Projects

In its current funding phase, the CRC 1287 “Limits of Variability in Language” consists of 20 projects divided into three groups: Cluster B, Cluster C and Special Projects. You can find information on finished projects from the first funding phase at the bottom of the page.

Cluster B addresses the limits of variability in language from the perspective of within-individual and between-individual processing. Using advanced experimental designs and methods, linguistic and non-linguistic constraints that account for variability and consistency in language processing, their interactions, and their weights are captured and incorporated into psycholinguistic and computational or mathematical models of language processing.

Cluster C focuses, from a grammatical systems perspective, on the limits of variability in language and on how these limits influence the organizational properties and representations of abstract grammatical systems. Based on novel experimental data, projects in Cluster C develop models of how abstract grammatical systems and their symbolic mental representations emerge in the face of linguistic variability, and how they enable and constrain the variability of linguistic utterances.

The special projects include a transfer project on the application of computationally-based pragmatics research to media communication (project T01), a start-up project on morphosyntactic variability from a typological perspective (X01), and three service projects (Z, Q and MGK).

Cluster B

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Cluster C

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Special Projects

Finished Projects