Psycho- and Neurolinguistics: Fachbereich Humanwissenschaften

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What do we study?

How do people infer meanings that go beyond what is literally encoded? What are the involved linguistic, pragmatic and cognitive mechanisms and how do children acquire language, meaning and concepts? How is language used for social, strategic and political purposes? At SPA Lab, we address these questions using a variety of experimental techniques as well as theoretical and computational modeling tools. We work with adults, children, clinical populations and data from corpora. The topics we work on include but are not limited to the following: pragmatic inferences, politeness, adjective meaning, scales, degrees, numerals, negation, modality, information structure, miscommunication, dialog and political speech.

Which research methods do we use?

Web-based experiments (PCIBex)
Behavioural experiments with children in the lab
Eyetracking
EEG
Computational modeling (e.g. Rational Speech Act modeling)
Formal semantics and pragmatics

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NANO Talk: Neues Sprechen - Wie uns unsere Sprache verrät

Sprache ist mehr als ein Kommunikationsmittel. Sprache lenkt unsere Wahrnehmung und beeinflusst unser Handeln. Besonders in Krisen. Darüber diskutiert Stephanie Rohde mit ihren Gästen.

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Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner

Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner

Institute of Cognitive Science

Wachsbleiche 27

49090 Osnabrück

Room: 50/103

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About (CV)

I am a formal and experimental linguist. Before coming to Osnabrück University, I was an Emmy Noether group leader at the University of Potsdam, I held a replacement professorship at Humboldt University (Berlin) and a postdoc position at ZAS (Berlin), funded by the Priority Program Xprag.de. I was a visiting researcher at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Stanford (Palo Alto). Currently, I am an honorary fellow at UCL (London) and Ulster University (Belfast).

I am the co-editor in chief of Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition and a member of the Editorial Board of Glossa: Psycholinguistics.

You can find full lists of my publications on my personal website and google scholar page.

My lab is co-funded by multiple DFG grants (e.g., Emmy Noether grant). In 2022, I received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize. Visit the research page and our instagram account SPALabUOS to find out more.