About
I'm a post-doctoral researcher at the Linguistics Institute at the University of Stuttgart. My current research topics include the intepretation of German phrases that push the boundaries of grammaticality and compositionality. Specifically, why is eine schwere Unwetterwarnung refering to severe weather and what is international about an is ein internationaler Bestsellerautor (international bestseller author). My other interests lie in eye-tracking research and experimental methods. See below for a selection of my current research projects. I have created a lot of templates for common psycholinguistic experiments. My recent eye-tracker comparison project contrasts the EyeLink1000+ and the TrackPixx3.
I was formerly a researcher at the SFB 833 in the project A1 (Maienborn), where I received my PhD. In my thesis Being Friendly is Difficult. Psycholinguistic Experiments on Agentivity in Copular Constructions, I studied how people infer agency and deliberate intension in written language comprehension. Specifically, why how being friendly is different from being confused or being blond.
During my studies, I was involved in psycholinguistic research at the Collaborative Research Center 833 in the project B1. There, I completed MA thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sternefeld. In it, I investigated, through a visual world experiment, scalar implicatures in contexts where cooperativity between interlocutors is temporarily suspended.
Interests
eye-tracking, psycholinguistics, semantics-pragmatics interface, data analysis, experimental design, open science and reproducibility
Current projects
Bracketing paradoxes
Eye-tracker comparison
Experimental design
