Dr. Silke Brandt
Guest of the GRK in 2011
Language Acquisition: Training and generalization across constructions
1. Supervisor | Prof. Dr. Heike Behrens |
2. Supervisor | Prof. Dr. Elena Lieven |
Abstract | I do corpus analyses and experimental studies to investigate how children's comprehension and productive use of specific (complex) linguistic structures is guided by the form and function of these and related structures in their input. I see language acquisition as a general learning process and have recently looked at interactions between linguistic and social-cognitive development. |
Disciplin | English Studies |
Languages | English, German |
Research Direction | psycholinguistics, usage-based approaches, syntax |
Keywords | language acquisition and processing, language and theory of mind, working memory and cognitive control in language processing |