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Humans are highly efficient language users. They easily comprehend and produce language, seemingly effortless, at high speed, and
with surprisingly few errors. Moreover, all healthy children acquire language without any formal training, given only sufficient
linguistic input. The ultimate goal of psycholinguistic research is to uncover the complex cognitive processes and representations
that underlie this fascinating human ability. Work carried out in our group aims at contributing to this goal.
A major focus of our research is on speech production. Here we investigate how speakers convert preverbal thought (i.e., a communicative intention)
into linguistically well-formed utterances. Experimental studies, using behavioral and electrophysiological approaches, address questions like
the following.
- How do speakers find words appropriate for expressing a current communicative intention in their so-called mental lexicon?
- Which principles guide grammatical and phonological planning?
- In which way do contextual constraints affect conceptual preparation and lexical processes?
- Does lexical processing in younger children differ in a fundamental way from that in adults?
- In which way does attention modulate the activation flow in the conceptual-lexical system?
- Are there domain-specific ressources for lexical processing?
Currently, we receive funding from the German Research Council (DFG) for two projects, one focusing on semantic context effects and
the other focusing on the activation flow in the conceptual-lexical system.
We are cooperating with national and international highly recognized groups. The respective links to these labs are provided under "Links".
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