I am currently on maternity leave. Until December 2021 I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Institute of German Language and Literature I. at the University of Cologne in the “XPrag.de: New Pragmatic Theories based on Experimental Evidence” (SPP 1727) InfoPer2, whose PI is Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher. I worked at the Experimental Linguistics in Cologne (XLinC) Lab.
My main interests are the syntax-semantics interface and psycholinguistics. I like to test theoretical predictions experimentally against native speakers intuitions. I use rating questionnaires, self-paced reading, visual verification tasks, production studies, eye-tracking and ERPs. |
Between 11/2015 and 10/2016, I was a Junior Fellow in XPrag.de. Between 12/2014 – 08/2015, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Reinhard Muskens' project Towards Logics that Model Natural Reasoning at The Tilburg Center for Logic, General Ethics, and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS).
On November 13, 2014 I defended my dissertation and completed the Ph.D. program in Linguistics at the University of Southern California. In my thesis entitled Superlative ambiguities: a comparative perspective, I analyzed the cross-linguistic differences in the meaning of sentences containing superlative expressions. The theoretical account in my dissertation creates specific predictions for experimental investigations of superlatives and focus cross-linguistically. In the project Focus Association in Superlative Expressions (NSF DDIG Award BCS-1430803) I obtained experimental evidence for the obligatoriness of focus association with indefinite superlatives in Polish. I cooperate with the Center for General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Wroclaw (Lexical properties of quantifiers revealed in auditory and visual processing subproject of NCN OPUS 5 - HS2: Psycholinguistic investigations into number and quantification in natural language). |