dr. Jakob Egetenmeyer

Postdoc C02 "Tense and aspect in discourse"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.04
E-mail: j.egetenmeyer(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89919
Web: Dr. Jakob Egetenmeyer

Name

T. Mark Ellison

Postdoc C09 "Prominence and predictive modelling"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.03
E-mail: tellison(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89920
Web: T. Mark Ellison

Name

Dr. Yulia Esaulova

Postdoc B06 "Attention and Prominence"

Office: Herbert-Lewin-Straße 10, room 304
E-mail: yulia.esaulova(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-6373
Web: Dr. Yulia Esaulova

Name

Dr. Constantijn Kaland

Postdoc A03 "Prosodic Typology"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.06
E-mail: ckaland(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89909
Web: Dr. Constantijn Kaland

Name

Dr. Clare Patterson

Postdoc C07 "Forward and Backward Functions"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.05
E-mail: cpatters(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89918
Web: Dr. Clare Patterson

Name

Dr. Christine Röhr

Postdoc A01 "Intonation and Attention Orienting"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6, room 1.10
E-mail: christine.roehr(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4259
Web: Dr. Christine Röhr

Name

Dr. Simon Rössig (né Ritter)

Postdoc A04 "Dynamic Modelling"

Office: Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
E-mail: simon.roessig(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4258
Web: Simon Rössig

Name

Dr. Judith Schlenter

Postdoc B06 "Attention and prominence in language production and acquisition"

Office: Herbert-Lewin-Straße 10, room 304
E-mail: jschlent(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221-470-6373
Homepage: Judith Schlenter

Name

Dr. Gertrud Schneider-Blum

Postdoc B02 "Split Ergativity in Tima"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.10
E-mail: schneider_blum(at) yahoo.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89906
Web: Dr. Gertrud Schneider-Blum

Name

Dr. Heiko Seeliger

Postdoc A06 "Prosodic prominence in non-assertive speech acts"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 2.04
E-mail: heiko.seeliger(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89911
Web: Heiko Seeliger

Doctoral students

Name

Maximilian Hörl

Doctoral student INF "Data, Design and Sustainability"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.11
E-mail: mhoerl1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89905

Name

Semra Kizilkaya

Doctoral student B04 "Differential Object Marking"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.04
E-mail: semra.kizilkaya(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89903
Web: Semra Kizilkaya

Name

Sara Meuser (on parental leave)

Doctoral student C05 "Perspective Taking"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.03
E-mail: smeuser2(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89904
Web: Sara Meuser

Name

Stella von Randow

Doctoral student B09 "Prominence in action: referent representation in German Sign Language (DGS)"

Offcie: Klosterstraße 79b, room 10
E-mail: srandow1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470 76364
Web: Stella von Randow

Name

Magdalena Repp

Doctoral student C07 "Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 3.05
E-Mail: mrepp1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5391

Name

Fahime Same

Doctoral student INF "Infrastructure"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.11
E-mail: f.same(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89905
Web: Fahime Same

Name

Vasileia Skrimpa

Doctoral student C03 "Reference management in bilingual narratives"

Office: Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.12
E-mail: vskrimp1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-899
Web: Vasileia Skrimpa

Name

Malin Spaniol

Doctoral student A02 "Individual behaviour in encoding and decoding prosodic prominence"

Office: Kerpener Straße 62
E-Mail: malin.spaniol(at)uk-koeln.de
Phone:

Name

Frederike Weeber (on parental leave)

Doctoral student C04 "Referential Activation"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 1.05
E-mail: fweeber1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89902
Web: Frederike Weeber

Name

Simon Wehrle

Doctoral student, associated with A02"Individual behaviour in encoding and decoding prosodic prominence"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
E-mail: simon.wehrle(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4195
Homepage: Simon Wehrle

Communication and Laboratory

Name

Eva Mika

Research assistant Communication "Z - Central Services"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 1.08
E-mail: emika(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89907

Name

Brita Rietdorf

Technical assistant "XLinC Lab"

Office: Universitätsstrasse 16a, 001
E-mail: brietdor(at)uni-koeln.de, xlinc-lab(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-5225

Professoral Substitutes

Name

Dr. Diana Kolev (nee Dimitrova) (on maternity leave)

Professoral Substitute

SoSe18, SoSe20

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 3.10
E-mail: diana.dimitrova(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89914
Homepage: Dr. Diana Kolev

Name

PD Dr. Ljudmila Geist

Professoral Substitute

WS19/20

Office: Philosophikum, room 2.120
E-mail: lgeist(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: +49 (0)221 470-1666
Web: PD Dr. Ljudmila Geist

Name

Dr. Arndt Riester

Professoral Substitute

WS18/19, SoSe19, WS20/21

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, Raum 4.11
E-mail: ariester(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89963
Homepage: Dr. Arndt Riester

Name

Dr. Sonja Gipper

Professoral Substitute

SoSe20, WiSe20/21

Office: Meister-Ekkehart-Straße 7
E-mail: sonja.gipper(at) uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470 6328
Web: Dr. Sonja Gipper

Associates

Name

Maria Bardají i Farré

Doctoral student in project B05 "Prominence related structures in Austronesian symmetrical voice languages"

Office: SFB, Luxemburger Str. 299, room 2.10
E-mail: mbardaj1(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-89906
Web: Maria Bardají i Farré

Name

Dr. Anne Hermes

Postdoc in project A04 "Dynamic modelling of prosodic prominence"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
E-mail: anne.hermes(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4256
Web: Dr. Anne Hermes

Name

Simon Wehrle

Doctoral student in project A02 "Individual behaviour in encoding and decoding prosodic prominence"

Office: Phonetik, Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
E-mail: simon.wehrle(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-4195
Web: Simon Wehrle

Name

Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt

Associated Principal Investigator INF "Infrastructure"

Office: Philosophikum, room 0.104
E-mail: andreas.witt(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: (+49) 221 470-1902
Web: Prof. Dr. Andreas Witt

Alumni

  • Prof. Dr. Aria Adli - Principal Investigator in projects C01, INF and Ö (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Laura Becker - Researcher in project C01 (06/2018 - 09/2018) 
  • Frieda Berg - Communications manager in project Ö (04/2017 - 10/2018)
  • Christoph Bracks - Doctoral student in project A03 (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Ingmar Brilmayer - Postdoc in project B07 (01/2020 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Andreas Brocher - Postdoc in project C04 (01/2017 - 04/2019)
  • Dr. Javier Caro Reina - Researcher in project B04 (07/2017 - 10/2017) | Homepage
  • Dr. Antje Casaretto - Postdoch in project B03 | Homepage
  • Alessia Cassarà - Doctoral student in project C01 (07/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Isabel Compes - Researcher in project B02 (07/2017 - 12/2017) |  Homepage
  • Prof. Dr. Gerrit J. Dimmendaal - Principal Investigator in projects B02 and B03 (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Sonja Eisenbeiß - Researcher in projects C03 and C07 (09/2017 - 03/2019) | Homepage
  • Eric Engel - Doctoral student and Associate in project C01 (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Pegah Faghiri - Researcher in project C01 (04/2017 - 07/2017)
  • Melanie Fuchs - Doctoral student in project C07 | Homepage
  • Tim Graf - Doctoral student in project B07 (01/2017 - 08/2018)
  • Dr. Katja Hannß - Researcher in project B05 (08/2017 - 12/2017) | Homepage
  • Dr. Katharina Haude - Researcher in project B05 | Homepage
  • Diego Romero Heredero - Doctoral student in project B04 (03/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Jet Hoek - Postdoc in project C04 (2017 - 09/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Franziska Kretzschmar - Postdoc in project B07 (01/2017 - 11/2020) | Homepage
  • Martina Krüger - Doctoral student in project A02 (09/2017 - 12/2017)
  • Kurt Malcher - Doctoral student in project B05 (2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Nuria Martínez García - Doctoral student in project A05 (2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Johanna Mattissen-Piaszenski - Researcher in project B05 (08/2017 - 12/2017) | Homepage
  • Lukas Müller - Doctoral student in project C02 | Homepage
  • Maria Katarzyna Prenner - Doctoral student in project B01 (2017 - 10/2020) | Homepage
  • Dr. Markus Philipp - Principal Investigator in project B07 (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Prof. Dr. Beatrice Primus (†) - Principal Investigator in project B07 (01/2017 - 11/2019) | Homepage
  • Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl - Principal Investigator in project B03 | Homepage
  • Dr. Timo B. Röttger - Researcher in project A02 (09/2017 - 12/2017) | Homepage
  • Elyesa Seidel - Postdoc in project B06 (2017 - 09/2020) 
  • Dr. Gabriele Schwiertz - Researcher in project A03 (08/2017 - 12/2017) | Homepage
  • Dr. Sarah Schwellenbach-Siwonia - Researcher in project C02 (10-12/2018) | Homepage
  • Dr. Barbara Tomaszewicz-Özakın - Researcher in project C07 (07/2017 - 12/2017) | Homepage
  • PD Dr. Melanie Uth - Princical Investigator in project A05 (01/2017 - 12/2020) | Homepage
  • Caterina Ventura - Doctoral student in project A01 | Homepage
  • Dr. Sarah Verlage (geb. Dolscheid) - Prinicipal Investigator B06 | Homepage
  • Annalena Wasiri - Managing director, project Z (01/2017 - 04/2020)
  • Frank Zickenheiner - Doctoral student in project C06 | Homepage
  • Juliane Zimmermann - Doctoral student in project A02 | Homepage