News-Archive
2025
21. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. Rachel Ostrand (IBM Research). Title: Linguistic alignment: What is it good for?
12. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Birgit Alber (Freie Universität Bozen). Title: AlpiLinK and VinKiamo: crowdsourcing and citizen science in linguistic.
12. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento). Title: Non canonical Input and Outputs: Linguistics and Games.
10. FebSFB Retreat
2024
29. NovSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Laura McPherson. Title: Grammatical tone acquisition in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso): tonal morphology vs. morphosyntactic sandhi.
04. Nov - 05. Nov6th SFB Networking Workshop (Potsdam, Cologne, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Frankfurt, Bielefeld).
18. Oct22nd SFB Colloquium - Prof. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania). Title: Discovering the Limit of Language Variation.
16. OctSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania). Title: The learnability of syntactic islands.
10. Oct - 11. OctSFB Retreat
23. SeptSFB Guest Lecture with Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo (El Colegio de México). Title: Not in the complementizer system: Information Structure features in Spanish clefts and pseudo-clefts.
27. AugSFB Guest Lecture with Naomi Havron (University of Haifa). Title: Prediction in language acquisition.
18. JulSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University). Title: An experimental investigation of discourse-based claims about certain filler-gap dependencies.
05. JulSFB Guest Lecture with Gaja Jarosz (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Title: The Joint Roles and Type and Token Frequency in Generalization and Learning.
26. JunShort-Term Fellows presentation about their work during their stay at the SFB.
26. Apr21st SFB Colloquium - Prof. Sharon Peperkamp gave a lecture on: Word recognition in late bilinguals.
19. AprMGK Talk: Kriszta Szendröi speaks on the topic: Oblivious Sexism in Academia 101, and how I somehow scraped a pass at the exam.
19. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Göz Kaufmann (University of Freiburg). Title: In the thickness of it: scope rivalry in past counterfactuals of Pomerano.
16. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Marco García García (Universität zu Köln). Title: Delimiting the variability of Differential Object Marking in Romance.
2023
16. NovSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Niels O. Schiller (Leiden University). Title: The activation and selection of grammatical gender as a lexico-syntactic feature in speech production - new evidence from Dutch.
10. NovSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Sam Featherston (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen). Title: Peeping into the black box: Judgments and the structure of the grammar.
12. Oct - 13. OctSFB Retreat
25. Aug5th SFB Networking Workshop (Potsdam SFB 1287, Berlin SFB 1412, Cologne SFB 1252, Saarbrücken SFB 1102).
14. AugSFB Short-Term Fellow Talk with Alice Karbanova (University of Berno). Title: nvestigating the integration of lyrics and musical tune in song comprehension.
12. JulSFB Guest Lecture with Gabriel Martínez Vera (Newcastle University). Title: Evidentiality in the Spanish of the Americas: a comparative approach to dizque and como que.
11. JulSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Barbara Citko (University of Washington). Title: On the Interaction between Multidominance and Ellipsis.
04. JulSFB Short-Term Fellow Talk with Hailin Hao (University of Southern California) on the topic: Similarity-Based Interference in the Processing of Classifier-Noun Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese.
22. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Tal Linzen (NYC). Title: Surprisal does not explain syntactic disambiguation difficulty.
06. MayPotsdam Science Day - This year the following projects are represented at this event: B01, B02, B04, C06, C08, and T01.
30. Mar - 31. MarSFB Retreat
13. MarMGK Workshop: Migrating from Linguistics into Data Science and Tech with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Valerie Hekkel, Vera Scholvin.
19. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Jiro Inaba (Tokyo University). Title: Verbal ellipsis and directionality.
2022
13. DecSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Michael Walsh Dickey (University of Pittsburgh). Title: Event knowledge and adaptive language processing in aphasia.
07. DecSFB Guest Lecture with Chundra Cathcart (University of Zurichy, Switzerland). Title: The evolution of similar place avoidance: phylogenetic approaches to phonotactic change.
09. NovSFB Guest Lecture with J.R. Hayashishita (Otago University, New Zealand). Title: Plans for experimental investigations into the interpretation of quantifiers.
08. NovSFB Guest Lecture with J.R. Hayashishita (Otago University, New Zealand). Title: Discourse anaphora and the computational system.
01. Nov - 10. NovThe BabyLab is taking part in the Berlin Science Week in collaboration with the Humboldt University and the Leibniz-ZAS. Alan Langus (C03) and Mireia Marimon (UP) will represent our department.
01. SeptThree to four-month short-term scholarships in the SFB 1287 for doctoral students from foreign universities.
23. Aug - 24. AugWorkshop: Basics of Artificial Neural Networks / Deep Learning
19. JulSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. Sergey Say (SFB 1287 Fellow). Title: Cross-linguistic variability of valency class systems.
04. Jul - 05. Jul4th SFB Networking Workshop - Berlin | ZAS Berlin - Workshop of the linguistic CRCs (Ling SFB Meetup 2022)
29. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dubi Nanda Dhakal (Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu). Title: Complexities of verb agreement in Majhi.
24. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Elaine Francis (Purdue University). Title: Understanding variation in acceptability judgments from different theoretical perspectives.
22. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Ad Neeleman (University College London). Title: What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising (Authors: Zoë Belk, Ad Neeleman, and Joy Philip (UCL)).
17. Jun20th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Ad Neeleman (University College London) gave a lecture on: Compactness is Linear.
17. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Amir Zeldes (Georgetown U). Title: So ignore my hair right now - why genre variation in discourse structure, relationships and signals matters.
25. MayDefense of Paula Lissón entitled: Computational Models of Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia.
23. MaySFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Joana Cholin (Bielefeld University). Title: The mental syllabary theory - evidence and open questions.
23. MaySFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Niels O. Schiller. Title: Crosstalk of codes: phonological and orthographic contributions to speech production.
18. May - 20. MayThis year's MGK project week will take place from May 18th to 20th on the Golm campus. There will be, among other things, three workshops (reproducible workflow, data visualization and science communication), as well as a panel on career planning with various SFB 1287's PIs.
07. MaySeveral SFB projects will also be presenting their research at this year's Potsdam Science Day (PTDW) on May 7th from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy. Admission is free. Many presentations are also very suitable for children.
06. MayThe Potsdam part of the ReproducibiliTea Journal Club will hold its first meeting of 2022 on May 6th (Friday) at 3:15 p.m. We will discuss the following paper: Grimes, D. R., Bauch, C. T., & Ioannidis, J. P. (2018). Modeling science trustworthiness under publish or perish pressure. Royal Society Open Science, 5(1), 171511. The Potsdam ReproducibiliTea Journal Club is supported by the MGK project of the SFB 1287.
05. MayDaniela Mertzen (Project B03) successfully defended her dissertation on the topic: A cross-linguistic investigation of similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension. Congratulations!
29. Apr19th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Ira Noveck (CNRS) gave a lecture on: The various ways in which conventional meanings recruit pragmatic information.
26. Apr18th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller (Leiden University) gave a lecture on: The processing of morphosyntactic features during language production.
26. AprWorkshop: Introduction to ERP with Yana Arkhipova (Project B03)
20. AprWorkshop with Emily P. Ahn (University of Washington). Title: Phonetic Forced Alignment with the Montreal Forced Aligner.
08. MarSFB Guest Lecture with Maria Varkanitsa (Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University). She gave a lecture on: Syntactic predictions and asyntactic comprehension in aphasia.
17. FebSFB Guest Lecture with M. Florencia Assaneo (Head of the Lab de Percepción y Producción de Habla at the UNAM Campus Jur iquilla in México). Titel: Neural and cognitive correlates of the speech auditory-motor synchronization.
11. Feb17th SFB Colloquium - Dr. Evan Kidd gave a lecture on: The development of online parsing in crosslinguistic context.
01. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. Evan Kidd. Title: Individual differences in infants’ lexical processing.
17. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Sophia Voigtmann (SFB 1102, Saarland University). Title: Information Density and the Extraposition of Relative Clauses.
2021
28. OctSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Hilary Chappell (EHESS, Paris). Title: A semantic typology of location, existence, possession and copular verbs: Areal patterns of polysemy in Mainland East and Southeast Asia.
15. Jul - 16. Jul3rd SFB Networking Workshop (Potsdam SFB 1287, Cologne SFB 1252, Saarbrücken SFB 1102).
25. MayWe are pleased to announce that the DFG Grants Committee has approved our Collaborative Research Center and would like to thank all reviewers, rapporteurs and the DFG. We are pleased to be able to continue the successful research on the topic: The limits of variability in language for another four years.
2020
27. NovOnline introductory seminar for all PhD's and Postdoc's presented by Alma Lindborg.
27. NovJoint Colloquium of SFB 1287 and SFB 1294 represented by Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University New York).
22. SeptAll AMLaP 2020 talks are now online in our media library or on mediaUP!
22. JunSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Ad Neelemann (University College London). Title: What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising.
24. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. David Peeters (Tilburg University & MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands). Title: Virtual Reality: A Promising Tool for the Study of Language Production.
01. JanClimate protection contribution: Like other research associations, the SFB1287 has decided not to use SFB funds to finance flights to destinations that are less than 1000km away (flight kilometers) and that can be reached within 12 hours by other means of transport from January 2020. A deviation from this rule for family (e.g. child care) or health reasons can be requested.
2019
17. DecSFB Guest Lecture with Daniela Sammler (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig). Title: Setting the tone: Neural bases for prosody.
14. Nov - 15. Nov2nd SFB-Networking Workshop (Potsdam SFB 1287, Cologne SFB 1252, Saarbrücken SFB 1102).
25. Oct - 26. OctSFB Workshop on: Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation.
20. Sept16th SFB Colloquium - Dr. Heike Pichler (Newcastle University, UK) gave a lecture on: The conspiracy of internal and external factors in a discourse-pragmatic change: innit in Multicultural London English.
19. SeptPreTalk to the 16th SFB Colloquium - Discussion on the topic: What is variability at the discourse level and how can we study it?.
26. AugSFB Guest Lecture with Ben Goodrich (Columbia University in the City of New York). Title: Gaussian Processes with Stan.
09. AugSFB Guest Lecture with Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University). Title: Uyghur Speakers' Knowledge of Vowel and Vowel-Consonant Harmony.
14. Jun15th SFB Colloquium - Whitney Tabor gave a lecture on: Modeling Ungrammaticality: A Self-Organizing Model of Islands.
28. MaySFB Guest Lecture with Astrid van Alem (SynSem-Colloquium). Title: Anti-agreement on complementizers in non-standard West-Germanic.
24. MayWorkshop on data management plan (SFB members only) with Niklas Hartmann.
17. May14th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Wolfram Hinzen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, FIDMAG Germanes Hospitalaries Research Foundation, Benito Menni Hospital) gave a lecture on: Beyond the limits of neurotypical linguistic variation: uncharted territory.
10. May13th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Brian Dillon (University of Massachusetts Amherst) gave a lecture on: The real-time computation of agreement dependencies: The view from acceptability judgments.
29. AprSFB Guest Lecture with Dr. Göz Kaufmann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg). Title: The MEND Corpus (Mennonite Plautdietsch in North and South America): Workshop on collection, management and analysis.
10. Apr - 11. AprSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Evelina Fedorenko (Harvard University). Title: The human language system (SFB-Colloquium), Language processing in the brains of bilinguals and polyglots (PRIM-Colloquium), Can neuroimaging help aphasia researchers? (Neurolinguistics Colloquium).
22. Mar12th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) gave a lecture on: Using token-based semantic vector spaces for corpus-linguistic analyses.
21. MarHands-on Workshop - Prof. Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) gave a lecture on: Variability-based neighbour clustering (VNC), a bottom-up method to periodization in historical linguistics.
19. MarSFB Guest Lecture with Luca Bevacqua (The University of Edinburgh). Title: WHO TO TALK ABOUT, AND HOW: Effects of information structure and sentence boundary on antecedent remention and referring expressions in Italian.
25. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Louise Eley (King’s College London). Title: A linguistic ethnography of Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel.
25. FebSFB Guest Lecture with Kenan Hochuli (University of Zurich). Title: Interactive configurations of market stall communication in Istanbul and Zurich.
14. Feb - 15. Feb1st SFB Networking Workshop (Potsdam SFB 1287, Cologne SFB 1252, Saarbrücken SFB 1102).
07. Feb11th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Dr. Stephen Lindsay (University of Victoria) gave a lecture on: Psychology's Renaissance: Progress towards Transparency and Replicability.
23. JanCarola de Beer (Project B01) was awarded the 2018 Dissertation Prize of Bielefeld University (Faculty of Linguistics and Literature) for her dissertation on: The communicative interaction of speech and gestures in people with aphasia.
08. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Susanne Fuchs (ZAS - Leibniz Center for General Linguistics). Title: Changes and challenges in explaining speech variation: A brief review.
2018
12. DecGarrett Smith (Connecticut) was awarded one of the open postdoctoral positions at the University of Potsdam. He gave a talk on his SFB-relevant work.
11. DecSFB Guest Lecture with Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute). Title: Native and non-native stress perception in German listeners.
30. Nov10th SFB Colloquium - Dr. Melanie Weirich (Friedrich Schiller University Jena) gave a lecture on: Speaker identity, phonetic variability and social meaning.
14. Nov - 16. NovWorkshop with Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California). Title: Dynamical Systems at the University of Potsdam.
18. Oct9th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Ben Rampton (King's College London) gave a lecture on: Linguistic Ethnography.
17. Oct8th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University/MIT) gave a lecture on: Extending the Parallel Architecture.
01. Aug - 31. OctNew short-term fellow at the SFB: Nantke Pecht (Maastricht University) in project A01.
23. Jul - 24. JulPyGaze Workshop: Creating experiments with OpenSesame and Python - A programming and eye tracking workshop hosted by the Vasishth laboratory and the SFB 1287.
13. JulLara Schwarz (SFB 1287 Short-Term Fellow) gave a talk on: Uniting the theoretical and the empirical through modeling with Gradient Symbolic Computation.
11. Jul7th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Matthew Goldrick (Northwestern University) gave a lecture on: Gradient Symbolic Computation: Dynamics of Distributed Symbol Systems.
15. Jun6th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Catherine Best (University of West Sydney) gave a lecture on: The Australian English accent and its effects on Australians' perception of vowels and words in other English accents.
25. May5th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania) gave a lecture on: Phonetic variability and the poverty of the stimulus in constraining developmental hypotheses about language learning.
15. May - 14. AugShort-term fellows at the SFB: Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) in project B04, Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) in project C03.
23. AprSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Daniel L. Everett (Trustee Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, Bentley University, Waltham, Mass). Title: On the Role of Culture in Language and Cognition.
22. Feb4th SFB Colloquium - Prof. Cécile Fougeron (Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris) gave a lecture on: Variation in the production of vowels: multi-factorial approaches, from contextual to aging effects.
14. Feb3rd SFB Colloquium - Prof. Liesbeth Degand (University of Louvain) gave a lecture on: A multi-dimensional, multi-functional and multilingual annotation model for discourse markers in spoken language.
25. JanSFB Guest Lecture with Prof. Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University). Title: Adverbs in strange places.
24. Jan2nd SFB Colloquium - Prof. Holger Hopp (TU Braunschweig) gave a lecture on: L1 effects in L2 sentence processing - Yeti or iceberg?.
23. Jan - 25. JanMercator Fellow - Prof. Sjef Barbiers visited the SFB.
01. JanThe SFB is accepting 4 short-term fellows (each for 3 months): Nantke Pecht (Maastricht University) in project A01, Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University) in project B01, Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) in project B04, Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) in project C03.
2017
18. DecMGK-Workshop: Project management in academia: Tools of the trade for challenges.
27. NovMGK-Workshop: Academic writing: how to create good texts.
24. Nov1st Internal SFB Colloquium.
17. Nov1st SFB Colloquium - Dr. Filip Smolík (Czech Academy of Sciences) gave a lecture on: Experiments on gender, number, word order, and case marking in Czech toddlers.
01. OctSFB 1287 funded short-term fellowship.
16. MayPress release DFG.
