News-Archive
2026
01. OctCRC Retreat
04. MayCRC Kick-Off Meeting Phase 3
01. JanThe 3rd funding phase of the CRC 1287 has started on January 1st, 2026.
2025
26. Nov - 27. Nov7th CRC Networking Workshop (Potsdam, Cologne, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Frankfurt, Bielefeld).
30. OctWorkshops on Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias: Topic - Seeing the invisible - understanding unconscious bias
07. OctWorkshops on Microaggressions and Unconscious Bias: Topic - Managing microaggressions in the workplace
21. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Dr. Rachel Ostrand (IBM Research). Title: Linguistic alignment: What is it good for?
12. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Birgit Alber (Freie Universität Bozen). Title: AlpiLinK and VinKiamo: crowdsourcing and citizen science in linguistic.
12. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento). Title: Non canonical Input and Outputs: Linguistics and Games.
10. FebCRC Retreat
2024
29. NovCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Laura McPherson. Title: Grammatical tone acquisition in Seenku (Mande, Burkina Faso): tonal morphology vs. morphosyntactic sandhi.
04. Nov - 05. Nov6th CRC Networking Workshop (Potsdam, Cologne, Saarbrücken, Berlin, Frankfurt, Bielefeld).
18. Oct22nd CRC Colloquium - Prof. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania). Title: Discovering the Limit of Language Variation.
16. OctCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania). Title: The learnability of syntactic islands.
10. Oct - 11. OctCRC Retreat
23. SeptCRC 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. AugCRC Guest Lecture with Naomi Havron (University of Haifa). Title: Prediction in language acquisition.
18. JulCRC Guest Lecture with Dr. Gert-Jan Schoenmakers (Utrecht University). Title: An experimental investigation of discourse-based claims about certain filler-gap dependencies.
05. JulCRC 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 CRC.
26. Apr21st CRC 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. JanCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Göz Kaufmann (University of Freiburg). Title: In the thickness of it: scope rivalry in past counterfactuals of Pomerano.
16. JanCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Marco García García (Universität zu Köln). Title: Delimiting the variability of Differential Object Marking in Romance.
2023
16. NovCRC 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. NovCRC 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. OctCRC Retreat
25. Aug5th CRC Networking Workshop (Potsdam CRC 1287, Berlin CRC 1412, Cologne CRC 1252, Saarbrücken CRC 1102).
14. AugCRC Short-Term Fellow Talk with Alice Karbanova (University of Berno). Title: nvestigating the integration of lyrics and musical tune in song comprehension.
12. JulCRC 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. JulCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Barbara Citko (University of Washington). Title: On the Interaction between Multidominance and Ellipsis.
04. JulCRC 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. JunCRC 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. MarCRC Retreat
13. MarMGK Workshop: Migrating from Linguistics into Data Science and Tech with Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, Valerie Hekkel, Vera Scholvin.
19. JanCRC Guest Lecture with Jiro Inaba (Tokyo University). Title: Verbal ellipsis and directionality.
2022
13. DecCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Michael Walsh Dickey (University of Pittsburgh). Title: Event knowledge and adaptive language processing in aphasia.
07. DecCRC Guest Lecture with Chundra Cathcart (University of Zurichy, Switzerland). Title: The evolution of similar place avoidance: phylogenetic approaches to phonotactic change.
09. NovCRC Guest Lecture with J.R. Hayashishita (Otago University, New Zealand). Title: Plans for experimental investigations into the interpretation of quantifiers.
08. NovCRC 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 CRC 1287 for doctoral students from foreign universities.
23. Aug - 24. AugWorkshop: Basics of Artificial Neural Networks / Deep Learning
19. JulCRC Guest Lecture with Dr. Sergey Say (CRC 1287 Fellow). Title: Cross-linguistic variability of valency class systems.
04. Jul - 05. Jul4th CRC Networking Workshop - Berlin | ZAS Berlin - Workshop of the linguistic CRCs (Ling CRC Meetup 2022)
29. JunCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Dubi Nanda Dhakal (Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu). Title: Complexities of verb agreement in Majhi.
24. JunCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Elaine Francis (Purdue University). Title: Understanding variation in acceptability judgments from different theoretical perspectives.
22. JunCRC 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 CRC Colloquium - Prof. Ad Neeleman (University College London) gave a lecture on: Compactness is Linear.
17. JunCRC 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. MayCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Dr. Joana Cholin (Bielefeld University). Title: The mental syllabary theory - evidence and open questions.
23. MayCRC 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 CRC 1287's PIs.
07. MaySeveral CRC 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 CRC 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 CRC Colloquium - Prof. Ira Noveck (CNRS) gave a lecture on: The various ways in which conventional meanings recruit pragmatic information.
26. Apr18th CRC 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. MarCRC Guest Lecture with Maria Varkanitsa (Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University). She gave a lecture on: Syntactic predictions and asyntactic comprehension in aphasia.
17. FebCRC 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 CRC Colloquium - Dr. Evan Kidd gave a lecture on: The development of online parsing in crosslinguistic context.
01. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Dr. Evan Kidd. Title: Individual differences in infants’ lexical processing.
17. JanCRC Guest Lecture with Sophia Voigtmann (CRC 1102, Saarland University). Title: Information Density and the Extraposition of Relative Clauses.
2021
28. OctCRC 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 CRC Networking Workshop (Potsdam CRC 1287, Cologne CRC 1252, Saarbrücken CRC 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 CRC 1287 and CRC 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. JunCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Ad Neelemann (University College London). Title: What Divides, and What Unites, Right-Node Raising.
24. FebCRC 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 CRC 1287 has decided not to use CRC 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. DecCRC 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 CRC-Networking Workshop (Potsdam CRC 1287, Cologne CRC 1252, Saarbrücken CRC 1102).
25. Oct - 26. OctCRC Workshop on: Multimethodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic variation.
20. Sept16th CRC 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 CRC Colloquium - Discussion on the topic: What is variability at the discourse level and how can we study it?.
26. AugCRC Guest Lecture with Ben Goodrich (Columbia University in the City of New York). Title: Gaussian Processes with Stan.
09. AugCRC Guest Lecture with Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University). Title: Uyghur Speakers' Knowledge of Vowel and Vowel-Consonant Harmony.
14. Jun15th CRC Colloquium - Whitney Tabor gave a lecture on: Modeling Ungrammaticality: A Self-Organizing Model of Islands.
28. MayCRC Guest Lecture with Astrid van Alem (SynSem-Colloquium). Title: Anti-agreement on complementizers in non-standard West-Germanic.
24. MayWorkshop on data management plan (CRC members only) with Niklas Hartmann.
17. May14th CRC 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 CRC 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. AprCRC 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. AprCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Evelina Fedorenko (Harvard University). Title: The human language system (CRC-Colloquium), Language processing in the brains of bilinguals and polyglots (PRIM-Colloquium), Can neuroimaging help aphasia researchers? (Neurolinguistics Colloquium).
22. Mar12th CRC 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. MarCRC 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. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Louise Eley (King’s College London). Title: A linguistic ethnography of Frankfurt’s Bahnhofsviertel.
25. FebCRC Guest Lecture with Kenan Hochuli (University of Zurich). Title: Interactive configurations of market stall communication in Istanbul and Zurich.
14. Feb - 15. Feb1st CRC Networking Workshop (Potsdam CRC 1287, Cologne CRC 1252, Saarbrücken CRC 1102).
07. Feb11th CRC 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. JanCRC 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 CRC-relevant work.
11. DecCRC Guest Lecture with Jenny Yu (Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute). Title: Native and non-native stress perception in German listeners.
30. Nov10th CRC 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 CRC Colloquium - Prof. Ben Rampton (King's College London) gave a lecture on: Linguistic Ethnography.
17. Oct8th CRC Colloquium - Prof. Ray Jackendoff (Tufts University/MIT) gave a lecture on: Extending the Parallel Architecture.
01. Aug - 31. OctNew short-term fellow at the CRC: 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 CRC 1287.
13. JulLara Schwarz (CRC 1287 Short-Term Fellow) gave a talk on: Uniting the theoretical and the empirical through modeling with Gradient Symbolic Computation.
11. Jul7th CRC Colloquium - Prof. Matthew Goldrick (Northwestern University) gave a lecture on: Gradient Symbolic Computation: Dynamics of Distributed Symbol Systems.
15. Jun6th CRC 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 CRC 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 CRC: Lara Schwarz (Pennsylvania State University) in project B04, Xiayimaierdan Abudushalamu (Michigan State University) in project C03.
23. AprCRC 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 CRC 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 CRC 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. JanCRC Guest Lecture with Prof. Sjef Barbiers (Leiden University). Title: Adverbs in strange places.
24. Jan2nd CRC 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 CRC.
01. JanThe CRC 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 CRC Colloquium.
17. Nov1st CRC 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. OctCRC 1287 funded short-term fellowship.
16. MayPress release DFG.