Judith Koehne Psycholinguistics Dept of Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Saarland University Building C7.1, Room 1.19 66123 Saarbruecken Germany phone: + 49 (681) 302 6558 email: judith AT coli DOT uni-sb DOT de

I am a PhD student in psycholinguistics and a member of the International Research Training Group of Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at Saarland University. My general academic interests are both psycholinguistics (sentence processing, language and the visual world, and language acquisition) and linguistics (theoretical syntax and syntactic typology).

During my Master's I worked on the role of semantics in syntactic priming (with Martin Pickering).

For my PhD (with Matthew Crocker) I investigate how words, sentences, and the visual world interact when people learn and process foreign language (this includes processes such as cross-situational word learning and syntactic bootstrapping). My work is therefore at the interface of situated language processing studies (on-line integration of language and the visual world) and (second) language acquisition research.



OUTPUT

'Situated Language Learning', Poster to be presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009. [pdf]

'Getting to the Bottom of Syntactic Priming - Which Structures Can be Primed?', Poster presented at the 21st Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2008. [pdf]

'The Nature of Syntactic Priming - Relevance and Interplay of Semantic and Syntactic Information', Master's thesis, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2007. [pdf]

'The Nature of Syntactic Priming - What Role do Phrase Structure and Semantic Information Play?', Presentation at the Postgraduate Conference of Psycholinguistics, May 2007, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science, University of Edinburgh. [pdf]

'The Concept of Phrase Structure - Typological and Experimental Contributions', Presentation at the Psycholinguistics Coffee Talk, April 2007, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science, University of Edinburgh [pdf]