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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 | 
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From July 2011, I am working as a postdoctoral researcher with Vera Demberg at the MMCI Cluster of Excellence at Saarland University (Junior Research Group 'Cognitive Models of Human Language Processing and their Application to Dialogue Systems'). Within this project, I am investigating the influence of discourse phenomena on language processing.
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). You can download my Master's thesis here: [
For my PhD (with Matthew Crocker) I investigated 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). This work is therefore at the interface of situated language processing studies (on-line integration of language and the visual world) and foreign language acquisition research.
PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS
'The Interplay of Multiple Mechanisms in Word Learning', to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Boston, USA, 2011. [
'Sentence Processing Mechanisms Trump Statistical Word Learning', Poster presented at the 24th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Stanford, USA, 2011. [
'The Interaction of Statistics and Selectional Constraints on Situated Word Learning', Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP), San Diego, USA, 2010. [
'Statistics and Language-World Knowledge Interact in Foreign-Language Word Learning', Poster presented at the 16th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), York, England, 2010. [
'Sentence Processing Mechanisms Influence Cross-Situational Word Learning', in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), Portland, USA, 2010. [
'Top-down Cues Help to Understand Foreign Language Input and Improve Word Learning', Talk presented at the 20th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA), Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010. [
'Sentence Processing Mechanisms Influence Foreign Language Word Learning', Poster presented at the 23rd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, USA, 2010. [
'The Dynamics of Processing and Learning Foreign Language in Natural Contexts', Poster presented at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Barcelona, Spain, 2009. [
'Situated Language Learning', Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009. [
'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, USA, 2008. [