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The acquisition of voice alternations by bilingual children (Greek-German)

Alexiadou, Artemis, Prof. Dr. (English Linguistics)

Duration of Project: 01/2017 - 12/2019

Das Ziel dieses Projektes ist die Untersuchung des kindlichen Spracherwerbs von Voice Alternationen. Wir beabsichtigen herauszufinden, wie zweisprachige Kinder Voice Alternationen erwerben, wenn sie Sprachen ausgesetzt sind, die diese Voice Alternati ...

The acquisition of voice alternations by bilingual children (Greek-German)

Alexiadou, Artemis, Prof. Dr. (English Linguistics)

Duration of Project: 10/2015 - 12/2016

This project investigates the acquisition of Voice alternations by bilingual German-Greek speaking children living in Stuttgart, Germany, as well as by monolingual German and Greek speaking children (aged 3-6 years). Specifically, the project focuses ...

The Borders of the Welfare State: Migration, Social Rights and Expulsion (1850-1933)

Althammer, Beate, PD Dr. (African History)

Duration of Project: 11/2018 - 10/2021

In current academic and political debates, the tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration are a heatedly discussed issue. How can social promises be kept in times of globalization? Is welfare only feasible ...

The Future of the Economic and Monetary Union: A Franco-German Perspective

Ruffert, Matthias, Prof. Dr. (Public Law / Public Law and European Law)

Duration of Project: 03/2017 - 02/2018

A set of political initiatives and the production of new legal documents by European institutions show that a reorganisation of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) after the financial and budgetary crisis appears underway. However, uncertainty rema ...

The impact of action on the maintenance of items in visual memory

Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)

Duration of Project: 05/2016 - 04/2019

The versatility of human behaviour depends on coordinated, goal-directed movements. They are the basis for our interaction with dynamic environments, and the mechanisms that control them are entwined with perceptual and cognitive functions. While the ...

The impact of movement on the maintenance of items in visual memory

Ohl, Sven, Dr. (Junior Research Groups)

Duration of Project: 05/2016 - 09/2019

The versatility of human behaviour depends on coordinated, goal-directed movements. They are the basis for our interaction with dynamic environments, and the mechanisms that control them are entwined with perceptual and cognitive functions. While the ...

The Index of Linguistic Justice

Frensch, Peter Alex, Prof. Ph.D. (General Psychology)

Duration of Project: 01/2017 - 12/2018

This research project involves the design of an index of linguistic justice that can be applied to comparing and evaluationg language policy regimes among states.

The Origins of Episodic Memory Formation

Friedrich, Manuela, Dr. rer. nat. (Cognitive Psychology)

Duration of Project: 01/2019 - 12/2021

In diesem Projekt werden die frühesten Formen episodischer Gedächtnisbildung bei Säuglingen und Kleinkindern untersucht. Insbesondere geht es um den initialen Erwerb (das Enkodieren) der Komponenten episodischen Wissens (das Was, Wann und Wo eines Er ...

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Conditional Connectives: cross-linguistic and experimental perspectives

Liu, Mingya, Prof. Dr. (Empiricism of the English Language)

Duration of Project: 08/2019 - 07/2021

The concept of conditionality is central to human thought and action, which is manifested by a rich repertoire of conditional expressions in natural language. A conditional sentence of the form, for example, If p, q, is constructed by a conditional c ...

The Tax State between the Poles of Democracy and Capitalism. A History of Public Finance in West Germany (1949-1989)

Buggeln, Marc, Dr. (German History of the 20th Century)

Duration of Project: 10/2016 - 09/2017

Politik ist nahezu immer auch Finanzpolitik. Erst Einnahmen ermöglichen es, den Staat zu gestalten. Die eingenommenen Mittel sinnvoll zu verteilen ist eine der Hauptaufgaben staatli-chen Handelns. Mit den Entscheidungen wird nicht nur Einfluss auf di ...

The typology of cumulativity

Schmitt, Viola, Dr. (General and Germanistic Linguistics: Semantics and Pragmatics)

Duration of Project: 10/2020 - 01/2023

Sentences containing plural expressions can be true in a number of situations: The sentence `Two boys fed two cats', for instance, is true if boy 1 and boy 2 each fed two cats -- but also if boy 1 fed only cat 1 and boy 2 fed only cat 2. The so-calle ...

Three-armed, randomized controlled study to assess the effects of FASTER and SCOTT trainings for adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Dziobek-Ferber, Isabel, Prof. Dr. (Clinical Psychology of Social Interaction)

Duration of Project: 10/2019 - 09/2022

The Freiburg Asperger Specific Therapy for Adult Patients (FASTER) is a published manualized group psychotherapy program for adults with high-functioning ASD. It aims to improve social responsiveness, social competence, and dysfunctional stress copin ...

Uncovering Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Psychosis Using the Oculomotor System

Rolfs, Martin, Prof. Dr. (General Psychology - Active Perception and Cognition)

Duration of Project: 09/2017 - 07/2021

Disturbances in a sense of self are a hallmark of schizophrenia. These disturbances can be characterized by a distorted sense of agency – the subjective sense that I cause the actions I produce. Agency distortions are manifest in many psychotic sympt ...

Vocational Education Towards Climate-Adaptive Management of Urban Green Spaces

Aenis, Thomas, Dr. (Agricultural Consulting and Communication Studies)

Duration of Project: 11/2017 - 12/2019

The objective of the project on “Vocational Education for climate-adapted green spaces” is to support educational institutions and teachers in education, training and further education in the field of landscape gardening: to integrate climate change ...

Antisemitismus bei Geflüchteten

Arnold, Sina, (Berlin Institut for empirical Integration and Migration Research)

Duration of Project: 05/2016 - 12/2016

Das Imaginäre und die Politik in der modernen Demokratie

Bidigarai Diehl, Paula, (Political Theory)

Duration of Project: 08/2016 - 11/2016