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Members of the research group Neurolinguistics
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Prof. Dr. Ulrike Domahs, Professor for Neurolinguistics
Contact Information
Mail:
domahsu@staff*
*for complete e-mail address add “.uni-marburg.de”Tel.:
+49 6421 28-24675Addr.:
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg
Bldg. Pilgrimstein 16 (210 or +2/0100)Consultation hours:
Thursday, 10.15-11.45 a.m.
The consultation hour takes place in presence or online. You can enter the virtual room during the regular consultation hours here (please book an appointment via ILIAS).
During the semester break: as above with restrictionsAcademic Qualifications
01/2009 Habilitation at the University of Marburg, Venia Legendi in General and German Linguistics, title of habilitation thesis: Verarbeitung und Repräsentation der Wortprosodie 2000–2003 Dissertation at the University of Düsseldorf, title of dissertation: Untersuchungen zum Wortakzent im Deutschen und Niederländischen 1994–1999 Studies of General Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf Academic Activities
since 04/2017 Professor for Neurolinguistics, Institute of German Linguistics, University of Marburg 04/2015–03/2017 Professor for German Language (focus on language in childhood and adolescence), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy 10/2013–03/2015 Professor for German Language and its Didactics at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Cologne 04/2013–09/2013 Deputy professor for German Language and Didactics at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Cologne 04/2012–09/2013 Research assistant in the LOEWE focus area "Fundierung linguistischer Basiskategorien", funded by the Hessian Excellence Initiative 10/2011–03/2012 Deputy professor for German Linguistics, University of Cologne 09/2009–09/2011 Coordinator of the DFG priority program 1234 "Sprachlautliche Kompetenz: Zwischen Grammatik, Signalverarbeitung und neuronaler Aktivität" 10/2008–07/2009 Deputy professor for General Linguistics, University of Konstanz 04/2003–09/2013 Research assistant at the Institute for German Linguistics, University of Marburg 12/1999–12/2002 Research assistant and doctoral student in the collaborative research center 282 "Theorie des Lexikons" at the University of Düsseldorf Research Interests
processing and acquisition of linguistic representations, in particular:
the role of prosody in language processing, word recognition and the recognition of grammatical functions in complex words
the function of rhythmic properties of speech
the comparison of segmental/phonotactic and prosodic processing
the role of hierarchical structures in written language in written language acquisition and written language processing
the processing and representation of morphosyntactic words (case, number, gender)
asymmetries between language production and language perception in the processing of grammatical concepts
susceptibility of language functions to disruption in the case of language development disorders or acquired language disorders (phonological and morphological disorders)
multilingual language processing
comparison of language processing in multilingual and bidialectal individuals
Research Methods
reaction time measurement
eye movement studies
measurement of event-correlated potentials
production studies
functional magnetic resonance imaging
Selected Publications
Tomaschek, F., Domahs, U., & Domahs, F. (2023): Modelling German Word Stress. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 8(1).
Türk, S., & Domahs, U. (2022): Orthographic influences on spoken word recognition in bilinguals are dependent on the orthographic depth of the target language not the native language. Brain and Language, 235, 105186.
Fuchs, J., Domahs, U. & Kauschke, C. (2021): Information structure in language acquisition. Production and comprehension of (in)definite articles by German-speaking children. Journal of Child Language, 1-33.
Mołczanow, J., Iskra, E., Dragoy, O., Wiese, R. & Domahs, U. (2019): Default stress assignment in Russian: Evidence from acquired surface dyslexia. Phonology, 36, 61-90.
Domahs, U., Domahs, F. & Kauschke, C. (2018): The morphology-prosody interface in typically developing and language-impaired populations. In Ulbrich, C., Werth, A. & Wiese, R. (eds.) Empirical approaches to the phonological structure of words. Reihe: Linguistische Arbeiten. Berlin: De Gruyter, S. 95-120.
Kauschke, C., Renner, L. & Domahs, U. (2017): Past participle inflection in Specific Language Impairment. Erscheint in: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Vol. 52 (2), 168-183. DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12255.
Domahs, F., Blessing, K., Kausche, C. & Domahs, U. (2016): Bono Bo and Fla mingo: Reflections of speech prosody in German second graders’ writing to dictation. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences 7:856. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00856
Domahs, U. & Primus, B. (2016, Hg.): Laut - Gebärde - Buchstabe. Handbuchreihe Sprachwissen. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Henrich, K., Wiese, R. & Domahs, U. (2015): How information structure influences the processing of rhythmic irregularities: ERP evidence from German phrases. Neuropsychologia, Vol. 75, 431-440. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.06.028.Domahs, U., Knaus, J., El Shanawany, H. & Wiese, R. (2014): The role of predictability and structure in word stress processing: An ERP study on Cairene Arabic and a cross-linguistic comparison. Frontiers in Psychology. 5:1151. (18 pages)
Henrich, K., Alter, K., Wiese, R. & Domahs, U. (2014): The function of rhythmical alternation in language processing: an ERP study on English compounds. Brain and Language 136, 19-30.
Domahs, U., Plag, I. & Carroll, R. (2014): Word stress assignment in German, English and Dutch: Quantity-sensitivity and extrametricality revisited. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 17, 59-96.
Domahs, U., Lohmann, K., Moritz, N. & Kauschke, C. (2013): The acquisition of prosodic constraints on derivational morphology in typically developing children and children with SLI. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 27 (8), 555-573.
Kauschke, C., Renner, L. & Domahs, U. (2013): Prosodic templates of inflected words: An area of difficulty for German-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment? Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 27 (8), 574-593.
Domahs, U., Klein, E., Huber, W. & Domahs, F. (2013): Good, bad and ugly word stress: fMRI evidence for foot structure driven processing of prosodic violations. Brain and Language, 125, 272–282.
Bohn, K., Knaus, J., Wiese, R., Knaus, J. & Domahs, U. (2013): The influence of rhythmic (ir)regularities on speech processing: evidence from an ERP study on German phrases. Neuropsychologia 51, 760-771.
Domahs, U., Genc, S., Knaus, J., Wiese, R. & Kabak, B. (2013): Processing (un)predictable word stress: ERP evidence from Turkish. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28 (3), 335-354.
Domahs, U., Knaus, J., Orzechowska, P. & Wiese, R. (2012): Stress 'deafness' in a language with fixed word stress: an ERP study on Polish. Frontiers in Psychology 3:439.
Domahs, F., Nagels, A., Domahs, U., Whitney, C., Wiese, R. & Kircher, T. (2012): Where the mass counts: Common cortical activation for different kinds of non-singularity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24(4): 915–932.
Domahs, U., Kehrein, W., Knaus, J., Wiese, R. & Schlesewsky, M. (2009): Event-related potentials reflecting the phonological processing of words. Language and Speech 52 (4), 415-435.
Domahs, U., Wiese, R., Bornkessel, I. & Schlesewsky, M. (2008): German word stress: Evidence for the prosodic hierarchy. Phonology, 25 (1), 1-36.
Janßen, U. [Domahs] & Domahs, F.: Going on with optimized feet (2008): Evidence for the interaction between segmental and metrical structure from a case of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Aphasiology 22 (11), 1157-1175.
A complete list of my publications can be found here.
Jasmin Devi Nuscheler (M.A., B.A.), Research Assistant
Contact Information
Mail:
devi.nuscheler@*
*for complete e-mail address add “.uni-marburg.de”Tel.:
+49 6421 28 26810Addr.:
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg
Bldg. Pilgrimstein 16 ( 211 or +2/0110)Academic Qualifications
10/2020–03/2023 Master's degree in Phonetics, University of Trier, title of master's thesis: Akustische Eigenschaften von dog-directed speech unter Berücksichtigung individueller Persönlichkeitsfaktoren 10/2017–06/2020 Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Research Interests
language processing of bilectal children (Alemannic and standard language) using eye-tracking
orthographic knowledge and attitudes towards dialects are also taken into account
phonetics, sociolinguistics, individual variations due to personality factors and language registers
Research Methods
eye movement measurement
other methods used in the LAVA project to investigate phonological and grammatical acquisition as well as orthography acquisition and attitude surveys
Julia Sophie Nieslony (M.A.), Research Assistant
Contact Information
Mail:
julia.nieslony@*
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Addr.:
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg
Bldg. Pilgrimstein 16 (209 or +2/0090)Academic Qualifications
2020–
2024Master's degree in General Linguistics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, title of master's thesis: The effect of informativity and context on the form of reference phrases. A comparative language production study. 2017–
2020Bachelor's degree in German Language Studies and Philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, title of Bachelor's thesis: Über den Einfluss von Geschwindigkeit und Distanz auf die Verarbeitung von Fortbewegungsbeschreibungen. Eine Reaktionszeitstudie. Academic Activities
since
11/2024Research assistant and doctoral student in the research group Neurolinguistics at the Institute for German Linguistics, University of Marburg 04/2024–
09/2024Research assistant in the project Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past of the DFG Center for Advanced Studies, University of Tübingen 01/2021–
09/2024Research assistant in the project B3 Semantics of Aesthetics in Middle High German of the Collaborative Research Center 1391 Different Aesthetics, University of Tübingen 11/2022–
03/2024Research assistant in the project CrossLingference: Cross-linguistic statistical inference using hierarchical Bayesian models at the Institute of General Linguistics, University of Tübingen 10/2020–
10/2022Research assistant in the project B2 Time Course of Presupposition Processing of the Collaborative Research Center 833 The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures, University of Tübingen 01/2021–
09/2021Research Assistant in Project B7 Language Processing and Temporal Cognition of the Collaborative Research Center 833 The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures, University of Tübingen 04/2020–
12/2020Student assistant in the project B3 Semantics of Aesthetics in Middle High German of the Collaborative Research Center 1391 Different Aesthetics, University of Tübingen 12/2018–
12/2020Student assistant in the project B7 Language Processing and Temporal Cognition of the Collaborative Research Center 833 The Construction of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures, University of Tübingen Research Interests
Psycho- and neurolinguistics, physiological und pathological prosody processing
Research Methods
Measurement of event-related potentials (ERPs) using electroencephalography (EEG)
Jonas Gerards (M.Sc.), Doctoral Student
Contact Information
Mail:
jonas.gerards@*
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Tel.:
+49 6421 28-26809
Addr.:
Bahnhofstraße 7
35032 Marburg
Bldg. Bahnhofstraße 7 (-138 or -1/0380)Academic Qualifications
2017–
2023M.Sc. Cognitive and Integrative Systems Neurosience, University of Marburg 2013–
2017B.Sc. Biology, University of Bonn Academic Activities
since
11/2023Doctoral student at the research training group 2700 “Dynamik und Stabilität sprachlicher Repräsentationen” 2023 Qualification scholarship at the research training group 2700 “Dynamik und Stabilität sprachlicher Repräsentationen” 2022–
2023Student assistant in the research group Angewandte Linguistik mit Schwerpunkt Psycholinguistik, University of Erfurt 2018–
2023Student assistant in the research group Neurolinguistics, University of Marburg 2017 Tutor for zoological identification exercises, University of Bonn 2017 Tutor for Animal Physiology, University of Bonn 2016 Tutor for zoological identification exercises, University of Bonn 2016 Tutor for Morphology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Bonn Research Interests
Neurolinguistics, prosody, word processing
Affiliated
Dr. Anna Fiona Weiß, High School Teacher and Research Assistant
Contact Information
Mail:
fiona.weiss@staff*
*for complete e-mail address add “.uni-marburg.de”Tel.:
+49 6421 – 28-24866Addr.:
Pilgrimstein 16
35032 Marburg
Bldg. Pilgrimstein 16 (212 or +2/0120)Academic Qualifications
since 11/2017 2nd state examination for teaching at high schools (subjects: German and Latin) 06/2014–11/2017 Dissertation the research group Neurolinguistics at the University of Marburg, title of dissertation: The Information Gathering Framework. A Cognitive Model of Regressive Eye Movements during Reading 02–03/2016 Research stay, Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, University of South Australia, Adelaide 10/2013–02/2014 Research stay, UMass Eyetracking Lab, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 10/2008–05/2013 Teaching studies for high schools in Latin, Ancient Greek and German studies, University of Marburg, title of thesis: Auswirkungen von Fremdsprachenunterricht auf die Verarbeitung der Muttersprache am Beispiel des Lateinischen Academic Activities
since 08/2019 Research assistant in the field of German as a second language/German as a foreign language at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt,
Teacher at the Gnadenthal-Gymnasium Ingolstadt and the Maria-Ward-Fachakademie für Sozialpädagogik of the diocese of Eichstätt11/2017–07/2019 Trainee teacher, Studienseminar Fulda (comprehensive school Geistal and model school Obersberg, Bad Hersfeld) 06/2014–10/2017 Research assistant and doctoral student, research group Neurolinguistics, University of Marburg 03–05/2014 Research assistant, research group Neurolinguistics, University of Marburg Research Interests
Cognitive and neuronal correlates of reading (especially regressive eye movements), syntactic and semantic processing, neurobiology of language, combined recording of fMRI and eye tracking, foreign language acquisition (especially Latin)