Psycho- und Neurolinguistik
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
Prof. Dr. Nicole Gotzner im NANO Talk auf 3sat.de
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.
